Matt Taibbi: Elizabeth Warren for President

[DemReadingDU]

very long article, a small snippet

10/22/09 Matt Taibbi: Elizabeth Warren for President
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But I’d like to see it get talked about anyway. The way I look at it, the problem with the Democratic Party is not the voters, it’s the 19 or 20 people who are paying for the campaigns and sitting in at those meetings with Rahm and Billy Tauzin. We have to get rid of those people, herd them all to the edge of a very tall cliff and push them off and be done with it. I think this can be done by electoral referendum if we actually put it all on the table openly and let people decide for themselves. And maybe it takes an electoral cycle or two to get it done, but it has to get done. This stuff won’t get fixed otherwise.

We need someone in there who is willing to run one this one issue: who owns the Democratic Party? Is it the voters, or is it Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley and United Health Care? There are plenty of candidates out there who’d fit — Toledo’s Marcy Kaptur got a nice bounce from the Michael Moore movie, and Jan Schakowsky is another who comes to mind — but Warren to me makes the most sense for the simple reason that it will be virtually impossible for the Democratic Party hacks to dismiss her as a fringe character, given that they themselves gave her such a big public position as chief of the Congressional Oversight Panel.

This is a woman who understands the finance issues as well as we can hope to expect from any politician and moreover seems to connect the dots when it comes to dissecting the problems on Wall Street:

and more...
http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/10/22/elizabeth-warren-for-president/

[Metta]

1. She's one of the very few connected to Treasury who cares about us and justice.

Those in charge should be marched out yesterday, to jail.

[notesdev]

6. She's not connected to Treasury

She's connected to Congress... she's their oversight agent. Treasury hates her because she does nasty things to them like, oh, telling the truth about what they are doing.

[Metta]

7. Ah. Thanks for clarifying that.

:toast:

[Doctor_J]

2. make her treasurer

she was in "Maxed out", a movie about credit disasters. Very lucid for a Hahvahd law professor. Much more so than Charles Kingsfield, for example ;-)

[DemReadingDU]

3. Do try to read the entire article, it's good

and thanks for all the recs!

[inna]

4. Matt Taibbi is always a "required" reading.

I think, he's becoming one of the greatest thinkers/bloggers out there.

[Ruby the Liberal]

5. +1 He is must-read. Not to mention his subject.

She is aces in my book. I want to see her replace Geithner. Yesterday.

[JDPriestly]

8. I would like to see Obama appoint her as Fed chair or as the Sec. of Treasury.

I don't think she has the foreign policy experience to be president. That is President Obama's area of expertise -- foreign policy. I think he is doing a good job on foreign policy. I do not agree with him regarding handling Congress, civil rights issues (especially torture prosecutions and wiretapping) and the economy.

[yurbud]

9. kick