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wndycty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-10 03:18 PM
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Poll question: So Elizabeth Warren is being appointed will progressives celebrate what it is or complain about. . .
Edited on Thu Sep-16-10 03:34 PM by wndycty
. . .what it isn't?

After she is appointed what will the progressive reaction be?
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-10 03:21 PM
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1. It's much more fun to complain that actually to get what we want.
Hell, I miss complaining already!
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-10 03:23 PM
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2. We've seen it. It's not good enough, fast enough, and gosh darn it it sucks!
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-10 03:40 PM
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3. Can't vote again because an ad blocks the voting button: but hurrah!
Obama is slipping it through despite Senate objections -- and Warren can begin her hopefully awesome work.
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-10 03:41 PM
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4. Elizabeth Warren, the progressive heroine, is now the goat because
she accepted a meaningless position with no power. Right. Like she'd have quit her job teaching at Harvard to take a figurehead position. We loved her so much that we had to have her as head of the agency, and now that Obama has done a clever end-run around the Republican obstructionists and that tool Dodd by giving her an advisor job that doesn't require any Senate confirmation, ever, but gives her the ability to build the agency from scratch, now she's a corporatist sellout? Under the bus with you, Elizabeth!

Jesus... :eyes:
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-10 03:46 PM
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6. Don't tell me they're
doubting her integrity and threw her under the bus with all the other so called non purists that the professioal left dictates?!:bounce::popcorn::party::fistbump:
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great white snark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-10 03:50 PM
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7. +1
Yet again a smart and opinionated woman suddenly has lost her wits just because of an Obama association.

:eyes: indeed.
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Cal33 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-10 08:04 AM
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10. She was the one who came up with the idea of a Consumer
Edited on Fri Sep-17-10 08:35 AM by Cal33
Financial Protection Bureau. It's her baby. The way I understand it, she Will be
responsible directly to the president, and also to the Treasury Dep't. Now, how
Geithner and Summers will react to her future proposals, could be a very different
story. I presume they'll be at opposite ends much of the time, and Obama would have
to be the one to make the final decision.

This could show whether Obama is for the consumers or for Wall Street. Or will he be
able to find some position in-between? This latter is more like it. He usually tries
to satisfy eveybody -- and might end up satisfying nobody.

There is another possibility: With the elections coming up, both in November and his
own in 2012, and maybe his finally having seen that the Neocons are out to destroy him
and his administration no matter what he does, Obama might want to be on the side where
he sees most of the votes will be.
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uponit7771 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-10 03:42 PM
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5. I WANT A PUPPY!!!
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Uzybone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-10 04:26 PM
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8. real progressives will be happy
the professional "left" will complain since that is all they know how to do.
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wndycty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-10 07:24 AM
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9. And what about the netroots
:kick:
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Uzybone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-10 08:29 AM
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12. The netroots will rejoice
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Liberal_Stalwart71 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-10 08:11 AM
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11. You know how we do: COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!!! n/t
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