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Elizabeth Warren Asks The Most Obvious Question Ever And Stumps A Bunch Of Bank Regulators
- At 1:20, she asks the question we’ve all been wanting someone to ask FOREVER. Then a government lawyer stumbles over his words.
- At 2:20, she rattles off another one. Then a government lawyer stumbles over his words.
- At 2:55, she asks another lawyer the same question. Said lawyer then tries to not stumble over her words.
- At 3:25, she asks the same question again. That lawyer asks for some time.
- At 3:45, she gets our back and goes for the knockout punch.
- And then right after that you reward her good behavior by sharing this with everyone on the Internet. You know you want to.
“Too Big To Fail”, should not be “Too Big To Jail”.
Happy to see Elizabeth Warren making her presence felt.
From The Last Word:
As problems go, this is a good one to have: after last week’s election, a record 20 women will serve in the U.S. Senate–where the ladies’ restroom has only two stalls. At the Washington Ideas Forum on Wednesday, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar told the audience, “For the first time, there was a traffic jam in the Senate women’s bathroom. There were five of us in there, and there are only two stalls.”
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Probably goes without saying, but we need more senators like these two.
Belated thoughts on a triumphant election night
The conversation in Washington already seems to have turned to the fiscal cliff/slope, but there will plenty of time in the weeks and months ahead to talk about that, and before the week was over, I wanted to write something about the election and my own experience Tuesday night.
Six things I’m hoping for from the Democratic Convention
- (shamelessly stealing this from Alex Pareene) making the theme of the first night “No, you really did not build that.”
- a litany of corny jokes about Paul Ryan’s marathon time
- letting an empty chair deliver the nomination acceptance speech
But seriously:
- solid speeches from the up-and-comers like Julian Castro, Elizabeth Warren, Martin O’Malley, and Cory Booker that make clear that the Democratic Party has a progressive vision for the country
- an unexpected speech from Hillary Clinton, which won’t happen outside a brief moment before or after Bill’s speech, but which should and would be awesome (PS: this New Yorker article about Barack Obama and Bill Clinton makes me think she will run in 2016)
- I mean, I suppose a good speech from the President Obama would be nice.
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