Neera Miss

President Biden has learned an important lesson in trying to put his team together: Don't nominate a talking head for anything.

The President, of course, nominated as his budget director Neera Tanden (above), a left-of-center Clinton loyalist who is also the president of the Center of American Progress but is also well-known for her infinite appearances on MSNBC as a pundit.  She's also known for a barb or too; she's been known to say many a nasty thing about Democrats and Republicans alike on her Twitter account.  Which is why she's aroused bipartisan disgust in the Senate over her nomination.

Numerous Republican U.S. Senators have signaled their plans to vote against her for her mean tweets, which involved some nasty language that Donald Trump would find lame and weak, which raises the issue of hypocrisy.  But Democratic U.S. Senators have voiced opposition to her as well, including West Virginia's Joe Manchin, a moderate, and independent Vermont progressive Bernie Sanders called her out for spiteful things she's said abut other progressives.  Which is partly why progressives, aware of her centrist opinions, don't like her either.

Stick a fork in this nomination, people - she's done. There's a clear difference between being outspoken and being a bigmouth, and Neera Tanden is certainly in the latter category, as anyone who's seen her on TV knows.  Perhaps President Biden should have remembered Trump's decision to make Tanden's fellow talking head Larry Kudlow his National Economic Council director, and how well that trend out.

All of this should put an end to pundits in government.  Otherwise, the next thing you know, Jim Nantz will get nominated as chairman of the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition.