Corporate Democrats in DC Already in Freakout Mode That Liz Warren Is a Threat to Their Power

[xchrom]

http://www.alternet.org/economy/corporate-democrats-dc-already-freakout-mode-liz-warren-threatens-their-power



The Washington establishment’s war on Senator Elizabeth Warren has officially begun.

On Friday, Jim Kessler, vice president of the centrist Democrat think-tank Third Way, took to the airwaves to defend his organization’s recent attack piece on the Senator. That editorial, which was published in the Wall Street Journal last week, blasted Warren for supporting an expansion of Social Security.

Kessler doubled down on Third Way’s anti-Warren messaging during his appearance on Sirius XM radio, telling host Ari Rabin-Havt that she is “ starting to get out of hand.”

Ignore the not-so-hidden sexism in that comment, and consider for a second what’s really going on here.

Jim Kessler and the corporate Democrat “moderate” types who support Third Way are absolutely terrified. They’re terrified that Elizabeth Warren and her supporters will upend the stranglehold they’ve had on Democratic politics since the Clinton era.

[democrank]

1. The Corporate Democratic so-called "moderates"

really will have something to worry about if more Democratic voters end the automatic head-nodding foolishness. This selling out age-old Democratic principles for a "win" has to stop.
Time to learn the difference between compromising and selling out.

[reformist2]

2. Their time has come, and gone. The New Progressivism/Liberalism is on the ascendant.

[polichick]

5. They've still got three years in the WH - time to push the TPP through...

and God knows what else. We'll really need the grassroots and progressive caucus to speak out LOUDLY.

[reddread]

3. Imagine a debate between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders?

Rather than one between Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden?
Wonder which is more likely?

[bemildred]

4. They hate and fear the grass roots, if we rule, they don't. nt

[xchrom]

8. ...

[99Forever]

6. "Elizabeth Warren and her supporters will upend the stranglehold they’ve had on Democratic politics"

Yes we will. And not one moment too soon, and the Turd Wayers can go back to the Teapublican Party where they belong.

[a kennedy]

7. she is “ starting to get out of hand.”

This sounds like a rallying cry for ALL women running for the Democratic party. Getting out of hand indeed. Ugh.....

[frylock]

13. that really stood out..

clearly, she doesn't "know her place."

[HappyMe]

9. Good. They should be worried.

More and more people are sick of the same old thing.

[UtahLib]

10. Imagine that, ticks them off that Elizabeth is working for the people who elected her. n/t

[cascadiance]

11. I wonder if Kessler's blathering might ENCOURAGE Warren to run...

... instead of keeping her from running the way he hopes. I can't help but feel that Warren must be getting PO'd and this kind of crap being spewed towards Democrats might tell her that it is NECESSARY for her to run to shut it down. Her response to him certainly indicates she's willing to stand up to these bastids! Time for the Koch Brothers minions to be shut down NOW!

[polichick]

12. Yes, I could see this (and more like it to come) pushing her to run.