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NorthCarolina

(11,197 posts)
Mon Dec 9, 2013, 10:06 AM Dec 2013

Third Way: Elizabeth Warren's Backing Of Social Security Plan "The Final Moment"

Jim Kessler, senior vice president for policy and a co-founder of Third Way, said Friday morning that Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-Mass.) backing of a plan to expand Social Security compelled him and the president of the group to hit back with a Wall Street Journal op-ed lambasting the plan and economic populism.

"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


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Third Way: Elizabeth Warren's Backing Of Social Security Plan "The Final Moment" (Original Post) NorthCarolina Dec 2013 OP
They are unmasked in doing this. Good! CTyankee Dec 2013 #1
I just found out this was actually a real organization yesterday in another thread, Benton D Struckcheon Dec 2013 #2
The Strengthening Social Security Bill of 2013 was introduced ... frazzled Dec 2013 #3
The Third Way idiots miscalculated Gothmog Dec 2013 #4
A lot of DUers support the third way through personalities chosen... polichick Dec 2013 #5
K&R.... daleanime Dec 2013 #6

CTyankee

(63,771 posts)
1. They are unmasked in doing this. Good!
Mon Dec 9, 2013, 10:14 AM
Dec 2013

Let's have no more bs from these folks...let their little game fade away...

Benton D Struckcheon

(2,347 posts)
2. I just found out this was actually a real organization yesterday in another thread,
Mon Dec 9, 2013, 10:28 AM
Dec 2013

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)
3. The Strengthening Social Security Bill of 2013 was introduced ...
Mon Dec 9, 2013, 12:06 PM
Dec 2013

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

polichick

(37,152 posts)
5. A lot of DUers support the third way through personalities chosen...
Mon Dec 9, 2013, 01:44 PM
Dec 2013

to con the people - and will vote for the third way in the next prez primary because their candidate will be deemed "most electable."

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