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republican butt cheek cannot be tasty 
A GOP Senate's First Target - Elizabeth Warren’s Consumer Protection Agency
For years, House Republicans have been trying to gut her greatest accomplishment.
By Erika Eichelberger - Sep. 26, 2014
If the GOP wins the Senate, they'll no doubt use the opportunity to push through a range of measures that are kryptonite to Democratic voters—new abortion restrictions, limits on the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency to combat climate change, a relaxation of the rules reining in Wall Street's worst excesses...
Yet people blame Obama.
The bureau's job is to make sure Americans aren't getting screwed by mortgage lenders, credit card companies, debt collectors, and other financial institutions. It's the first federal agency designed specifically to protect everyday consumers from financial wrongdoing, and Republicans have done everything in their power to hobble the agency—including fighting the confirmation of its director, Richard Cordray. Winning the Senate in November could be their best chance to roll back Warren's greatest accomplishment...
Half of their work is already done. The House has passed a bill that would limit the bureau's power by replacing its director with a five-member panel, and subjecting its budget to the congressional appropriations process—meaning that hostile lawmakers could starve it to death. (Unlike most federal agencies, the bureau is bankrolled by the Federal Reserve, an effort to free it from the whims of partisan politics.) House Republicans have also introduced legislation to let other financial regulators overturn CFPB rules, to eliminate a fund the bureau uses to compensate consumers who've been defrauded by an institution that's gone belly-up, and to restrict the kind of data the bureau may collect from consumers. (Republicans have charged that the CFPB's collection of credit data is a violation of privacy, even though the bureau does not collect any personal details the consumer doesn't volunteer.)
Yet people hate the Federal Reserve, and want to effect a Ron Paul and Libertarian plan to eliminate it. A lot more on what they'll do to destroy Warren's work:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/republican-senate-would-gut-elizabeth-warren-consumer-protection-bureau
They've planned her demise for years now. It may be their undoing.
Is that why Obama is smiling?
As far as the unmoveables, enjoy this:
Clinton-Warren for Change
Brent Budowsky Posted: 06/20/2014
...I predict that, if Clinton is nominated in 2016, such polling data would inspire her to seriously consider this possibility as the tidal wave of voter rebellion against status quo politics reaches epic proportion. A ticket of two women would appear as a refreshing broom to sweep aside the discredited politics of demonization, destruction and dysfunction that most Americans detest.
Here's my Clinton-Warren math, which polls will prove or disprove. Net voter support from independent and GOP women: up markedly. Voter turnout and fundraising for Dems: up markedly. Net voter decrease from men who would otherwise vote Democratic: little.
The insider establishment is oblivious to the powerful hunger for transforming change from voters who have endured a decade of scarce jobs, stagnant wages, rising costs and financial pain in an economy they know is fixed and a politics they know is rigged...
Warren's appeal transcends ideology and gender. She reaches the same working-class men that Clinton successfully addressed midway through her 2008 campaign, when she abandoned her consultant-driven caution and fully hit her stride. Today, Warren works with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for a 21st century version of Glass-Steagall financial reform...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brent-budowsky/
Never heard of the writer but this is what Wikipedia says about him:
Brent J. Budowsky (born February 19, 1952)[1] is an American political opinion writer and blogger for publications including The Hill,[2] the LA Progressive,[3] and The Huffington Post.
From the mid-1970s to 1990, Budowsky served in senior congressional staff positions including legislative assistant to former Senator Lloyd Bentsen;[4] extensively involved with the Intelligence Identities Protection Act and Intelligence Officers Death Benefits Act, and legislative director to Representative Bill Alexander, then the Chief Deputy Majority Whip.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Budowsky
Everyone listed there is a Democrat. He's been around for a while. With Warren's raison d'être, the CFPB, gutted by the GOP, she may be frustrated enough to run.
Warren has said repeatedly that she supports Hillary for POTUS. Those who want Warren but despise Clinton would be faced with a dilemma if both women ran on the same ticket.
Unintended consequences, indeed!
For years, House Republicans have been trying to gut her greatest accomplishment.
By Erika Eichelberger - Sep. 26, 2014
If the GOP wins the Senate, they'll no doubt use the opportunity to push through a range of measures that are kryptonite to Democratic voters—new abortion restrictions, limits on the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency to combat climate change, a relaxation of the rules reining in Wall Street's worst excesses...
Yet people blame Obama.
The bureau's job is to make sure Americans aren't getting screwed by mortgage lenders, credit card companies, debt collectors, and other financial institutions. It's the first federal agency designed specifically to protect everyday consumers from financial wrongdoing, and Republicans have done everything in their power to hobble the agency—including fighting the confirmation of its director, Richard Cordray. Winning the Senate in November could be their best chance to roll back Warren's greatest accomplishment...
Half of their work is already done. The House has passed a bill that would limit the bureau's power by replacing its director with a five-member panel, and subjecting its budget to the congressional appropriations process—meaning that hostile lawmakers could starve it to death. (Unlike most federal agencies, the bureau is bankrolled by the Federal Reserve, an effort to free it from the whims of partisan politics.) House Republicans have also introduced legislation to let other financial regulators overturn CFPB rules, to eliminate a fund the bureau uses to compensate consumers who've been defrauded by an institution that's gone belly-up, and to restrict the kind of data the bureau may collect from consumers. (Republicans have charged that the CFPB's collection of credit data is a violation of privacy, even though the bureau does not collect any personal details the consumer doesn't volunteer.)
Yet people hate the Federal Reserve, and want to effect a Ron Paul and Libertarian plan to eliminate it. A lot more on what they'll do to destroy Warren's work:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/republican-senate-would-gut-elizabeth-warren-consumer-protection-bureau
They've planned her demise for years now. It may be their undoing.
Is that why Obama is smiling?
As far as the unmoveables, enjoy this:
Clinton-Warren for Change
Brent Budowsky Posted: 06/20/2014
...I predict that, if Clinton is nominated in 2016, such polling data would inspire her to seriously consider this possibility as the tidal wave of voter rebellion against status quo politics reaches epic proportion. A ticket of two women would appear as a refreshing broom to sweep aside the discredited politics of demonization, destruction and dysfunction that most Americans detest.
Here's my Clinton-Warren math, which polls will prove or disprove. Net voter support from independent and GOP women: up markedly. Voter turnout and fundraising for Dems: up markedly. Net voter decrease from men who would otherwise vote Democratic: little.
The insider establishment is oblivious to the powerful hunger for transforming change from voters who have endured a decade of scarce jobs, stagnant wages, rising costs and financial pain in an economy they know is fixed and a politics they know is rigged...
Warren's appeal transcends ideology and gender. She reaches the same working-class men that Clinton successfully addressed midway through her 2008 campaign, when she abandoned her consultant-driven caution and fully hit her stride. Today, Warren works with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for a 21st century version of Glass-Steagall financial reform...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brent-budowsky/
Never heard of the writer but this is what Wikipedia says about him:
Brent J. Budowsky (born February 19, 1952)[1] is an American political opinion writer and blogger for publications including The Hill,[2] the LA Progressive,[3] and The Huffington Post.
From the mid-1970s to 1990, Budowsky served in senior congressional staff positions including legislative assistant to former Senator Lloyd Bentsen;[4] extensively involved with the Intelligence Identities Protection Act and Intelligence Officers Death Benefits Act, and legislative director to Representative Bill Alexander, then the Chief Deputy Majority Whip.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Budowsky
Everyone listed there is a Democrat. He's been around for a while. With Warren's raison d'être, the CFPB, gutted by the GOP, she may be frustrated enough to run.
Warren has said repeatedly that she supports Hillary for POTUS. Those who want Warren but despise Clinton would be faced with a dilemma if both women ran on the same ticket.
Unintended consequences, indeed!
But for now, leading up to primaries, I'm keeping to my ideals-- that's why we have primaries.
