Showing posts with label Elisabeth Warren. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elisabeth Warren. Show all posts

Monday, May 11, 2015

And Hillary's Position Is...?

May 11, 2015 Elisabeth Warren , Max Ehrenfreund 0 Comments
Obama Has Harsh Words For Warren On Free Trade 

Source:  Huffington Post
By Max Ehrenfreund, May 11, 2105, Washington Post

Lawmakers will likely take two contested votes this week, as the Senate considers whether to grant President Obama authority to conclude free-trade negotiations in the Pacific and the House debates a reform to the country's surveillance apparatus. Neither vote will be along party lines, which makes both of them interesting -- they reveal divisions within the Republican and Democratic coalitions that are usually hidden.

Those tensions were apparent over the weekend in Matt Bai's interview with Obama on free trade for Yahoo, excerpted below. Obama rejected claims by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) that the deal would undermine financial regulation, and accused Warren of playing politics.

As Matthew Yglesias wrote last week at Vox, Warren might be technically right that a future Republican president could use new authority on trade to relax the rules for banks -- but then again, a Republican in the White House would hardly need trade negotiations to accomplish that goal.

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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Any possible rival to Hillary MUST Be A Woman

February 10, 2015 Carol Brannon , Elisabeth Warren 0 Comments
Iowa Democrats Say They Are Ready For Warren

By Robert Costa, Feb. 9, 2015, WashingtonPost.com

AMES, Iowa — Thirteen Iowa Democrats wearily took their seats here this weekend and discussed among themselves the source of their angst: Hillary Rodham Clinton.

“I’m utterly tired, tired of the Clintons and the whole establishment,” said Carol Brannon, 71, a retired nurse.

Anne Kinzel, 57, a former health-care lawyer, nodded sympathetically.

“The hacks think Hillary is entitled to be president,” Kinzel said. “I think she is one of those people who has lost the sense of why they are in politics.”

As Clinton prepares to launch her all-but-certain 2016 campaign, the former secretary of state remains a favorite of a vast majority of Democrats and the front-runner for the party’s presidential nomination. Still, there is unease among progressives about her largely uncontested ascent.

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Sunday, February 8, 2015

"Thunder on the left..."

February 08, 2015 Al Weaver , Dailycaller.com 0 Comments
Van Jones: Elizabeth Warren The Name ‘On The Lips Of Every Grassroots Democrat’

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Source:  Reuters / Politico.com
By Al Weaver, Feb. 2, 2015, DailyCaller.com

What if something happens to Hillary Clinton? After her last presidential campaign faltered in 2008, the question among liberals is being asked openly.

Although Hillary Clinton continues to lead in the polls, according to former Obama environmental adviser Van Jones, it’s Elizabeth Warren’s name that’s “on the lips” of grassroots voters and not the former First Lady’s.

“What happens if something happens to Hillary? The Democratic bench is pretty weak,” host George Stephanopolous asked Jones.

“We have talked about gender. We talked about a couple of other names. Elizabeth Warren, that’s the name that is on the lips of every grassroots Democrat,” Jones said.

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Monday, December 29, 2014

Attack from the "Warren flank" of the left party

December 29, 2014 Antonio Weiss , Barack Obama 0 Comments
Franken Takes On Obama

Peter Sullivan, Dec. 28, 2014, The Hill"Join me in asking the President to withdraw Antonio Weiss’s nomination," Franken wrote in an email to supporters on Sunday, with a link to the petition. "We need a nominee who will put the middle class first."

Franken wrote that Weiss has worked on manuevers called "inversions," which are mergers that seek to lower a company's tax burden in the United States.

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Sunday, December 14, 2014

"HRC, beware the Ides of March."

December 14, 2014 Daniel Halper , Elisabeth Warren 0 Comments
300 Former Obama Staffers Urge Elizabeth Warren To Run for President

Daniel Halper, Dec. 12, 2014, Weekly Standard

"Warren is the backbone that the Democratic Party too often forgets it needs. She has inspired a movement—yet to jump into the race for president, we need to show the Senator that she’s got support all across the country, from Oklahoma to Massachusetts, from Florida to Nevada.

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Thursday, November 13, 2014

Ralph Nader lives!

November 13, 2014 ACLU , Corruption 0 Comments
Elizabeth Warren Tells Hollywood: 'The Game Is Rigged in Congress'

Tina Daunt, Nov. 9, 2014, The Hollywood Reporter

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, regarded by many progressive Democrats as their party's alternative to Hillary Clinton, told attendees at an ACLU gala in Beverly Hills on Sunday that "economic opportunity is slipping further and further out of reach" for average Americans.

She said bluntly: "We have to face it: The game is rigged in Congress."

Using the inability to raise the minimum wage nationally, Warren said: "We face a basic question in this country: Who does this government work for? Is government to advance the interests of the rich and the powerful? Does government exercise its power only for those who can hire armies of lobbyists and lawyers? Is it there only to strengthen the strong and enrich the wealthy? Or does government work for all of us?"

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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Same difference policy wise...

August 05, 2014 David Sirota , Elisabeth Warren 0 Comments
The Differences Between Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren

Elisabeth Warren and Hillary Rodham Clinton
Source:  Bloomberg
By David Sirota, Aug. 4, 2014, Oregonlive.com

Hillary Clinton's political allies want Democratic primary voters to believe that the former secretary of state is just like populist Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren, and they've been claiming that there are no differences between the two possible presidential contenders. There's just one problem: That's not true.

Clinton last month filled in for George W. Bush at an Ameriprise conference, continuing a speaking tour that is raking in big money from Wall Street. One of her aides later downplayed the idea that Clinton's relationship with the financial sector could be a political liability for her, should she face Warren in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries. The aide defiantly insisted that the two are exactly the same.

"Ask any so-called 'left' or 'liberal' critic of Hillary to name a single vote or position (on) which Elizabeth Warren and Hillary would disagree," said the Clinton strategist to The Hill newspaper.

OK, fine. I'll take the challenge -- there are many differences between these two politicians.

For example, in her book, "The Two Income Trap," Warren slammed Clinton for casting a Senate vote in 2001 for a bankruptcy bill that ultimately passed in 2005. That legislation makes it more difficult for credit-card customers to renegotiate their debts, even as it allows the wealthy to protect their second homes and yachts from creditors. According to a 2009 study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the bankruptcy bill's provisions changing debt payback provisions played a central role in the foreclosure crisis, as the new law forced homeowners to pay off credit card debts before paying their mortgage.

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