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A+ on that one, Hillary!
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Hillary was very smart to hail Elizabeth Warren as a champion in the same mold as Ted Kennedy.
Hillary Clinton’s record on voting on budget and economy was very liberal when she was in congress.
•Voted to limit credit card interest to 30%. (Jan 2008)
•Consistently against making bankruptcy stricter. (Jan 2008)
•2005 bankruptcy bill was by big credit cards & lenders. (Jan 2008)
•Voted YES on $60B stimulus package for jobs, infrastructure, & energy. (Sep 2008)
•Voted NO on paying down federal debt by rating programs’ effectiveness. (Mar 2007)
•Voted NO on $40B in reduced federal overall spending. (Dec 2005)
•Require full disclosure about subprime mortgages. (Dec 2007)
•Reform mortgage rules to prevent foreclosure & bankruptcy. (Feb 2008)
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As much as I admire Senator Warren, I wish these draft Warren for president types would give it up already.
She doesn’t want to run, and her decision should be respected. And FWIW, I don’t think she could win, anyway - unfortunately this country isn’t ready for someone like her (or Senator Sanders) as president yet.
This being the case, shouldn’t liberals’ efforts be directed at taking back Congress and numerous state and local offices?
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Hillary knows how the game is played.
Which is reassuring, considering that she’s up against the GOP Hate Borg and its Liberal Media™ promoters…
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Yeah, they’re just blowing their own credibility capital (and money) and making themselves look ridiculous. We need them to save these campaigns for where they can actually make a difference on policy – and we need Warren in the Senate as long as she can stand it.
@rssrai : I’ve noted before around here that Clinton’s political DNA is far more progressive than most people seem to realize, from her work for the Children’s Defense Fund to her heartfelt push for health-care reform. Bill’s folks were always complaining about her efforts to pull him to the left. And much of what she’s saying now she’s said for years ( she didn’t just crib the idea to close the carried-interest loophole from Warren, eg).
Is she a pragmatic politician who’ll do what she thinks she has to do to get the public support she needs? Yes, so which way the political winds are blowing matters. They’re blowing left now, without a challenger in the race. She’s smart enough to see that, and I’m pretty confident she knows that the ideas the Village calls “left” are actually things most Americans support. So I fully expect to hear more about how she wants to wrap everyone up in a comforting purple penumbra; but I’m cautiously optimistic about what “purple” means to her.
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Indeed, The “Wall Street Whore” slams are bullshit. Sure, she took money from Wall Street. She fucking represented them in the Senate.
And Wall Street is going to have influence whether emoprogs like it or not, so get over it already. They’re gonna get things from government. With a Rethug in office, they’re gonna get it to the detriment of everyone else. It’s all zero-sum to those fuckers.
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I couldn’t agree more. I’d also add that she’s perfect exactly where she is right now.
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We need Ellizabeth to keep up her Warren WallStreet.
She doesn’t need the distraction of running for President.
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I like the self-depreciating humor by Hillary here:
Elizabeth Warren never lets us forget that the work of taming Wall Street’s irresponsible risk taking and reforming our financial system is far from finished. And she never hesitates to hold powerful people’s feet to the fire: bankers, lobbyists, senior government officials and, yes, even presidential aspirants.
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