Elizabeth Warren, buoyed by a national network of activist liberals, now heads to the Senate facing an uneasy challenge.
Some of her strongest supporters want her to be a vocal and visible champion of liberal causes, an advocate who will fundamentally change the conversation in Washington. But the Senate is a tradition-bound institution that rewards seniority and expects first-year lawmakers to fall in line and wait their turn.
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All she really has to do is keep the seat warm for Barney Jo Jo Kennedy. It's why the Dem-machine put her there at her age.
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"A vocal and visible advocate of liberal causes" . . . not a wise and articulate and logical advocate of causes beneficial to an American populace. . . The liberal hacks want Granny Lizzy to be nothing but a mouthpiece for their favorite propaganda... and for this Massachusetts voters ousted a guy with something of a party-crossing tendency?
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from the Wall Street Journal Democrat Elizabeth Warren unseated Republican Sen. Scott Brown and is a frontrunner to take a seat on the Senate Banking Committee. Until 2008, Ms. Warren was a little-known, wonkish professor at Harvard who studied the economics of bankruptcy. But her appointment as a special Senate watchdog for the bank bailouts, her clashes with administration officials and the embrace of her Consumer Financial Protection Bureau catapulted her into the political limelight. Mr. Brown, by contrast, was criticized for stalling and weakening key parts of the regulatory overhaul of Wall Street. It was an abrupt turnabout for a rising star in the party whose victory in a special election in early 2010 was a harbinger of the Republican surge to take the House later that year. Now, in a nightmare scenario for Wall Street CEOs, Ms. Warren is a frontrunner to take a seat on the Senate Banking Committee.
Democrats vote for Democrats - and they voted for her. SImple math.
Professor Warren was boorish with her first run-around the White House.
She was incredibly lucky - to the detriment of Massachusetts residents.
Warren's biggest challenge is to control her loose cannon behaviors. She is an insult to the many executive women who couldn't bring themselves to vote for her.