http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/28-3

Elizabeth Warren Is Scary!

"The banks lobbied Washington so they could write the rules that got us into
this crisis. They then lobbied Washington to get the money to bail them out.
And now they are lobbying Washington to write the rules so they can get us
into the next crisis."
 
by  <http://www.commondreams.org/ruth-conniff> Ruth Conniff 
In the November issue of  <http://www.progressive.org/elizabeth_warren.html>
The Progressive 

The Republicans are trying to sink Elizabeth Warren by linking her to the
Occupy Wall Street protests. But the nation's top financial reformer is not
backing down.

The furor started when Warren told the Daily Beast, "I created much of the
intellectual foundation for what they do. I support what they do."

The Republicans jumped all over what they view as an exciting new weapon in
the contentious Massachusetts Senate race.

Check out  <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWDJA-OSyzg%3Cbr%20/%3E>
""Matriarch of Mayhem," the Massachusetts Republican Party's ad, which uses
protest images and quotes taken out of context to imply that Elizabeth
Warren advocates actual, physical violence.

Even among negative campaign ads, this is a new low.

You knew Wall Street and the Republicans were afraid of Warren and her idea
for a Consumer Financial Protection Agency. But you haven't seen the depths
of their nightmarish fears until you've listened to the scary music and seen
the video.

After plenty of shots of pierced protesters denouncing capitalism and
getting arrested, the video cuts to an interview clip of the owlish Warren
saying, "I have thrown rocks at people I think are in the wrong."

Text of a Warren quote appears next: "My first choice is a strong consumer
agency . . . My second choice is no agency at all and plenty of blood and
teeth on the floor." (The last part of the quote appears, helpfully, in
bright red.)

Who is buying this stuff?

The Republicans hope that the language they use in their ad about protesters
"bound by a deep commitment to radical left-wing policies" and
"redistribution of wealth, civil disobedience, and, in some instances,
violence" will alienate middle-class voters in Massachusetts.

But here is the problem: The people they hope to alienate tend to agree with
the Occupy Wall Street protesters.

Like Harvard law professor, finance expert, and former Republican Elizabeth
Warren, they are more concerned about the actual damage Wall Street and its
enablers in the government are doing to the economy and the working people
of this country than some silly 1960s bugaboo about radical Marxist hippies.

In fact, some of the people who are most open to Warren's anti-Wall Street
message are the Massachusetts voters who elected her opponent, Senator Scott
Brown.

As the Center for Media and Democracy's  <http://www.prwatch.org/node/8842>
Mary Bottari pointed out in a blog back in January 2010, the Brown campaign
"successfully capitalized on the bailout blues" by making an issue of Wall
Street in its own ads about "bailouts, broken promises, and . . . backroom
deals."

Brown's opponent, Martha Coakley, shot back with her own anti-Wall Street
ads, but it was too late. Brown claimed the issue first, and as polls showed
voter anger at Wall Street was high, he surged ahead.

"Democrats ignore this message at their peril," Bottari wrote at the time.
"They must pass meaningful financial services reform, reform that stirs up a
Wall Street backlash, that truly puts an end to the high-stakes casino and
prevents the next crash."

As Occupy Wall Street shows, this issue has only gotten hotter.

While Obama and the national Democratic Party can hardly claim to be true
opponents of Wall Street, Elizabeth Warren is the real deal. And the
Republicans' scary ads have not intimidated her one bit.

I've been protesting Wall Street for a very long time,"
<http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/10/elizabeth-warren-ows-theres-plenty-cred
it-go-around.> she said in response to the controversy "I understand the
frustration, I share their frustration with what's going on, that right now
Washington is wired to work well for those on Wall Street who can hire
lobbyists and lawyers and it doesn't work very well for the rest of us.
That's what I'm talking about, that's why I'm running for office."

When  <http://www.progressive.org/elizabeth_warren_interview.html> I
interviewed Warren back in 2010, she put it this way, "The banks lobbied
Washington so they could write the rules that got us into this crisis. They
then lobbied Washington to get the money to bail them out. And now they are
lobbying Washington to write the rules so they can get us into the next
crisis."

At the time, she had been drafted by the Obama Administration to be the
government's watchdog on the massive $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief
Program. One Wall Street lobbyist denounced her Congressional Oversight
Panel because it entertained outlandish ideas like nationalizing or
liquidating the banks. The hatred of her by Wall Street and the politicians
it paid for was so hot, Obama couldn't get her appointed to head her own
brainchild agency--Consumer Financial Protection.

But that didn't make her back down. "Every single day that goes by I read
another news report about . . . how large financial institutions have
figured out ways to lie to people, to squeeze them for money, to make
profits by tricking and trapping people rather than by offering a better
product," she told me.

Bad feeling toward the banks was not going to die down, she said then.

"My view is that middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this
economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don't think politicians can
afford to be complacent."

Those politicians would do well to listen to Warren--Republicans and
Democrats alike.

Copyright 2011, The Progressive Magazine
 <http://www.commondreams.org/ruth-conniff> Ruth Conniff 

Ruth Conniff covers national politics for  <http://www.progressive.org/> The
Progressive and is a voice of The Progressive on many TV and radio programs.
Conniff was a regular on CNN's Sunday Capital Gang and is now a regular on
PBS's To the Contrary. She also has appeared frequently on C-SPAN's
Washington Journal and on NPR and Pacifica.

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