Elizabeth Warren is resigning the tenured post at Harvard Law School that took her 30 years to achieve. She has met privately with her former opponent, Scott Brown, who addressed her as professor instead of senator-elect. And she has spoken half a dozen times with majority leader Harry Reid about her new role in the Senate.
But during her first extensive interview since her victory last month, Warren said she had no bills or initiatives ready to propose when she becomes senator next month. Instead, she said, she is studying the ways of the Senate, looking into issues that others have proposed, and seeking out alliances.
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This story gives the lie to such light weight commentaries as the one by McGrory a few weeks ago. Senator Warren is acting like the focussed grownup she showed herself to be in the rest of her career. As she gets her footing, learns the ropes and then uses that knowledge to advance the issues she ran on, I'm confident that she will be an effective Senator. From time to time that will mean that she will have a leadership role on certain policies but she is not a firebreather on the Left as was Senator Demint on the Right...and that's a good thing. Of course, I want her to breathe fire for MY issues...but that can wait for now.
She's a grownup? I'm confused, her candacy was based on "she wouldn't question her parent's, what kid would"? in response to her checking the box as a minority as a 39 year old lawyer who would have understood the burden of proof and laws regarding federal diversity filings by Harvard.
Yep...she sure is. She has moved on to begin doing the job she was elected to do. If you have any thoughts (beyond campaign talking points from what is now long ago), you should try to express them.
"But during her first extensive interview since her victory last month, Warren said she had no bills or initiatives ready to propose when she becomes senator next month. Instead, she said, she is studying the ways of the Senate, looking into issues that others have proposed, and seeking out alliances."
I didn't vote for her, but I expected more out of her. Thanks Boston Globe for electing her.
The woman is a genius. A Genius I say. Is she the first Native American woman from Oklahoma to serve as a Massachusetts senator??
Such a tired line of attack.
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Regarding student debt: Let's follow the Affordable Care Acts lead. The ACA requires health care providers to justify rate hikes, and penalizes them if they spend more than a certain percentage on actual health care vs beaurocracy. This is exactly what we need for colleges, justify rate hikes and spend at least 80% on TEACHING!
Since when does adding more govt paperwork control cost without affecting a service?
So, she's not quite ready for that "blood and teeth on the floor of the senate" ? First she has to make some friends, learn the rules?
The title should have read "Warren is ready to pick her spots, as long as Deval is standing there next to her telling her what to say."
This comment is laughable. You clearly haven't been paying much attention to Senator Warren, and her career as an advocate for consumers. She's never been a mouthpiece for anyone.
She is an embarassment much like the Massachusetts voters who elected her. She'll join forces with Kerry, the other Massachusetts embarassment and tax cheat until he got caught and the two of them will get nothing done except vote the party line. They'll be stumbling blocks for jobs and the economy and will rollover and let Obama spend us into a record deficit again after these next 4 years.
There are plenty of other states. I'm sure you'll be much hapier in one of them.
She is a Harvard elitist, we (here in MA) will never see her again - like Kerry she will remain in DC. I remember Scott Brown and his wife (Gail Huff) marching in a Quincy Xmas Parade. Where was Warren, this year? Not in the parade - guess she is 'above' that sort of thing now that the Democrats voted her in. Warren will play party politics, follow the party line, never having an original thought (or if she does and it does not follow party line never following it up). Scott Brown was an imdependent thinker, something Warren can't become as a loyal Democart. The voters made a hugh mistake in electing her - time will tell them that.
Warren is a pathetic joke who makes me not only cringe, but embarrassed to think she can claim she is a Senator from Massachusetts. Her claim has many people questioning the sanity of our voters.
Scott Brown -- what a tool. Good riddance.
She's a natural for the Banking Committee but how come she didn't also ask to sit on the Committee on Indian Affairs?