March 6, 2021
In over her head: Deb Haaland advances to Senate as Interior nominee
By Monica Showalter
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.
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