Brent Budowsky: Elizabeth Warren for senator

[cal04]

http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/brent-budowsky/156611-elizabeth-warren-for-senator

I support the movement to draft Elizabeth Warren to run for the U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts. If she runs, the race would be one of the most closely watched and potentially transformative campaigns of 2012.

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It is a mythology of the right, accepted by a timid White House, that independents have become more conservative. Independents agree with the Gallup numbers quoted above, believe the national economy and jobs are urgent priorities and support the public option, rather than destroying Medicare as voters know it.

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If Warren runs for the Senate, she would be the pure-play candidate for change and the true heir to the Boston Tea Party. She would rally the liberal base while appealing to working-class voters, middle-class consumers, reformist independents, women unhappy with savage Republican budget cuts, military families abused by financial institutions and the poor, who are largely invisible in official Washington.

I would prefer the president name Warren to formally head the new consumer protection agency. For very bad reasons he hasn't, and won't.

[napi21]

1. IS Liz even interested in being a politician? I don't get the

feeling she is. She appears to love the position she has now and I doubt she'd give it up at leas until tha dept wa up, running, and stable.

I'd LOVE to see her be Senator, but I don['t think she'd be interested.

[Citizen Worker]

2. Elizabeth Warren run for the senate in Massachusetts? Hell, I'd support her to run for president.

Imagine the debates between her and Obama! This is change I can believe in and work for.

[yurbud]

3. Obama is neither timid nor stupid. He has largely thrown in his lot with the wealthy

that was clear from the moment he appointed Rahm his chief of staff.

[Scuba]

4. I could see her as President, but think she may be able to do more good......

...as head of the financial consumer protection agency than as another Senator.

[groovedaddy]

5. I like the fact that she's in the Obama administration to advocate for reform. She'd be good in the

U.S. Senate too, but I think we're better served with where she is now. I higher position of authority within this administration would be good too.

I saw her speak last night and she was great. I don't see ANY women in the republican party that can hold a candle to Elizabeth Warren.

[Doctor_J]

6. Is she a Dem?

She might just be a sane Indy or MA repuke.

[Enthusiast]

7. Because the Wall Street thieves

don't want her to preside over an oversight agency? Yes, that is it, exactly.