If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em, then beat ’em?
In her best-selling book, she charged that Senator Hillary Clinton abandoned her principles and supported a bankruptcy bill in exchange for campaign contributions. Warren accused Joe Biden, also a senator at the time, of selling out women. And she chided Patty Murray – the Washington senator who later helped recruit her into the race and is now leading the national effort to elect her – for wanting to shame bankrupt families.
The shots against the Democratic titans, written with her daughter Amelia Warren Tyagi in the 2003 book “The Two Income Trap,’’ provide insight into how the Harvard law professor interacted with Capitol Hill power brokers during a period when her profile as a national consumer advocate was taking off.
via Democratic darling has also been critic – Metro – The Boston Globe.
This is exactly why the Warren candidacy means something. The Democratic Party has been beholden to the same special interests as the GOP; the difference has been in degree, but not really in kind. The anti-consumer bankruptcy bill of 2005 passed 74-25. (Happy to say that both MA senators and then-senator Obama voted against it.)
The Dem party really lost its pro-consumer mojo in the 90s and 2000s as a product of special-interest capture, which was/is whitewashed in the media as “moving to the center”. And that’s how you get pink slime (or E Coli, take your pick) in school lunches, lead in kids’ toys; deadly peanut butter, Bernie Madoff; mine accidents, and mad crazy predatory lending. There’s been no one watching the watchers.
About time we had someone give a damn.
lynne says
myself and I cheered that someone would tell it like it is. And she is VERY fair and the tone is not at all mean…maybe mildly chiding.