Posted on 03/06/2021 9:56:23 AM PST by rktman
In Joe Biden's caretaker administration, it's amazing how many misdeeds can be erased through the useful tool of identity politics.
Take his nomination Deb Haaland, a congresswoman representing greater Albuquerque, who's a registered member of a Native American tribe ... and a tax cheat, energy ignoramus, persistent welfare recipient, and marijuana booster, who has now advanced in the Senate as his nominee to run the $12 billion U.S. Department of the Interior. Her trump card in qualifications after all those red flags? That she's half-Native American and has mastered the identity politics games of victimhood.
What could go wrong?
Unlike, say, Neera Tanden, her deficits for the cabinet post she's nominated for don't involve slippery political-operative-style maneuvers or an acid tongue targeting Democrats as often as Republicans.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
She sounds like a perfect cabinet member for Biden.
And she has been confirmed 51 to 40.
Seems like the Biden administration is determined to make the executive branch look like the bar scene from star wars.
They are doing a very good job.
I understood that Liz Warren was using it.
I read a story on ProPublica last night that was shocking to me (shocking because of the source) telling the story of a star New Mexico hs quarterback that committed suicide because he couldn’t go to class or play football while the kids one county over in Texas were thriving doing both.
Could be...
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