2016 Postmortem
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I guess since I did something during the election, I am getting regular E-Mail messages from the most wonderful Senator EVER!! So, I don't mind getting messages from her. She is wonderful for what she has accomplished, and for what she is doing. I love the last line: "We're just getting started". My gawd, I hope I can see some fireworks from her committee soon. We need some fireworks. Please let this be the begining of something wonderful. I hope she can do the job that the lazy, corporate connected Holder is failing to do. Seriously. Wish we could force Obama to fire him and put in someone who will seriously do the job of the A.G. FOR ALL OF US!!!
Attorney General Eric Holder indicated in testimony before the U.S. Senate that some Wall Street banks have gotten so big that they are now above the law.
He actually said earlier this week:
I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy.
This is wrong -- just plain wrong. We are a country that believes in equal justice under the law -- not special deals for the big guys. And that's not all the special deals that the big banks get.
According to recent calculations by Bloomberg, the top ten biggest banks receive an $83 billion subsidy every year in the form of lower borrowing costs -- something not available to your community bank or credit union. The markets think that, if things get tough, the government will be there to bail out the big banks again but not the little guys.
To put things in perspective -- that $83 billion subsidy is about the same amount of money being fought over in the sequestration.
So why are we still debating this issue at all? Isn't it obvious that the "too big to fail" problem still exists and is bad for small banks? Bad for taxpayers? Bad for our economy? Bad for justice?
Here's one theory that worries me: maybe people believe that the banks have in fact become too big to shrink. They have started to say that we can't cut these banks down to size.
I'm not one of them, and neither are colleagues of mine like Sen. Sherrod Brown who have been fighting hard on this issue. We know we can take on the big banks and their army of lobbyists and win because we've done it before.
When banks are too big to fail, too big to jail, too big for trial, too big to manage, too big to regulate, too big to shrink, and too big to reform... they are just too big.
We're just getting started here.
Thank you for being a part of this,
Elizabeth
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)I am thunderstruck that we have her to fight for us after so many years of capitulation and backstabbing.
Excelsior!
angry citizen
(73 posts)MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)Lionessa
(3,894 posts)Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)Good grief, we all do it if we really like someone.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)like Progressive Change Campaign Committee, moveon, DFA and PDA than the DNC or other Democratic Party organizations.
Donate your money directly to the campaign or to one of these organizations. If you donate to the Democratic Party your money will be used to support Blue Fucking Dogs.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)She's my favorite Senator. I'd like her to run for and win the Presidency.
cascadiance
(19,537 posts)... to prepare her to take the presidency after whoever we elect in 2016 if it's not her (hoping Feingold might get in the race then).
I would love to see a woman as president! And someone like Warren would set a fine example for women to follow in the future for that office too. I think that's very important. Some are questioning Obama's progressive commitments. I hope that doesn't hurt future candidates of color running that takes away from their chance to win if they are true progressives. It almost felt like we were handed a choice between a woman and a man of color by corporate America who felt that they were both centrist enough to fend off someone that might have true progressive ideals that could have been elected instead against their interests. I wonder if John Edwards was depicted as that third choice by them, when they knew in advance of his skeletons so that they could "turn him off" any time they wanted to during the campaign.
colorado_ufo
(5,734 posts)cascadiance
(19,537 posts)Should probably be some changing of the guard then. It would be good preparation for her for 2016 then.
Had Menendez been more legitimately attacked and had to leave, perhaps her immediately being put on that committee. But that of course was a false frame up by wingnuts.
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)rainy
(6,091 posts)midnight
(26,624 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)caledesi
(11,903 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)Aristus
(66,380 posts)K&R.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)FiggyJay
(55 posts)the first time I heard her speak. She's got my vote for President in 2016. Senator Warren ROCKS!!!
onestepforward
(3,691 posts)Milliesmom
(493 posts)Love her, respect her, admire her and want my granddaughter to follow in her foor steps.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)NPolitics1979
(613 posts)As US Senator she will continue being the fighter of the little guy instead of trying to compromise with Republicans.
indepat
(20,899 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)burrowowl
(17,641 posts)GiveMeFreedom
(976 posts)Festivito
(13,452 posts)Lizzie Warren took an axe: And gave the banksters forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done: She gave Bernanke forty-one.
-from a DUer. Forgot who.
Flashmann
(2,140 posts)I wish we had 99 more with her mind set...
Delmette
(522 posts)I think she is wonderful, bold and just what we need.
allan01
(1,950 posts)graham4anything
(11,464 posts)If Frank Lautenberg can remain senator til he is 90, so can Senator Warren.
Finally, a replacement as Senior Senator for Ted Kennedy!
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)MuseRider
(34,111 posts)I admire her. I may even love some of the things that she says and does. I do not love her. I do not know her.
The problem I find with this is every single time people start to "love" one of their politicians they begin to feel the need to defend every single thing they do, even if they don't like it they LOVE the person and will defend bad policy at all costs. Not everyone does this but enough that things tend to get more skewed than ever.
Do people really have to make pop stars out of the good one's. Do people really have to "LOVE" them. It sure cheapens the meaning of real love when directing it at people you don't even know.
OP this is not entirely directed at you. This has been a problem for a while now. The word engenders protective feelings in people. No wonder people can't get along. If people all "LOVE" different politicians and feel the need to defend them even against people who like them but only love some of the things they do they will never be a cohesive group. Not that being cohesive is that important but to fight over stuff because you "love" someone takes all the importance out of what needs to be done.
I find this silly.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)K/R.
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)The Wizard
(12,545 posts)Too big to jail is too big to exist. Seize their assets.
hwmnbn
(4,279 posts)Vanje
(9,766 posts)Michigan-Arizona
(762 posts)Unknown Beatle
(2,672 posts)unless Obama starts to listen to Warren and he acts on it. As long as we have the likes of Holder, Geithner, and now Jack Lew as either AG or Treasury Secretary with ties to Wall St., nothing is going to change. Warren can't do it by herself.
But, it's a start and Warren has my full support. Warren is, without a doubt, an exceptional lady.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)& Rec !!!
calimary
(81,298 posts)And other parts of the country too! WAY more than only Massachusetts!
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)tiredtoo
(2,949 posts)healthnut7
(249 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)Phlem
(6,323 posts)in the darkness. I love for the fact the she is genuinely concerned about the 99% and is prepared to fight tooth and nail. She would make a great President.
-p
mother earth
(6,002 posts)Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)unblock
(52,243 posts)it was a news interview a number of years ago, she was in her harvard office, i think she had a bandage on her hand.
she just came off as what we now know as her usual self -- an articulate and knowledgeable advocate for the rest of us.
i knew immediately she was someone very special!
mountain grammy
(26,622 posts)Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)Kath1
(4,309 posts)The more I see her, the more I love her! She is right on!
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)sakabatou
(42,152 posts)Gave the banksters 40 whacks
When the job was neatly done
Gave Bernanke 41!
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Love Senator Warren!
RushIsRot
(4,016 posts)Stay the hell off small airplanes, PLEASE!