The violin she's buying:

I have to tell you, this whole thing fills me with nothing but glee. Here's what happened:

Consumer Protection Agency is founded- over GOP obstruction- to protect the middle class.
Consumer Protection Agency's founder is not allowed to be the head, because the GOP is terrified of her.
Consumer Protection Agency's founder runs for Senate, and by all accounts, will crush her GOP opponent.
Consumer Protection Agency gets a leader who was handpicked by the founder, who is now a senator.


So now...the GOP needs to explain why it was OPPOSED to an agency designed to protect the middle class, and they need to do it with Elizabeth Warren sitting next to them.

She's a shoe-in- just like Martha Coakley.

/ I think Brown is independent enough to get reelected here.

notmtwain: She's a shoe-in- just like Martha Coakley.

And the MA Democratic party learned their lesson from that debacle. It's unlikely that Warren will go on vacation with a month left to campaign, spell Massachusetts wrong in an ad, or insult Fenway Park.

Also, Brown just BARELY beat her fail boat campaign, and that was a special election.

This election will have Obama as top billing, running against Mitt Romney. Most people in this state hate Mitt Romney.

Don't care...

This is the one issue that settles it for me:

Nov. 10, 2011 S Amdt 928 American Jobs and Economic Growth Amendment Rejected - Senate
(40 - 56) Nay

Because People in power are Stupid: Don't care...

This is the one issue that settles it for me:

Nov. 10, 2011 S Amdt 928 American Jobs and Economic Growth Amendment Rejected - Senate
(40 - 56) Nay

So you're going to support Warren? Because she's more likely going to help you overturn Obamacare?

I'm from MA, and I simply can't emphasize how hard Warren is going to wipe the floor with Brown.

Aso, by Tea Party standards in other states, Brown has earned himself a primary challenger from the right, but I don't think that will happen in MA.

notmtwain: So you're going to support Warren? Because she's more likely going to help you overturn Obamacare?

.....what?

I mean, I would love her to overturn the Affordable Care Act, and institute single payer in this country, but she's not god.

Le Grand Inquisitor: She has no proven record of reaching out to the GOP.

She has no proven record because she's never been a politician. That's kind of the point. She was a state champion debater at age 16. She's going to wipe the floor with Brown.

Le Grand Inquisitor: He has cross party appeal

When Brown is the other choice? Unlikely.

Le Grand Inquisitor: Scott Brown is a smart GOP candidate. I know farkers love Warren, but it will better a much harder fight than you think. He has cross party appeal, and has shown willingness to work bipartisanly.

Warren will just be another corrupt politician who votes the party line. People want their elected to work with the other side, see the plummeting congressional approval as an example of their disdain for divisiveness. She has no proven record of reaching out to the GOP.

and your evidence for this is...?

I seem to recall that Warren was the unanimous consensus choice to head the BIPARTISAN Congressional Oversight Panel that was the watchdog for how TARP funds were spent and even the GOP panel memebers who fundamentally disagreed with her nonetheless were effusive in thier praise for her (new window)::

The two Republican appointees to the Congressional Oversight Panel, the group chaired by Warren that oversees the government's $700 billion bank bailout program, issued a statement saying that while they disagreed with many of Warren's views and opposed the creation of the consumer watchdog, they had found their dealings with her "to be collegial and professional."

The pair praised Warren for conducting exhaustive investigations into the federal government's rescue of firms such as American International Group and GMAC, even when those reviews produced results that didn't always shine a glowing light on the Treasury Department.

"It is important to note that the panel has been critical of policies and decisions implemented by Democrats and Republicans alike," wrote University of Kentucky economics Professor Kenneth Troske and J. Mark McWatters, a Dallas lawyer and certified public accountant, who serve on the five-member panel. "There is great virtue in that because, while it is easy to question the decisions made by members of the other political party, it takes courage to publicly question the decisions made by members of your own party."

They added, "We often debate a wide variety of issues with Professor Warren and have found her quite willing to modify her views if presented with well-reasoned, cogent arguments."



so clearly a partisan hack through and through eh?

Corvus: I am amazed that people in Mass. still are fooled into thinking this guy is a moderate.

We aren't.

stpickrell: Oh, and did we just notice the unemployment rate go down again?

The goddamn audacity of our President, trying to improve our economy, employment, and standard of living JUST so he'll get reelected. Thank god Republicans are around to stop all that nonsense!

notmtwain: Because People in power are Stupid: Don't care...

This is the one issue that settles it for me:

Nov. 10, 2011 S Amdt 928 American Jobs and Economic Growth Amendment Rejected - Senate
(40 - 56) Nay

So you're going to support Warren? Because she's more likely going to help you overturn Obamacare?

Sorry my Derp.

Those names -they are all so similar.

Oct. 11, 2011 S 1660 American Jobs Act of 2011 Cloture Not Invoked - Senate
(50 - 49) Nay

Hows this sound?
Warren wins the seat in a landslide. Then in 2016, runs for and wins the presidency?

I kinda like the sound of that.

o5iiawah: what_now: the GOP needs to explain why it was OPPOSED to an agency designed to protect the middle class

The funding for the CFPB is derived from the federal reserve and not the congress. It is illegal and unconstitutional at best.

You as a citizen have absolutely no voice as to how it is run and can hold nobody accountable for its actions. It is even debatable as to whether or not the congress will have subpoena power over its decisions.

1) How can something that was written into law be illegal ? Unconstitutional perhaps (this isn't BTW its a funding mechanism that's been used before) But per se it cannot be "illegal"

2) If you READ the CFPB enabling legislation they have strict reporting requirements where they, unlike any other agency have to regularly report to Congress

3) unlike any other federal agency, several financial regulatory agencies such as the FDIC, and the SEC can veto new CFPB regulations if they make a finding that the proposed action would be to burdensome to banks or somehow destabilize the finacial system

4) and as a citizen your representatives in Congress have plenty of say over this agency A) because when they play nice they get imput on who runs it and B) if they feel it has gone too far off the reservation they can simply pass a law aolishing the agency

/Red herrings are Red

Elizabeth Warren is going to wipe the floor with Brown. I sure hope he gassed up his pickup because his ass is gone.

/Born and raised Bostonian