I just watched the latest speech of hers I’ve seen, to the American Constitutional Society.
It’s a great speech and I think we need a lot more attention to what she said about the right-wing attacks on our entire judicial branch.
She did not even mention the decades-long attack by the Federalist Society, an organization whose mission is to use career networking and benefits to seduce anyone in the legal profession into their right-wing ideology. Things will be a lot easier for people trying to advance if they’re 'on the team' getting special consideration from others on the team - a team that includes law firms and judges all the way to the Supreme Court (Chief Justice John Roberts denied remembering he'd been a member, but records were found of his having a small leadership role).
George W. Bush replaced the American Bar Association as the group who evaluates all federal judicial nominees — who had done it for since Eisenhower — with the Federalist Society.
She concentrated instead on the other activities of blocking nominations and attacking any lawyers who are not dedicated to the wealthy.
But watching her speak out on that and other things again, I will say, if you add up all Democrats in Congress, including Bernie and Hillary, I think Elizabeth Warren has been more effective in her attacks on the right than all I’ve seen of the others combined. She is just remarkable at it. The very good speaker President Obama appreciated her comments so much on ‘you didn’t build that’ that he borrowed them and came in second in effectiveness to her.
I would love to see he fighting from a position of more power — the presidency. I know it won’t be this time, and politically that makes sense, but nonetheless.
IF Hillary would give her more power than Vice Presidents usually have to be the voice for the people more than Hillary is as Vice-President, I would be interested in her doing that.
One of the biggest needs the liberals have is to fight the right-wing propaganda, and no one seems to do it as well as Warren. And it’s more important than just attacking, it’s fighting for good things.
Warren is not an incrementalist (I’m referring to the party, not Hillary) complaining about each bad action by Republicans. She reminds the country what government should do.
She is the antidote to the poison of the anti-government, anti-democracy plutocratic propagandists on the right.