tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post302640176447238873..comments2024-03-28T16:08:29.578-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: Obama Facing Democratic Pressure on Warren AppointmentKaren Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-30233652638555784632011-05-21T16:50:42.819-04:002011-05-21T16:50:42.819-04:00I fourth the motion--and by the way--what on earth...I fourth the motion--and by the way--what on earth is holding him back, anyway? I guess the same thing that kept him from even mentioning all of us tens of thousands here in Wisconsin that marched on Madison for well over a month. I guess the same thing that made him appoint people like Alan Simpson or Jeffrey Immelt, Tim Geithner. I guess the same thing that made him forget all about how important he once said the Public Option was. I guess the same thing that made him extend the war in Afghanistan. <br />I guess the same thing that has kept him from closing Gitmo. <br /><br />Shall I go on?--I'm pretty sure I've left a few things out.Janet Camphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03645361065385918800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-70345950342537479672011-05-20T19:40:16.059-04:002011-05-20T19:40:16.059-04:00Yes, I too, consider this the last chance I am wil...Yes, I too, consider this the last chance I am willing to give Obama. If he doesn't appoint Warren - who is clearly ethical, has the brains to do the job right and has the persona to attract bright, like-minded people to work along, beside her - is he deserving of my vote? I really thought the Bush tax breaks were my last straw but I find I am willing to give Obama one more chance - not because he deserves it but because I have such respect for Ms Warren. <br /><br />Obama needs to draw a line in the sand and show which side he is on. His detractors point out how cozy he is with the banking industry. If he doesn’t appoint Elizabeth Warren he is proving it.<br /><br />But he needs to take it even further than a recess appointment. Obama needs to defend the agency against the Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee who are doing their level best to disempower the agency and deprive it of its independence and power to regulate the banking industry effectively.<br /><br />While the possible Supreme Court appointments weigh heavily on me, I don’t think I can let this one go. If Obama doesn’t throw me this bone, I don’t know that I can give him my vote in the next election.Valerie Long Tweedienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-73021690014467301562011-05-20T18:19:18.960-04:002011-05-20T18:19:18.960-04:00Now you're talkin', Kate. Folks like me, ...Now you're talkin', Kate. Folks like me, smack dab in the middle of Golden Pond, don't know much about those 'friending' rituals in Facebook World; but I'm with you where you go even further than I in drawing a not-friend line in the sand with Obama. If he wants me to get friendly with him again in the voting booth in 2012, I've got to see (1) Elizabeth Warren empowered in a CFPB with muscle and (2) those Israeli settlements in the West Bank, which have turned the hoped-for Palestinian state into a piece of Swiss cheese, must be removed to the other side of the 1967 borders. This very week Obama said the 1967 borders were his ideal for a fair shake for the Palestinians. Let's see how far he aligns his administration's actions (money, arms, diplomacy, UN vetoes) with his words there, too. Go ahead, Mr President, make me 'friend' you.Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-88865485487024346292011-05-20T16:24:55.834-04:002011-05-20T16:24:55.834-04:00With the playing field sharply tilted in favor of ...With the playing field sharply tilted in favor of Big Money and its managers, there is little left to grab onto to keep the rest of us, eventually, from sliding into varying degrees of impoverishment. It's like waking up in a hopeless passage of a Dickens novel. Real income for most Americans began to slip steadily after 1980. With the wipeout of savings and jobs from Great Recession of 2008 things are moving downhill just a little bit faster.<br /><br />One of the last protections left to us as we slip and slide and try to recover our economic balance is the CFPB.<br /><br />President Obama's actions on the CFPB between now the July deadline must be seen as a litmus test for voters in the 2012 presidential election. Will the President support the legislation as is, or go along with its dilution by Republicans and pseudo Democrats? Will Obama secure Elizabeth Warren's back -- or not -- as his nominee endures Congressional vetting? It makes me nervous that, in the words of Ryan Lizza, Obama believes in "leading from behind."<br /><br />By all means, let's deluge Congress and the White House on Warren's behalf. She's one of the few government officials average Americans can believe in for a level playing field in the market place. And let's remember the steps to defeat if she loses, especially when our resentments might later be 'there-there'd" with soothing reminders about pragmatism and the need for compromise and the moral need to choose the lesser of two evils. How many betrayals can we swallow before being properly labeled as 'stupid'?<br /><br />As far as I'm concerned, Warren's appointment is one more litmus test, perhaps a decisive one, that will determine which lever I pull in November 2012. If not the CFPB ... WHAT? If we can't get this CFPB crumb of protection, just how low will we go in our plea of "More, please, Sir" to the White House, while Wall Street continues to gorge on the cake we taxpayers paid for with you-know-who's help?<br /><br />Jay - OttawaJay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-23942170145770055132011-05-20T15:45:31.114-04:002011-05-20T15:45:31.114-04:00If Obama makes Elizabeth Warren head of the CFPB i...If Obama makes Elizabeth Warren head of the CFPB in a recess appointment and tells Netanyahu that we are going to keep pushing for a sensible Israeli/Palestinian peace treaty--AND if he tells Bibi to take his hubris and shove it where the sun don't shine--then I think more than a few progressives will "friend" him again. <br /><br />I am trying not to be hopeful. But I am waiting!Kate Madisonnoreply@blogger.com