Senator-elect and Green Party I-Wish-You-Were-My-Girlfriend poster girl Elizabeth Warren hasn’t even been seated in the Senate yet and she is already shitting all over progressive hopes and dreams by not demanding that she be given the skull of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein for her desktop pencil holder:
Elizabeth Warren is resigning the tenured post at Harvard Law School that took her 30 years to achieve. She has met privately with her former opponent, Scott Brown, who addressed her as professor instead of senator-elect. And she has spoken half a dozen times with majority leader Harry Reid about her new role in the Senate.
But during her first extensive interview since her victory last month, Warren said she had no bills or initiatives ready to propose when she becomes senator next month. Instead, she said, she is studying the ways of the Senate, looking into issues that others have proposed, and seeking out alliances.
The conciliatory approach may surprise those who expected the self-proclaimed rock-thrower to arrive with a slingshot, and play the role of constant critic, forever dishing with Jon Stewart and Rachel Maddow.
Warren, who once promised to throw her body in front of bad bills if she won office, acknowledged that in the Senate, with its tradition of deference to senior members, the road to power often requires discretion.
[...]
Certainly, Warren is not promising a retreat. She said she will continue to be an outspoken voice on her priorities, which she described as filibuster reform, lowering college debt, financial regulation, and public infrastructure and clean energy investment, all of which she said will help the middle class. She said she wants to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, which the Supreme Court also announced on Friday that it would review.
“I’m not patient,” she said, as if to assure supporters she won’t be tamed. “I’m not patient.”
But she said she will choose her tactics carefully, keeping quiet when it suits her objective and making noise when she sees the need.
It’s been five weeks and she has already been corrupted by the oligarchical duopoly.
She was so much cooler and edgy when she was DIY but, now that she has signed with a major label party, she’s totally sold out, man….





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Fucking Ticketmaster always wins the long game…
It takes planning to be a subversive. Just can’t do it willy-nilly.
Maybe she can duet with Westerberg on a new hip version of “Unsatisfied”
Sack cloth and ashes? Oh, that’s in aisle 6.
By the dark love of Cthulhu! How dare she have the audacity to actually study and plan a strategy and make an effort to be effective rather than just loud and obnoxious.
Welll…. if she got a Haavaad professordom with a couple,three decades of study, planning & smart effort, she oughta be able to take on the Senate ok. I’m not worried. I think she’s fundamentally down-in-the-core fabulous.
Well, she’s already scared off Jim DeMint, so that’s a good start.
I live in a state that elected an even more famous person as a fresh(wo)man senator twelve years ago — Hillary Clinton? remember her? she was in all the papers? — and trust me, you have to do what she did, which is to act EXTREMELY HUMBLE BEFORE THE AWESOME MAJESTY THAT IS THE UNITED STATES SENATE. You must say that you’re going to sit in the corner, quiet as a church mouse, and not even THINK of throwing your weight around for months and months, if not years, while you “learn the ropes.” Otherwise, you’ll get your comeuppance, and it will not be pleasant.
That’s if you’re a woman and a Democrat. If you’re a Republican guy, you can be an arrogant, showboating dick from Day One.
Crazy… it’s as if she wants to actually get something done instead of flying off the handle like Allen West or Joe (Not the Rock Star) Walsh or some other apeshit one-term teabagger. The Man has gotten to her!
Rand Paul, to the white
moochercourtesy phone…I live in the Baystate, so I’ve been listening to her stuff waaaaaaaaaayyyyyy longer than you punks. I saw her in a little club, maybe six people there, probably around 1991. Her first album Fuck Your Yankee Blue Jeans had just come out. I got an ultra-rare signed copy made out of bee’s wax and packaged in hemp. Good luck finding a copy suckas! She jammed for hours… It was religious. Now, she’s a mainstream sell out. Nobody listens to her anymore. You noobs make me sick.
Ah, the multi-dimensional chess theory. Just shoot me.
Seriously though – she’s in The Game now and that would slow down Jesus Christ himself.
…great book
Funny…but I don’t recall hearing Warren ever describe herself as a “rock thrower;” maybe she did and I missed it, but even if that’s the case, it’s a far cry from dark mutterings about taking up guns and the like we’ve heard out of various teabagging moron nuts serving in the House and Senate.
As for “those who expected” Warren to throw rocks, they’re pretty much confined to wingnuttia and the media which is, let’s face it, pretty much the same thing these days, and their portrayal of the mild-mannered granny professor as a Molotov cocktail-tossing thug never really had any resonance with most folks, a bare majority of which are still at least barely sane and recognize that saying things like “rich people are getting that way on the backs of workers” isn’t exactly the same as gunning people down with machine guns, taking their precious, precious stuff, and burning their mansions to the ground…even though the well-paid mouthpieces in the media would LIKE for them to believe it.
Any chance she could be nominated to the US Supreme Court while she’s a Senator?
And every one of the six people in the audience started their own
bandpolitical party.Just made my day.
We’ve got to get you off of FDL. Seriously, this can’t be healthy. It’s obsessive, man.
When a post is front-paged I yawn in anticipation and try to skip the whole thing, knowing that “fun” will be replaced by a thousand years of argument (not to mention a thousand yards of thread) the pious and self-righteousness will outnumber the living, and those turned instantly to dust by the wrath of Godwin will be considered the fortunate ones, the rest left wandering gormless living off the corpses of each other’s syllogisms for the rest of time or at least what seems like it until the thread finally peters out (I bet some of them are still going).
Oh well. Carry on.
Hell. It’s the most fun I’ve had in months.
Y’know: clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right…
One of my senators, Merkley D-OR(a freshman senator), did not defer and has not been discrete.
..here I am, stuck in Lodi again?
I always get the one about Lodi and the one about clowns mixed up, ever since I played in Lodi with the circus.
Man, there was a good song.
Gosh. It only took (less than?) a month to begin the “she’s a sellout/not who she claimed to be” attack to begin. Shows how shook up the rightwing noise machine was shook up when they couldn’t buy the election and Adelson and the rest left them tied, hands to ankles and pants down, outside of gay biker bars in San Fran on a Saturday night.(Ok, just using this for a mental image, don’t start throwing stones my way…)
Keep in mind the characterizations of Warren in those quotes are from the writer of the story. “studying the ways of the Senate,” etc. isn’t “conciliatory:” it’s pure common sense. No doubt Sen. Merkley did exactly the same thing, to see how far he could go and with whom he would have natural affinities.
This sentence is classic reporter-editor mealymouthing:
“Warren, who once promised to throw her body in front of bad bills if she won office, acknowledged that in the Senate, with its tradition of deference to senior members, the road to power often requires discretion.”
she “acknowledged” (the writer’s characterization unhooked from the actual conversational exchange between the two) followed by a nebulous linking of the idea of deference to an INFERRED abandonment of throwing her body in front of bad bills. You can be discrete and respect the power structure AND oppose bad bills. All she is saying is she’ll pick her spots for when she will pound the table. Awe want her to get as high in the power structure as she can, and she’s not going to do that by crapping on Harry Reid.
How do you think the Boyz would feel about having their own (faux) fur blankies? I’m considering a rather luxurious one for Arthur (whose fur is inadequate for life here in Sofa, IA) and it strikes me that the Boyz might enjoy some too. Since it gets so damned cold in San Diego in the depth of winter.
Thus explaining Mitch McConnell?
Looks like the same pack of assholes who were all broken-hearted that Pres. Obama (2 terms, bitchez!!!) wasn’t the BackPantherMauMauWitchDoctor they made him out to be are still searching for yet another sack of fresh meat, this time it’s The ScarySheWomanManHaterClubIntelekshul. I thought the best fun was over after the November surprise. Moar muthafukken popcorn, to go with this ice tea, dammit!
Awesome rant. You may have won the internets today.
Just…beautiful.
Indeed.
I always knew you were a brawler. Heh; my kinda guy, especially when depantsing the overly earnest in 6 well-placed words.
It’s hilarious that people expect one person to bring the corrupt financial industry to heel. I hope she will continue to be outspoken, but the government is practically owned by Wall Street… her’s won’t be an easy task.
Betrayed by Elizabeth Warren already, and it’s only been a month since the election. Clearly she’s been taking lessons from That Man In The White House, who likes lefty tears on his morning Wheaties.
Life is hard for those who are pure of heart…
In other words, she’s doing what Al Franken did, what Hillary Clinton did, and what Teddy Kennedy did when they first won their Senate seats.
Do these fuzzy bomb-throwers even know she hasn’t been sworn in yet?
Apparently, it’s never too soon to be called a sell-out.
Damn, tbogg, I used to get called devious, instigator, and/or trouble maker for saying things like that. I just thought I was provoking thought, now it’s just “blogging”?
Great instigation there, I bow to your prowess.
Senator-elect Warren didn’t demand Goldman Sachs’ CEO Lloyd Blankfein’s skull for her desktop pencil holder because, in addition to studying the ways of the Senate, looking into issues that others have proposed, and seeking out alliances, she’s having Blankfein’s head measured for a pike for some future Banking committee shindig.
“I’m not in the pundit business,” Warren said.
Go ahead, rub it in.
What a DINO. It’s almost like she thinks she can’t waltz right in and start passing laws by decree. Too early to start talking about primarying her?
Back in the olden days, when Richard Nixon appointed Henry Kissinger as his national security advisor, the press asked Kissinger how a Harvard professor could hope to operate in the byzantine culture of Washington, where partisans fought over every slice of the government pie. He laughed, and stated that he had more than enough experience since in the university the slices were thinner than in Washington, thus were fought over more fiercely.
Warren will do just fine.
sorry, i missed the part where anyone was complaining about warren’s performance thus far. trolling for skank, tbogg?
Great comment and How About That, nobody has responded to travy’s sensible post of quite a few hours ago. I take it there is just so much to choose from that nobody could come up with an all-encompassing response yet…
I have to say, it takes real gumption to become a conspiracy theorist dedicated to the maintenance of the utterly compromised, middle and mediocre. TBOGG has developed this ability to use the word “hippie” in almost any circumstance if necessary, even weirdly including punk rockers
(man, how culturally out-of-it does one have to be to include Mission of Burma and Black Flag and Big Black with hippies, precisely?? I think there are Enya fans out there who might have a better grasp of rock culture than TBOGG)
and the hopelessly square and sober, such as Ralph Nader. SHORT-HAIRED HIPPIE IN A SUIT, THAT GUY!
Bend over to the all-powerful thrust of centrism, all who would have any principles not convenient at the moment!!
Here you go
I lifted that from paragraph 3 of the excerpt from the article provided above by Tbogg.
It certainly seems like implied criticism (by the author of the article) to me.
Now if you want to argue that the author’s opinions do not accurately reflect the consensus opinion of all the Hippies, then you might have a point.
so ‘surprise’ is now outlawed by the obamabogg purists? weak sauce, yo
and further, it’s not even actual ‘surprise’ is hypothetical ‘surprise’
Is English a second language for you? Pretending to not be familiar with common usage of American English just makes you seem to be stupid.
The “surprise” comes from the author’s implied criticism that Warren is being conciliatory toward the financial industry, now that she is a Senator.
You can’t focus on just one word, all the words work together to form a complete thought chief.
oh. ‘implied criticism’ is the big problem here.. let me go buy a pitchfork then
yano, this whole schtick is tired. let the tbogg purity ball go on without me. laterzzz
No, don’t go buy your pitchfork yet, you still may have a valid point to make.
If you think I am wrong, then please explain your interpretation of what the author is trying to say in his article. I would love to hear where you think I’ve gone wrong in interpreting the author’s writing.
I hope the Author had a purpose for writing the article.
You know that I think that purpose was to imply that Warren was backing-down from a “get tough” on injustice/corruption position now that she is a Senator; that she is being co-opted by the system.
What do you think?
No, don’t go buy your pitchfork yet, you still may have a valid point to make.
If you think I am wrong, then please explain your interpretation of what the author is trying to say in his article. I would love to hear where you think I’ve gone wrong in interpreting his writing.
You know that I think that the author’s purpose was to imply that Warren was backing-down from a “get tough” on injustice/corruption position now that she is a Senator; that she is being co-opted by the system.
What do you think?
Hey travy are you leaving because you are not up to the task of pulling together a content reply?
Hey what’s with the bitching? She already got two new hoppers for the Gyno Rest Room. Jeeze!