2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumObama strongly endorses Debbie Wasserman-Schultz this morning
As Debbie works to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Agency on behalf of the payday lender industry. Thom Hartmann wonders if this means DWS is in trouble in her primary.
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)Mika
(17,751 posts)I just started working on his campaign. We could use yor help.
www.TimCanova.com
ncliberal
(185 posts)I hope other Bernie supporters start sending to him as well. DWS needs to go.
JudyM
(29,292 posts)I've been talking him up in every state I'm volunteering in for Bernie.
DLnyc
(2,479 posts)People should check him out.
And thanks for the nudge, I just sent him a little more money.
I'm glad he is giving her trouble, representatives need to be held to account for their actions!
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)she has something on him?
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)Save his legacy and bernie will improve it. Damn. I am so sorry I voted 2 times for him.
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GeorgiaPeanuts
(2,353 posts)How anybody can call themselves a liberal and support predatory payday lenders is beyond comprehension to me.
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(7,723 posts)djean111
(14,255 posts)I will be voting for Canova.
I will not, at any time or under any circumstances, vote for Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.
I find Obama's endorsement to be exactly what I expected - and I don't see why I should care who he endorses.
He does not have to live in Florida - and if he did, he wouldn't have to actually live the way most of us do, under the combined heels of Rick Scott and DWS. Not cooperating with that.
DCBob
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Funny!
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MineralMan
(146,336 posts)Nobody is "about to be indicted." An indictment requires a Grand Jury, which will not be called until the Justice Department investigates any report sent by the FBI. That' isn't happening before November. Not a chance.
I doubt the FBI's report will be out until after the general election either. In any case, it's likely to conclude that no prosecutable crime occurred in the first place.
Don't get your hopes up...
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MineralMan
(146,336 posts)you can vote for her primary opponent. If you don't live there, you can clench your teeth in frustration. Either way, DWS is almost certain to win her primary.
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MineralMan
(146,336 posts)Thanks a bunch. I'll click through to it immediately.
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CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)When he bowed to pressure from the bankster lovers in both parties and didn't support Warren to head the Consumer Protection agency she had created. Obama revealed himself as a 3rd way Democrat pretty quickly.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/05/tim-geithner-book-obama-elizabeth-warren-consumer-bureau
<What stands out in Geithner's retelling is the depth of President Obama's admiration for Warren, and how much Obama agonized over what to do with Warren and the consumer bureau. The bureau was, after all, her idea. Here's what Geithner writes:
The President was torn. Progressives were turning Warren into another whose-side-are-you-on litmus test. The head of the National Organization for Women publicly accused me of blocking Warren, calling me a classic Wall Street sexist. Valerie Jarrett, the President's confidante from Chicago, was pushing hard for Warren, too, and she was worried I would stand in the way. At a meeting with Rahm and Valerie, I told the group that if the President wanted to appoint Warren to run the CFPB, I wouldn't try to talk him out of it, but everyone in the room knew she had no chance of being confirmed. The president, who almost never called me at home, made an exception on this issue. It was really eating away at him. He had a huge amount of respect for Warren, but he didn't want an endless confirmation fight, and he was hesitant to nominate someone so divisive that it would undermine the agency's ability to get up and running, as well as its ability to build broader legitimacy beyond the left.>
Obama wanted the consumer protection agency to build "broader legitimacy beyond the left"? Nobody beyond the left wanted that agency in the first place. The corporatist Democrats and Republicans wanted to gut it as quickly as possible.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)Endorse the incumbant, discourage primaries and challenges to establishment, etc. Disappointing to be sure. Unfortunately, I think Obama likes things to be neat and predictable.
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)Fights for the surveillance state, fights for corporate trade agreements, fights for insurance companies instead of patients... he showed his true colors looong ago.
VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)I'm done with the Democratic party.
The fact that this kind of thing can actually happen with someone who's as outright morally bankrupt as Wasserman-Schultz-- I'm done.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)Supporting craven faux Dems.
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)Merryland
(1,134 posts)never fails to let progressives down.
Impedimentus
(898 posts)Perhaps come February, 2017 someone will be receiving some big checks for giving speeches to payday lenders? Similar things have happened in the past. Whole "charitable" foundations have thrived and prospered navigating the Third Way..
FEEL THE BERN - 2016