DC’s quest to silence Elizabeth Warren - Salon.com
...No, what’s important here is what Politico actually got right in its story: namely, that the assumption in Washington is, indeed, that silence is a virtue – that, in other words, the best thing for a newly elected liberal senator to do is shut her mouth, go along to get along, play by the club’s rules and not make any waves. Summing up that Beltway conventional wisdom, Politico writes that only by “flying under the radar” can a liberal “star” like Warren develop a “reputation as a serious legislator...”
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update on a rather key personal point of view:
Elizabeth Warren Embarrasses Hapless Bank Regulators At First Hearing (VIDEO)
...A
Warren constituent, open-Internet activist Aaron Swartz, recently
committed suicide after being hounded by federal prosecutors who
reportedly said they wanted to "make an example" of him. Warren had met
and said she admired Swartz and, after he died, expressed her concern
by attending his memorial in Washington.
The
financial regulators can blame, at least in part, Wall Street
lobbyists (along with outgoing Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and
Senate Republicans) for their embarrassing turn at the hearing. Warren
would have been on the panel herself representing the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau, instead of a sitting senator, if her nomination to
head the agency hadn't been thwarted in 2011.
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