frank miller

[Joseph Tracy]

The senate is a bottleneck  on democracy, but they are not the body who blocked her investigative efforts during her TARP responsibilities. She was given a position but not backed up when she tried to do her job. She was popular with citizens  and would have generated more  popular political pressure if the democrats led by Obama fought hard to enable her investigation and oversight  and reform the system. I think he was golfing with Boehner  at the time. I wish her success in her Senate run and hope he doesn't get co-opted by the Democrats' ties to financial industry money. I think the credit for her decision to run for the Senate goes to her and not Obama, but it may prove a more powerful position. 



On Nov 29, 2011, at 11:27 PM, Robert Mahnke wrote:

> "One of the saddest failures of Obama's performance is his failure to fully back Elizabeth Warren in her attempt to increase accountability and reduce predation and abuse of consumer trust in the financial market and credit industry."
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> I like Elizabeth Warren too, but Obama's nominee for the CSFB job, Richard Cordray, still hasn't been confirmed because of unanimous Republican obstruction in the Senate. Why do you think more vigorous action by Obama would have produced any different or better outcome?  He can hypnotize them. If Warren had been named for the job, she would be languishing instead of running for Senate. 
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> On Nov 29, 2011, at 8:13 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
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>> One of the saddest failures of Obama's performance is his failure to fully back Elizabeth Warren in her attempt to increase accountability and reduce predation and abuse of consumer trust in the financial market and credit industry.