Reply #5: Do you seriously think she would have accepted a figurehead position?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

Here's what she just said this morning:

“The President asked me, and I enthusiastically agreed, to serve as an Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,” Ms. Warren wrote. Then she added, perhaps in a veiled reference to the president’s decision to appoint her as his assistant now, rather than going through what could be a lengthy Senate confirmation process: “He has also asked me to take on the job to get the new C.F.P.B. started — right now.”

She will report directly to the President. I don't think she'd have accepted a job as Geithner's lackey, which you seem to be suggesting. Or are we supposed to throw her under the bus now?