If the government quit creating all the moral hazards such as guaranteeing bank accounts with the FDIC as well as insuring mortgages combined with bail outs for the banks when things hit the fan. This would do way more good then bringing back Glass,Steagal. Warren says she wants to fight the Big Banks but she won't even consider taking on their supplier ie The Federal Reserve.

SuperSaltyFries yes I have too agree with u she is the best democrat liar I call her liz pocohantis warren ......?????? imagine fools like u voted her into office knowing that she lied to the government saying she is native American to get financial gain for her self sounds familiar like the banks she hates what hipocrits liberals are its crazy how they voted this crook into office when she robbed taxpayers to fund her college shame on u pocohantis warren and fools like u super salty Obama and Anderson cooper kool aid drinker keep voting for fools and corrupt people like warren gore Obama aka barry soetero google that name pal George bush all fools dumb americans like u vote for

Joey Joe Joe Bullseye. Back when the S&Ls were collapsing, I was a Libertarian, and it was obvious to me that Reagan had "deregulated" them exactly backwards. Rather than removing all regulations while keeping FSLIC guarantees in place as the Republicans did, a Libertarian Congress would have made FSLIC membership voluntary, and simply made sure everyone knew which institutions were Federally insured and which weren't. Of course, even with Reagan's guaranteed-crisis setup, the damage could have been greatly reduced if the FSLIC had simply carried out its legal mandate to repay all lost deposits up to $400k and told the multi-million dollar depositors, "Sorry!" These days, I'm a Warren Democrat, but I'd *still* be willing to make FDIC membership voluntary.

spartan44ga You should buy a book on basic writing grammar. Seriously, not only is the content of what you wrote dumb and pointless drivel, it looks like it was written by a two year old. Aside from the periods and question marks incorrectly used in the first line, you do not use any punctuation again for the whole passage. It sort of defeats any attempt at a point you're trying to make...of which you made none.

SuperSaltyFries Also a libertarian but I would vote for Warren over any republican who has announced.

***** And MSNBC

LIZ for President.

trha2222 That's all you got, lol. Pathetic.

Gene Smolko "thats all you got".. You may think making false claims to advance your career is no big deal but not all of us feel the same way. How about her fake support for the working man, pension systems, American families..etc. as stories come out during her Ma Senate race about her representing a mining company trying to stiff it's workers out of their pensions. But no one can hold her feet to the fire because that would be too mean, since she's a woman. You know, that whole "war on woman" thing the Dems created to silence any detractors. How about stories pointing to her partnering with her brother to scoop and flip houses out of the hands of struggling families back in her home state during the worst of the recession. How about her practicing law in states she never took the bar exam in, claiming technicality . You can find these stories searching Ma. newspapers from back during her Senate campaign. Don't get me wrong. She says all the right things for my working man ears. I just think she is standing on her political soap box building an image that ultimately is powerless in the world of big banking and Washington. And did I mention I don't trust her? :)

Rightwingers never debate the substance of issues. Only ad hominems. (By the way, what is "Gott Mit Uns” a reference to? People should look it up.)

Ron Szekely How is stating a true native American an ad hominem attack? Elizabeth Warren checked the native American box in order to get special favor. She claimed it herself. That 1st reply was just restating what Elizabeth Warren herself claimed. Doesn't it bug you that a true native American didn't get an acceptance letter into a university because of her obvious false claim to be native American? She still refuses to take a DNA swab to prove her claim.

A true libtard you assclown

you'll never guess what happened

But she’s Native American wannabe she build her whole career on a lie

@@Ryan-dq9sl just STFU!

@@Ryan-dq9sl Ikr? Pocahontas. 😅🤣 The Left are constantly exploiting race & ethnicity. It's disgusting.

It turns out that those names she takes are then handed out to _Mobile Arse Kicking Units_ that go out there and kick arse on her behalf.

Sara Balls Please be aware that I'm not american, so this is all theatre to me. Moreso, it's theatre that I have no personal stake in. Next, I've heard all this 'Sovereign Citizens' stuff before and while it sounds interesting, it's not overly compelling. Hindering its compulsion, I might add, is the cornucopia of common law precedents that have uniformly ran contrary to 'Sovereign Citizens' interests.

That's why Trump hates her!

Or is she kicking names and taking ass?!

And across the board too.

we love her, but she didn't run for president. unfortunately she is only one.person, most of everyone else is corrupt but she has made a ton of difference. I hope she runs for.president next time

Drosta Dorianin ms

Gawd, what a great idea, she is on the ball. Wadda gal! We know it but he doesn't that when you shout, you lose.

She is only doing this to build her name. She is another fraud though. Warren put the check mark on the "Native American" box to get minority benefits like free college. She was caught red handed. She is bad. Right now she's doing ok but she lied her way to the top.

Get out of the echo chamber TheMatt. Regardless of anything else (her personal advancement), she is doing fine work for the American citizen. She has been doing this across the spectrum before she was ever in politics.

+g suitter Did you mean WTF?

+mysterxyz no. he, and I, mean FTW

+mysterxyz Why does your lot never have any ACTUAL, reasoned criticism?

+Karan Trivedi ...spot on/Denmark for Sanders-Warren

+g suitter I would Run to the poll to vote for a Sanders/Warren ticket!!

I really hope she will run in 2020. America should be proud to have a tough legislator like that. She knows her stuff, she articulates cogent arguments and she doesn't even have to raise her voice. Her points are themselves nuclear missiles. Boom!

Mangosteencountry if trump screws up I would be all for giving her a shot at the presidency

"if"?

BobTheFrog TV she will never win

Barry Guyer You don't know that; you're not omniscient. Millions of people said that Trump would never win. He didn't even believe he'd win himself.

And the tens of millions of Americans who work for them ??

zl1vette427 You might know more about this but I doubt we really know because the commercial banks were bailed out. Can we really separate their activities so cleanly to delineate your question. Also, they borrowed at subsidized rates from the government albeit guaranteed deposits etc. If they didn't have access to cheap money their failure rate would have been higher.

zl1vette427 Tens of millions of their employees get paid low wages and aren't major stockholders in those companies. And tens of millions that don't donate massive amounts of money to politicians and political action groups because they are just trying to stay afloat.

Tom Landis, the UAW was bailed out, 85 cents on the dollar. The banks were DILUTED. Or saw their equity wiped out. Get your facts straight.

You forgot Monsanto.

***** And why is that?

Looks like you are clutching at straws, does she have indian heritage? should she be held accountable for her grandfather's crimes? is it possible for someone who earns good money to care about those that don't? do you hate her for being a democrat?

***** Is there any chance you could answer my questions? or are you just parroting stuff you have heard from someone else?

***** Where are your facts on the statements you just made? So you can't invest in real estate and flip houses your an idiot

Jonathan James FUCKING HYPOCRITE -- SHE BECOME RICH FROM FLIPPING HOUSES

Trish Marloe Talk about revisionist history?! Unless you were born in the last 8 years you are completely delusional. Easing of regulation was passed through a Republican controlled senate towards the end of the Clinton administration, When Bush2 took office his appointees and the banking sub-comitees let the bankers create default swaps and cashed in and fucked everybody from home owners to retirees. You've got to be insane to hand this shit over too these assholes again. Canada is not in bed with there banks like America is. Get some facts.

we wished we had a leader as honorable as Ned Stark

Ha ha ha then they elected a PUSSYGRABBER in USA as PRESIDENT.

shima Hon bör gå Bernie Sanders. Han har redan fått min röst. Realistiskt är de systemet staplade mot dem ändå.

Leave that to us Americans to decide lol

shima I agree/from Germany

shima To the collective brain trust stating that the author cannot vote if he or she is in Sweden. Uh, yes, by absentee ballot if that person is an American Citizen living in Sweden (as I once did).

yes

Hands down a winning ticket....

eas leeps The VP should be a ying to the president's yang. Two people with appeal to the same demographic limit their support.

There would be a record election turnaround. It would be a dream!

+eas leeps Wasn't Obama supposed to be "the one" that was going to bring about progressive change and fight the establishment. In 2008, he was touted as the same new fresh face as Elizabeth Warren is now. Look what a dud he turned out to be, what makes you think she will be any different?

monokhem stupid? or dishonest?

another i'll have to catch tonight!!!

I love her, Massachusetts got it right when they elected her to carry on the Kennedy legacy.

You might want to ask your own mommy and daddy if the banking system was "stable" for those "50 years". It wasn't.

And it is now?

razzle nipper the banking system was extremely stable with strong reserve requirements

Dan Ski Seems likely those two might team up.

Been a fan for long time watch Cspan when she's questioning everyone. So intelligent and knowledgeable. Thank you for your convictions we need you more then ever. Everyone should utube her amazing

I friggin hate this defense....Republicans use it all time. Whats the point of proposing laws because either a) it won't pass anyway, or b) criminals will just break the law anyway. Well shit, what the hell is the point of anything then? Why do we even have a government if this is your attitude....it's infuriating and a completely fallacious argument.

+Jenny Medrano Why do you look like Steve Harvey?

+Hamilton Mays Thats steve harvey.

+dipojones No it's not. It's JOHN CENA

+A Pullara Clinton helped allot when he was in office too!

+A Pullara Reagan did a lot of shi too. Don`t make him holy . he is not

NeverNedDead Your right man, we also cant forget what that prick did either!

+A Pullara I could be wrong, but I thought it started towards the end of Carter's term. Reagan did his fair share, as did Clinton, but I thought it started toward the end of Carter's term. Could be wrong on that though.

+Adam Eraky No. Deregulation of Airlines and communications began during the Carter admin. BTW, Carter was not a big fan of deregulation. That was the brainchild of Congressional republicans, just as it was during the Clinton administration. You can always find some blue dog democrats, like Lieberman and Chris Dodd, or some DLC type Democrats, like Clinton, to go along with republican ideas, but the entire concept that "gov't is the enemy" and that deregulation is an economic panacea is a conservative republican concept, through and through. Deregulation legislation is ALWAYS passed with a near unanimous vote of republicans, along with a small minority of Democrats. That doesn't mean it's a bi-partisan issue.

Elizabeth Warren is two faced lier. Consumer protection my ass. Elizabeth and her brother were buying foreclosed homes in Oklahoma and flipping them for profit off the bad fortunes of poor evicted people. Shameless...! Not to mention her lies about claiming to be of American Indian heritage, working as an attorney for big corporations to welch out of pension obligations...etc.

67NewEngland Can you provide evidence for that?

Tony Byers Tony, I live in Massachusetts and lived through the name calling, debates, Boston Globe and Boston Herald coverage. All of the topics I mentioned were dissected during that whole campaign time period. I can't imagine searching the Boston newspapers wouldn't produce the articles.

ok maybe all politicians are corrupt but I'll take her ahead of he others.

She probably does have a dark side just like many of the politicians in office today. I can't help but appreciate the fact that someone is at least saying something about the evil bankers that haven't faced punishment for messing up so many lives. Iceland seems to be the only country that holds their bankers accountable.

Can we increase capital gains while we are here?

... tax... capital gains tax

George Jetson, how about we charge people who register to vote Democratic $1,000 per elections cycle since they tend to be financial deadweight and people who trade make money ?

Bozo Clown Bozo, your a racist and a bigot! I am so tired of "white man is hurting me" complex that people like you have! I have plenty of black, Hispanic and Indian friends who worked hard, often without government assistance, got their degrees, and are making high 5 and 6 figures. GET YOUR LAZY REAR OFF THE SOFA, AND XBOX AND GET YOUR DEGREE! They give out college loans like water today!

George Jetson it's worse... it's like being a member of a company town.

yes

+Omega Juicer she is a Harvard professor, lol you look silly (:

Yeah that's what I said!!!

+Omega Juicer but you voted for Sarah Pailen

TOTALLY agree!!! She's like the world's most brilliant banker but with unimpeachable integrity and honor, the ultimate oxymoron. No way she should even exist. If she were running instead of Hillary, this would be a done deal. No controversy, definitely no Wall Street financing her campaign, and a financial genius at the head of the world's economy. Four years from now, she's running. And when she does, she's definitely got my vote.

***** It wasn't that government programs were put in place that allowed lower income people to purchase homes that was the problem. The problems arose from deceitful lenders and realtors who pushed people into buying homes that they couldn't afford. The lenders approved them for mortgages that had deceivingly low interest payments to begin with and had hidden "balloon" payments buried in the mortgage document. The realtors, working in conjunction with the lenders, convinced the buyers that they could afford the more expensive homes...which they couldn't. If the lower income people had purchased homes that they could AFFORD and hadn't been screwed over from every which way, the housing crash wouldn't have occurred.

Well Canada is business friendly and can only loan so much money in the US banks can loan 1000 for every dollar that is deposited but the US government can't do shit about it since the federal reserve is really in charge regulations are nothing until you end the Fed

Osca Carrillo The Fed is an essential, and inessential videogame. They make it seem like everythink is under control, but in reality the world (especially normal america) is so indebted and fucked they cant deny it anymore. ^I wrote this really drunk last night^, forget I said anything lol

Stock Market Guru Pt. 1 -- Yes, that's exactly correct. I'm a real estate agent in Canada (10 years), and before that I was a mortgage broker. In Canada we had some sub-prime mortgage products but for the most part they were heavily regulated. In the States that wasn't the case. There were many documented cases in America where predatory agents and lenders would knowingly defraud people, making them believe they could qualify for mortgages that they should not have been approved for. Oftentimes they were immigrants who weren't very comfortable with English and couldn't understand the paperwork. Have you ever seen and agreement of purchase and sale for a home? They're wordy and full of legalese that, if not familiar with them, can be very difficult to understand. What the predatory lenders did is set the interest rate artificially low, making the initial first few months of payments affordable, but buried in the document was a "balloon rate." After a few months the interest rate would "balloon" up to the actual rate, which would mean that the home buyer now couldn't afford his/her mortgage payments. Thus, they would go into default. These mortgages were insured by the government so it was a WIN WIN for everyone except the person who bought the home.

Stock Market Guru Pt. 2 -- The predatory lending/selling and the balloon rates weren't the worst of it. Wall Street came up with a new "product" that took all of these toxic mortgages, bundled them into a large investment unit, forced the rating agencies to give them a AAA rating (despite that fact that many were anything but), and sold them to investors for AAA prices. Since they were rated AAA by reputable agencies the unsuspecting investors were blissfully unaware that they'd purchased junk. THEN, when the home owners were close to defaulting on their mortgages and approached their banks and lending institutions to renegotiate the terms of the mortgage, the mortgages were MIA. Lost in some giant investment portfolio. AND, since they were insured by the government, there was no impetus for the lender to refinance because if the home owner defaulted, THEY GOT PAID from the insurance. The predatory real estate agents got paid. The predatory lender got paid (for negotiating the mortgage and then paid in full when the buyer defaulted). The Wall Street investment bankers got paid. The rating agencies got paid. Everyone was laughing all the way to the bank except for the home owner who'd been duped into believing he bought a house that he could afford.

no she doesn't... she's terrible

She is a real American; she has not been purchased by the corporations. Too bad most elected officials are not like her. If they made her QUEEN, I would not mind. Most Americans would rather have a Queen that cares about the people than the phony elected officials we currently have in office. I would say make her President but she deserve better than that.

Newton Charles She's a lying piece of shit. She is UN-American and she lied her way through life. Wake the fuck up libtard.

Sorry I am a conservative. :) BTW: Can you prove that she lied her way through life??? Are you sure about your statements? Talk is so cheep... so do you have documents, videos or anything to prove that Elizabeth Warren has lied about anything? Please Post the links to your documents or videos. Proof to us that she is lying. Continue to let your hatred consume you by showing us your evidence. We are looking forward to see your data.

Newton Charles If you haven't followed the story then I can't help you. Seriously, you must use common sense once in a while. Elizabeth Warren did what many unethical people do to get an unfair advantage in life. She lied about her heritage to get preferential treatment over honest people. Simple as that. If you're so naive as to dismiss a MAJOR news story covered by ALL media outlets then you're reasoning is truely defective and nobody can help you. My advice to you is that you find someone to support whose entire identity isn't built on lies.

when can I see you again

Werdlow Johnson Inc. i think we need alot more real centrist non religious women in power more women more peace tighter more efficient budgets better relationships more compassion and pragmatic compromise

abdul adam who are you? I don't know you.

She's regulating

+Je Ss 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

holy shit i just got it

lambdasq I don't get it :/

lambdasq is kl

C'mon that will never happen...

code470926 I do know of a way. It's called money, you spend it where you want the power to go.

Karl Slicher But the people with the money, use it to make the politicians act like puppets.

I suspect she would carry Massachusetts and two or three more very liberal states and that is about it.

you are an example of why we need simple test for voting,a 10 question test you can take 10 times and only get 3 right,755 of democrats would fail,founding fathers wanted only land holders to vote,cause they wanted intelligent informed people to vote,if you wanted to vote,you could get educated-10 simple questions-how many members are on the supreme court,?who was the 16th president of the us?,how many branches of gov are there?who is the speaker of the house?,who is the senate majority leader?how many senators are there?how many members are in the house?name 2 vice presidents in our history?how many senators come from each state?name the first president of the united states...stop googling liberals,if you can answer 3 you are an idiot-really if you cant get all 10 you are stupid-the only tough one is 16th president which was abe lincoln

Warren, or Bernie Sanders!

Chrisdougable Add former Congressman Alan Grayson to the list too

whyicare, he's a current Congressman.

+Sandy Bilak But they have.

+sk00lb0y It's a ripple effect. Because of the dollar, so basically any crushes in the US economy will be felt on every continent. That's why the world should switch to Euros. No single nation should have that much power and control over world economy. At least for the euros risk is spread among 28 different countries. But am sure the CIA won't have that

Michael Misoi Switch the whole world to an already totally failing system, Great idea! Why not let the market decide which currency is best?

sk00lb0y Falling how? Just because a few countries are experiencing hitches doesn't mean the whole continent is failing. Look at what happened in 2008. That would not have happened if risk was spread. But am sure the CIA will be more than happy to eliminate any leader who can think of that idea. And do you know why? Without the dollar the US cannot place sanctions on anyone they do business with directly. Without the dollar the US cannot freeze money and assets of certain individuals as they easily can now. And finally without demand for the US dollar, with your current public debt and spending, you will experience inflation like never seen before. That's why you can't let it happen. It's not an issue of markets deciding. Purely political

Michael Misoi Everything you just said applies to the euro and the EU. Massive public debt, huge spending and the EU got crushed in 08. Northern Rock, and Barclays are just two examples of many. And I didn't say falling, its failing.

You’ll never guess what happened. Again.

Warren would be to the left of Hillary Clinton.

Nah man she's just a sweet talking politician you can feel comfortable voting for she will promise you change but the same shit will continue

Osca Carrillo true, there all sweet talking..lol

So? She's the only one I see in Congress trying to go after the fat cats who brought down the economy in 2008. Now Trump gave them all a seat at the Plundering table. Perhaps we stop worrying so much at where folks place on the political spectrum (a spectrum that appears to be changing), and consider what they are saying and actually doing. Trump chatted a lot of sht to get elected. But now we see he only knows his own conning ways. The rip off is his pattern. We just expanded that playground for him. He brought his moving boys with him to help plunder.

At least she'd keep everything in check unlike a certain someone in office -_-

Dave Fisher I hate that slimy little turd, but to be fair, that's not exactly what he said. He first said that no matter what rules are, you can't prevent some busts. That's not entirely the same as saying regulation never works.

Is that true true or did you hear it on Fox?

Stewart fought another Democrat, he wouldn't invite a GOP'er because he'd get smashed.

zl1vette427 Idiot.

+Jason Sadaka Gemeyal Gafar They should turn off the mic when their time is up, then let them have a 10 minute blast session. We could see who best handles themselves after we've heard the formal part of the debate.

+TemplarX2 4 years of Bernie followed by 4 years of Elizabeth

+Omair Sheikh 8 years of sanders then 8 years of warren . That would be prefect

Cheyenne Johnson Well yeah that might help wipe the Republican party altogether

Amidalla sounded Australian?

Robin Fellows if u think he will be president for 8 years youre an idiot...just like trump!

Those idiots are "wrong"

While I love her and want to agree with that, IMO her talents would be far more suited as leader of the Senate. I feel like her hands would be tied on too many things if she was in the White House. The woman knows her shit, that is for sure.

@Robin Fellows you sound like a true Trumptard, Warren would be a much better President than Trump. If you were intelligent you'd see she actually cares about Americans and America, even if you don't agree with her platform. Elizabeth Warren 2020!!!

She Is

did you feel the same way about Warren endorsing Hillary and her Wall Street Pals?

She's a skilled politician. We would rather work with her than any other in Washington except Nina Turner, Jill or Bernie. What's the problem?

***** She's a hypocrite why you ask?

We got one that can see....

Any chance you live in Southern Oregon and want to go out for a beer? My treat.

IraHayesIraHayes I live in Detroit. we cant afford beer anymore.

callie land Down here in Memphis, we can't even afford to go out, (but of course we do it anyway).

lessevdoolbretsim....ahh yes! one of my favorite towns. many drunken Beale st. adventures were had there. and i'm kind of a BBQ jumkie, so in my humble opinion, Memphis cant be beat.

Why don't you tell us how many banks failed in 2008-09 because of investment banking ???? crickets.....

zl1vette427 Think bank bailouts. The interconnectedness of a banks' commercial vs investment banking activities makes that impossible. They were taking subsidized, cheap money and investing in high risk assets. A mismatch in asset/liability management--complements of the taxpayer.

zl1vette427 you probably wouldn't understand.

Franki B , correct....not a single bank failed because of G-S.

Franki B The research on this is abundant. Here is a piece that a lay person can probably understand. www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2012/08/27/repeal-of-glass-steagall-caused-the-financial-crisis

+Bryson Stevens Voting is doing slightly more than throwing a coin in a wishing well. I'll do my wishing with my vote included. Nothing wrong with you wishing for Bernie's success. Republicans have gotten spoiled on low voter turnout in midterm elections like this last one in 2014. You can see it in how fox news commentators pretend democrats don't exist. I hope Warren changes her mind about not running as V.P.

+Bryson Stevens my wish too. im registered to vote, and i hope you are too. lets take the country back.

Paul R Your bad seed idea will not grow in the soil of my better world view. I will never agree that any vote made formally (whether counted or not) is a waste of time and I don't want NOT voting to be viewed childishly as cool. I'd rather fail in the middle of voting with my middle finger pointing away from me.

First person with a sense of history .

***** Were you shrieking about the debt before Obama or Warren were elected? Let me go out on a limb here and take a wild guess... No. You started screeching about it when Faux News gave you and the TBaggers your marching orders, didn't you?

***** So basically, you don't have an argument.

I'll come down there and eat some Possum with ya!

Your Dada Hello Your Dada, So if you can put aside your hatred for a moment and address your own point. Just because Fox News harps on the national debt does that mean you refuse to except it as a very serious situation? Bush did a lot to add to the debt. But so did Obama and many presidents before both of them. So where does that leave us when both sides share blame? People in this country are so blinded by partisanship they are willing to drive right into collapse before they are willing to make hard decisions.

No, I want to vote for Bernie Sanders!

Tom Greg Vermin Supreme for president!

shadowdroid776 Strong take.

Clinton was the best president the Republicans ever had !

***** yes

***** Then why don't we change that >:)?!?!?!

+Edward Williams II ...Why are you attempting to be Political Correct, Instead of Understanding what this means...

+Edward Williams II First of all, the Constitution is based off of the Christian faith and the Iroquois Native American laws.

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+Ellie M. VP, four years, pres, the next eight!!

I think you need to check this woman out before you call her.. she seem ok to me any one fighting the bank is good in my books

Warren 2020!

Greenmachine305 Grandma Liz. She should run on that image in 2020.

Yes!!

www.breitbart.com/big-government/2012/09/04/elizabeth-warren-dodges-meeting-with-native-american-delegates-at-the-dnc/

+kausik Elizabeth Warren’s Lies Catching Up With Her Elizabeth Warren, Democrat candidate for Senate in Massachusetts, can’t shake free of unflattering revelations from her past. First to be exposed was her unverified claim to be a Cherokee, which upset actual Cherokees and raised ethical questions. Then came accusations from fellow academics that Warren had fudged data for a book, followed by the discovery that the former mortgage fraud czarina had herself made a tidy profit flipping foreclosed homes. Now comes the shocking news that, not only did Warren represent a string of big businesses in cases against workers, she seems to have been practicing law for over a decade without a license. _ Family Lore vs. Hard Evidence The first setback to Warren’s maiden election campaign came in April, when it was revealed that she’d publicly listed herself for years as a “Person of Color”, specifically, a Cherokee. (See earlier post for details.) Despite Warren’s insistence that the Cherokee controversy has been “put to rest” it keeps dogging her, partly because her opponent, Scott Brown, has made it a question of her character, partly because of Warren’s own bizarre compulsion to keep raising the subject. Brown hit Warren on her false Cherokee claim in the first question of their first debate. Warren insisted Harvard’s decision to hire her had nothing to do with her claim to minority status, yet refused to comply with Brown’s request for her to release her Harvard paperwork. Brown and the debate moderator then moved on to other issues, but a few minutes later Warren felt the need to retell the thoroughly-debunked fable of her family’s claims to Cherokee and Delaware ancestry. Not content to leave it be, Warren released a TV ad insisting yet again that the family lore she heard as child makes it OK for her to call herself a Native American. This subject is not a winner for Warren, as: 1) exhaustive research by the Cherokee genealogist, Twila Barnes, has proven conclusively that Warren has zero native american ancestry; 2) even had Warren’s claim to 1/32 Cherokee blood been true, under federal law, that was not sufficient for her to claim minority status as a native american. _ Underdog Champion or Hired Gun? Warren’s claim to fame, which made her the darling of proglodytes, is as a champion of the underdog against avaricious corporations. In the debate, Brown cast doubt on this image when he questioned Warren’s decision to represent Travelers Insurance in its 2009 attempt to avoid paying compensation to thousands of workers with asbestos poisoning. Warren insisted that by representing Travelers (“it was an insurance company versus another insurance company” she later explained), she actually helped the poisoned workers by getting Travelers to set up a trust fund, which was better than nothing. The settlement was later negated by the Supreme Court, leaving the victims with nothing. Less clear is how Warren was aiding the downtrodden when she represented LTV Steel in 1995, when they attempted to renege on health & pension benefits to thousands of retired coal miners. Warren has also served, in an advisory or litigating capacity, the following clients in their attempts to use Chapter 11 legalities to avoid liabilities for asbestos poisoning: Kaiser Aluminum Dow Chemical Johns Manville National Gypsum Fuller Austin Fairchild Aviation Piper Aircraft Babcock & Wilcox Company Pittsburgh Coming Corporation Owens Coming Corporation Armstrong World Industries, Inc. W.R. Grace & Company G-1 Holdings, Inc. United States Gypsum Corporation Federal-Mogul Global, Inc. North American Refractories Company _ Unlicensed Practice of the Law All this scrutiny into Warren’s legal work (conducted primarily by the blog Legal Insurrection) has uncovered a potentially devastating blow to Warren’s Senate aspirations. It now seems certain that Warren has been practicing law for years in Massachusetts without a license. That’s a felony. Warren admits she’s never passed the Mass. bar, but insists it doesn’t matter as: 1) She’s never really practiced law in Mass, just “dabbled” a bit; 2) She maintains no law office in the state; 3) She’s never appeared in a Mass. court regarding Mass. law; 4) She’s a member of the TX and NJ bars. All four statements are lies. Warren has engaged in continuous practice The long list of clients above, most from 2002 and discovered by chance, belie Warren’s claim of “dabbling.” Warren refuses to release a comprehensive list of clients, but her annual tax returns list six-figure earnings from legal work. Warren has maintained a permanent law office Warren insists she has no law office in Massachusetts. Yet in amicus briefs to the Supreme Court, and in numerous other cases over the past decade where she was listed “of counsel”, Warren gave her Harvard address as the location of her law practice. On her Texas bar file, she also lists Cambridge, MA, as the location of her practice.

+iminfoman iminfoman And you choose now to comment on a three year old video? Really? No one cares man..

I care.

ack! The last Clinton nightmare was partially responsible for the economic meltdown we are in now. Kind of a Reagan/Clinton/Duh_bya stew. Doesn't matter anyway. The puppet masters would never allow Elizabeth to be President. One look at who was the biggest contributers to McCain/Romney/Obama campaigns will tell you who they are and they will never contribute to someone like Warren.

James Travers P.S. Smart has nothing to do with it. Bill is very smart and so is Hillary. So is Obama. Now SCRUPLES on the other hand.... EW has way to much of that to be elected President.

I think there is a fear of seeming overly intellectual in American politics. American voters just want to hear their best days are ahead of them and not discuss substantive policy.

Hail Victory 100% true, sadly.

The Young Turds are far from "Actual journalism"

***** "why should those with their savings deposited be wiped out because of high risk gambling by the banks?" Those who deposit savings at 'gambling banks' would not do so if the FDIC did not exist. Without this assurance, the "gambling banks" would become 'prudent banks' or go out of business. It is the lack of any risk what so ever to the depositor that allows these "gambling banks" to exist. A better question is why should my tax dollars be used to make whole a person who allowed "gambling banks" to use their money to gamble? How is that fair?

***** You've got it backwards. Glass-Stegal existed because of the FDIC, not the other way around. My basic point is before you hand over your money to someone, you should be investigating what they are going to do with it. When this basic responsibility is negated, doom will follow. Your faith in the ability of government to control these matters should have been destroyed with the repeal of Glass-Stegal. These fools will fail you (us) every time. Feel free to have the last word.

***** Name calling doesn't have any place in respectful debate, so I'm not going to address your comments. At least until you apologize for calling me a Republican.

***** It certainly doesn't explain the government protected loans given out to Freddy and Fanny, which the Government stepped in to "bail out".

***** Newly released memos from the Clinton Administration, prove that CRA hurt the black communities: Norcalblogs: April 27,2014 Exhibit A in the 7,000-page Clinton Library document dump is a 1999 memo to him from his treasury secretary, Robert Rubin. “Public disclosure of CRA ratings, together with the changes made by the regulators under your leadership, have significantly contributed to … financial institutions … meeting the needs of low- and moderate-income communities and minorities,” Rubin gushed. “Since 1993, the number of home mortgage loans to African Americans increased by 58%, to Hispanics by 62% and to low- and moderate-income borrowers by 38%, well above the overall market increase. “Since 1992, nonprofit community organizations estimate that the private sector has pledged over $1 trillion in loans and investment under CRA.” Other documents reveal how the community-activist group ACORN and other organizations met with Rubin and other top Clinton aides on “improving credit availability for minorities.” Clinton’s changes to the CRA let ACORN use the act’s ratings to “target merging firms with less-than-stellar records and to get the banks to agree to greater community investment as a condition of regulatory approval for the merger,” White House aide Ellen Seidman wrote in 1997 to Clinton chief economist Gene Sperling. “Community groups have come to recognize how terribly powerful CRA has been as a tool for making credit available in previously underserved communities,” Seidman added. Seidman later boasted that Clinton’s 1995 CRA revisions created not only the subprime mortgage market but also the subprime securities market. Of course, subprime loans and their high default rates ruined minority neighborhoods when the market crashed. Memos also reveal how Clinton aides held repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act hostage to strengthening the CRA. They gave Republicans deregulation of banking activities in exchange for over-regulating how those banking activities applied to low-income communities. Clinton aides viewed ending the Glass-Steagall Act as a way to “extend the CRA to Wall Street firms” and wanted to extend it to insurers, mutual funds and mortgage bankers. But due to GOP opposition, that was “not politically feasible,” Rubin told Clinton in a 1997 memo. In 2000, HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo lit the fuse on the subprime bomb by requiring Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to purchase subprime, CRA and other risky mortgages totaling half their portfolios. A 1993 memo, “Racism in Home Lending,” captured the tone of Clinton’s affordable-housing crusade. It proposed coordinating with the Washington Post and Congressional Black Caucus on bank investigations. - See more at: www.norcalblogs.com/postscripts/2014/04/27/records-show-clinton-cra-policy-major-housing-meltdown/#sthash.SDKYu6zi.dpuf

And then you left out all the commentary that followed after that. I'm so surprised no one takes you seriously.