I Could Be Wrong... But It Sure SOUNDED Like She Wanted The Job...

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MADDOW: Hearing you talk about that with such passion, and I know this is what you‘ve been doing for all this time—I have to ask you if you wish you had been appointed by the president to be running the agency, and if now that you are leaving Washington, heading home to Massachusetts, if you feel you‘ve developed a Washington allergy or if you‘d like to get back in there?

WARREN: Well, let me start with the first part, because I really think we all have to remember this. We would not have a consumer agency if it were not for President Obama. Two years ago, right about now, he looked out and said the consumer agency, that‘s what I want to put in financial regulatory reform. Over the next year, while everybody fought back and forth over the regular reform bill, there were a lot of offers on the table to get something else if you‘d kill the consumer agency or if you‘d weaken it. He consistently said no. And a year ago right now, this week, he signed into law a bill that made this consumer agency exist and as strong and independent way.

Now, since then, what‘s happened is there are folks on Capitol Hill, Republicans in the Senate and the House, they voted against the bill to begin with—to they voted against the agency to begin with. They‘ve introduced bills to try to cut our funding. They‘ve introduced bills to try to make us less independent. They‘ve introduced bills to try to make it so we‘ve got a gummed up structure so we won‘t be able to get anything done. And they have introduced bills to flat out repeal us.

I want to be clear, the reason I cannot run this agency is because of those people. They‘ve made it perfectly clear they are not going to let this agency go forward if I‘m there—fine. I can step away from this. What I care about is this agency.

The president has now made his nomination. He‘s a good man, Richard Cordray is—and I think it‘s time to take the fight straight to the Republicans. We need a director in place, that is the law, and we are not, not, not going to let the minority come in and dictate the terms of this agency, rip its arms and legs off before it‘s able to help a single family.

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Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43810465/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/

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screw a bunch of pukes and the elephants they rode in on.

well... you know.

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i think she wants the agency to exist and be effective, and if it's most effective headed by someone else, so be it.

i also think that she might have really wanted it herself early on, but now that there's talk about her as senator,... well, i meant which job would YOU rather have?

"...We would not have a consumer agency if it were not for President Obama. Two years ago, right about now, he looked out and said the consumer agency, that‘s what I want to put in financial regulatory reform. Over the next year, while everybody fought back and forth over the regular reform bill, there were a lot of offers on the table to get something else if you‘d kill the consumer agency or if you‘d weaken it. He consistently said no. And a year ago right now, this week, he signed into law a bill that made this consumer agency exist and as strong and independent way...I want to be clear, the reason I cannot run this agency is because of those people. They‘ve made it perfectly clear they are not going to let this agency go forward if I‘m there—fine. I can step away from this. What I care about is this agency."

...she cares more about the agency than those who wanted her appointed no matter what she thinks!

I heard what she had to say, and she did say she would be there if it wasn't for the Republicans. Get over what Barney Frank said last year already!

Warren always comes across as a person of great integrity and it's a damn shame that she won't be the one at the helm going forward.

It has to do with the FACT that Warren would never be able to get the 60 votes it would take in the Senate to get cloture for a confirmation vote.

If you want to blame someone then blame the GOP.

Reading that transcript... do you think that's true?

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That's part of the transcript. Do you think if she went to the President and said: I absolutely want this job regardless of the circumstances, he'd say no?

...as he pushed her down the stairs.

Tesha

Without 60 votes in the Senate to invoke cloture for a confirmation vote it wouldn't matter who supported her AND she knew it.

Stop blaming Obama for the bullshit obstruction of the GOP.

And while we heard "a President is entitled to his nominees" endlessly during
the Bush years, we didn't hear it even once in support of Warren, not from
Obama and not from the Democrats.

When will you stop making excuses for Obama's failure to lead our party?

Tesha

What a leader! What strength!

The gopper fucks will try hard to block ANY nominee.

Sounds like she knows EXACTLY who wants to kill the agency. And that she values the existence of that agency over what ever personal benefit she might get by being its leader going forward.

Or ... are you suggesting that she is a shill?

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"I want to be clear, the reason I cannot run this agency is because of those people. They‘ve made it perfectly clear they are not going to let this agency go forward if I‘m there—fine. I can step away from this. What I care about is this agency."

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From the OP.

The power to make your friends wealthy and your enemies poor...

How could you be wrong?

You could be wrong.

Well played, Sir!!!

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