Elizabeth Warren Offered $1 Million To Run for President!

[tomm2thumbs]

Bill Maher interviews Elizabeth Warren and throws a check into the ring, hoping her hat will follow. Real Time host Bill Maher put his money where his mouth is in an effort on Friday to get Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to jump into the presidential race.

[lordsummerisle]

1. Thanks for posting this n/t

[JDPriestly]

2. America needs Elizabeth Warren. I wish that someone would ask her WHY she is not running.

She is the person who is not just right for the job but most likely to be elected. She needs to explain WHY she is not running. I will not give up on hoping she will run until she explains why she doesn't want to run.

[rhett o rick]

4. My guess is that the DC Democratic Party Machine thinks it's HRC's turn

and discourages Sen Warren to run at this time. She would have a hard time without their support.

[BrotherIvan]

5. ^^

Pretty obvious with their giving her a symbolic position that they want to make sure she's not a threat.

[sheshe2]

17. The Senior Senator from Massachusetts is hardly symbolic.

They did not give her that position, we the people of MA voted for her. Or are you referring to her position on the banking committee?

Elizabeth Warren Wins Senate Banking Committee Seat: Sources

WASHINGTON -- Nearly two years after Wall Street waged a successful campaign to keep consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren from running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the incoming senator will be tapped to serve on the Banking Committee, according to four sources familiar with the situation. It's a victory for progressives who battled to win her a seat on the panel that oversees the implementation of Dodd-Frank and other banking regulations.

Warren knocked out Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts in the most expensive Senate contest of 2012, with Wall Street spending heavily to beat Warren, a former Harvard law professor.

Sources also told HuffPost that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) will be named to the panel.

Warren's ascension to the panel gives her influence over regulators and the industry that non-panel members don't enjoy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/04/elizabeth-warren-banking-committee_n_2236898.html

I do not see that as symbolic either. The GOP and Wall Street fear her, they thought they were done with her when they blocked her nomination for CFPB. I am sure the good old boys were snickering all the way to the bank. Well the GOP was wrong again, you can't keep a good woman down. She ran and won her Senate seat. They still fear her, now even more. She can and will drag their sorry asses to the table, continuing to regulate them. I believe she will find ways to strengthen the middle class and take on wage disparity as a Senator.

What we need now is to take back the Senate and House and elect a Democratic President.

[JDPriestly]

19. We need to elect Elizabeth Warren as president.

She can ask questions and propose laws as a member of the banking committee. But as president, she could appoint the heads of the regulatory agencies that enforce the laws on the bankers and speak directly to the people from the White House lawn about the changes we need to make in our economy and our financial sector.

As president, she could appoint the Sec. of Treasury, eventually a Fed chair, the head of the SEC, the Sec. of Commerce and on and on.

We could have a real government for a change.

Obama is too scared of these powerful people in the financial sector.

Hillary is too beholden and indebted to them.

Neither Obama nor Hillary can change much of anything in terms of who is in charge of enforcing the laws Congress passes with regard to banking and the rest of out business sector.

We need Elizabeth Warren. She is the candidate who can win but also has the toughness to enforce the laws we now have.

It does not good to have a strong member of Congress proposing or even getting passed the laws that we need if we do not have a president who is willing and free and strong enough to enforce those laws and appoint people who will see to it that the laws are enforced. We do not have that now.

Obama has many wonderful traits. He is in many respects a great president. But he does not have the courage and strength to make sure that banking and financial sector laws are rigorously enforced.

And we are losing trust in other nations because we do not have that part of our country under control.

The situation in Greece is the result of wrongs done by people under our financial system. It should never have happened. Who is going to pay the piper there is a big question. Right now the parties are bluffing each other. Sooner or later one will have to give in or they will have to compromise in a way that does not push the Greek people into some political path that could endanger many in Europe. And our financial system is in great part to blame for that mess.

[BrotherIvan]

20. I am refering to the new position that was made for her by the leadership

The title will be strategic policy adviser to the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee — a specially created position that puts Warren into a much more prominent position in the Senate hierarchy.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/elizabeth-warren-harry-reid-senate-leadership-112847.html#ixzz3XA3PjEFp

It is nice that they acknowledge her, but I am sure they are doing their best to bring her to heel. She doesn't make timid Dems and Blue Dogs look very good.

[sheshe2]

21. Well

We women do not "heel" well. Trust me on that one! If you think they "heeled" Senator Warren, then you do not know her very well.

She is a woman with an brilliant mind. You dismiss her when you say that.

[BrotherIvan]

22. I'm not and never have

I think she is very brave and principled. It's not her motives I'm worried about. I think the leadership likes all that Wall St. ca$h.

[sheshe2]

8. IMHO

My Senator, who I met and voted for, damn she is awesome and is needed in the Senate. Sigh~ I truly believe she is where she wants to be. I believe she can make a difference for us all from the seat she holds. Just like our deceased Senior Senator from MA, Teddy Kennedy.

Me, I believe that is where she wants to be Rhett. Some scoff at me when I say she can do more there than President because she can focus on the middle class and the banks and student loans et all.

She is a force to be reckoned with. The GOP does not want her there, please don't rush her out from her seat. she is going to make history as our Senior Senator from Massachusetts.

[cascadiance]

10. Jeff Merkley is my great senator from Oregon, but I'd love to wear this button in 2016!

I'd love to give another progressive a chance to fill his seat in the Senate (like Peter DeFazio) and get another progressive in Massachusetts and grow more progressive experience everywhere, not just keep our pols confined where they are. We need more political power for progressives everywhere. Let them advance, and help advance others.

DeFazio is talking about potentially primary challenge to Senator Wyden in 2016 if Wyden doesn't stop the Fast Track negotiations. I'd much rather work hard to persuade Wyden to do the right thing so that we don't need that, and we can have Wyden also stand against things like domestic spying which he's been a good voice on. Then we can have someone like DeFazio running for Senate if Merkley joins the team with Warren. We need to think like this if we want to really take our country back from the corporatists.

[sheshe2]

11. She is not running.

She is where she wants to be. Warren can do this from her Senate seat where she can focus.

[rhett o rick]

14. I know you are aware of how serious the situation is economically for millions and millions

of Americans. I know you've seen it first hand as I have. We can not wait 8 more years before we get change both economically and to the over-reaching security state. If we don't fix both of these, out of control areas, in 8 years we will be lost. I understand how important having Sen Warren in the Senate is, but I can't stand the idea of HRC as president as you are well aware. We need a progressive president.

[sheshe2]

18. I am well aware as you know Rhett.

I don't have all the answers, I wish I did. Read some of what I posted at the link.

This I do know, no matter the Democratic President we elect, without a D- Senate and House, we have lost anyway. Too many sat out the midterms in 2010 and 2014. Hell, I am from a blue state and we once again elected a GD GOP Governor.

I keep reading here that many will refuse to vote in 2016. Really? Have they lost their minds? Another Bush or maybe a Cruz for President? The shock would probably kill me.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017257950#post17

I met her~

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Yup, faux news was front and forward. That is my pic!

[shebornik]

6. Remember Ross Perot?

He ran an independent campaign and scared the powers that be with number of followers who turned away from tweedledum and tweedledee and looked to him for a change. A few thinly veiled threats to family members and the Perot campaign buckled under. The people that think they own this country aren't going to let loose canons like Warren threaten their hold on this country and I think she is very aware of this. At least she has a position to let her voice be heard and still be a thorn in the side of the republicans. A pathetic thing to have to say about our country but their are nasty people in the shadows.

[GoneFishin]

15. I alluded to this threat potential in another thread, and it was not well received.

[arcane1]

7. Why? Because she doesn't want to be president. Neither do I.

Why must we be demanding people explain why they are not running?

[zeemike]

9. I think they gave her the talk.

Because Wall Street gave them the talk...it is Hillary's turn.

And I have not given up hope either. As long as she says I am Not running instead of I will not run there is hope.

[Mnpaul]

3. Good one Bill

Nicely played.

Comedians are known for their "timing"

and thanks to tomm2thumbs for sharing the clip.

[IHateTheGOP]

12. This is what sanity looks like TPers

Tell me again how there's "no difference"
between the parties.

[midnight]

13. kick

[DeSwiss]

16. ....