Elizabeth Warren posts photo of new Senate door plaque

[TroyD]

https://twitter.com/elizabethforma/status/287322256428900352/photo/1

[kimbutgar]

1. Yahoo, yippee whoha!

Next president warren

[GentryDixon]

2. My money well spent! n/t

[calimary]

35. Mine too! I'm a proud donor to her campaign!

We love her here in California! And just think - she's on track to become the SENIOR Senator from Massachusetts, once Kerry moves over to the State Department! Just seems fitting - and gives her a little extra gravitas!

I LOVE Elizabeth Warren! With her on the team with people like our Barbara Boxer, this Senate could actually accomplish some great things!

[Cooley Hurd]

3. that's a picture that gave me the biggest smile of the day!

[think]

6. We must be on a similar wavelength :)

[Rhiannon12866]

31. I think we may have misunderestimated the gains that we made in this election...

[think]

4. Brings a smile to my face /nt

[Honeycombe8]

33. +1.

[Cha]

5. She's so proud as we are of

her! Thanks TroyD

[TroyD]

8. You're welcome, Cha

You often thank me for posting things, so let me take this opportunity to wish you a Happy New Year and thank-you for being so appreciative.

[Cha]

12. I Do Appreciate those who post.. so

we get to look at all this news conveniently concentrated on DU.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013 TO YOU AND YOURS, TROYD!

[tblue]

7. She's one of us!!!!

I feel like DU now has a seat in the Senate!

[pacalo]

9. That shows the level of pride she has in getting the job.

I have no doubt that she's going into this job with all cylinders on fire.

[freshwest]

10. Yes, this is so sweet after this:

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Dem apologizes to Elizabeth Warren for GOP attacks:

They’re afraid of you

In a House Oversight subcommittee meeting Tuesday, some Republican committee members used their time to attack Elizabeth Warren, who is advising President Barack Obama on the formation of a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) even accused Warren of lying to Congress the last time she had testified.

A Democrat on the committee, however, used his time to apologize for his across-the-aisle colleagues’ behavior. Rep. Joe Yarmuth (D-KY) congratulated Warren, while backhandedly insulting other committee members, implying that they were afraid of Warren’s power and effectiveness.

“The snarky comments about a Senate race, and the questioning of your veracity when there is documented evidence that you are being totally truthful indicates to me that this hearing is all about impugning you because people are afraid of you and your ability to communicate in very clear terms the threats to our consumers and the threats to our constituents and possibly very, very effective ways to combat them,” Yarmuth said. ” I congratulate you for instilling such fear in the committee, on the majority side, and in some aspects, or segments, of the business community because they understand how effective you are in getting the message out to the American people.”

Watch Yarmuth’s comments below, embedded via YouTube
http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/05/dem-apologize...

Thanks to Playinghardball for posting the story:

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1171744

[Cha]

13. The gop is Very Afraid of now, Senator Elizabeth Warren..

thank you for bringing this OP from Play on Troy's thread, freshwest! Full Circle.

[freshwest]

18. The Arc of the Universe Is Long But It Bends Towards Justice

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Quoted by Barack Obama, attributed to Martin Luther King, Jr., who learned it from the Unitarian minister Theodore Parker:



"...Dr. King once said that the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice. It bends towards justice, but here is the thing: it does not bend on its own. It bends because each of us in our own ways put our hand on that arc and we bend it in the direction of justice...."

~ Barack Obama

...In 1961, Dr. King used these words when he explained his principles of nonviolence. On March 31, 1968, only four days before his assassination, he used these same words in the National Cathedral when he gave what would be his last sermon. He employed this phrase many times, before many audiences...

Dr. King's words echo those of the 19th-century Unitarian minister Theodore Parker. In his 1853 sermon on "Justice and the Conscience," Parker declared:

"I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice."

The arc of the moral universe is long. When Parker first spoke of the arc of the moral universe bending towards justice 155 years ago, he did so to share a dream of a nation that few then held. When Dr. King echoed these words four decades ago, he did so to comfort and encourage those who were dedicated to making that dream a reality. When Senator Obama used these same words, he did so as a call to action to perfect that nation.

There is cruelty in our history, enough to bring tears to our eyes, at the link. Remember, Inauguration Day this year will fall on the observed date for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 21st.

As President Roosevelt said:



There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Yes, Full Circle it is.

http://www.quoteland.com/author/Franklin-D-Roosevelt-Quotes/4/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._Day

http://open.salon.com/blog/arthur_howe/2009/01/18/the_arc_of_the_universe_is_long_but_it_bends_towards_justice

[NCarolinawoman]

21. Thanks for all of this.

Very thoughtful and inspiring.

[Cha]

36. Excellent history to add to this Elizabeth Warren thread!

freshwest!

[sheshe2]

37. Yeah to Senator Warren!

Great link! Congrats to Yarmuth for that great slap down! Perfect. Just perfect!

Remember this one from about 18 months ago?

Chairman McHenry calls Elizabeth Warren a liar!

This time it was Mr Cummings that did the slap down! These idiots just never learn. Not ever.

#t=104s

They fear her because, in around about way,she is a Senator today because of them. Their vicious stonewalling of her appointment to CPA brought this about! They thought they had beaten her into submission when she finally pulled her name from the confirmation.

Think again GOP. She is now meaner and leaner than she ever was. As Senator, she now holds a far more powerful position, than she would ever have held as head of CPA! Heads are going to roll.

They are right to fear her!

Thanks again, Freshwest for this post and the one below.

She

[Live and Learn]

49. +1 nt

[demwing]

11. Somehow, I expected a senator's door

to look more imposing. Like this:



Of course, it's what goes on behind the door that counts, but still... Anyway

GO WARREN!!!

[MADem]

42. Some of them do look like that, kinda....

She's in one of the newer/junior offices. Longer walk to the floor for a vote.


If you are in the city tomorrow (the city being Boston) you can see her and Elena Kagan at Roxbury Community College--free:

For those supporters who cannot make it to Washington, Warren is holding a reception and re-enactment ceremony on Saturday at Roxbury Community College.

The ceremony is open to the public and will be held at the Media Arts Center. Doors open at 1 p.m. with the ceremony at 2 p.m. There, Warren will be sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. Kagan taught and was the dean of Harvard Law School when Warren was a professor there. During the campaign, Warren named Kagan as her model Supreme Court justice.

http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/01/elizabeth_warren_will_be_sworn.html

[sheshe2]

52. Damn! I have to work.

Would love to go.Thanks for the heads up anyway.

[lunatica]

14. Senator Elizabeth Warren

Rolls right off the tongue like I've been saying it forever.

[FailureToCommunicate]

15. Yes! Sooo much better than the title Brown kept using...

as a jab: "PROFESSOR Warren."

[merrily]

20. Nothing wrong with "professor' either.

Shows education and accomplishment and, often, publication.

When did education become a bad word in this country?

The American Dream was an immigrant getting his or her kids an education so that they could live better than their parents.

Nothing former Senator Brown can say can change that, any more than the war whoops of his staffers can take away the dignity of Native Americans.

[eggplant]

23. That's Doctor Senator Professor Warren to you. ;-) n/t

[merrily]

25. Each of those is a fine title to be proud of.

In fact, Senators may well be less on my good side now than professors.

[CTyankee]

24. And a tenured professor at HARVARD, no less! That's a pretty high bar for anyone...

it sure takes my breath away...

[merrily]

27. Especially for a woman, I'm guessing.

I don't know about the law school, but I have heard horror stories from women and from their husbands about Harvard Medical school's sexism. And then, there was Summers' remark about women.

[CTyankee]

41. well, I'm prejudiced! I live in New Haven and root for Yale...

[OccupyManny]

16. Yahoo!

We are so fortunate! Big bankers get your affairs in order! There's a new sheriff in town!!!!

[freckleface]

17. sweet!

Still have one of her photo/cards on my fridge. Go get 'em SENATOR Warren!

[merrily]

19. I have such high hopes for her, but she cannot do it alone.

I love that she started a PAC.

[marew]

22. Beautiful!

[ChangeUp106]

26. (Real) Change has come to

Washington

[ErikJ]

28. No Solicitors

[DeSwiss]

44. Fixed.

- K&R

[Maynar]

46. Want Wunna Those...

a-yup

[Le Taz Hot]

29. Ain't it beautimous?

I haven't been this excited about a politician since Howard Dean and before that, Robert Kennedy (it was a long stretch between Dean and Kennedy). I'm anticipating working for her presidential campaign in 4 years.

[Left Coast2020]

30. Is she reading our posts here?

I hope so.

[Little Star]

32. A sight for sore eyes! Good for her. And us!

[Whisp]

34. It's a beautiful sign - double entendre intended. n/t

[sheshe2]

38. Beautiful ! Great things are going to be coming from that office....stay tuned1

Thanks TroyD, Great pic.

She

[klook]

39. She's my Senator!

Well, not literally, since I live in Georgia -- but I consider her my Senator instead of the two cretinous Republicans elected by the knuckle-draggers in my state.

I'm so glad I donated to her campaign, and thrilled beyond measure that she is in the Senate. Elizabeth Warren in the U.S. Senate. Hell yes!

[sheshe2]

43. She is mine from MA....and trust me we do not mind Sharing this wonderful woman...

with everyone!

Senator Elizabeth Warren is going places! She will make all of us proud!

Thanks Klook for the support!

SheShe

[wrenken]

40. I am Jealous

If only we could get someone like her in Texas. Maybe one day. At least she is in the senate and can do some good for all of us.

[Maynar]

45. Abandon Hope

All Repugs Who Enter Here.

[NBachers]

47. Oh man, that quickens my breath and makes my night

It's gone from What If? to It Is!

Somehow, I'm finding a few more of my political dreams coming true these days.

I visited Massachusetts from San Francisco last September. One of my priorities was to snap some Elizabeth Warren campaign signs.

Even at that time, it still looked a bit shaky.

Thank you, Senator Warren; thank you everyone who did anything to put her in office.

[Sunlei]

48. Senator Elizabeth Warren!! yippieee! /cheers!!

[NPolitics1979]

50. Martha Coakley losing in the 2010 special election to that arrogant lightweight was actually a good

thing. It reminded us that there are no true moderate Republicans left in MA or any other New England or Mid Atlantic States. Brown-R could have voted like the ME US Senators- but he voted like the NH US Senators. It also gave MA voters the opportunity to send Warren to the US Senate.
Coakley-D- had she won the 2010 Special Election would have won in 2012 by a double digit margin and serve in the US Senate for at least 3 terms.
Markey-D and/or Capuano-D would be the leading Democratic candidates for the Kerry Seat.
Warren-D was able to run against Brown-R in 2012 after all of the MA top tier Democratic candidates decided not to run-allowing Warren to win the Democratic nomination and the November General Election against FOX News Channel and FOX 25 favorite MA US Senator.

[In_The_Wind]

51. Love the plaque.

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[dotymed]

53. If she remains the same person

as candidate Warren (and I think she will), then "average folks" will be helped greatly.
If we can keep electing people with these values, then America may become a great nation.

[Piperflys]

54. Please help get this petition rolling

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/mandate-all-elected-officials-washington-release-tax-returns-each-and-every-year-they-hold-public/PqVldH6g

The time is now for change...We have many people in place to get us their. Please sign..thx

[Jack Rabbit]

55. Be sure to send a copy of this photo to Diamond Jaimie and Pretty Boy Lloyd

!!

[libodem]

56. ...

.

[saidsimplesimon]

57. This is just the beginning TroyD? Let's give'm (the batwingers) hell

in 2014, 2016 and beyond.

[mythology]

58. Could we get a picture of them taking down Scott Brown's plaque?

Or perhaps Brown's plaque being tossed in the trash?

[JonSatler]

59. I am happy to see her name instead of Scott Brown's!