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kpete

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Thu Apr 17, 2014, 02:23 PM Apr 2014

Elizabeth Warren: Resistance, it appears, is not always futile. (By Charles P. Pierce)

I have a long profile of Senator Professor Warren coming in the next print edition of Esky -- Watch your newsstands, fellow-babies! -- and I suspect it will also get linked off the blog, but buy the magazine anyway, ya cheap bastids. Anyway, because of this, the launch of her book, Fighting Chance -- which does not mean she's running for president, dammit -- can hype itself for a few days. But there is one passage that is delicious simply for the tasty schadenfreude of it all.

Special guest star...Larry Summers!


"He teed it up this way:

I had a choice. I could be an insider, or I could be an outsider," Warren writes. Outsiders could say what they want, he told her, but people on the inside don't listen to them. Insiders get more access to push their ideas to powerful people. "But insiders also understand one unbreakable rule: They don't criticize other insiders," Summers told Warren, she writes. "I had been warned."



Resistance, it appears, is not always futile.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/elizabeth-warren-book-041714
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