There is talk about Elizabeth Warren rising ...

[1StrongBlackMan]

to take Harry Reid's leadership role, when he doesn't run after his term expires.

I wonder how this will play out (if she takes it) for her, the democratic Party, and its various factions?

Senator Warren has made impressive bones in her/our fight for the working classes. I suspect it's because she has been laser focused on the fight, since before she entered the Senate.

But will she be able to marshal that focus as the Democratic Leader of the Senate?

And, if she does, i.e., focus (almost exclusively) on the economic well-being of the working classes (as she did/could as a non-leadership senator), how well that sit with the other factions within the democratic Party, as they see their issues getting shorted?

And, if she splits her attention, and less gets done on the economic front, will that affect her standing among her supporters?

And would that dump gasoline on the economic issues/social issues fire, currently playing out within the democratic Party?

[Scuba]

1. I doubt that she would take this position ...

... with the terms that TPTB would impose.

Better that she runs for President and carries a bunch of true progressives into Congress on her coattails.

[RiverLover]

2. She can't, she'll be busy running for president. /nt

[1StrongBlackMan]

8. Need I remind you ...

She said she's not going to run for President in 2016?

But that said ... care to address the questions posed in the OP?

[betterdemsonly]

19. She never once expressed an interest in this position either

and why would she? She has no seniority and she is not a centrist. These are two prerequisites for the position that have existed for over a century. The only people who are proposing this are people who are concerned we are "wasting our time trying to get her to run for President?" They were equally concerned we were wasting out time trying to "get her to run for Senate."

[PoliticAverse]

3. Her office said she won't be seeking the position...

See: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12653163

[cali]

4. She won't run, nor should she.

[treestar]

5. She'd still be minority leader

People have to face facts. She's not a messiah either. Any bill she proposes will not get passed in a Republican Congress. Yeah they got the Blue Dogs out. Well, well, and now the Rs have Congress and nothing's happening. Obama could have done the same things EW seems to get credit for not doing if only some of these Ds were still there. And that doesn't even take on the House.

[Fumesucker]

7. There can be only one Messiah...

And Hillary already has that position inevitably locked up.

[Fumesucker]

6. Why is even talking about economic inequality so threatening to some people?

[1StrongBlackMan]

9. It's not; but talking about economic inequality, to the exclusion of ...

virtually everything else, IS, and SHOULD BE seen as threatening ... to anyone that prioritizes something other than economic inequality. No?

ETA (in an attempt to prevent thread-jacking): But that said ... care to address the questions posed in the OP?

[Fumesucker]

13. I talk about a lot of issues on DU...

For instance even as a layman with no formal education in the sciences I have sufficient expertise in some fields to find egregious errors in science articles on a fairly regular basis, I pointed out two such errors yesterday.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/122837321#post4

http://www.democraticunderground.com/122837318#post1

From my point of view a lot of our problems with regard to inequality are exacerbated by income inequality, more equal societies economically tend on the average to be more egalitarian in other ways as well.

I've posted this quote on DU a number of times in the past.

http://www.balloon-juice.com/balloon-juice-lexicon-a-h/

Or, as commenter Davis X. Machina phrased it:

“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of who will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”

I'm not one of those voters, I'm not your enemy.

[TheNutcracker]

10. It's going to Schumer

[onenote]

11. Who is talking about it?

I haven't seen any chatter that would suggest the folks who will decide this are talking about it.

[betterdemsonly]

18. Hillary Clinton concern trolls

They want us to give up wasting our time trying to get her to run for President, and are offering the substitute of wasting our time for a position we have no vote on and that is only given to Party establishment with seniority.

[MineralMan]

12. Highly unlikely.

The Senate values experience highly. It would be very unusual for someone like Warren to get that sort of leadership position, simply due to her short term in office. I can't imagine it happening, frankly.

[onethatcares]

14. my own thoughts would be to her

staying as a senator and pushing even harder for economic equality and regulation of the financial industry.

Being a squeeky wheel would serve a great purpose by bringing the screwing we're all getting to the forefront of the
media (like they would even headline that )

But, it takes all of us to spread the words that she's preaching. Spread em far and wide at every opportunity.
We can't just expect our representatives do it all.

[mmonk]

15. It's not hard to refuse to support a bad bill. You can chew gum too.

[1StrongBlackMan]

16. The Leader doesn't just play defense. n/t

[mmonk]

17. That is true but a bad bill can come from either side of the fence.