WP: Elizabeth Warren, likely to head new consumer agency, provokes strong feelings

[MountainLaurel]

The head on the Web page is "Elizabeth Warren: Reformer or Zealot?" If a consumer protection person who actually gives a flying fuck about consumers is a zealot, bring it on.

Somewhere along the line, Elizabeth Warren became a symbol.

She's either the plain-spoken, supremely smart crusader for middle-class families that her supporters adore, or she's the power-hungry headline seeker her critics loathe, a fiery zealot disguised in professorial glasses and pastel cardigans.

But no one disputes that she's the most prominent and polarizing candidate to lead the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. The idea for an independent federal agency to protect ordinary borrowers from abuses by lenders was largely Warren's idea, and Congress made it a reality as part of the legislation adopted last month to overhaul financial regulations. The bureau's director will be the most powerful new banking regulator in decades and the first with the exclusive mission of focusing on consumers.

As President Obama considers whom to nominate for that role, the debate has become less about who might get the job and more about whether Warren will or won't.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/12/AR2010081206356.html

[joeybee12]

1. That's a really nauseating title by the Washington COMPOST...

in their tiny little minds, if you actually do WHAT YOU WERE HIRED/CHSOEN to do, instead of licking their flatulent asses, you're a zealot.

[MountainLaurel]

2. Damn, that's a phrase

That will help me kick off my diet this weekend. Any time I think about eating something too rich, I can imagine flatulent pasty Wall Street asses.

[joeybee12]

4. Write it down and post it on your refrigerator!

:evilgrin:

[Subdivisions]

3. What a big pile of steaming dogshit! Elizabeth Warren is about as

non-controversial as anyone can be and calling her a "headline-seeker" and "polarizing" and "zealot" is just completely beyond the pale on the part of WP.

[mod mom]

8. wall Street & anti-reformers spewing shit as to be expected.

[Subdivisions]

9. That woman means business. And THAT'S what Wall Street and their

bought-and-paid-for U.S. government division are afraid of.

She'll roast their asses and they know it. Remember, they all know her from their college days.

[whathehell]

10. Yes....A woman from the working class who wasn't corrupted.....When

the right people hate you, it's encouraging.:7

[Dappleganger]

5. Ms. Warren is the only person I really trust in all of this economic mess.

She has proven that she is for the people and not for big corporations. She identified the real villains years ago and committed to exposing their identities and devious ways and refuses to give in to DC strong-arm tactics.

[bemildred]

6. "Consensus candidates" == No change from status quo ante. nt

[dmosh42]

7. The only objections are from the 'banksters'!

They are well represented by Dodd and Shelby, who serve only the crooks. They don't need someone who might put some obstacles in the way, like Warren would. They want some slimeball like them, who's always ready for a payoff!