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Op-ed: Harry Reid plays Elizabeth Warren like a chump
Battenfeld: Harry Reid plays Elizabeth Warren like a chump
11/17/2014
..."Taking Reid’s offer is a risky move for the freshman senator’s future. If Democrats lose big again in two years, she will get part of the blame. After all, she is the “strategic policy adviser for the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee.”
This “job” is beneath Warren’s standing.
...Warren excels at being the outsider, railing against big banks, Wall Street fat cats and Washington lobbyists who have “rigged” the game against ordinary people. It’s a great, simplistic message that is resonating out there among a lot of voters, and not just in liberal Massachusetts.
But the populist hell-raiser fighting for the “hammered” middle class got snookered by Reid. Now that the Cambridge Democrat’s been co-opted by the ultimate Beltway blowhard, it’s going to make it difficult for her to be too tough on the party or the Obama administration.
Guess who is totally fine with being tough on Congress and the Obama administration now? Hillary Clinton. She’s happy to be far removed from her old Senate pals. Reid only brought in Warren to appease discontented liberals. But giving her a sketchy post just shows that the soon-to-be minority party still doesn’t get it.
Senate Democrats suffered an embarrassing shellacking, and what do the remaining Senate Democrats do? Re-elect Reid and the rest of his leaders."
https://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/joe_battenfeld/2014/11/battenfeld_harry_reid_plays_elizabeth_warren_like_a
11/17/2014
..."Taking Reid’s offer is a risky move for the freshman senator’s future. If Democrats lose big again in two years, she will get part of the blame. After all, she is the “strategic policy adviser for the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee.”
This “job” is beneath Warren’s standing.
...Warren excels at being the outsider, railing against big banks, Wall Street fat cats and Washington lobbyists who have “rigged” the game against ordinary people. It’s a great, simplistic message that is resonating out there among a lot of voters, and not just in liberal Massachusetts.
But the populist hell-raiser fighting for the “hammered” middle class got snookered by Reid. Now that the Cambridge Democrat’s been co-opted by the ultimate Beltway blowhard, it’s going to make it difficult for her to be too tough on the party or the Obama administration.
Guess who is totally fine with being tough on Congress and the Obama administration now? Hillary Clinton. She’s happy to be far removed from her old Senate pals. Reid only brought in Warren to appease discontented liberals. But giving her a sketchy post just shows that the soon-to-be minority party still doesn’t get it.
Senate Democrats suffered an embarrassing shellacking, and what do the remaining Senate Democrats do? Re-elect Reid and the rest of his leaders."
https://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/joe_battenfeld/2014/11/battenfeld_harry_reid_plays_elizabeth_warren_like_a
Well, I thought they were setting her up to run for president with that move. This opinion piece has me re-thinking things. Its fairly depressing. To me. Anyone have insights on this?
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Not necessarily an accurate reflection of reality. 
The author assumes the Democrats will lose and that Warren will not do a good job in her post.
The fact that a GOP flack like Joe Battenfeld is mad about this to the point of petulant snark means it was the right move all around.
Guess who is totally fine with being tough on Congress and the Obama administration now? Hillary Clinton. She’s happy to be far removed from her old Senate pals. Reid only brought in Warren to appease discontented liberals. But giving her a sketchy post just shows that the soon-to-be minority party still doesn’t get it.
Senate Democrats suffered an embarrassing shellacking, and what do the remaining Senate Democrats do? Re-elect Reid and the rest of his leaders."
When Republic0ns lost to the Democrats and took a shellacking in the Presidential race in 2012 what changed...nothing. They just made sure they got the Supreme Court on their side to steal the next election.
Now they are just moving right along as if they didn't steal this election, and think Democrats should bow down to them and get rid of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and everybody else that they didn't like in the first place. A couple of the two main Democrats that Baggers hate in the first place.
And, if Hillary Clinton trys to buy into that b.s. - she really is a lost soul, and she may as well NOT run for President.
