Elizabeth Warren's New Book Skewers The White House Boys Club

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/17/elizabeth-warren-book_n_5170018.html

[div class="excerpt" Sen. Elizabeth Warren's new book skewers the boys club who basically ran the nation's fiscal policy in the early days of the Obama administration, contending they carried out a financial bailout that saved the banks but was a major "lost opportunity" to help regular people.

A Fighting Chance, due out next week, makes the case that America needs its government to look out for the metaphorical little guy.

While the Massachusetts Democrat details the successes she had working with the White House and President Barack Obama in those days, she also reveals the constant tension between her -- an outsider and a woman -- and the men on the inside.

She doesn't always say it directly and she usually cuts the sting with some praise, but Warren seems particularly disappointed with two of the lions of Obama's economic team: former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and former National Economic Council boss Larry Summers.
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"He teed it up this way: I had a choice," Warren writes. "I could be an insider or I could be an outsider. Outsiders can say whatever they want. But people on the inside don't listen to them. Insiders, however, get lots of access and a chance to push their ideas. People -- powerful people -- listen to what they have to say. But insiders also understand one unbreakable rule: They don't criticize other insiders."

[PoliticAverse]

1. I guess Summers didn't think Warren had enough 'intrinsic aptitude'. n/t

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2. She just needs to be more like Hillary.

Hillary is poised to take the White House. "Inevitable," some insist.

Maybe it's Warren's populist rhetoric that gets her shunned?

[Politicalboi]

4. "Inevitable" ?

I guess you didn't vote, or see the outcome. But since Warren said she wasn't running, it's Hillary's to take. The vast majority, don't even know who Bernie Sanders is.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024833388

[NYC_SKP]

5. Holy cow, that is PERFECT! Except that you have it backwards.

There's nothing about Hillary that I want Warren to emulate, unless it's her ability to bring in campaign funds.

I don't want a Walmart board member, outsourcing "inevitable" DINO anywhere near the Whitehouse.

[Whisp]

6. don't forget the foot in mouth disease she has.

oiy! the things she says sometimes, pure lunacy.

[Beacool]

19. Pure lunacy is what you usually write.

[MannyGoldstein]

10. She needs to come under sniper fire in Bosnia

Good idea!

And then the $200k-per-stop victory lap of Wall Street.

[Pharaoh]

14. Hillary poised?

I'll put Warren against her anytime!!

[WilliamPitt]

24. My brain just died.

Thanks.

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28. ...

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3. Already ordered.

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7. kick nt

[MADem]

8. Sounds like she's running for ... Fed Chair. nt

[MannyGoldstein]

9. She's not running!

And I really, really need you to know that. Don't even think about it. No!

Elizabeth has made a blood oath to support Hillary in any way possible. Don't look that up, OK? You can trust me, of course.

And anyway, she can be far more effective in the Senate than as President. Haven't we leaned that the President has no power?

Regards,

TWM

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11. um, Manny, I didn't say she was running. But your post was funny. nt

[MannyGoldstein]

12. Sorry, we Third Wayers know how incredibly dangerous that difficult woman is

You can see how we'd be a little twitchy about the subject. She's threatening to ruin everything that we've done to for you people over the last two decades! Why... I'll only be upper middle class!

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13. aw, Manny, you're just a "hater". nt

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22. WINNER! Most Third Way memes in one post. Great job! nt

[slipslidingaway]

15. knr... thanks n/t

[amandabeech]

16. In later paragraphs, the article says that one of the Presidents "insiders"

told then Prof. Warren that she could be a "cheerleader" for her board even though she didn't get to be its first leader.

I'm dying to know which one of the "boys" told her to be a cheerleader.

My bet is on Summers, but there were some real jerks in the finance team.

[emsimon33]

17. K&R

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

18. the only reason Warren may not run is Citizen United aka Hillary's saving grace

thank god for the Roberts SCOTUS.

The other Dems can't raise Hillary kind of money.

[Beacool]

20. Maybe the reason she won't run is because she doesn't want to be president.

Not everyone in politics wants to be president. Besides, she wasn't even a politician until a couple of years ago.

[RobertEarl]

21. Really? Not a politician? Fantastic!!

That's what this country needs in office, hardly-even-politicians. You have convinced me to throw all my support to Warren.

Imagine that, a hardly-even-politician in the WH. And she's a woman. Just what this country needs; a twofer for the win.

You think we may get lucky, finally, and get a president we deserve, Beacool?

[Beacool]

25. You may deserve Warren.

I prefer Hillary. Then again, maybe neither one will run. Who knows?

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23. kick nt

[Jefferson23]

26. Recommend.

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27. Thanks. nt