When Elizabeth Warren took to the Senate floor last
Friday to voice her opposition to
the deal reached between Democrats and
Republicans to keep the government funded and running, she pretty much
delivered her speech announcing her candidacy for the presidential nomination
for the Democratic Party in 2016.
Elizabeth Warren will be the next President of the United States if she
wants to. Her speech not only galvanized
the Progressive wing of the Democratic Party, it galvanized working class
people, the unemployed, the underemployed and, YES, members of the T.E.A. Party. That development alone goes to show that
politics AND reality does indeed make strange bedfellows. Let’s
look and listen to Senator Warren on the Senate floor last Friday:
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| Senator Elizabeth Warren |
She had ME
at “Hello”. Apparently, I wasn’t the ONLY
one smitten by Senator Warren on Friday.
Conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham waxed poetically about Senator Warren’s speech
and the impact it will have on the American people and what it will mean going
into the 2016 presidential election. In
the following link you will hear Laura Ingraham pretty much hear her compliment
Senator Warren’s strategy and most importantly, you will hear Laura Ingraham
pretty much launch Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign and how Elizabeth
Warren could win. (Mediaite:Laura Ingraham Really Likes What She’s Hearing from Elizabeth Warren) The fact that Laura Ingraham is lauding
Elizabeth Warren at all is stunning within itself, but the fact that Ingraham
mocks the GOP’s budget Messiah and 2012 Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan is
remarkable and shows that one of the most impactful conservatives in America
both FEARS
and RESPECTS
Elizabeth Warren. Again, politics does INDEED
make strange bedfellows.
That was not the
first time Elizabeth Warren captivated a crowd and the country with her passionate
oratory skills. She electrified a small
crowd and the country and pretty much launched her 2016 presidential campaign
in this Hellfire and Brimstone delivery:
Once AGAIN,
she had me at “Hello”. If you’re a
working stiff in America barely getting by on wages that have been stagnate for
the last 5 or 6 years while the company you work for BRAGS about and PUBLICIZES
record profits. HOW can you NOT support this woman? She speaks for YOU. I continue to be amazed by the voters in
America who work every day for stagnate wages who vote Republican. The Republicans have not officially taken
over the Senate yet and they have already put their cards on the table and
shown the American people who they represent.
Republicans moved to allow banks and investment firms to make risky
investments with the knowledge of knowing those risks would be covered by the
American taxpayers. Right. The Republicans want the American people to
be put in a position once again to bail out the banks and investment firms when
risky and reckless investments go belly up.
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 aka “The Bailout” cost
American taxpayers $700 BILLION. Seven. Hundred. Billion. Dollars. That is $700,000,000,000.00. As a result of this record bailout, Congress
passed the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in 2010
that basically takes taxpayers off the hook for bailing out the banks in case
they decide to participate in financial chicanery and come up short. In the CRomnibus that was passed on Saturday,
the Republicans put the American taxpayer back in the guillotine. The Republicans also added a riders that slashed
public employee unions and rolled back campaign finance laws. These are the people you entrusted with the
legislative keys to the kingdom, America.
You WANTED them and you GOT them. So far, they don’t appear to have addressed
what you elected them to do. That is, if
you’re NOT a player on Wall Street.
Those riders didn’t sit too well with Elizabeth Warren. She informed the American people the riders
to strip away Dodd-Frank protection were written by Citibank lobbyists and that
Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase, was actively calling members of
Congress in both parties and personally lobbied them to vote for the Cromnibus as
it was written. That’s the same Jamie
Dimon who settled a federal government civil investigation to the tune of $13
billion as a result of the sales of faulty mortgage backed securities in 2008 (Bloomberg Business Week: JPMorgan's $13 Billion Settlement: Jamie Dimon Is a Colossus No More) This guy should
be banned from visiting Washington, D.C., let alone having the latitude to
contact members of Congress. Yet, he
made those phone calls and wielded his influence. The bill passed in the House on Friday. Senator Warren let her disgust with the appointments of Citgroup alumni to important positions in the financial scenery be known. She called them all out. Progressives, Blue Dog Democrats, RINOs and members of the T.E.A. Party fell in love with her in unison. That makes her dangerous to Republicans and many in her own party.
Republicans both FEAR and RESPECT Elizabeth Warren. They blocked her appointment to the position
of Director of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In a classic case of “if
you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em”, she ran for the Senate seat in
Massachusetts and won. She became the
Senior Senator from Massachusetts when John Kerry resigned from the Senate in order to become Secretary of State. Republicans don’t attack Senator Warren the
way they do Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid or President Obama. It’s as if they don’t want to anger her to
the point where she will announce her candidacy for the White House in
2016. Republicans like their chances
against presumptive Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016 in the run for the
White House. When they consider having
to face Elizabeth Warren in a general election, with her ability to speak the
language of working stiffs, they are terrified.
Republicans aren’t the only party that fears Elizabeth Warren. Democrats, too, fear Elizabeth Warren. ESPECIALLY those Democrats who
support Hillary Clinton’s bid for the White House in 2016. It is all but assumed that Hillary Clinton
will have a cakewalk to the nomination in 2016.
Her not making a formal announcement yet, has some Democrats on hold who
are considering a run. Hillary Clinton
has even managed to put the sitting Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, on the defensive as far as
considering his run for the White House.
It is the polar opposite in the Clinton camp when it comes to Elizabeth
Warren. The Clinton camp defers to
Senator Warren as often as necessary because they, too, are loathe to anger her
into running for the White House. Even
with the massive amount of money Hillary Clinton will have in her campaign war
chest, she would have more than she could handle in a race against Warren. Personally, I don’t see a way Hillary could
stop Warren’s march to the nomination.
Many agree with me. Barack Obama
beat Hillary Clinton in 2008 because of her support in the unpopular war in
Iraq. Elizabeth Warren would beat
Hillary in 2016 because of the close ties both Clintons have to Wall
Street.
Elizabeth Warren drew a line in the sand last Friday. She wasn’t able to stop the bill with those
harmful riders from making its way to President Obama’s desk. However, in LOSING she actually WON. She now is the voice for America’s middle
class – those clinging to remain in the middle class and those aspiring to
reach the middle class. Elizabeth Warren
is the one TRUE bipartisan politician in America. Have you noticed there have been NO
attacks from Republicans against her since her speech on the Senate floor? Not ONE.
Republicans CAN’T attack her and neither could Democrats in a
presidential primary. If she runs in
2016, she wins. It’s just that simple. The support for her is there.
Elizabeth Warren
will be the next President of the United States if she wants to be.
Peace, peace.
Craig Riggins
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Riggins Report
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@CraigRiggins
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