A few hours before Chuck Schumer’s press conference today, the White House sent out word that it was passing over Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Liberals had called on President Obama to fight for Warren’s appointment, but with a bloc of Republican senators refusing to yield, Schumer said the White House was doing the only thing it could.
“Well, the White House dropped consideration of Elizabeth Warren because the Republicans in the Senate said they will not let her pass. Period,” Schumer said. “Even were the President to try a recess appointment, they wouldn’t allow the Senate to recess. So the President was just facing reality when he said that he couldn’t nominate her because she never would have been approved. Forty-four senators I believe signed the letter; 44 Republican senators that wouldn’t allow her to come.”
The Senate stalemate has given rise to speculation that Warren, unable to beat the upper chamber, might try to join it. Warren is a professor at Harvard Law and is said to be interested in running against Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown. Brown claimed the seat of the late Ted Kennedy in an upset victory two years ago, but will have to stand for a full term next fall.
Schumer, who guided the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to big victories in 2006 and 2008, was recently seen dining with Warren in Washington.
Asked today whether Warren would make a good candidate, and whether he had discussed the possibility with her, the senator was unusually reticent.
“I have had conversations with Elizabeth Warren on a whole variety of subjects but I’m going to keep those to myself,” he said.
Dems Chicken, she knows to much.To bad she’s not running in NY I’d Vote for her
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Sometimes you should fight even when you know you’re going to lose. Elizabeth Warren deserved no less. The blocking of her nomination by Republicans needed to be exposed. I fear there’s a pattern here of caving in face of their opposition and giving them a victory without a fight.
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[...] Charles Schumer said to PolitickerNY that in passing over Warren; “the President was just facing reality when he said that he couldn’t nominate her because she never would have been [...]
[...] Charles Schumer said to PolitickerNY that in passing over Warren; “the President was just facing reality when he said that he couldn’t nominate her because she never would have been [...]
[...] Charles Schumer said to PolitickerNY that in passing over Warren; “the President was just facing reality when he said that he couldn’t nominate her because she never would have been [...]
The Republicans are just engaging in a game Liberals invented,and perfected
[...] Charles Schumer said to PolitickerNY that in passing over Warren; “the President was just facing reality when he said that he couldn’t nominate her because she never would have been [...]
New York Democrats have quite the dillemma when it comes to bad behavior in finance.
Stop it, and the excess pay that goes with it, and the city and state tax base will be much smaller in the short run, leaving less money for Democratic interest groups. Which is why they yell “tax the rich” instead of “hey, did they really earn those riches to start with?”
But if they don’t stop it, in the long run the New York tax base will disappear like Detroit’s as customers finally wise up to being ripped off and then cannot be lured back even if things improve.
[...] was mum when asked about their conversations last month, but today Warren made it official, forming the committee and launching a bare bones website where [...]