Hey purists: there's NO WAY Obama could have recess appointed Elizabeth Warren to head CFPB

K&R.

the PURISTS will see how RIDICULOUS, PUNY and INCREASINGLY IRRELEVANT they are.

GOLD!

And she did want to be the first director to make sure it go off the ground and going properly.

...that she wasn't going to get anywhere with a congress that has repeatedly tried to neuter it. There's no evidence that she moved on to greener pastures not under her own volition, and with a greater vision than sitting as a chief for an agency that will be obstructed for years.

They would've subpoenaed her every other week, for years. Rather than sit and wait for the American people to elect sane politicians, she decided to get elected herself.



http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/07/exit-interview-elizabeth-warren-im-not-through-throwing-rocks/

This is a woman who is a fighter and I'm tired of people speaking for Warren.

She might've wanted it.

In the end she did not want it.

Oh, the irony.

Please spare me.



This is not a woman scorn by Obama, this is a woman agitated by the obstructionists in Congress, and who, when totally thrown into the political game, decided she was going to get back at them in the best way possible.

Run for Senate.

Run for Presidency.

they will obstruct them??? So we appoint people that they like?

...was very much obstructed, in every way imaginable. She could've dealt with the nomination, that's no big deal. She had already spent all that time dealing with the obstructionists. But she wanted to continue fighting on the other side, as a politician as opposed to an obstructed agency head.

Appoint whoever you want.

Don't be annoyed when the person who built the agency and who spent many hours a day trying to get things done but was obstructed at every move decides they don't want to run it.

trouble the republicons would have caused. If I misunderstood, I apologize. My point is that we should keep good people out of positions just because the republicons dont like it. In fact that's when we should do it.

She might've said that she actually did want to run it, personally, I can give that to anyone who wants her to have been running it, but I suspect she was given the option that she could run for Senate, and she said, "You know what, let's do it." Her Exploratory Committee was launched a whole month after the CFPB was launched. In political time frames that is very short. She had already made that decision before Cordray got the nod, you don't run a Senatorial campaign lightly, it wasn't as if "Oh, I'm not picked, I'll run for Senate." In fact, she had hinted, when Cordray was nominated, that she was going to run a Senate campaign:



That was about 2 weeks after Cordray was picked, around two weeks later she launched her campaign. Again, in political time frames this is a very short period of time, for her to just have made that decision. It was well planned and orchestrated.

I find Warren to be a fighter, and I think she sat down, saw what her options were, and decided that ultimately she didn't want to have to deal with the headaches of having a neutered organization that had to have its hand held. Her rhetoric after she stepped down from the agency (the very agency that she built) is very strong, she's going to "keep throwing rocks," as she said.

So I'm not convinced that her path in life is not a chosen path, that she purposefully and willingly chose on her own volition.

People sure have selective knowledge.

Guess that's what you have to do to hold a grudge.

it messes with their righteous indignation.

Sid

With the butt muscles slammed shut like powerful steel traps. Look, you can't convince extremists, regardless of extreme Left or extreme Right.

I'm not sure how running for the Senate once unemployed demonstrates her not wanting to run CFPB.

Unless some people I can think of...

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"never an unspoken thought" equals "not shy"?

Next time you think a light bulb has gone on over your head, check again. It might just be a tiny balloon full of hot air.

...and she is more suited toward a Senatorial and finally a Presidential run in 2016. Her road map is not being a Bureau Chief who would be neutered by a right wing congress when we gave it to her.



I'm tired of this paternalist view of what Warren did or did not want to do. It's so obvious that this strong, powerful woman wants to make a difference in this country, and those who keep wanting her to have been Bureau Chief are just tearing her down.

Talk about paternalistic views... sheesh...

You're just not listening and trying to tell everyone else what she wanted to do when you have no evidence for it. Because she didn't not say she wanted it that means she wanted it! Who cares if everyone in her political circles said she didn't want it!

Thanks.

There is no telling us what she wanted to do, because she did it.

http://elizabethwarren.com/

You can try to convince us all day and all night that she wanted to sit on an agency that was being obstructed and neutered, I'm not buying that. She's a fighter!

would love to see her send Scotty packing

be another VCIW* like Bernie and Kucinich. However, she's got big brains, big heart, big spine, and big mouth - the whole enchilada - so I suspect that she'll kick the living crap out of knaves, like she did to Timmy Geithner, instead of just whining about them. And the only folks who'll be able to fire her our the good people of out Commonwealth, and we *like* FDR Democrats, so she'll be safe.

*Voice Crying In the Wind

A fella can't be happy and amused at the same time?

I'll give you that much.

You know, before the president pulled off a recess appointment with the senate not technically in recess. That way you wouldn't have the facts to massively undercut your case. Just a tip.

Having a "BIG STEAMING CUP OF REALITY".

Gotta love Manny.
He tries.

But a bit too dry, sorry.

Whenever I try to get witty on the internet, this happens. You'd think I would have learned by now.

otherwise i would have had to have yelled at you.

... a new 2012 Manufactured Outrage Widget, fresh off the assembly line !!!!

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Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you said Purrists.

People should generally be happy with that fact.

I know there was a time Obama wouldn't make this move for the apparent want of bipartisan cooperation on other issues, but it seems to most he's reaching the end of an all too long rope in that endeavor.

I suppose it could be taken at face value that President Obama is taking partisan action to accomplish long awaited government business, or maybe one can take the cynical view that he either purposely smited Ms Warren at the time, or is using this (and other appointments) to gain inner-party support going into an election year.

The end result in either case is that Obama has stood up to a recalcitrant republican minority to get his job done for the people. Complaining about that seems a bit petty.

On edit:
I reread the intent of the original post and see the sarcastic prose, but still had fun composing a wordy reply that I'll feel free to cut & paste into the inevitable future outrage post. LOL.

He's a reasonable enough choice, but can't hold a candle to her.

Honestly, one could make the argument that in terms of actually cracking down on financial abuses, Warren can't hold a candle to him.

He has a track record, and was Warren's choice to head the agency.

Just because some here don't know anything about him, doesn't mean he has no accomplishments under his belt.

Hell, even the asshole Republicans blocking his appointment said he was extremely qualified.

and it still wouldn't be good enough for some. Ms. Warren was very enthusiastic about the choice. Maybe you should pay more attention to her opinions and less to the cartoon you seem to want to make of her.

He's no stranger around here, and he's more than able to serve consumers.

Cordray is a five time undefeated Jeopardy champion who took on and won billion dollar cases against Bank Of America and AIG. Can your candidate do that? LOL.

It's really silly to try and bash Obama by calling Rich Cordray weak. Find something else.

Thank you for making fun of my handicap.

...no basis in reality.

WARREN 2012!

Can't wait to read your dazzling rebuttal.

Oh - you didn't write one?

...having to put up with right wing obstructionists for years.

Sid

So she opted to change the system from another angle. And so did Obama.

Win-win, I'd say.

...those bastards tooth and nail. Just go back and watch the Oversight Committee hearings. They were rude, despicable trolls. I think she had the strength to continue, but when push came to shove she decided her ability to effect change was in the Senate, not as a chief of an organization that was neutered to death.

And kind of enjoy it.

Just as there was no way to appoint Goodwin Liu.

"NO WAY. The REPUBLICANS would have BLOCKED IT. "

You're confusing the fact that Republicans did block it with the reality that they left a window open probably misled by the idea that he had already been given a vote on the Senate floor and his confirmation blocked, something that they never allowed with Warren.

Still, for you and everyone enjoying this alleged gotcha moment.

And we're for Cordray BTW.