THIS. Elizabeth Warren: "We're in this position for one reason, and one reason only..."

[Triana]

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Her vision is so damn clear.

I respect her so much.

Senator Warren!

[NYC_SKP]

2. Recommended. (nt)

[sheshe2]

3. Truth!

Kicking!

[MannyGoldstein]

4. BUT SHE'S NOT RUNNING!!!

I really, really, really want everyone to understand that. Don't get your hopes up. Don't even think about it.

Nope.

Not at all.

Regards,

Ready-For-Hillary Manny

[NoOneMan]

11. Good. Primaries are not about challenging inevitable candidates with trifles

Its Hillary's birthright. Making her fight for the candidacy against a pile of people who represent the full Democratic party would be a pointless tragedy that would offend my sensibilities. Im not just ready for Hillary. Im ready for Hillary to be crowned, unchallenged!

[FreedRadical]

16. Being POTUS is NOT a birth right.

While I do support HRC for the Presidency. I vote for the best person for the job. If someone can prove to me that they would be better than her, they get my vote. I follow no King/Queen.

Just sayin'.
and yes I am a Warren 2016 kind of guy.

[Ace Acme]

19. Birthright? What if she had divorced Bill--would she have lost the birthright?

If Hillary had divorced Bill, would Chelsea lose the birthright? I want to know how your mind works.

[NoOneMan]

20. My copy of the talking points doesn't include anything about hypotheticals

[Jackpine Radical]

46. His mind works in satirical ways.

[Springslips]

25. Good satire

Those a straw man to boot. But still good. Now what is the recipe for making poor children into soup?

[maddiemom]

53. I assume you forgot the sarcasm icon. So, some of your responders need to lighten up.

[Warren DeMontague]

21. She "Endorsed" Hillary, remember

[rurallib]

37. She would make one hell of a Treasury Secretary

or maybe Attorney General.

[MannyGoldstein]

42. I ran your suggestion up the flagpole

[leftyohiolib]

43. oh good. good ol' corporatist center-right hill. she'll save us from tpp

[L0oniX]

47. Certainly Hillary will fight the 1%.

[Ace Acme]

48. With every resource Goldman Sachs has available. nt

[Plucketeer]

57. Yeah

for MORE of their "backing".

[pangaia]

5. Any time she says something it always eems so simple and so obvious

that any idiot could have figured it out.

1 Maybe that's one of the things that makes her, and other highly intelligent people, intelligent.
2- It's the idiots who don't get it even when someone intelligent tells them.

[tkmorris]

6. That sounds like an argument against ANY deficit spending

If so, that would be the first thing I have ever heard her say that I do not completely agree with.

[pampango]

33. I disagree. It sounds like an argument to pay bills that are due including debt.

At least in this message Warren does not say that deficit spending is itself a bad thing - just that, like any other authorized government expenditure, Congress should pay the bills it has incurred.

[harun]

38. I agree, it isn't actually the message to be sending.

[Blanks]

51. It's not an argument at all. It's an explanation.

She is merely explaining that congress is the entity responsible for running up the debt. She is saying: it is irresponsible to run up the bill and then refuse to pay it.

I don't see it as a statement either for or against deficit spending.

[hfojvt]

55. it also sounds like an argument blaming spending for the deficit

never mind those Reagan and Bush tax cuts for the rich. That darned Congress spent too much money.

[JDPriestly]

60. The Reagan and Bush tax cuts were part of the refusal to pay the debts that Congress ran up.

The Reagan and Bush tax cuts need to be reclaimed by Congress and repaid into our federal treasury.

[okaawhatever]

7. It should be pointed out that she's referring to the debt ceiling. So many conservatives think

raising the debt ceiling has something to do with the budget. It's only paying for the bills you already incurred as a result of the budget.

[tkmorris]

10. Ahh, I wasn't aware that was what she was referencing

[Triana]

14. Right.

Sounds like, with rumblings from the bowels of the Grand Obstinate Psychopath party, we may be headed for yet another showdown over this bullshit.

[Enthusiast]

35. The Puppetmasters know the debt ceiling has nothing to do with the budget.

But they are served by their congressional employees when they have a tantrum about the debt ceiling.

It.Is.All.Contrived.

It's a media show—both a smoke screen and smoke and mirrors.

The goal is to cut Social Security and Medicare.

[Triana]

40. "The goal is to cut Social Security and Medicare"

I believe it is and has been since the inception of these two programs ie: for decades, using any excuses they can manufacture to do it. They hate these programs just as they hate Obamacare and for the same reasons.

[G_j]

8. true

[Curmudgeoness]

9. She has yet to say anything that I can't agree with.

I love the way she has with words.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

52. She's got my vote!

[JDPriestly]

61. Mine too.

[840high]

12. k/r

[madokie]

13. No doubt about it

their whole purpose of running up the debt is so one day they can cut SS, Medicare and Medicaid because we don't have the money anymore, or so they'll say.

[Enthusiast]

36. Exactly. Republicans spoke openly about a "starve the beast" strategy in the 1980s.

Under Bush they pursued this strategy.

The media has completely failed us in not pointing this out. As far as the media is concerned the debt is a result of "tax and spend" Democrats. The media is now no better than Pravda.

They have enough money to build the greatest military the world has ever seen. While much of this military spending is obscene waste.

Anyone that would vote for a Republican needs their fucking heads examined. Not that there aren't downright horrible Democrats like DiFi.

[ReRe]

15. K&R

It's as plain as plain can be if we have the guts to look the facts straight in the eyes. But for so long, few have been willing to do just that.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. It's not "bizarre". It's Republicans ASSUMING Obama would get the blame.

[Ace Acme]

22. Republicans ENSURED that Obama would get the blame.

They deliberately ran weak candidates in 2008 and 2012.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

27. Maybe in 2012. I believe they wanted to get RID of Romney because he wouldn't take a hint....

But in 2008 they were serious with McCain,...then he picked Palin and became a joke.

[Ace Acme]

50. I doubt Palin was McCain's choice

There was that fashion analysis that found that Palin's outfits were exactly in line with the Bushes', but apparently nobody bothered to clue Cindy McCain in. I suspect she was foisted on him with the story (which was true) that she was needed to keep the rednecks that are The Matter with Kansas engaged. She could fill a stadium; McCain could not.

If my hunch that Karl Rove wanted Obama in the WH is correct, the GOP needed to get a lot of media for their populist VP candidate to give an impression of party vitality that their sick old presidential candidate could not. Frustrating the red-staters' wishes to see "She's One of Us!" Palin in the White House would guarantee their continued engagement in subsequent years to keep control of Congress.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

54. As I wrote to Bartcop right after she was introduced...

http://www.bartcop.com/palin-emails-02.htm

[Enthusiast]

31. A huge plus one!

That is exactly correct.

And the media is complicit in crafting the narrative that President Obama and big spending liberals created the debt.

This narrative continues today with every single talking head on TV blaming Social Security for the debt. Yet it was two unpaid for counterproductive wars of choice, huge tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires and Dubya's medicare expansion.

The spending is Republican spending and they should be forced to own it.

[defacto7]

18. She is one special

and important human being. Whatever roll she takes in government she will be the voice of reality and reason. I can't see her not being a powerful voice for all of the "real" America, the majority of the nation.

[closeupready]

23. If she won't run, can we clone her, and then draft HER?

Gawd, I love Elizabeth Warren! K&R

[Warren DeMontague]

24. Thank you for posting this!

[gopiscrap]

26. I agree with her

[supercats]

28. Can't Say It Any Cleaner Than That!!!

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Next President Of The United States Of America!!!




p.s. I Hope

[pansypoo53219]

29. plus tax cuts during TWO wars and tax breaks after tax breaks.

the 2% wins again.

[OKNancy]

30. Here is the speech this is from

[Triana]

41. Thank you!

[xchrom]

32. du rec.

[Enthusiast]

34. Kicked and Recommended!

I believe she is speaking of the debt ceiling.

[WowSeriously]

39. Oh I hope she proposes a Balanced Budget Bill!

Because amendments are a way of looking like you care.

[bluescribbler]

44. That's my senator.

I'm so proud of her.

[lonestarnot]

45. K and fucking R! No beating around the fucking bushes, just beat them!

[Berlum]

49. k and r

nt

[Fantastic Anarchist]

56. I love this woman.

Very, very much.

[malaise]

58. Ding ding

we have a winner

By the way Fuck Third Way

[mstinamotorcity2]

59. I wish those Third way

blue dogs leave her alone. And yes lets expand social security and Medicare.

[treestar]

62. She's going after Republicans

I wonder if she would approve of being used to divide Democrats.

[WillyT]

63. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

[Laelth]

64. k&r for Elizabeth Warren. n/t

-Laelth

[ailsagirl]

65. She continues to surprise and delight me

This lady isn't taking any GUFF from the repukes!!! Perhaps she will embolden others.

[AuntFester]

66. We need this woman as our president.