Tanden told the truth about 2017 GOP tax bill, Murkowski vote on Obamacare

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, because of her record with the Very Stable Genius, is in a better position than most other GOP senators to say something about Mean Tweets.

I hope she will see that Neera Tanden's Mean Tweet directed at Murkowski more than three years ago was as accurate as the Positive Tweet that Tanden aimed at her earlier that year, for a vote that helped save health care for millions.

On Nov. 30, 3017, Murkowski cheered the great Republican tax scam with the overblown language that she, Sen. Dan Sullivan and the rest of the Senate Republicans thought would justify their extravagant giveaway.

“Lowering the corporate tax rate is a critical component of this tax legislation and will allow American businesses to compete against foreign competitors, and make the investments in American operations that will bring the jobs and economic growth that have eluded us for years,” she tweeted.

There was no reason then and no reason now to believe that a single word of that baloney was true.

Responding that day to Murkowski, Neera Tanden told her the truth,

“No offense but this sounds like you’re high on your own supply. You know, we know, and everyone knows this is all garbage. Just stop.” Tanden said.

Tanden’s Mean Tweets have horrified most Senate Republicans who saw nothing wrong with the thousands of lies and insults created by the fat fingers of the former president. Their horror is an act, of course, in keeping with the hypocrisy that governs their behavior.

Murkowski is an outlier because she took on Trump at times and accurately sized him up at the end, voting to convict him for inciting an insurrection. Sen. Dan Sullivan, in a sorry contrast, was a Tump lackey to the end.

Murkowski didn’t know about the 2017 Mean Tweet aimed at her by Tanden until reporters showed it to her this week.

“High on my own supply? That’s interesting. Should I ask her, ‘My own supply of what?'” Murkowski said, asking what Tanden was complaining about.

A reporter told her it was about the GOP tax bill of 2017.

“Oh, the tax bill that actually helped people in my state and helped us open ANWR [to oil drilling]?

“Ok, well now see that goes to show how much homework I still have to do on her if I didn’t even know that she had sent out a tweet about me,” Murkowski said.

For all of Trump’s term, Murkowski’s Republican colleagues found derogatory and offensive behavior by Trump to be perfectly fine for the president. They defended him and looked the other way.

Their desire for dignity was nowhere to be found, like Trump’s invisible health care plan, which was always to be released within a couple of weeks.

Speaking of tweets, on July 27, 2017, Tanden that GOP senators had threatened Alaska and threatened Murkowski directly. “I don’t believe she will fold,” Tanden said.

As columnist E.J. Dionne writes, she is “a lot more than the sum of her tweets.”

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