Why a Confirmation Fight Would Have Been Good for Warren, Obama and the U.S.

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/why_a_confirmation_battle_would_have_been_good_for_the_country_20110718/?ln

Fearing a tough confirmation fight, the president declined to nominate Elizabeth Warren to head the consumer protection agency she invented. That’s a shame, writes The Boston Globe’s Steven Syre, who argues that the next choice won’t get confirmed either, and at least a nominated Warren “could have done more than anyone to help defend the agency from persistent attacks on its authority and funding.”

Steven Syre in the Boston Globe:

As the nominee, Warren would have been in a position to continue to defend the agency she invented in the earliest months of its existence. She could speak to consumer issues and people would listen. How many people will pay attention when she is writing and speaking from Cambridge at the start of the fall semester?

<...> Remaining in the Washington spotlight, Warren could have done more than anyone to help defend the agency from persistent attacks on its authority and funding. Critics would still like to eliminate the director’s job entirely, handing bureau authority instead to a commission that would presumably do much less, if anything.

More at the link --

[ProSense]

1. How could it

have been good if she didn't want to have it?

[Zenlitened]

2. You don't know that she didn't want the job.

Her own words indicate that she did.

[ProSense]

5. Her words indicate

that she is fine with stepping away. If she wanted to fight, she would have pushed for the job regardless. Her words indicate that may not have been the best thing for the agency.

[Zenlitened]

7. Please...

If she wanted to fight, she would have pushed for the job regardless.

Don't you think she did? Really?

:eyes:

[ProSense]

9. "Don't you think she did? Really?"

Is the eye rolling suppose to convince me she did, but the President told her no way, no job for you?

[Zenlitened]

10. No, the eye-rolling was a way of marvelling...

...at the brazenness of the spin being put out on the Warren story.

It really is kind of breath-taking.

I mean, Warren worked her butt off, really blazing new trails on this stuff, and you can honestly maintain that she had no interest in the job?

You should watch her interview with Rachel Maddow. She made it pretty clear that she was making a sacrifice of sorts by stepping away.

And, yeah, if the President says, "no job for you," as you put it... well, that's the way it's gonna be.

That doesn't mean she never made her case, nor that Pres. Obama never gave her the opportunity to make her case.

But for you to post repeatedly that "she didn't want the job" is just dishonest.

[Donnachaidh]

3. read the article

that would be a novelty, wouldn't it? :sarcasm:

[Zenlitened]

4. Even if Cordray is second-best to some, I think the fight is still worth having. - n/t

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Save her to run against Scott Brown.

Someone needs to whip Brown's butt.

[PoliticAverse]

8. IS there someone that thinks there won't be a confirmation fight over Cordray ? n/t