Elizabeth Warren Slams Republicans For Filibustering Consumer Protection Agency Chief

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

SAHIL KAPUR MARCH 12, 2013, 5:44 PM 307
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who crafted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as part of the 2010 financial reform law and initially helped lead it, excoriated Republicans on Tuesday for refusing to confirm a nominee to lead the agency.

“From the way I see how other agencies are treated, I see nothing here but a filibuster threat against Director Cordray as an attempt to weaken the consumer agency,” she said at a Senate Banking Committee hearing on the CFPB nomination. “I think the delay in getting him confirmed is bad for consumers, it’s bad for small banks, it’s bad for credit unions, it’s bad for anyone trying to offer an honest product in an honest market.

“The American people,” Warren said, “deserve a Congress that worries less about helping big banks and more about helping regular people who have been cheated on mortgages, on credit cards, on student loans, on credit records.”

Warren was responding to the Senate GOP’s promise to block the nomination of Richard Cordray. He currently serves as director of the CFPB under a recess appointment from President Obama (an appointment that might be void under a recent federal appeals court ruling). She herself was the agency’s initial interim director until Republican filibusters forced her out and caused her to run for Senate instead. Now, 43 GOP senators have written a letter pledging to block the confirmation of a director to the CFPB unless Democrats agree to scale back the agency’s authority.

Read more: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/03/elizabeth-warren-cfpb-filibuster-republicans.php

[ashling]

1. GOP is really going to shit bricks when

all of these blocked appointments run for the senate.

[freshwest]

4. GMTA.

[ashling]

10. Except that

I had to look up GMTA

[FarPoint]

19. Richard Cordray is Brilliant!

and the repugs know this.....He is a fine Ohioan.

[ReRe]

2. You tell 'em Senator Warren!

K&R

... Every day, ten times a day.

[broadcaster75201]

3. Dems could have fixd the Filibuser. They didn't. Don't feel sorry one ounce for them N/T

nt

[Plucketeer]

6. On the face of it, you're right

But there's SOME sort of back room shenanigans or contorted logic that we're not privvy to. Of course, the folks we elect to do our bidding - aren't gonna level with us. We're TOO STUPID to be trusted with the sacred shell game rules.

[pscot]

14. Then feel sorry for the Country

[lsewpershad]

5. If Obama and dems

Back down on this nomination they will lose every ounce of confidence I have in them...period.

[TomCADem]

13. You Do Know The Republicans Are Holding Up The Nomination?

Yet, we blame Democrats for Republican intrangsience?

[Fat Bastard]

7. Republicans continue to play games.

It's fucking time to invoke the nuclear option and tell the Republicans to look at their polls and go talk to their own constitutents - you know, the ONES that elect them.

No wonder why Congress is so dysfunctional. Nothing gets done. It's time to kick their asses. It's time for the filibuster to be declared null and void and Republicans no longer have the option to do anything except to take a piss.

[bvar22]

11. I believe the window for doing that is closed.

The rules are set at the beginning of each session.
Reid had a wonderful opportunity to do this a couple of weeks ago,
and pranced around, puffing out his chest in front of the TV cameras,
and pretending he was considering it,
but, in the end, chickened out and did nothing. (sigh)

He said he extracted a "promise" from the Republicans that they would play nice,
and that was good enough for him.

I believe we are stuck with these rules until the next session.
(Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong about the session rules.)



[font size=3]Harry Reid, the Democratic Senate Majority Leader
holding aloft his agreement from the Republicans
in which they promised to play nice.[/font]
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[font size=1]Oops.
My Bad.
That isn't Harry Reid.
That is Neville Chamberlain holding aloft
Hitler's 1938 promise that HE would Play nice.[/font]



Aside from all THAT,
are you enjoying the Kabuki Theater?





You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their rhetoric, promises, or excuses.
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[Politicub]

8. The CFPB must be pretty awesome based

on how freaked out the republicans are acting.

[mtasselin]

9. SHOCKED

Thanks again Harry, you sure showed them!

[obama2terms]

12. Every time I hear her speak

I love her more. She doesn't back down, the GOP doesn't know who their messing with, she isn't going to be a do nothing senator. It wouldn't surprise me if she became our 1st woman president. I wish Harry Reid had had the balls to reform the filibuster though, the GOP wouldn't use it near is much if they actually had to give a reason for it.

[socialindependocrat]

15. Another confirmation that the Repukes represent big business and not the middle class

Something needs to be done when the whole Republican't Party
has shown time after time that they represent the Corporations
and not the people who have elected them.

This is one of the biggest where they want to lessen the power of a
bureau that is put in place to PROTECT the people!

The Repukes do a better job at ensuring their extinction that any
Democratic strategy that could be thought of.

I just wish that the Dems would think of an uber-logical statement to make
that would make the Middle class see that they are not being represented by
these power mongers!

[NeoConsSuck]

18. Unfortunately, you can't fix stupid

They are in the House & Senate because their constituents keep voting them in, for whatever goddamn reason. These voters lack critical thinking skills, they cannot see (or don't want to see) how they are voting against their own economic interests, they are cutting their own throats.

These teabagger nutjob politicians didn't just magically appear in Washington. They were sent there by voters, very stupid voters who determine their votes on wedge issues (guns, religion, homophobia, racism etc).

[socialindependocrat]

21. In agreement - additional information

I have come to the same conclusions (i.e., stupid voters who determine their votes on wedge issues )

In addition - I was at my cousin's for Xmas and she is a diehard Rep.

Her father was wealthy and I can see how he probably raised her saying that Republican is what you are if you have a business. She is basically stuck with the idea that the government is taxing the wealthy just to give it to the poor.

She has a friend who grew up poor ad she said that she is from German parents who did everything by the book and worked hard and they saw others in the neighborhood who were getting money from the Government who didn't deserve it but knew how to work the system. For that she is continuing to vote Republican.

My thought is that we need to accept the fact that some people need help and we have a safety net set up to fit the need. We need to look at who is sucking off the system and tighten things up and then find a way to train people to get jobs and get off the welfare rolls. But, you just don't say we don't want to pay these people support anymore and cut them off - You work to evolve the system and make it better.

Here we have all these Repubs. complaining that the poor take advantage of the system and then turn around and GIVE money to the wealthy for no good reason at all (well, maybe for the reason that they are buying votes and donations)

but I digress...

[supercats]

16. Elizabeth Warren Is The Best!

We now must find a way to abolish the republicans, or at the very least make them completely ineffective and invisible because they are openly trying to ruin our country for the majority of Americans.

[alfredo]

17. They want to mess up our government so bad that the people rise up against it.

The Tea Party showed how easy the uninformed can be manipulated.

[onwardsand upwards]

20. Let's hope

that she doesn't mysteriously develop cancer.