2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThird Way: Elizabeth Warren's Backing Of Social Security Plan "The Final Moment"
"The impetus was really -- we saw after the most recently, this push that okay, it's time to really move the national Democratic Party to a much more liberal agenda, in this case, Senator Warren was the standard bearer -- she's on the cover of a lot of magazines," he said in an interview on Sirius XM with Ari Rabin-Havt. "We were a bit alarmed by that."
He added that Warren was an excellent senator from Massachusetts but questioned whether she could be good for the party nationally.
"That Social Security plan was the final moment for us," he said. "That Social Security plan had been out there but really languishing -- because Senator Warren has such a powerful compelling voice, she started talking about it, and it suddenly it became much more talked about and viable alternative."
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/06/jim-kessler-elizabeth-warren_n_4400713.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
Anyone on this site that still believes the third-way contingent to be of benefit to the Democratic Party?
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)Let's have no more bs from these folks...let their little game fade away...
Benton D Struckcheon
(2,347 posts)startled me out of a sound Sunday afternoon torpor. Still find it amazing.
As for Warren, well, I have the funny feeling she'll be giving em hell. Should be fun.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)back in the spring of this past year by Senator Tom Harkin. It's his bill. The co-sponsors are Senators Biran Schatz (HI), Mark Begich (AK) and Sherrod Brown (OH).
Why, aside from "endorsing" it in a speech (I don't believe she signed on as a cosponsor), is Senator Warren even at the center of this discussion? And why does DU think the whole thing is her idea, anyway? She has not been the main motivator of this bill thus far, and only spoke about it recently. I'm confused.
http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th/senate-bill/567/cosponsors
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)That editorial was horrible and only help Senator Warren
polichick
(37,152 posts)to con the people - and will vote for the third way in the next prez primary because their candidate will be deemed "most electable."