Posted on 10/03/2015 2:22:21 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
At least some Democrats are resisting Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s purge of the liberal intelligentsia. This week Ms. Warren succeeded in forcing the resignation of respected scholar Robert Litan from the Brookings Institution after he revealed that a new Labor Department regulation could cost investors billions. Now five Democratic economists have authored a letter to protest Warren’s bullying. Robert Lawrence of Harvard’s Kennedy School and Bowman Cutter of the Roosevelt Institute are among those writing “to express our concern over our colleague Bob Litan’s treatment at the hands of the Brookings Institution and Senator Elizabeth Warren.” Also signing the letter are Everett Ehrlich, Joseph Minarik and Hal Singer.
Ms. Warren had falsely claimed that Mr. Litan had been “vague” about the funding for research showing the new regulation would limit choices and raise costs for investors. In fact, he had clearly disclosed that it was sponsored by a financial-services company. According to the new letter from Democratic economists, “Businesses sometimes finance policy research much as advocacy groups or other interests do. A reader can question the source of the financing on all sides, but ultimately the quality of the work and the integrity of the author are paramount. In Bob’s Litan’s case, both have been impeccable over a career of four decades. And, in keeping with those standards, he has been completely transparent about the support for, and conduct of, the study in question, as both Brookings and Senator Warren were well aware from the day he first testified before the Congress on the matter.”
The letter adds that “Senator Warren’s approach (and Brookings’ complicity with it) threatens ad hominem attack on any author who may be associated with an industry or interest whose views are contrary to hers. . .
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I’m really surprised Fauxcahontas didn’t make a run for POTUS. Maybe with SlowJoe as the 3rd term of Baraq, she’ll join ValJ as a puppet manipulator.
Had Lizzy been honest about exposing the corruption in the financial industry, we could have something to talk about. But this is all about Power and Money and HER manner of corruption.
Squaw says White Eyes speak with forked tongue when they say Communist principles work pain and suffering on the poor and their papooses. Disease spreading White Eyes should get back on their big war canoes and return to their own happy hunting grounds and leave hers alone. She has spoken!
When Hillary drops out, she jumps in.
Time to light um smoke signals and smoke em Peace Pipe. Liawatha lays down the law!
Liz is one spooky chick. Every time I see her, I envision her in a black uniform as the commandant of a re-education, forced labor camp. It would be for our own good, you know.
Too ugly.
“...I envision her in a black uniform as the commandant of a re-education, forced-labor camp...”
That goes for all the self-appointed-brilliant-geniuses of the Progressive movement.
(Scratch the surface of every Progressive and you’ll find a Pol-Pot loving, Josef Stalin worshipping, Mao Tse Tung loving, Che Guevarra wannabe, psychotic punk.)
IMHO
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