'Elizabeth Warren for Senate' Movement Taking Off

Source: Rolling Stone

Democratic Party insiders are pushing to draft Elizabeth Warren to run for the Senate against the Massachusetts Republican Scott P. Brown, the New York Times reports. The 61-year-old Harvard law professor is a liberal favorite for her willingness to take on Wall Street on behalf of consumers; she came to notice chief overseer of the government's TARP bailout program and is now helping set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She's a natural choice for director of the CFPB, but Senate Republicans, who oppose the very idea of the consumer agency, have promised to block her nomination.

Democrats think Brown, who came out of nowhere with Tea Party backing to win Sen. Edward Kennedy's old seat, is vulnerable, since he's had to keep the TP-ers happy while representing a fairly liberal state.


More at: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/elizabeth-warren-for-senate-movement-taking-off-20110524

:shrug:

... she's a member of, she's one of a handful in DC with any integrity at all.

. . .but I'm not sure putting her in a position where she has to spend two-thirds of her time raising cash for the next election is really the best way to make use of, or nurture, that integrity. In the best of all possible worlds, I'd love to see the President do a recess appointment of her to head up the agency she is now forming. I think her expertise, and talent, make her far more suitable as a policy formulator/administrator than as a legislator. Unfortunately, I don't think he has the stones to do it.

... even good people have a hard time working within a broken system.

I think she would make a great senator. But does she know the Red Sox? Can she appeal to the working stiffs? Does she like pressing flesh 12 hours a day? Alas, these are things that people who run for statewide office have to do and, if not like at least act as if they do.

I'm not joking here: Martha Coakley should have been a shoo-in, but she really did an abysmal job of campaigning and it sunk her. (A difference was: it was an extremely short campaign cycle--8 weeks or so, not 18 months, and there was no time for her to recuperate from her gaffes).

She could be great. Or she could be even better as a recess-appointed head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

But if she wants to run for Senate and has the moxie to do it, I say go for it!

She can do more outside of the senate to write legislation and ensure that the Republian's overreach is contained.

:thumbsdown: If there are any actual Dems associated with this steaming pile o' crap, they're fishing for a way to avoid a confirmation vote on Warren. I doubt this has much to do with defeating Brown.