2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMichele Bachmann jabs at Elizabeth Warren: ‘She’s no populist’
Retiring House Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann said in an interview Friday with Huffington Posts Ryan Grim that Republicans have nothing to fear from the rise of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and her views on economic inequality.
The New Yorker magazine this week called Republican upstart David Brat the Elizabeth Warren of the right after his surprising defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) in the Virginia Republican primary.
Bachmann scoffed at the comparison. Brat, she said, is much better than that.
I dont see Elizabeth Warren as someone Republicans have to worry about, not at all, Bachmann told Huffington Post. Elizabeth Warren, after all, was a major advocate of Dodd-Frank.
The 2010 DoddFrank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and sought to put in place market protections to prevent another financial crash like 2008.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/14/michele-bachmann-jabs-at-elizabeth-warren-shes-no-populist/
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(2,536 posts)Third Doctor
(1,574 posts)Looking at her voting record Michelle, usually sides with special interests and not her voters. Then again a small majority kept voting for her so they deserved what they got.
BlueMTexpat
(15,349 posts)ever been right about anything?
Joe Bacon
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(2,178 posts)WhiteShoesATL
(30 posts)I hope Sen. Warren does not dignify this silliness
SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)They're shitting in their pants. Warren would blow smoke rings around Brat.
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)a deeply serious intellect, that one...