Neera Tanden Quotes
Arguments are made in Washington with very few facts behind them.
Neera Tanden, President, Center for American Progress, Interview, C-SPAN, Q&A February 26, 2012
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See Henry Clay for an earlier expression of this point.
Personal attacks have been made in the Congress ever since that body first met. However, they were infrequent and raised concern when they were made. However, in the late 1980s, there was a series of personal attacks made across the political parties culminating in the resignation of Wright as the Speaker of the House. Some Republicans had objected to the failure to confirm John Tower as Defense Secretary because of his serious alcoholism problem which was made public, and in turn made public some of Wright’s indiscretions. From then on the personal invective and attacks increases and there was retaliation by both parties that went on for decades. At first it was exposures of real incidents but by the 21st century, the attacks were often fabricated. For example, Barack Obama was called a “Socialist Muslim” by Republicans. See {624107}
Some scholars credit this quote earlier to Comedian Will Rogers.
He and his Prime Minister, John Majors, had become so unpopular, that they were forced to resign by their own Conservative Party and never had to be voted out of office.
Despite having passed the House and a majority of the Senate favoring McCain’s bill, a filibuster was led by a few holdouts from his own party. Patiently, McCain assembled sufficient Senate support to break the filibuster.
Neera Tanden is an American political consultant and former government official. She is the president of the Center for American Progress, a liberal advocacy organization where she has worked in different capacities since its founding in 2003.
