Thank you, Elizabeth Warren

[roxiejules]

for standing up for the people & speaking the truth even as you were repeatedly and insanely battered by the GOP.

[defendandprotect]

1. +1000% ---

Elizabeth Warren would do an honest and fair job -- presume she understands

that she wouldn't be permitted to do it given corporate pressures on government ---

[theophilus]

2. Ahhh, you know she NEVER wanted the job, right? n/t

[bahrbearian]

3. You kow this how , personal freind ?

[TheWraith]

18. "Warren made it clear to the White House... she was not interested in a five-year term"

"Elizabeth Warren made it clear to the White House while it was debating her nomination to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that she was not interested in a five-year term to run the agency. Barney Frank, a Warren ally, delivered that message to the White House, he told HuffPost in an interview Thursday.

"She always said she didn't want to be there as a permanent director. Some of the liberals are worried about it. It's almost an insult to Elizabeth. She wouldn't take this if there was the slightest impediment to her doing the job," he said."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/16/warren-didnt-want-permane_n_719932.html

[defendandprotect]

4. Probably ... as I just described ... because she wouldn't be permitted to do the job honestly ...!!

If, in fact, the job was offered and if in fact she has said she doesn't want it --

Any link to that?

[bahrbearian]

6. Why would she take a job the is begrudging given, Obama/Giethner never wanted her.

It remimds me of how they treated Van Jones and Howard Dean

[roxiejules]

7. She was brave and smart

http://articles.boston.com/2011-07-14/bostonglobe/29774296_1_consumer-financial-protection-bureau-setti-warren-elizabeth-warren


“Did (the White House) squander an opportunity to make the Elizabeth Warren nomination a defining battle? Big time,’’ said one Senate Democratic adviser who is close to the Warren drama.

The president “hasn’t been willing to spend the political capital to fight for her,’’ added Theresa Amato, executive director of Citizens Works, a nonprofit consumer protection agency founded by Ralph Nader.

[femrap]

11. Yes, she was a bone

thrown to the Progressives of the Party. And now she is gone. I wish she were Prez.

I really wish Strickland (previous gov. of Ohio) would primary Obama.

[defendandprotect]

14. Exactly!! -- and it would certainly be unlike Obama who favors putting foxes in charge ....

of government agencies --

[Ruby the Liberal]

5. k&r We love you Elizabeth

[plumbob]

8. She's wonderful.

Anyone against her is just shit.

[Enthusiast]

9. For her to be placed in such a position

of trust she must first agree to accept wide spread criminality.

[midnight]

10. She is the opposite of the status quo.... Thanks for showing us what that looks like..

[Fearless]

19. +10000

[eilen]

12. Elizabeth Warren is totally my write-in. I heart her. nt

[bvar22]

16. Me too.

It is nice to see what a REAL DEMOCRAT looks like.
There are so few these days.
The really sad thing is that Warren Stands Out so far from the rest of the politicians in Washington.
Thank You, Elizabeth.



Who will STAND and FIGHT for THIS American Majority?
You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.

[Lorien]

17. Sanders/ Warren or Warren / Sanders 2012!

They would have my vote. :loveya:

[snot]

13. K&R'd. A true hero.

[roxiejules]

15. The 'Brooksley Born' Rerun

Congress prevents another smart woman from attempting to rein in banksters:

http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2009/marapr...


More recently, as analysts sort out the origins of what has become the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Born has emerged as a sort of modern-day Cassandra. Some people believe the debacle could have been averted or muted had Greenspan and others followed her advice.

Ultimately, Greenspan and the other regulators foiled Born’s efforts, and Congress took the extraordinary step of enacting legislation that prohibited her agency from taking any action. Born left government and returned to her private law practice in Washington.

Born recalls taking a phone call from Lawrence Summers, then Rubin’s top deputy at the Treasury Department, complaining about the proposal, and mentioning that he was taking heat from industry lobbyists. She was not dissuaded. “Of course, we were an independent regulatory agency,” she says.

The debate came to a head April 21, 1998. In a Treasury Department meeting of a presidential working group that included Born and the other top regulators, Greenspan and Rubin took turns attempting to change her mind. Rubin took the lead, she recalls.

“I was told by the secretary of the treasury that the CFTC had no jurisdiction, and for that reason and that reason alone, we should not go forward,” Born says. “I told him . . . that I had never heard anyone assert that we didn’t have statutory jurisdiction . . . and I would be happy to see the legal analysis he was basing his position on.”