It's Elizabeth Warren's Party. Barack Obama Is Just Living in It.

[DonViejo]

Any doubts about whether the Democratic Party would embrace Warren's economic populism can now be put to rest.

By Alex Seitz-Wald
February 4, 2014

When Elizabeth Warren announced her Senate candidacy in September 2011, President Obama had just signed into law the Budget Control Act, which raised the debt ceiling but also made concessions to Republicans that would eventually lead to $1 trillion in sequestration cuts. Deficit control was a top priority for both parties, and something that Obama pledged to continue to pursue in a rare address to a joint session of Congress that month on his jobs plan.

But the speech Obama gave last week to a similar joint session of Congress felt very different. His 2014 State of the Union address brushed over deficit reduction quickly before getting onto the main event: a pledge to create "opportunity for all," infused with the themes that Warren rode to Washington a little over a year ago.

After that speech, any doubt about whether the Democratic Party would embrace economic populism can now be put to rest. The party is united behind an agenda that puts economic inequality front-and-center, and they think voters will reward them for it. Warren did not move the needle alone, and perhaps was just a leading indicator of these changing winds, but her once-insurgent message has now become mainstream in the party, albeit with some edges sanded off.

"The two big themes coming out of President Obama's speech are economic populism and a new willingness to fight. President Obama is basically taking steps to sound more and more like Elizabeth Warren," says Adam Green, cofounder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, an outside group that backed Warren's Senate campaign.

The party has shifted noticeably to the left on economic issues, said Neera Tanden, the president of the center-left Center for American Progress. "Economic populism is a uniting force in the Democratic Party and progressive movement, and will help draw a contrast with Republicans in 2014 and future cycles," she said.

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[TwilightGardener]

1. It doesn't look like she'll run, and that's a damn shame.

[polichick]

4. Maybe she'll get disgusted enough to run.

[JDPriestly]

2. K&R for Elizabeth Warren.

She is simply talking about fairness. Republicans don't want to play on an even playing field. We Democrats do.

Republicans are people who believe (often for good reason) that they can only compete, can only win, if the cards are stacked in their favor.

Democrats are willing to compete without unfair advantages. That is the difference.

[polichick]

3. Economic populism may be used as a "uniting force" as far as rhetoric goes...

but it won't change the policy positions of those talk, talk, talking.

Candidates will borrow whatever rhetoric polls well.

[libdem4life]

5. "The party has shifted noticeably to the left on economic issues" This is the key. I think

she is in exactly the perfect place and OP is right...it's her party and she now holds "quiet power". Very important role.

[flying rabbit]

6. At this point she does not need to run for prez.

Just do what she is doing. A "subversive radical" that can open up the conversation.

[Norrin Radd]

7. kr

[4dsc]

8. Will Hillary heed the call?

inquiring minds would like to know.

[antigop]

10. well, evidently, she has to be "advised" to address income inequality

Per Politico:
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/hillary-clinton-2016-shadow-campaign-101762.html

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She is working closely with clusters of aides on different policy initiatives — one involves child development, and Clinton is also being advised to address income inequality.
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Good grief.

She doesn't even know that this needs addressing? She has to be advised to address it?

[Pisces]

9. Your thinly veiled posts meant to pit one Democrat against another is plain to see. Elizabeth

Warren supports President Barrack Obama and she will support Hillary Clinton. These articles meant to drive
a wedge in the party are a joke as are most of your posts. The Republican party is in disarray and as
much as some want to stir up shit for the dems it is not working. It won't work because Elizabeth is not
running and will give her full endorsement to Hillary.

Good luck with your bullshit shenanigans. Most on this board are too smart to fall for it.