"Elizabeth Warren Gets Praise From Geithner; Will She Get New Job?"

[Cha]

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"Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has frequently clashed with Wall Street bailout watchdog Elizabeth Warren, but today he praised her work on financial reform and said she would be "a very effectively leader" of the powerful consumer protection agency to be created under the new Wall Street reform law.

"She is one of the most effective advocates of reform in the country," Geithner told reporters at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. "She has enormous credibility. ... I think she would be an very effective leader of that institution."

But even as he praised Warren, Geithner made it clear he has not endorsed her to run the agency.

"You heard me praise her as an effective leader," Geithner said. "We have not yet made a recommendation to the president" about who should run the new agency.

The White House has mentioned two others as possible candidates for the job: Treasury official Michael Barr and Eugene Kimmelman at the Justice Department.

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[quiet.american]

1. Hmn, Cha. I can guess that Geithner --

-- is "concerned" that she not be too zealous as head of the agency.

I say, let's err on the side of her idea of zealousness for a change. She's been a tireless advocate for the middle class. As long as her zeal doesn't lead to embarrassment after embarrassment (a la Vilsack/Sherrod) which I don't think it will -- I hope she's appointed and confirmed as head of the agency.

[Sheepshank]

2. She is quite brilliant

she obviously knows her stuff. I've thoroughly enjoyed her interviews on Maddow's shows, and her enthusiasm for representing the 'people' when it comes to financial institutions. Could that be deemed zealousness? Somehow that word seems more destructive than the actions I would assign to Warren. I wonder though at leading/administering an entired department....knowledge is one thing, executive leadership another....I'm not questioning her leadership skill, I'm just not aware of them.