Friday, November 9, 2012

Warren Has the Skills for the Senate


http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ten-miles-square/2012/11/warren_has_the_skills_for_the041024.php#

The victory of Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts marks the arrival in the Senate of a major new figure in American politics.
To be effective, she will have to lay low for a few years, as Hillary Clinton and Al Franken did. We’ll see if she has the patience and good sense to do so. But if she does, she will have a long and illustrious career. 
i don't know their is definite change going on i hate it when people say "well if you look at Reagan or whoever back in the day" this is not back in the day the situation is not the same the peoples mindset is different there was not two wars and right wing mayhem there was no Obama.
Warren’s election scares a lot of business people. It shouldn’t. I’ve known her for years and can say with certitude that she is pro-business and has many friends in the business world. What she opposes are businesses — the credit-card industry comes to mind — with a history of gouging their customers. To those, she will show no mercy. But she will also work hard to fashion pro-growth policies that work broadly, not just for specific interests.
She will defy the expectations of a lot of people who formed a mistaken impression of her in recent years. 
 Her strengths — raising and championing complex but critical issues — are a perfect match for the institution. I once saw her get a standing ovation for a subtle and informative speech about banking. I can’t think of anyone else who could do that.
extraordinary people do extraordinary things, the atmosphere for Clinton and Franken were not the same as the are now much more acceptance of women inspite of the right.