Pam’s Points: Our era of insults, defenses and excuses

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By Pam Sohn February 28, 2021 5 min read

Watch those tweet insults

Heaven help the Republican senators who in the future tweet their minds.

After the brouhaha they’ve made over Neera Tanden’s nomination as director of the Office of Management and Budget because she’s a mean tweeter, they should all just request the same Twitter exile afforded to their now disgraced former president.

None of them ever said they couldn’t support the Donald – no matter how awful or how false or how dangerous his tweets became.

But now these same senators are saying Tanden’s confirmation is in doubt because, as a hyper-partisan Democrat leading a center-left think tank, she dubbed Sen. Susan Collins , R-Maine, “the worst,” likened Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, to Harry Potter villain Lord Voldemort, and said of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, that “vampires have more heart than Cruz.”