Elizabeth Warren is one of a kind.

She was a fight worth having.

She'd rather fight to take back Teddy Kennedy's seat in the senate. I look forward to our new Liberal Lioness in the senate.

her, he could have gotten her.

Even if you assume that you could MAKE someone work for you, which is a shitty thing to do anyway, why would you want to? There's no one else who could do the job as well who might actually want to, and who you wouldn't be forcing to ignore her home, her husband, and giving up her very hard to come by tenured job at Harvard?

to believe there is fire.

http://www.google.com/search?q=elizabeth+warren+senate+2012&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

There is more tea leaves regarding Warren running for Senate than anything saying Obama is cutting Medicare or SS.

She rocks. No wonder the forces of darkness hate her so.

But I would hesitate to put her in such a presser cooker thankless job. Second day into her administration there would be crying and mewling about what a corporate whore she was because Nirvana wasn't attained fast enough.

We know that she is not, and would never becoome, a corporate whore.

She could not have been successful as head of CFPB.

It would have been the

The Bad Guys: Wall St.Banksters-Wealthy Private Interests--multi-national corporations--CorporateDems-Republicans team

against

The Good Guys: Elizabeth Warren--Dem Progressive Caucus--Independent Progressives--American people team

It's a game that the Good Guys can no longer win in Washington. The deck is stacked, and those officiating the game play for the Bad Guys.

This is the Us vs. Them that exists today in America. This is crystal clear to everyone that has the ability to think objectively.

There is an old saying, "you can't fight city hall".

The appropriate replacement phrase for this saying, circa 2011, is

"You Can't Fight Wall St."

Congress prevents another smart woman from attempting to rein in banksters:

http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2009/marapr/features/born.html


More recently, as analysts sort out the origins of what has become the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Born has emerged as a sort of modern-day Cassandra. Some people believe the debacle could have been averted or muted had Greenspan and others followed her advice.

Ultimately, Greenspan and the other regulators foiled Born’s efforts, and Congress took the extraordinary step of enacting legislation that prohibited her agency from taking any action. Born left government and returned to her private law practice in Washington.

Born recalls taking a phone call from Lawrence Summers, then Rubin’s top deputy at the Treasury Department, complaining about the proposal, and mentioning that he was taking heat from industry lobbyists. She was not dissuaded. “Of course, we were an independent regulatory agency,” she says.

The debate came to a head April 21, 1998. In a Treasury Department meeting of a presidential working group that included Born and the other top regulators, Greenspan and Rubin took turns attempting to change her mind. Rubin took the lead, she recalls.

“I was told by the secretary of the treasury that the CFTC had no jurisdiction, and for that reason and that reason alone, we should not go forward,” Born says. “I told him . . . that I had never heard anyone assert that we didn’t have statutory jurisdiction . . . and I would be happy to see the legal analysis he was basing his position on.”

when someone who is so obviously good for this country was driven out by Wall St.

I agree with your assessment that it is the US V Wall St. And Wall St. is winning.

She has common sense and is well educated. That is the combination we need.

Obama pretends to be well educated, but he does not have common sense. I don't think he is good at math reasoning.

And yes, she was worth fighting for. But like Brooksley Borne, she was a threat to the deregulators and THEY fought hard to get rid of her.

Warren: Consumer bureau 'in reality is much better than the dream ever was'

Another good read: The CFPB is a Win for the Unbanked.

His treatment of Elizabeth Warren has not been fair at all.

if a challenger doesn't present his or herself.