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‘Left, Right & Center’: Tea Party Surges; Elizabeth Warren Serves

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Posted on Sep 17, 2010
Left, Right & Center
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Has President Obama finally made a major change for the better in enlisting Elizabeth Warren to do some heavy lifting for his new consumer protection agency? Tony Blankley doesn’t think so on this week’s edition of “Left, Right & Center.” But Arianna Huffington begs to differ there, and meanwhile, Robert Scheer describes what would constitute a progressive populist alternative to rival the right’s tea party.  —KA

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By de profundis clamavi, September 18, 2010 at 6:01 pm Link to this comment

Elizabeth Warren may come from Harvard, but her resemblance to Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner, both of whom opposed her appointment, ends there. Her appointment is just about the first thing Obama has done that is consistent with the wishes of his base. She, unlike the rest of the Ivy League crowd gathered around Obama, actually cares about fairness in the banking and consumer credit markets that affect those of us who do not occupy the seats of power in Wall Street institutions. Obama is on the right track. Now he needs to fire Summers and Geithner, support Rahm Emanuel’s career choice to go back into Chicago politics, and take a vow never again to utter the word “bi-partisanship”.

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