Hillary Clinton, in Private, Seeks the Favor of Elizabeth Warren

[n2doc]

Hillary Rodham Clinton held a private, one-on-one meeting with Senator Elizabeth Warren in December at Mrs. Clinton’s Washington home, a move by the Democrats’ leading contender in 2016 to cultivate the increasingly influential senator and leader of the party’s economic populist movement.

The two met at Whitehaven, the Clintons’ Northwest Washington home, without aides and at Mrs. Clinton’s invitation.

Mrs. Clinton solicited policy ideas and suggestions from Ms. Warren, according to a Democrat briefed on the meeting, who called it “cordial and productive.” Mrs. Clinton, who has been seeking advice from a range of scholars, advocates and officials, did not ask for Mrs. Warren to consider endorsing her likely presidential candidacy. Aides to Mrs. Clinton did not immediately respond to requests for comment, and aides to Ms. Warren could not be reached.

The conversation occurred at a moment when Ms. Warren’s clout has become increasingly evident. Since last November’s election, Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic leader, appointed the Massachusetts freshman to a leadership role in the Senate; Ms Warren led a high-profile effort to strip a spending bill of rules sought by large banks; and a patchwork of liberal groups began a movement to draft her into the presidential race.

Ms. Warren has repeatedly said she is not running for president, and she has taken no steps that would indicate otherwise. Still, she is intent on pushing a robust populist agenda, and her confidants have suggested that she will use her Senate perch during the 2016 campaign to nudge Mrs. Clinton to embrace her major causes: addressing income inequality and curtailing the power of large financial institutions.

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http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/02/17/hillary-clinton-met-with-elizabeth-warren-in-december/

[onehandle]

1. Elizabeth will most definitely serve in Hillary's administration.

Unless Hillary's coattails are calculated to win back the Senate. She might stay then.

The Senate is pointless until the turtle loses his power.

[merrily]

5. LOL!

[onehandle]

7. At which idea? Her serving under the first female President or taking power in a Democratic Senate?

Which idea do you disparage?

[merrily]

8. For one thing, I disparage the bizarre implication that LOL! is a sexist post.

[HappyMe]

11. "Serving under" Hillary would be a huge waste of Warren's talents.

[Agnosticsherbet]

6. We need strong leaders in the Congress. 10 Democrat and 24 Republican are up for election in 2016

The field is favorable the Democrats to retake the Senate.

Putting her in the President's administration is a waste of her talents and will remove a liberal Senator and open her seat for someone who is not nearly as good. And if Republicans retain the Senate, they would not approve Warren for anything.

I don't see Warren joining a Clinton administration. She is too valuable an asset in her Senate Leadership position.

[djean111]

2. IMO, all Hillary really wants is to SOUND like Warren, enough to rope in liberals during a campaign.

Warren's endorsement would mean absolutely nothing to me - I want a non-Third Way presidential candidate to support. If not Warren, then someone else more like Warren than like Hillary.

[merrily]

3. You are unquestionably correct.

This Wall Street Journal article unwittingly gave us a lot of clues about that, starting with the team she picked to advise her on issues involving money (and what doesn't?).

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251394503

And the way they framed the issue:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251394503#post13



Hillary doesn't not want to make in 2015-16 the same campaign mistakes she made in 2008-09.


IMO, center right Democrats are attempting to neutralize Warren and her fans, not satisfy them.


I suspected that as well when they created a special new shiny position of Senate Democratic Ambassador to the Democratic Left (or whatever the title was) got created especially for her. (How telling that Senate Democrats now feel so out of touch with traditional Democrats that THEY feel they need to appoint a liaison to their own party's center left!).

I suspected it when the Third Way acknowledged after the 2014 midterms that Democrats had not been delivering (while holding the majority and the Oval Office!).

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025769052

I suspect it when I see story after story about how Hillary will change her 2015 campaign strategy, but that's all.

And I suspect it with this homage to Warren from the Hillary campaign.

Change you can bereave in

I'm not ready only for someone else. I am ready for something else.

[Scuba]

4. How telling that Senate Democrats now feel so out of touch with traditional Democrats ...

How telling that Senate Democrats now feel so out of touch with traditional Democrats that have to appoint a liaison!

[WillyT]

9. K & R !!!

[AtomicKitten]

10. They buried the lead.

Hillary wants Elizabeth to shut her pie hole in public.

The get-together represented a step toward relationship-building for two women who do not know each other well. And for Mrs. Clinton, it was a signal that she would prefer Ms. Warren’s counsel delivered in person, as a friendly insider, rather than on national television or in opinion articles. And for Ms. Warren, the meeting offered the opportunity to make clear what she believes are the most pressing national issues.

[HappyMe]

12. Yuck.

If I were Warren I would continue as I have been, and speak out in public. Warren doesn't need Clinton's permission for anything.

[AtomicKitten]

13. Elizabeth will not be silenced.

She's got Wall Street/bankers in her cross-hairs and if Hillary gets in the way, oh well.

[Fumesucker]

14. Elizabeth was summoned to the throne evidently

[libdem4life]

15. As well she should. Politics aside, they are both powerful yet very different in demeanor

and how they project their values yet need to find some common ground. This is how the Parliamentary systems work...try and gain support from other groups...make agreements...work on a common issue, etc. That is how laws are made in our Legislature.

The two-party system makes this much more bipolar and difficult. So we have influence groups, and right now Hillary is at the top, Elizabeth is a major leader in the Progressive segment of the party. She should be consulted. I'm sure many others have been consulted that haven't been quite so juicy and nefarious to gain a hot thread on DU. Two powerful women...it is kind of a first...with no men propping them up or standing in the wings.

It is Hillary's job, as the clear front-runner to met with influential Democratic leaders. If someone else comes along, they'll include Hillary, to be sure.