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This has been bugging me for a while. Does anyone even know if Elizabeth Warren wants the job as the head of the Consumer Financial Regulatory Bureau within the Federal Reserve?
I ask this because she expressly stated that she would only work as the Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, for a limited time. She did not want to be there for a long run.
Do we have it on a good authority she even wants it? I have another question. What will people say if it comes out that she does reject this, but this news doesn't filter to the public until much later. Will we sit through another round of disparaging remarks of "change we can believe in" , "this is not change I can believe in", "Obama is a corporatist" <---as the knee jerk responses (and I'm not speaking in anyway specifically about DU---DK is notorious for that sort of attitude and a number of other sites and let me not mention bloggers).
I see a lot of excitement and push for her as the head of this department. But I'm very skeptical that she even wants it. I'm not sure he does. Most people were down his throat when they found out she would be the Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau temporarily.
It wasn't until Warren said in her own words that she wanted this temporarily did people back off. And for all the excitement of Warren as the Secretary currently---I have seen comments of people saying she's being shut up or stifled. I'm like. She's in a new role, that take up more time. If she's being stifled and shut up in the role she's currently in (as some have told me), then how successful will she be in the new role people want for her?
I'm just surprised that Obama's standing for "change we can believe in" is so heavily dependent on Warren. (Expressed in an article.) These goalposts are a bit ridiculous. I'm like if her nomination is so important, how much backlash should be expected if she is not picked. And then when it's further found out she may never have wanted it.
Additionally---will most blame him if this House says no. It was the last House that caused many left leaning lawyers and judges to be knocked out even after a strenuous fight by the Administration for over a year---until the candidate themselves either left because of frustration with the system or because they missed out the chance and have to go through the process again.
But people claim Obama doesn't fight for his candidates. I don't think he is willing to ever put in a candidate he would not go to bat for. I'm just saying if there are people who majority wise say no--would there be more backlash that Obama didn't fight. Or would this also be seen as "change I can't believe in." Once again I just think these goalposts are running away from us here.
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