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Home Front: Politix
Sen. Warren's speech on Wall Street
2014-12-14
Boy oh boy, the left are pushing Fauxahontas' speech hard now, while the right is saying: The Levee Breaks: Democrats Rage Against Obama Over Wall Street Giveaway
From TFA:

Early Friday evening Sen. Elizabeth Warren took to the Senate floor and gave a plain-spoken, barn-burning speech that could make history and put her into serious contention to be the next President of the United States.

There are only a handful of political speeches that have such historic impact. Barack Obama's keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention comes readily to mind. It's what catapulted an obscure Illinois state Senator into the national limelight and put him on the path to becoming President.

Warren's Senate speech was different, but just as electrifying.

Obama's rhetoric was lofty, high-minded, and general, with a feel-good unifying message that there's no blue America or red America but only the United States of America.

Warren's rhetoric is more down to earth, substantive, and frankly, angrier, unafraid of calling out by name the institutions--the big banks and Citigroup in particular--which tanked the economy, cost millions of Americans their jobs and homes, were bailed out with half a trillion dollars of taxpayer money, and then used their fortunes to buy Congress and make it more likely they'll be bailed out again. Moreover, she was unafraid to take on the President of her own party, and the numerous members of his administration drawn from Citigroup and other big banks through the endless revolving door between Washington and Wall Street.

Here's the heart of Warren's speech:
More at the link. Warren is another leftist fascist who will run as a populist. With any luck the fight for the Leftist nomination of president will come down to between Hillary and this jamoke.
Posted by:badanov

#17  "TWANLOC"

In other words, traitors.
Posted by: Barbara   2014-12-14 21:11  

#16  TWANLOC stands for Those Who Are No Longer Our Countrymen
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-12-14 17:51  

#15  Those Who Are No Longer Our Countrymen.
Posted by: badanov   2014-12-14 17:50  

#14  TWANLOCs? Translation, please.
Posted by: trailing wife   2014-12-14 17:48  

#13  

IMA stick'n with the Hildebeest !
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-12-14 17:24  

#12  I didn't believe a majority of TWANLOCs would vote for eight years of Peace love and Music, but damned if they didn't.

I can see a well rehearsed populist campaign drawing in people from the left and the right.

* In too big a hurry *
Posted by: badanov   2014-12-14 17:18  

#11  I didn't a majority of TWANLOCs would vote for eight years of Peace love and Music, but damned if they didn't.

I can see a well rehearsed populist campaign drawing in people from the left and the right.
Posted by: badanov   2014-12-14 17:17  

#10  Folks, let her work to win the Dimocrat nomination. In the larger, more moderate and conservative population, she's a sure loser. She's win the Northeast around Mass, and loony progressive West coast, but nothing in between - certainly not any state in the south, and probably not any of the western-mountain states, and likely not even the idiots in Minnesota would vote for her once people get wind of her hard progressive anti-capitalism.. She might even push Illinois into the red.
Posted by: OldSpook   2014-12-14 16:48  

#9  She's anti-capitalism, the rage against wall street is just cover. Remember, she said she inspired the Occupy assholes who are currently joined up with blacks, ANSWER and New Black Panthers in shutting Cities down.

The "too big to fail" was wrong, but President J.P. Morgan and Bawney Fwank and Chris Dodd should be your target there
Posted by: Frank G   2014-12-14 15:16  

#8  You guys say what you will about Fauxahontas but the whole concept of "too big to fail" makes me see red and she just might gain some traction with it. The bailouts felt to me like armed robbery and I was on the wrong end of the gun. I always thought capitalism means that if you fail you fail and the thirteenth story window is always there for you. If she's giving speeches like this and the RINOs succeed in nominating Jeb Bush, the RINOs might be in trouble. I could not in good conscience vote for either one of them.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2014-12-14 15:10  

#7  Why just the other day I was thinking about heading down to Enid for some traditional Native American crab rolls.

I think the great advantage Warren has is that she is merely intellectually and morally insulting, whereas Hillary! is personally insulting.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2014-12-14 13:54  

#6  Chief Warren has a much better political ear than Our gal Hillary, she will get the Dem base if she runs, which I think she will, she won't be able to move to the center 'al la Bammer or young Mr. Clinton. Thus, I will send her money.
Posted by: Shipman   2014-12-14 11:55  

#5  On this issue I agree with Fauchahontas. Wish some non-looney-leftist would pick up the issue and run with it.
Posted by: Glenmore   2014-12-14 09:55  

#4  Wow, Did Miles Mogulescu, the author of this article, wipe his mouth off yet?

Seriously I haven't seen such since the Obama campaigns. Problem is that it might work again...
Posted by: CrazyFool   2014-12-14 09:33  

#3  A century ago Teddy Roosevelt was America's Trust-Buster. He went after the giant trusts
and monopolies in this country, and a lot of people talk about how those trust deserved to be broken up because they had too much economic power.


The biggest monopoly is the Federal Government. Elizabeth Warren is a big government statist. I just hope people don't fall for her line of bull$&*# like they did for the 2008 snakeoil salesman. She has similar qualifications as Obumble--none. She is a elitist Harvard University lawyer just like Obama with no practical experience at anything. Another Affirmative Action candidate. 300 of Obama's organizers are offering up their support for Fauxahontas. If she were anymore left, she would have to be running on the Communist Party ticket.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-12-14 08:49  

#2  I am NOT voting for her.
I'll vote for ANY Republican over her,
We do NOT need another Obama.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2014-12-14 01:03  

#1  So she can speak, big deal.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2014-12-14 00:58  

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