Elizabeth Warren On A Pants-less America

[PufPuf23]

I support Elizabeth Warren far more than most in DC or academia in economic matters. SCOTUS would be great.

First link includes video.

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Jon Stewart once told Elizabeth Warren that he wanted to make out with her. Obviously, when the chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel stopped by The Colbert Report last night, it was a rather different story.

"Explain to a conservative why he should support curtailing the ability of banks to do whatever they want," said Colbert. Warren made the case for a strong consumer agency that would, among other provisions, make credit card and mortgage agreements readable.

"Why do we have to wear a belt with our suspenders? We already have one set of regulators," pressed Colbert.

"Well, actually, right now, we don't have any pants on," she replied.

http://jezebel.com/5530487/elizabeth-warren-on-a-pants+less-america

From Wiki:

Elizabeth Warren (born 1949) is an American attorney and law professor. She is the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School -- where she teaches contract law, bankruptcy, and commercial law -- and has devoted much of the past three decades to studying the economics of middle class families. In the wake of the 2008-9 financial crisis, she became the chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel created to investigate the U.S. banking bailout (formally known as the Troubled Assets Relief Program). In that role, she has provided a critical check on the U.S. Department of the Treasury and has been a leading advocate for accountability and transparency. Since 2007, she has advocated for the creation of a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency, which President Barack Obama has supported and Congress is now considering.<1> On April 12, 2010, CNN reported that Warren's was among additional names being considered as Supreme Court nominees to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.<2>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Warren

[AnneD]

1. Now tell me again......

Why is this woman NOT our Sec of Treasury instead of Geitner? Or at least Head of the Fed.

Oh, it's because she doesn't wear pants......right.

[Dappleganger]

2. You nailed it!

She runs circles around those dudes while they twiddle their thumbs and pretend to not cater to their old co-workers.

[Cleita]

3. I would rather see her in a position that draws on her

knowledge and skills as an economist rather than in the robes of a Justice.

[PufPuf23]

14. SCOTUS is influence for a longer time and sets precedent

She has a bent towards social justice and a good mix of law and economics.

[jgraz]

13. It has nothing to do with her gender

If she was as incompetent and corporate-friendly as Geithner or Bernanke, you can bet she'd hold one of those posts.

[Toucano]

4. Excellent appearance.

That didn't seem scripted to me.

She's a gem.

[AnneD]

5. She has the rare ability .....

to take the most abstract subject and make it easy to understand. She is a natural born teacher. And smart to boot.

[Tansy_Gold]

7. the funny thing is. .. .

MOST abstract subjects ARE easy to understand -- but those who don't want us to understand them make them SEEM difficult. ;-)



TG

[unblock]

8. good point. it's the gory details that are hard to understand.

and usually the answers to questions like "what went wrong" are all in the gory details.

[ejpoeta]

6. one of the few i trust to tell me the truth..... and in words anyone can understand too!

[unblock]

9. i want to bear her babies!

[Bigmack]

11. No...no... me... meeeee! nt

[chill_wind]

10. :-) Oh god, she is wonderful.

K & R.

[Bigmack]

12. I know DU is a serious forum....

and not given to sexual comments... but...

I'm an old guy, and deeply in love with EW. Mind and body.

She starts talkin' "pantless" and my mind is off in my little fantasy world.

Can you imagine pillow talk with that beautiful, brilliant woman?

[PufPuf23]

15. Unabashed pro-Warren bump nt.

[chill_wind]

16. kicking.

[Karenina]

17. . .

[malaise]

18. She's on Morning JoeScum right now n/t

[chill_wind]

19. Tell us more! :-)

I don't think Joe would want to try to patronize her the way he often with his fluffy sidekick.
How'd she do?

[AnneD]

20. They really love her over there.....

surprise surprise. Meka grows a pair of ca jones when EW is on. Joe tends to shut up and agree. She has such a down to Earth way of consensus building.

[MindandSoul]

21. She is great! I would trust her in just about any position in the government1

The most influential the better!