Fuck Yeah Elizabeth Warren

There as a study in which it comes out that thirty of the largest companies in the United States are now spending more on lobbying than they pay in federal taxes. …Who really pays for that? And the answer is America’s middle class — they’re the ones who are left to pick up all the pieces, to pay the taxes to keep the country running. And, more to the point, they’re the ones who are paying for the fact that there’s not enough money left to invest in our kids’ future.

—Massachusetts Senate candidate ELIZABETH WARREN, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)

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Americans no longer use their credit cards just to buy the things they want; they use them to make ends meet. “For much of America”, says Elizabeth Warren, “the credit card is now the health insurance policy, the unemployment insurance, the way to deal with a child who’s off in college and you haven’t got enough to cover expenses.” For more and more Americans, credit cards have become a plastic lifeline.

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This is our moment in history. From marriage equality to investing in public education, from sensible financial regulations to environmental protections, we must decide what kind of people we are and what kind of nation we are going to build.

—Elizabeth Warren

“She was not happy with it,” said Monica Harrington, co-chair of Washington Women for Choice, reiterating that Warren “was very clearly supportive of making Plan B available.”

“If Elizabeth Warren were a senator today, I have no doubt she would have joined the other senators who sent the letter to the administration,” added Harrington, referring to a letter 14 Democratic senators sent to Sebelius expressing their “disappointment” with the Plan B outcome and asking for the scientific basis behind her decision.

—Amanda Terkel, Huffington Post

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By Michelle Garcia

   

While Massachusetts is seen as an early adapter of civil rights policies, U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren said her state should be an example of how lead the rest of the country in expanding gay rights laws.

In a message to Blue Mass Group, a progressive Massachusetts blog, Warren added her support for repealing the Defense of Marriage Act, eradicating the “two-tiered system” that the law creates. She added, “our federal government should not be in the business of selecting which married couples it supports and which it treats with contempt. States define marriage among couples, and, once married, all those couples and their families should have the same protections, the same benefits, and the same tax treatments.”

Warren also wrote that instituting the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and more provisions to end bullying in schools.

I’ve spent years standing up to Wall Street and big banks. No attack ad, and certainly not one from Karl Rove and Wall Street, will change that.

—Elizabeth Warren, quoted in Elizabeth Warren blasts ‘ridiculous’ charge in ad by Karl Rove group - latimes.com (via bohemiansouth)

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Their strategy now is the kitchen sink strategy. Throw everything you can at her and let’s see what happens.

Let’s keep in mind what was going on just a little over three years ago. Karl Rove was part of the inner circle while George W. Bush is telling Congress and the nation, `we’ve gotta bail out the big financial institutions.’ His Secretary of the Treasury is handing out money to the largest financial institutions — no strings attached. I go down to Washington and I’m calling them out for it. I’m calling them out on executive bonuses. I’m calling them out on the fact taht tehy’re giving this money, no strings attached. And I get attacked for it. Okay.

Then we roll forward three years. Now Karl Rove takes money from Wall Street, in order to attack Elizabeth Warren for being cozy with Wall Street?

This one goes beyond anything I’ve ever imagined. I’m just amazed. It leaves you speechless.

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Elizabeth Warren versus Karl Rove and the one percent

In an interview with Lawrence O’Donnell, Elizabeth Warren uncorked an extensive response to that comically dishonest ad from the Rove-founded Crossroads GPS attacking Warren as too cozy with Wall Street. Her answer is worth quoting at length, because it suggests she will respond to these outside attacks by pivoting the focus back to where it belongs: On Wall Street.

Warren mocked the ad’s claim that she’s cozy with Wall Street, and made the salient point that the ad is being funded by wealthy interests that don’t want to see her anywhere near the Senate. She seized on Karl Rove as a convenient foil, to retell the story of the Bush administration and its role in exacerbating the lack of Wall Street accountability that’s become the rationale of her career and candidacy.

Read more —> WaPo

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Elizabeth Warren: scrappy and tough.

She’s so awesome.

“She’s the ultimate outsider, but she’s the outsider who has been very effective inside” — Barney Frank