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Jeff Merkley is a new Senator for me, although I was proud to be a supporter-from-afar when he ran for the Senate from Oregon in 2008. He defeated the odious two-faced Gordon Smith, thank goodness for small favors.
I like Merkley’s taking-questions-from-constituents YouTubes and was happy to see Atrios feature one of them on his Eschaton front page.
The Senator makes the case for Elizabeth Warren at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau simply and succinctly: she’s earned the right, as head of TARP Oversight, to inaugurate the agency she envisioned. America deserves her at its helm. A point he does not make, but probably should: time’s a-wasting, since Tim Geithner heads the agency in the interim period and he’s likely staffing it with Timmy acolytes, hardly likely to welcome Bureau Head Warren.
Do it, Obama. Do it now, so we can start bugging you about something else, please….
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Merkley is such a vast improvement on DiFi, I can hardly contain my electoral enthusiasm!
You’re lucky Teddy. I have the not-quite-so-bad Nelson and a lame duck appointee soon to be replaced by a Crist/Meek/Greene/Rubio plague on all their houses type
But aren’t you glad that brownies are now illegal? /S
as I commented on FB, was thinking of you and the Badger no longer suffering DiFi’s fierce advocacy – woo hoo !
Yay Merkley!
Good for Merkley. 200,000+ have signed a petition to support Warren, one of the few honest people to have crept into government.
You, of course, won’t find Feinstein there, a specially reprehensible action from the senator who would destroy marijuana brownies.
Nelson seems to be improving, though, with the BP disaster. Finding his voice late in life, but finding it nonetheless.
DiFi always tends to the grave threat that someone, somewhere might be having FUN.
I really like his shirtsleeves, Senator2.0 approach to taking and answering questions.
It’s no less posed than any other approach, but it’s appealing nevertheless.
Obama could do alot to redeem himself b4 the election if he’d put her on the post.
She’s the kind of person we need to have in D.C. Smart, straight-shooter, and someone who seems to be comfy telling truth to power.
I have Scott Brown as one of my Senators and I have nobody to blame but myself.
No, I did not cast a vote for Scott Brown but I also did not vote for the corporate-o-crat Martha Coakley. I didn’t want her and I knew once she was in, she was in for good.
I cast my vote, a write-in, for Elizabeth Warren. It was a values and integrity thing.
Good for you!!
Any regrets?
Scott Brown is certainly the excuse Senate Democrats use now for getting so little done, including the return of the two federal judge nominees to the White House.
Thanks for sharing!
Jeff Merkley seems on message. Warren certainly gets my vote.
Hurrah for voting your values and integrity!! As long as those are intact, you have nothing to regret. I’ve been an Elizabeth Warren admirer since I saw her on the Dr. Phil show a few years ago. She was the Financial Advisor on his board and would be in the audience when a guest was on the show who was in serious financial trouble. Her advice was always spot on. So now everyone knows my dirty little secret – I’m a Dr. Phil fan. I got tired of his program after the first couple of years, but I liked his counsel, and when guests had an issue that called for further treatment of whatever kind, he arranged for them to get it and covered the cost.