ABC: Obama Will Appoint Warren to Interim Position

[BurtWorm]

:applause:

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/09/exclusive-president-obama-to-this-week-name-elizabeth-warren-to-special-advisory-role-to-white-house.html

President Obama will announce this week that Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law School professor who first proposed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, will be named to a special position reporting to both him and to the Treasury Department and tasked with heading the effort to get the new federal agency standing, a knowledgeable Democrat told ABC News.

Warren currently chairs the Congressional Oversight Panel of the Troubled Assets Relief Program and has been seen by many on the Left as a force for greater accountability and transparency, and a check against the forces in the Obama administration more closely allied with the financial sector. Many officials in that sector eye her warily as too anti-business.

At his press conference Friday, President Obama noted that “the idea for this agency was Elizabeth Warren’s,” a reference to an essay she wrote in 2007 in Democracy: A Journal of Ideas in which she proposed a “Financial Product Safety Commission.”

The president went on to call Warren “a dear friend of mine. She’s somebody I’ve known since I was in law school. And I have been in conversations with her. She is a tremendous advocate for this idea. It’s only been a couple of months, and this is a big task standing up this entire agency, so I'll have an announcement soon about how we’re going to move forward.”

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

1. I believe this will happen (but the sourcing is funny)

The source in the article is "a knowledgeable Democrat"

I do not doubt the accuracy of the story, though. It is consistant with a lot of buzz all week.

[BurtWorm]

2. A knowledgeable Democrat I know hinted at the same thing.

;-)

I'm not kidding. He told me he knew what Obama was going to do but couldn't say. Then he teased me by saying he knew Warren was a touchstone for the Professional Left.

[formercia]

3. "a knowledgeable Democrat"

That makes it impossible to figure out who it is, there are so many, compared to the GOP.

[BurtWorm]

4. Ha ha!

:spray:

[xultar]

5. HEY DODD KISS MY BIG FAT DIMPLE RIDDEN BLACK ASS..PRICK

[BurtWorm]

7. Mine too!

:patriot:

[laughingliberal]

6. K & R nt