Posted on 12/04/2012 7:18:43 AM PST by blam
REPORT: Elizabeth Warren Will Get A Seat On The Senate Banking Committee
Linette Lopez
December 4, 2012
Huffington Post is reporting that Elizabeth Warren now has a seat on the Senate Banking Committee.
The freshman Senator-elect and former Harvard professor is known for being an outspoken critic of Wall Street. After being passed over for the top spot at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency she helped to form, she won a nail-biter Massachusetts Senate contest against Scott Brown.
There has been a ton of speculation about which committee Warren would sit on. As a freshman, her picks take a back seat to those of more senior Senators. However, after NY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said that she wouldn't be taking one of the two open seats on the Banking Committee, it looked like the field would be wide open for Warren.
And in that case, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) would have final say on whether or not Warren got the spot.
HuffPo also reports that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) will join Warren on the Committee.
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I hope they put her on the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. It seems appropriate.
How apropos!
Personally I am not all that sad about the banks potentially getting a few whacks on the rear for their shenanigans. I do wish it was coming from somebody with the moral high ground though.
So she’ll be joining their weekly pow-wows and.....um......
Now you are getting at the problem, missed by many here, but I been getting at this.
Each party tends to unit behind their party's POTUS up until re-election and shortly afterward if they scored what they see as a decent win, against the other side. And this will continue AS LONG as the POTUS is seen as beating the other side.
Its the winning team thing.
Recall 2009 and 2010 when Rs couldnt be really blamed for anything, when they opposed O even the Senate NE RINOs joined in on most,. A few gave in on the stimulus when O’s popularity was at an all time hright, but by O-care and cap and trade 2009 and 2010 the GOPers all hung together to bring down O. And they suffered none from it
But once Bohner took the House the playing field was tilted dramatically in O’s favor. But unfortunately most Rs appeared to think it was still 2010.
What needed to be done? (and still needs to be done)
The only way Rs could beat O is to force him (and his Pelosi base) to defend things that are unpopular to voters that he needs, and ideally make him cave, but as Pelosi showed in Bush second term that was not even necessary as long as Os popularity dropped faster than the GOPs. You see how united Rs were against O-care?
Again, The team unites around team wins not losses.
Having dropped Os popularity some the GOP could have tried for some red meat, go in for the kill. Crush O and you get the gold.
As I always said, Bohner and McConnel and Romney were not up to being the winning team leaders.
” Having dropped Os popularity some the GOP could have tried for some red meat, go in for the kill. Crush O and you get the gold.
As I always said, Bohner and McConnell and Romney were not up to being the winning team leaders. “
We always cave.
Of course she will, she’s “entitled” to it, doncha know?
That freak is in the senate.
She is one wise squaw. She’ll keep your wampum safe and secure, for sure.
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