Just got an E-mail about Elizabeth Warren's nomination

[ThomWV]

Am I somehow misreading this?

"BREAKING NEWS: We did it! Today, President Obama will name Elizabeth Warren to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau -- and become a White House economic adviser with direct access to the President."

[lamp_shade]

1. An appointment... not a nomination.

[monmouth]

2. My read on that is she will be "adviser" until after Dodd, et al are gone

and then appoint herself (Cheney-like) as the head of that Bureau. This way she does not have to be scrutinized and approved by the Senate. I listened to Rachel explain and this is what I got out of it. If true, smart move. So many of the Presidents candidates are waiting for approval, the Warren placement cannot wait. Hope I got that right.

[ThomWV]

3. I'm sorry, it looked like it might be something new, but its the same old shit

I'm sorry, on further inspection it turns out to be the same horseshit they proposed last week. You remember how a month ago she had bipartisan support in the Senate and would be a breeze for confirmation, but now the Whitehouse is too cowardly to even put her name forward to fill the actual job? And so now she is supposed to go to work for the guy who opposed her nomination and become an advisior to the guy who didn't even want to hear her name. Great.

[elleng]

4. No horseshit here.

“It’s time for all of us to pull up our socks and get to work,” she wrote.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/elizabeth-warren-i-accept/?hp

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Do you seriously think she would have accepted a figurehead position?

Here's what she just said this morning:

“The President asked me, and I enthusiastically agreed, to serve as an Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,” Ms. Warren wrote. Then she added, perhaps in a veiled reference to the president’s decision to appoint her as his assistant now, rather than going through what could be a lengthy Senate confirmation process: “He has also asked me to take on the job to get the new C.F.P.B. started — right now.”

She will report directly to the President. I don't think she'd have accepted a job as Geithner's lackey, which you seem to be suggesting. Or are we supposed to throw her under the bus now?

[speppin]

6. And does the WH expect more support after the midterms

when the dems lose a few Dem senators?? I do not get this wait either.