From Senate Sideline, Elizabeth Warren Is Face of Attack on Trade Bill

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/16/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-emerges-as-trade-bills-detractor-in-chief.html?_r=0

WASHINGTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat whose vituperations against Wall Street have helped push her party to the left, has no official role opposing President Obama’s trade agenda.

She does not sit on the committee where the trade package was written. She has never taken part in negotiations over its legislative language. When Democrats held a news conference after the measure failed on a procedural vote Tuesday, she was not there, nor did she speak on the floor after it passed on Thursday, as many of her colleagues did.

Yet it is Ms. Warren who has become the national face of opposition to Mr. Obama on the trade package. She was the focus of the president’s ire last week when he attacked fellow Democrats as wrongheaded after his efforts to woo his party on the issue went nowhere.

“The truth of the matter is that Elizabeth is, you know, a politician like everybody else,” the president said in widely quoted remarks.

"a politician like everybody else,”

[djean111]

1. "a politician like everybody else,” - says a politician like everybody else.

[Autumn]

2. He said it was never personal

Sounds like it was personal to him. Liz on the other hand has handled this episode with dignity.

[djean111]

3. Yes, the guy whose fans chirp away about how cool, calm and collected he is

really lost his cool.
So far it looks like the TPA/TPP and probably the TTIP are stuffed full of poisonous Easter eggs.

[Autumn]

4. I saw the OPs about fracking and Medicare

Pretty damn disgusting.

[merrily]

5. This NYT article has some Easter eggs, too, and stinky ones.

"vituperations?" Really? Vituperations are vituperative comments.

vituperative
adjective vi·tu·per·a·tive \vī-ˈtü-p(ə rə-tiv, -pə-ˌrā-\
Definition of VITUPERATIVE
: uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse
— vi·tu·per·a·tive·ly adverb

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vituperative

Some of us leftists may cheer verbal abuse of Wall Street, but the word carries a more negative connotation, as to the person doing the "verbal abusing," the person "given to" censure, or Warren, than does criticism or censure of Wall Street, which carries a negative connotation as to the object of the criticism or censure.

Yet it is Ms. Warren who has become the national face of opposition to Mr. Obama on the trade package.

News writing is supposed to use as few words as possible. She is opposing the TPP, but the wordier "To Mr. Obama on the trade package" makes her fight seem more personal than issue oriented.

Then, for comment, they turn to McCaskill, a conservadem and a Hillary supporter who actually made a face when asked by someone on MSNBC if Hillary were copying from Warren and claimed that Hillary had espoused liberal policies years before anyone had heard of Warren or something to that effect. And, not surprisingly, she makes Warren sound like someone who has unfairly wrested the spotlight from Sherrod Brown. And, another choice of the NYT for a quote about Warren is McConnell, who, like all rightists, pretends the center left of the Democratic Party--formerly the center of the Democratic Party-- is the "far left" of all politics.

Then, look at this Faberge egg from a member of the Bush administration, no less:

Ms. Warren was also one of only four senators who voted against the confirmation of Michael Froman as United States trade representative in 2013, citing what she called his lack of transparency on trade talks.

“She seems to be trying to take scalps and embarrass the administration without knowing what she is talking about,” said Tony Fratto, a former White House and Treasury official in the George W. Bush administration. “No one would ever question Antonio Weiss’s progressive Democratic credentials.”

The only positive comment is from Schumer, also not known for his liberalism.

FYI: all politicians are politicians, just like all other polliticians, but some politicians put advancing the interests of average Americans above advancing the own interests.

Politician:

noun
1.
a person who is active in party politics.
2.
a seeker or holder of public office, who is more concerned about winning favor or retaining power than about maintaining principles.
3.
a person who holds a political office.
4.
a person skilled in political government or administration; statesman or stateswoman.
5.
an expert in politics or political government.
6.
a person who seeks to gain power or advancement within an organization in ways that are generally disapproved.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/politician

The NYT, which has been doing a pretty good job of ignoring Bernie Sanders, seems to have gone from the paper that published the Pentagon Papers to an arm of whichever administration is currently in power *cough* Miller *cough*