Tag: Elizabeth Warren

Nearly a day after the Iowa Democratic caucus concluded Democrats still don’t have a definitive answer as to which Democratic presidential candidate actually won the caucuses. To say this is a shitshow (pardon my language) is probably a bit of an overstatement but it certainly doesn’t look good, and already…

Tonight Speaker of the House Paul Ryan proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that when faced with the opportunity to do the right and moral thing on behalf of his constituents and all those Americans who want to see common sense gun control legislation, he’d rather stand firmly on…

This is a big fricking deal… Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) are reintroducing legislation to revive the Glass-Steagall Act, which would force big banks to split their investment and commercial banking practices. Glass-Steagall was first passed in 1933 but repealed during the Clinton administration, leading many progressives…

During an interview with WISC-TV, former (and hopefully future) Sen. Russ Feingold joined Sen. Elizabeth Warren in opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a broad trade deal negotiated in secret and pushed hard by President Barack Obama. Former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI), who just announced his candidacy for his old…

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve no doubt heard of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a a proposed regional regulatory and investment treaty negotiated in secret and which is alleged to contain a host of provisions that would extend restrictive intellectual property (IP) laws across the globe and place…

This is a few weeks old, but I think it’s worth sharing. On Friday morning, the group “Ready for Warren” released a letter calling on Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for president — with the signatures of over 330 former Obama campaign staffers. “We believed in an unlikely candidate who…

Once again Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren hits the nail on the head when it comes to the priorities of President Barack Obama’s economic policies. In an interview with Salon’s Thomas Frank, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren lashed out President Barack Obama and his administration for repeatedly protecting Wall Street’s interests over…

Over at the Washington Post, EJ Dionne has an excellent piece on how Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren is going on the offensive and calling for an end to the era of liberal apologies. Since the Reagan era, Democrats have been so determined to show how pro-market and pro-business they are…

This is worth a read. It’s hard to look at the Democratic Party these days and not feel as if all the energy is behind Warren. Before she was even elected, her fund-raising e-mails would net the party more cash than any Democrat’s besides Obama or Hillary Clinton. According to…

UPDATE: As noted by John Casper in the comments, CNBC has had the clip of Sen. Warren’s appearance on “Squawk Box” removed from YouTube on copyright grounds. Watch as Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts appears on “Squawk Box” on CNBC to discuss her support for reimplementing the Glass-Steagall Act…