

Senator Elizabeth Warren speaks for the people, in the ways that stir the imagination, and throws fuel on so many smoldering progressive fires ...



Candidate or Not, Elizabeth Warren Has the Right 2016 Message

by John Nichols, TheNation.com -- Nov 12, 2013

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But Warren is not just a fall-back contender -- or even a progressive alternative to the centrist Clinton. She is more than just a prospective candidate. She is a purveyor of ideas, whether advanced on the campaign trail or in the Senate, that really do make her what Politico suggests: “Wall Street’s Nightmare.” What is appealing about the prospect of a Warren bid -- against Clinton or in a race without Clinton -- is the determination of the Massachusetts senator to reach far beyond the traditional space filled by centrist and even liberal Democrats. She goes to where Bill de Blasio went in a progressive populist bid that swept him into New York’s mayoralty with an almost fifty-point margin of victory. Warren’s message, in the Senate and beyond, is that Democrats can and should have an economic agenda that speaks to the great mass of Americans . And when she delivers it, as she did at last summer’s AFL-CIO convention in Los Angeles, she can and does sound like a very appealing presidential prospect.

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Senator Elizabeth Warren speaks for the people, in the ways that say thatin our lifetimes -- CAN be achieved.

Senator Elizabeth Warren has Wall Street scrambling for ways to blunt her message. A message that would make them accountable, that would require them to pay their fair share again. You know fairness, just like what most of the American People want ...



Wall Street’s nightmare: President Elizabeth Warren

by Ben White and Maggie Haberman, politico.com -- Nov 11, 2013



[...] The fear is also that a Warren candidacy, or even the threat of one, would push Clinton to the left in the primaries and revive arguments about breaking up the nation’s largest banks, raising taxes on the wealthy and otherwise stoke populist anger that is likely to also play a big role in the Republican primaries. The nightmare scenario for banks is to hear these arguments from a candidate on the far left and on the far right,” said Jaret Seiberg, a financial services industry analyst at Guggenheim Partners. “Suddenly, you have Elizabeth Warren screaming about ‘too big to fail’ on one side and Rand Paul screaming about it on the other side, and then candidates in the middle are forced to weigh in .”

[...] She almost certainly would bring fresh scrutiny to Wall Street scandals by arguing that even giant settlements -- like the $13 billion JPMorgan Chase is expected to pay to end probes into its mortgage practices -- are nowhere near enough to make up for the damage done during the financial crisis.

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And Senator Elizabeth Warren would be right -- in making that, for reeling in the Banks, for making them give back to repair some of the great damage they've done to OUR Economy. And she would be right in fighting for fairness here -- forfor all the home ownership dreams, burst. Shattered like so much fine print, in so many corporate shredders ...



Senator Elizabeth Warren speaks to the people in a way that few have in recent years. Senator Warren speaks to our commonly shared anger regarding the lack or Economic Justice in America. Senator Warren speaks to commonly shared sense of decency that no one should be above the law, that no one should get a free pass, when it comes to taking advantage of the good will and hard work of the American People.

The American Dream was built on such common sense principles of trust and fair play. If no one is held to true account, then what happens to that populist trust. What happens to the American Dream?

It's left to smolder in our anger and sense of futility. It's left waiting for someone -- someone like a Senator Warren -- to re-stoke those populist flames ... long as the echoes of our economic dreams, still linger on ...

Waiting for such a spokesperson.







