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In reply to the discussion: Hey purists: there's NO WAY Obama could have recess appointed Elizabeth Warren to head CFPB [View all]joshcryer
(62,269 posts)36. The Republicans hate the CFPB and Warren would've been obstructed for years.
They would've subpoenaed her every other week, for years. Rather than sit and wait for the American people to elect sane politicians, she decided to get elected herself.
Now there are 44 senators who just want to say, You know, we dont like that outcome. So we want to change it. We want you to rip the arms and legs off this agency. Um, my answer is no. The agency is here to do a job, a job that desperately needs to be done, a job that Republicans and Democrats and libertarians and people who dont care about politics at all care about and that is being able to read their financial contracts, know what the price is, know what the risk is, not be overwhelmed with unreadable fine print. Thats what were headed toward and thats what I want to see happen.
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No, what they want to do is they just want to slow this thing up. They want to find another way to see if they can complicate it and keep it from moving forward and mire it in fighting. Let me be clear: There are more restrictions on this agency than any of the other banking regulators. We already have restrictions on our budget that none of the others have. Were subject to a veto. No other agency, so far as I know, in government who can be vetoed by other agencies.
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No, what they want to do is they just want to slow this thing up. They want to find another way to see if they can complicate it and keep it from moving forward and mire it in fighting. Let me be clear: There are more restrictions on this agency than any of the other banking regulators. We already have restrictions on our budget that none of the others have. Were subject to a veto. No other agency, so far as I know, in government who can be vetoed by other agencies.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/07/exit-interview-elizabeth-warren-im-not-through-throwing-rocks/
This is a woman who is a fighter and I'm tired of people speaking for Warren.
She might've wanted it.
In the end she did not want it.
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Hey purists: there's NO WAY Obama could have recess appointed Elizabeth Warren to head CFPB [View all]
MannyGoldstein
Jan 2012
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Rather her run for Senate in case we lose Nelson's seat, she will most likely beat Brown.
FarLeftFist
Jan 2012
#61
I'm sure the fact that she said she didn't want it had NOTHING to do with it. nt
TheWraith
Jan 2012
#3
She might have wanted it before we gave her an obstructing congress, but after that, it was clear...
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#24
The Republicans knew she would do a good job and did everything they could to block her nomination.
RC
Jan 2012
#30
The quoted words are hers. Do you think she wanted to run a neutered organization?
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#41
Let me get this straight. We shouldnt appoint anyone the republicons dont like because
rhett o rick
Jan 2012
#46
No, she was never nominated, she was appointed to run a new agency. The agency itself...
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#49
Your post #36 implies that she shouldnt have been nominated because of the
rhett o rick
Jan 2012
#51
What are you talking about? She has to clean up after little Snottiescottie.
lonestarnot
Jan 2012
#5
She didn't want it, Barny Frank said as much, and her Senate run proves she didn't want it.
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#10
Did you *see* the Oversite Committee for Warren? She did *not* have to put up with their garbage...
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#20
Just to be perfectly clear, Manny. She has *already done what she wanted to do*.
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#47
Cordray could be the second coming of Christ intent on driving out the money lenders
Dewey Finn
Jan 2012
#67
Nah, it's difficult to make a sarcastic, derisive post, that maybe will pass scrutiny and has...
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#39
I did. I've yet to be convinced Warren wanted to sit on a neutered organization...
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#48
I'm certain if she wanted to she could've got the nomination. She already fought...
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#60