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You are here: Home / Past Elections / Election 2012 / “Heaven”, Not Scott Brown’s Description of Elizabeth Warren

“Heaven”, Not Scott Brown’s Description of Elizabeth Warren

by Anne Laurie|  November 20, 20115:05 am| 29 Comments

This post is in: Election 2012, Warren for Senate 2012, Daydream Believers

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Rebecca Traister has a good, long article with a silly title in the NYTimes Magazine:

… Temperamentally, Warren presents as the opposite of certain bombastic and arguably chauvinistic members of Obama’s economic team. Katherine Porter, a former student who is now a bankruptcy-law professor at the University of California, Irvine, said that “a strong epithet for Elizabeth is ‘golly gee.’ ” Warren told me of an afternoon, about 10 years ago, when she picked up her office phone and was shocked to hear a man cursing on the other end. “I thought, Whew! My first obscene phone call!” Just before hanging up, Warren paused. The accent sounded familiar. She put the receiver back to her ear, waiting for the speaker to take a breath before asking, “Senator Kennedy?” It was indeed the man whose old seat she is now competing for, phoning from the Senate cloakroom to report that Democrats had unexpectedly won a fight over bankruptcy legislation. “He was so revved up!” Warren said.
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But the expectation that she’s Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle also allows Warren to wield a shiv. Carol Kenner, a retired bankruptcy judge, recalled watching her friend Warren, who went to college on a debate scholarship, fiercely engage another legal scholar who was attacking her. “It’s exercise for her,” Kenner said, “like swimming a faster lap.”

How to sell hope when so many feel hopeless is Warren’s biggest messaging challenge. Her supporters may be willing to forget the past four years and renew their faith in her as their next salvation, but Warren clearly thinks about the dissonance of what happened when the last change-peddlers hit Washington.
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“I thought, 2008, that’s it, that is the watershed moment,” Warren says. “We put sensible people in the House, in the Senate and in the White House.” But even with the new leadership, Warren said, “the people who broke the market doubled down on the failed policies. This was not supposed to happen. But it did happen.”

Of course, the Wall Street banksters would prefer to strangle Warren’s campaign in its cradle, and they believe they have the perfect weapon. From an earlier NYTimes article, “Vilifying Rival, Wall St. Rallies for Senate Ally“:

The warning has ricocheted around the financial world in recent weeks, in conversations at Midtown restaurants and Washington fund-raisers, carrying urgent appeals for money from financial executives around the Northeast: The battle to re-elect Senator Scott P. Brown, the Republican from Massachusetts, just got a little more interesting…
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Mr. Brown, a freshman who harnessed populist Tea Party anger to win the seat once held by Edward M. Kennedy, has taken more money from the financial industry than almost any other senator: all told, more than $1 million during the last two years, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics.
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Of the 20 companies that accounted for the most campaign donations to Mr. Brown, about half were prominent investment or securities firms like Morgan Stanley, Fidelity Investments and Bain Capital. His donors include such blue-chip names as Gary Cohn, the president of Goldman Sachs, and the hedge fund kings John Paulson and Kenneth Griffin.
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Mr. Brown, in turn, has been an important ally at critical moments, using his swing vote in the Senate to wring significant concessions out of Democrats on last year’s financial regulation bill, including helping strip out a proposed $19 billion bank tax and weakening a proposal to stop commercial banks from holding large interests in hedge funds and private equity funds….

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  1. 1.

    Raven

    November 20, 2011 at 5:17 am

    It’s early and I’ll be on the road before anyone read this but I thought you’d enjoy this little uproar we have in Athens over a proposed WalMart near our beloved downtown.

    Tim Denson, a member of Occupy Athens, said the new development might be the local anti-Wall Street movement’s next target.

    “People say we’re unfocused,” said Denson, no relation to Athens-Clarke Mayor Nancy Denson. “They ask what we’re against. This is what we’re against.

  2. 2.

    SiubhanDuinne

    November 20, 2011 at 5:53 am

    @Raven:

    Safe travels, Raven.

  3. 3.

    JPL

    November 20, 2011 at 6:19 am

    @SiubhanDuinne: Safe travels to both of you.

  4. 4.

    SiubhanDuinne

    November 20, 2011 at 6:29 am

    @JPL:

    Thanks, JPL. I’m still in Ottawa for another couple of days, then over to see the cousins. If I don’t cross paths with you on BJ, have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

  5. 5.

    Amir Khalid

    November 20, 2011 at 8:19 am

    Are there any new Brown vs. Warren poll numbers?

  6. 6.

    jeffreyw

    November 20, 2011 at 8:23 am

    Rise and shine!

  7. 7.

    SiubhanDuinne

    November 20, 2011 at 8:35 am

    @jeffreyw:

    Dear FSM, that looks good. Hotel coffee and institutional muffins are what I’ll be getting, I fear

  8. 8.

    Violet

    November 20, 2011 at 8:57 am

    From the top article:

    Warren, who went to college on a debate scholarship

    That I didn’t know! Will there be a debate between Senator Himbo and Elizabeth Warren? I already thought she’d wipe the floor with him, but this nugget makes me really hope there is one.

    And I didn’t know he’d taken more money from banksters than almost any other senator. What a creep. In this anti-Wall St. environment, at least that kind of info should hold a bit more traction.

  9. 9.

    YellowJournalism

    November 20, 2011 at 9:20 am

    “Tiggy-Winkle?” I’m wondering if she meant Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle. Anyone who’s read those books knows that Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle helped parents teach their unruly children in creative ways that the kids didn’t know what they were truly in for. That fits Warren.

  10. 10.

    Nora

    November 20, 2011 at 9:46 am

    And when will the MSM retire the stupid “populist” tag for the bought-and-paid-for Tea Party movement? Every time I see that, it raises my blood pressure.

  11. 11.

    FraAnima

    November 20, 2011 at 10:08 am

    Warren 4 Pres 2016!

  12. 12.

    butler

    November 20, 2011 at 10:11 am

    “Vilifying Rival, Wall St. Rallies for Senate Ally“:

    That’s pretty much all that needs to be said. I hope the Warren campaign is smart enough to remind the voters daily of this connection, and the fact that Wall Street loves Brown and hates Warren. Nothing else should be needed.

  13. 13.

    RalfW

    November 20, 2011 at 10:28 am

    Well. I’ll be writing to Fidelity’s CEO to express my considerable displeasure at their “investment” in a wanker like Brown. I’m certainly not a high-buck guy, but I’ve been a customer for almost 20 years. I’ll also write to the President of my church’s denomination, which has been doing some good shareholder advocacy work (and has an endowment fund) to see what they think of Fidelity being in the top ranks of Brown donors.

  14. 14.

    cat48

    November 20, 2011 at 11:00 am

    @FraAnima:

    Eh, just let her take over now and cure all white progressive complaints with Obama. Then all will be right with the world.

  15. 15.

    FlipYrWhig

    November 20, 2011 at 11:08 am

    @cat48: I heard that when Elizabeth Warren is senator, Mitch McConnell will stop filibustering everything in sight!

  16. 16.

    Hal

    November 20, 2011 at 11:09 am

    I read the article, and I’m amazed that Scott Brown’s strategy is to climb into bed with Wallstreet, and try to villainize Warren on the basis of OWS, which isn’t exactly off putting to many Americans. Seems like a shit strategy that will ultimately make him appear as a patsy for bankers.

  17. 17.

    Judas Escargot, Populist Asshole.

    November 20, 2011 at 11:42 am

    @Violet:

    I didn’t know he’d taken more money from banksters than almost any other senator.

    And his (upper middle class white self-employed) supporters seem to know this: “The Senator from Fidelity” is one of the few lines that gets a snicker from both sides in meatspace.

    They’ll still vote for him, anyway, so Warren’s chances probably hinge on GOTV efforts.

  18. 18.

    karen marie

    November 20, 2011 at 11:44 am

    @cat48:

    Bubba’s mama baked pie, and her mama before her baked pie, and her mama before her mama baked pie, too.

    Really? Do tell! I love me some pie!

  19. 19.

    Lol

    November 20, 2011 at 11:51 am

    Brown wouldn’t have been able to extract any concessions if Feingold hadn’t decided to throw a temper tantrum and vote against the financial reg no matter what.

  20. 20.

    Jim in Chicago

    November 20, 2011 at 12:03 pm

    @11 2016 might be a bit premature for Warren (even if Obama only needed 4 years in the Senate) but Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown is looking like the real deal (and also has a target on his back as a result)….

  21. 21.

    Lolisk

    November 20, 2011 at 12:17 pm

    @Lol:

    Hear, hear. Feingold screwed us over cause he thought it would help his re-election chances. I don’t get why it is so hard for people to see that.

  22. 22.

    Ron

    November 20, 2011 at 12:19 pm

    @Jim in Chicago: Honestly the Senator I’d love to see run in 2016 is from my state. I think Gillibrand would be great.

  23. 23.

    FraAnima

    November 20, 2011 at 12:39 pm

    @Ron: I would be happy with that choice. A pro-2nd amendment woman on the Dem ticket … the right won’t know what to do with that.

  24. 24.

    xian

    November 20, 2011 at 12:52 pm

    @FraAnima: the gun nuts will still claim it’s a stealth trick to grab their guns

  25. 25.

    FlipYrWhig

    November 20, 2011 at 1:30 pm

    @FraAnima: And John Kerry was a war hero. Whoever ends up the candidate, rightwingnuts always come up with something slimy.

  26. 26.

    vheidi

    November 20, 2011 at 3:30 pm

    @Ron:
    The top benificiary of Wall Street moola payola- yeah, brilliant.

  27. 27.

    Lurker

    November 20, 2011 at 3:44 pm

    @jeffreyw: You always post the most delicious pictures of food. I keep wondering if you are a professional chef, or if you just cook amazing dishes at home.

  28. 28.

    moe99

    November 20, 2011 at 4:03 pm

    @YellowJournalism: Mrs. Tiggy Winkle is a character in Beatrix Potter books for children.

  29. 29.

    rikyrah

    November 20, 2011 at 7:16 pm

    I think Warren rocks, and I think she’s going to take it to him

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