Boston Globe editorial calls on Democrats to get Elizabeth Warren to challenge Brown in 2012.

[onehandle]

Whatever it takes to take down this empty shell of a softcore porn model.
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ON THE day after Tuesday’s electoral loss, the Obama administration brought an unfamiliar face to the White House - Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law professor noted for her staunch advocacy on behalf the middle class and fierce criticism of the bank bailouts. Perhaps the administration will take a more aggressive approach to Wall Street, along the lines of what Warren wants. But for Democrats to truly take ownership of the economic crisis, Warren will need to play a more prominent role. Not just her ideas, but the force of her personality is needed.

Warren and the Democratic Party need to think seriously about her prospects for higher office. Going into 2012, Massachusetts Democrats will have no shortage of candidates to choose from, eager, party-trained politicians ready to take a run. Republican Scott Brown’s victory to the US Senate last week made clear that voters crave something besides the norm: someone from outside the traditional political structure who can speak to their everyday, bread-and-butter concerns in a credible way. Warren fits the bill.

Warren has spent her career laying the groundwork for what might be called progressive populism. From her perch in Cambridge, she’s excoriated the unfair credit and lending practices that, in part, gave rise to the current crisis. She was the architect of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, which, if created, would regulate credit cards and mortgages in the same way home appliances are regulated now. (Full disclosure: Warren once wrote about the agency in the publication I help edit.) And well before the bubble broke in the summer of 2007, when America was still riding high on George W. Bush’s economy, Warren was speaking out against the incredible pressure the 21st century economy was putting on the middle class. She was derided as a Cassandra, but she was right.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/01/24/the_woman_democrats_need/

[90-percent]

1. Warren

The country would be better served if Obama replaced ten of his WAll Street breed cabinet with one Elizabeth Warren.

She would be an awe inspiring administrator or cabinet member, but I don't think politics would be a place for her considerable talents to thrive.

-90% Jimmy

[karynnj]

2. Great idea - but replacing Geitner would be even better, though obviously

something the President would have to ask.

[Pirate Smile]

3. I thought she was more in line for the Consumer Protection Agency he wants. She'd be great there.

[bertman]

4. Place her in a Cabinet position where she can do some good instead of running for Senate

where she 1) could lose and 2) will be sucked into the vortex of evil.

[MannyGoldstein]

5. +100 nt

[DrToast]

6. She'd be wasted in the Senate.*

[Nite Owl]

7. She would make Ted proud. n/t

[girl_interrupted]

8. Obama should have listened to her a year ago

she urged him to get tougher with the banks, and he didn't listen. Every time I saw her on tv, she seemed more and more frustrated with the situation. He really should replace Geithner with Elizabeth, but I doubt he will. Tht's too bad.

[bigdarryl]

9. She won't win Mass is not good at picking females as politicians

the party should know that.That the problem we are not picking good candidates

[frazzled]

13. Sad but oh so true

After Shannon O'Brien and Martha Coakley, I suggest they take another route.

[realitythink]

10. Screw that!!

Put in the Fed chair. Marty Meehan in 12.

[Nancy Waterman]

11. Make her Treasury Secretary!

She doesn't need to be squabbling with 99 other senators who can never agree on anything.

[avaistheone1]

14. Yes.

If she doesn't get approved for Treasury, THEN run her for Massachusetts Senate.

[graywarrior]

12. Hell, yeah!