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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSenator Elizabeth Warren Will NOT Be Ignored
Behind Sen. Elizabeth Warrens Treasury takedownHow the Massachusetts senator rallied the left and blindsided the White House.
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Weiss supporters in the White House and on Wall Street were stunned. They expected some opposition from the left but not the explosion that greeted the nomination. Never mind that, as undersecretary for domestic finance, Weiss would not be the person chiefly responsible for consumer financial protection Warren created a whole separate agency for that or that neither Gillibrand nor Warren had ever met or spoken to the man.
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The game in Washington had changed.
Elizabeth Warren, sometimes disregarded by the White House as a largely irrelevant nuisance, could no longer be ignored. Bolstered by grass roots groups eager for any anti-Wall Street crusade and a vibrant progressive media that hung on her every word, Warren succeeded in knocking out Weiss nomination
It was not a total victory. Weiss will still join Treasury as an unconfirmed counselor to Secretary Jack Lew. But in terms of symbolism, the Washington power game and the ideological direction of the Democratic Party, Warren won big. And the moderate, Wall Street- and business-friendly wing of the party in past years happily occupied by Democratic presidential nominee-in-waiting Hillary Clinton got punched in the mouth.
On the other side, the despair among Wall Streets Democratic elite is growing acute. As is the belief that Weiss himself never mattered in this fight.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren Will NOT Be Ignored (Original Post)
kpete
Jan 2015
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elleng
(130,980 posts)1. She's 65,
and I expect great things from her.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)2. Where do they get this fucking shit?
"Elizabeth Warren, sometimes disregarded by the White House as a largely irrelevant nuisance, could no longer be ignored."
What horse hockey!
aikoaiko
(34,172 posts)3. I'm beginning to believe.
I've been waiting to see other Senators follow and see Warren accomplish something. This is a good start.