To: Senator Elizabeth Warren D- MA, Senator
Sen. Warren, Please stay in the Senate
Many Progressives find your position on the Senate Banking Committee and your support by the Massachusetts electorate to be "good ground" from which to play a long game. We've learned under Pres. Obama that the POTUS can or will deliver no quick fixes, not even over two terms. You are a precious human asset to the US. We implore you to remain in the Senate, where your energies, talents and expertise will be most effective and least fragmented. That's how you'll to re-regulate the oligarchs of finance.
Why is this important?
Effective, progressive POTUS's had long careers in public service and politics (not the same) prior to the presidency. (Think: the Roosevelts, LBJ) They had careers to build relationships and to find "where the bodies are buried." Newcomers' and outsiders' impacts have been mixed to miniscule. (Think Carter, Obama. Much of what Clinton, another outsider, apparently built is "on sand." e.g. repeal of Glass-Steagall, which set the stage for 2008. Welfare reform, which helped set labor market conditions for today's non-living, minimum wages.) Nixon, sorry to say, was an effective, old-hand insider. Consider, the EPA came to us under Nixon for reasons as much politcal as scientific or ethical. Reagan was effective because he knew his place and masterfully played his role of "mouthpiece for the oligarchs."
Changes that we Progressives seek will not be quick fixes under a single POTUS. We must fight (play?) a long game from strategically favorable positions. 2016 is not Sen. Warren's moment, and we'll need her Senatorial influence against the Wall Street wing when we recover House and Senate in '16.
Changes that we Progressives seek will not be quick fixes under a single POTUS. We must fight (play?) a long game from strategically favorable positions. 2016 is not Sen. Warren's moment, and we'll need her Senatorial influence against the Wall Street wing when we recover House and Senate in '16.