Wall St. Freaks Over Warren Run By Ben White and Maggie Haberman | Politico | 11/11/13 8:55 PM EST Excerpts: NEW YORK There are three words that strike terror in the hearts of Wall Street bankers and corporate executives across the land: President Elizabeth Warren. The anxiety over Warren grew Monday after a magazine report suggested the bank-bashing Democratic senator from Massachusetts could mount a presidential bid in 2016 and would not necessarily defer to Hillary Clinton - who is viewed as far more business-friendly - for the partys nomination. And the fear is not only that Warren, who channels an increasingly popular strain of Occupy Wall Street-style anti-corporatism, might win. It is also that a Warren candidacy, and even the threat of one, would push Clinton to the left in the primaries and revive arguments about breaking up the nations largest banks, raising taxes on the wealthy and otherwise stoking populist anger that is likely to also play a big role in the Republican primaries. The nightmare scenario for banks is to hear these arguments from a candidate on the far left and on the far right, said Jaret Seiberg, a financial services industry analyst at Guggenheim Partners. Suddenly you have Elizabeth Warren screaming about too big to fail on one side and Rand Paul screaming about it on the other side and then candidates in the middle are forced to weigh in. She almost certainly would bring fresh scrutiny to Wall Street scandals by arguing that even giant settlements - like the $13 billion JPMorganChase is expected to pay to end probes into its mortgage practices - are nowhere near enough to make up for the damage done during the financial crisis. And she would likely hammer away at the gap between executive pay and average wages and make the case for higher taxes on investment income enjoyed by the wealthiest slice of Americans. The really terrifying thing for the banks is somebody asking pointed questions and expecting a real answer instead of accepting all the spin and baloney, said Dennis Kelleher, head of the financial reform group Better Markets. 'Thats what Warren could do.' Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/...2016-elections-99697_Page2.html#ixzz2kPP0Trk5 ....... IMO: I am still with Hillary, but Elizabeth Warren would make an exemplary Vice President, working until she is successful in any project she starts. She focuses so forcefully on the problems facing America today, and works until she gets the answers she needs to claim success in her ventures. A strong and able woman to deal with Wall Streets various foibles and come out a hero to America, the question is will she be allowed to run for President against Hillary. One is a friend of Wall Street, the other is not.. That promises to be an opening that will be unprecidented in the history of the American presidency..2 women fighting it out for the Big Slot in Washington.
It would put a lot of pressure on the Repubs to dig up some sane female Republican to SERIOUSLY run in their Primaries in 2016....to see Warren and Clinton in the Democratic one. Sadly for the GOP, their women typically break down into two categories....moderates who the Base hate like Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins.....or wackos like Michele Bachmann. As for Wall Street, it's interesting that in their fight against Obamacare....even the GOP is trying to sound populist and attack Big Insurance companies "getting rich off the individual mandate". Who would think you'd ever see rightwingers going after....Big Business???
If Obama care left to be implemented and developed, if Republicans stay out of the way of Democrats and give them all the rope they want, none of this will matter. Joe the Plumber would win against Democratic ticket. If Republicans are smart, that is. We'll see.
Warren should be called out for cheating on her application to get into college , up here we call her Liawartha, at a minimum she should pay back the taxpayers and the school
I saw a recent YouTube video of Warren's where she and Hillary agreed on a bill Warren was excited about. Warren was amazed at how quick Hillary was at picking up the bill's nuances and the two agreed the bill was good for the country (wish I could remember what it was). When the bill was voted on, Hillary had moved on to the Senate where she had to coddle the Wall Street boys. Of course Hillary opportunistically voted against the bill and it died. This is the kind of "leadership" America doesn't need. From my vantage point it seems everyone is sick of establishment types like Hillary and they would embrace someone who wasn't "business as usual." Give me Warren over Hillary any day of the week. I'm tired of sellouts like Obama.
Warren has claimed Cherokee and Delaware Indian heritage, but the only proof so far seems to be stories she says she heard from family members as a child. Cherokee groups have demanded documentation of the candidates Native American ancestry, but she hasnt delivered. She is a fraud and gained an advantage because of lie . As far as proving it there articles all over net saying she was in error but not lying including the one I read here, she is a very smart woman and I am sure she knows she was not telling the truth http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...0b7f568-08a5-11e2-a10c-fa5a255a9258_blog.html
A woman should be called out for something she did in her 20's ? I don't think the issue is partisan, simply nobody likes the finance industry outside those working in it . Be glad that you have Paul and Warren to blow the whistle because in Europe those who are doing it are nazis . I don't think it matters who will get elected , any pro WS president will just speed up the issue's reaching of critical mass
If the democrats allow the progressive to bring another radical liberal, one that doesn't hide the fabric she is cut from, to the podium for a presidential election, the left can kiss their party good-bye. Especially following this disaster that has been Obama. Its funny that the progressives in this forum like to ridicule the Tea Party as destroying the republicans... yet are too dense to see their progressive movement is destroying the democrats. Bring it. This will be excellent. "Americans are fighters. We're tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to fight on a level playing field, where everyone pays a fair share and everyone has a real shot, then no oneno one can stop us." http://www.ontheissues.org/economic/Elizabeth_Warren_Tax_Reform.htm "everybody pay their fair share... what she clearly means is, everybody above the 50% bracket pay more, everybody else be leveled. Good little progressive. Corporations are not people. People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love and they die. And that matters. That matters because we dont run this country for corporations, we run it for people." Right... because every corporation, and those that invest in them, are robots or aliens. Corporations are NOTHING without people. Please. I beg of you. Put this moron up in the primaries and vote for her.
I'm hoping Fauxcahontas runs, too. The American people deserve to get a good long look at the lunatic fringe neo-socialists who have taken over the Democratic party.
...... submarinepainter; This is to inform you that you have used up your last 'free pass' issued daily by me on Public Forum, and I will not be issuing any further 'free passes' to you in the future because frankly you have taken many unsubstantiated swipes at Senator Elizabeth I-am-woman-hear-me-roar Warren, plus your failure to recognize greatness in Senator Warren's many accomplishments since kicking that tparty guy out of his Senate seat.....
yep, republicans been trying so hard to make Obama a one term President they forgot that the voters can see what they are doing...
One party have been trying to make a President of another party a one term president? You must be kidding...
..... Yes: voters are much smarter today, and less trusting. I cannot wait for the 2014 and 2016 elections. The republicans and tpartyers still have not understood the feelings of the American populace concerning the sequestration, shutting down of the government in retaliation to another political party, and forcing Americans to sequester cuts that will only get worse this coming year. As they continue on their suicide run, the republicans and the tpartyers will soon have to face reality when they find themselves kicked out of Congress with no place to go. I have found that they all have a problem facing reality!
To be honest and cynical, I believe we'd see what we keep seeing. She'd put up a great set of speeches, some good debate points and a claim of how she's going to change everything. Then she'd find herself in office and would fall lock step into exactly how they want her to act with little changing at all for the good of the country.
