Lawrence O'Donnell talked to Massachusetts Democratic candidate for the Senate and progressive champion Elizabeth Warren about the latest polls from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell/Boston Herald survey released released this week, showing her with a 49 to 42 percent lead over incumbent Senator Scott Brown.
As O'Donnell noted, any time an incumbent goes below 50 percent in the polls even when their opponent is not polling higher than they are, it spells some serious trouble for their reelection prospects.
So naturally with not only Brown polling below that 50 percent, but Warren also polling with a seven point lead, the GOP is freaking out and getting desperate. Which leads us to Karl Rove and his group and his desperate smear of Warren, trying to paint her as somehow being friendly to Wall Street.
Karl Rove’s independent group Crossroads GPS is up with a new advertisement today, smearing Massachusetts senate candidate Elizabeth Warren (D) by insinuating that she was responsible for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the bank bailout that took place at the height of the financial crisis.
The ad blames Warren for “bailing out the same banks that caused the financial meltdown, bailouts that helped pay big bonuses to bank executives while middle class Americans lost out.” It closes by imploring the viewer to “tell Professor Warren we need jobs, not more bailouts and bigger government.” [...]
The accusation that Warren is responsible for TARP, bank bailouts, or huge executive bonuses is beyond absurd. TARP and the bank bailouts were Republican ideas that began under President Bush. As Simon Johnson notes, Warren “has also been a strong supporter of all efforts to rein in Too Big To Fail banks, including by breaking them up.”
In fact, her work creating and heading up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau involved advocating directly on consumers’ behalf, a key check on the power of big banks. She also ran the Congressional Oversight Panel for TARP, where her role was to track the money that was given to the banks. She was extremely critical of both the banks’ and Washington’s inability to accurately account for TARP money. Read on...
As O'Donnell pointed out during his interview with Warren, he doesn't think the voters of Massachusetts are that stupid to fall for Rove's ads. If the polling continues in her favor the way it has, I'd say he's right.
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"Rove's Group Tries to Smear Her as Being Close to Wall Street"... man, that's some epic, IMAX-grade projection going on there.
Wasn't he supposed to be in jail by now?
but jail is only for little people.
Just about anything that comes out of Rove's mouth is a lie, but it makes you wonder that Obama had nominated her for a position that would have allowed her to oversee things involving Wall Street. All of his other nominees that were related to financial stuff were right out of Wall Street, and look what we have. No one has been prosecuted.
The Up Side is we'll soon have a true progressive voice in the Senate from Massachusetts. Then a run in 2016?
99%
I hope she gets as much done as Senator Al Franken...
Still, it will be nice, if, like you say, it positions her for a run at the WH.
Go KKKarl Go. Keep spending all that money for a wasted effort. With all the GOP money being spent on the idiots running for the White House, and not winning it, maybe they just flushed their money down the toliet.
But keep spending, sooner of later you will wake up. What a bunch of freaking idiots, throwing their money to trashy people. Old fatso Newt can't even pay his loans back. Pass the popcorn, this is going to be the best comedy show ever.
Rick Scott "knows a lot about healthcare" because he was in charge of a corp that defrauded Medicare for millions?
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
The as_ wipe was fined over a billion dollars for fraud....well not him because he claimed to know nothing bout no fraud but you get my drift I'm sure. His company stole billions from Medicare and got away with it of course, except for having to give back a small portion of the stolen Billions. I live here in Florida and know of which I type! :)
The love you take is equal to the love you make. John Lennon Paul Mc Cartney
Elizabeth is going to absolutely crush Scott Brown. It could be a larger victory margin than the ass whoppin' little Ricky Santorum took in 2006.
Teddy will be very very proud, indeed!
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Why is it that I can heard the sarcasm sizzle on the term 'Professor Warren'? The Republicans really do like to make terms that indicate intelligence or education into slanderous affronts.
will remain ignorant.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Karl Rove can't spell integrity.
"Banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies." Thomas Jefferson
This has got to backfire on Rove. It is just too too fucked up. Elizabeth Warren in the pocket of Wall Street??? That is just insane.
the likes of rash and KKKlannity will contort this into "fact" as red meat for their carnivorous sheep. Probably on today's shows.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Might work in Kentucky or one of the Southern hillbilly Red States but won't work in Massachusetts , obviously Rove and the Republicon are desperate .
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
At least it used to be till they elected that numbskull Brown.
One of the big reasons Brown was elected was because the Democratic candidate was HORRIBLE. Terrible. A loser. A fuck up. Elizabeth Warren is none of those. She is very likable and people oriented. She comes across as genuine because she is. She is smart and you can tell she is smart. The Democratic candidate that Brown ran against was just downright shitty.
http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2011/10/...
These assholes are so twisted around trying to attack Warren that they end up contradicting each other. By this logic it is apparently perfectly acceptable that Warren would both support the bailouts AND claim some philisophical connection to OWS. Fortunately for Rove the wood headed conservatives are just stupid enough to believe these insanely contradictory accusations.
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
Of course they are , no joke .
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
Warren has control of the banks and CEO Bonus REALLY KARL not only do you look like RUSHBO now you sound as stupid
Aha, one of George Dubya's variety, "Turd-blossom," is at it again, yes?. Too bad Karl Rove is not a perennial instead of the seemingly bi-annual pariah bush he is poking his unwelcome thorny stench into "mainstream" media around election times. His negativity and despicable hypocrisy seem to get stuck in and repeated from mouth's of talking-heads reading networks' monitors spinning endless rhetoric daily. But especially throughout federal elections in the States, yes?. You aught to see how this all looks and sounds from outside your police-state bordered nation. Ridiculous, of course. And limited to voting only for those persons who raise the most money to be in the race in the first place, aught to have been a clue to the "99%" 'somethin's up, eh!' ...decades ago.
in what ways Obama has disappointed her.And her position on
gay marriage and Afghan. etc. He threw her softballs.
Ed-words
to run the ads are coming from Wall Street and TARP recipients?
It shows just how pathetic the powers-that-be are that they'll spare no expense to suppress Warren’s message. They can’t argue with what she is saying about the system as they’ve shaped it -- so they don't, cheating A-holes that they are. They can’t win the debate by honest means, so they have to hire Rove to gin up a bunch of BS smears. They have to cheat even when discussing their cheating. It doesn't get any lower than that.
No doubt Rove is being disingenuous, but it's also quite likely that someone educated at Harvard is nothing more than an establishment politician. On the politicalcompass scale, Warren is listed as moderate, not left-liberal or populist:
http://www.issues2000.org/Senate/Elizabeth_Wa...
I've heard her speak in various venues, and reading between the lines, it's clear that she is not as liberal as she is trying to make Democratic voters think she is.
For what it's worth, here is my own political compass:
6. Republican
- conservative on all social and economic issues
examples: basically any member of the GOP
5. Libertarian
- conservative on most issues, but liberal on a few social issues (gay marriage, drugs, etc.)
example: Ron Paul
4. Phony Democrat
- a GOP enabler, a Democrat in name only
examples: Joe Lieberman, Max Baucus, Harry Reid
3. Establishment Democrat
- dismissive of populism and the left, emphasizes self-serving concepts like bipartisanship, compromise, and pragmatism. Their politics focus mostly on making progressive ideas work within the context of the Reagan Revolution.
examples: Obama, Pelosi
2. Phony Progressive
- Their rhetoric would make you think they are very progressive, but their background and/or political history says otherwise.
examples: Bernie Sanders, Dennis Kucinich, Barney Frank, Elizabeth Warren
1. Progressive
- populist on economics, libertarian on social issues, and willing to back it up with more than simple rhetoric.
example: Ralph Nader (I don't know of any others that are well-known and still alive.)
So Bernie Sanders, Dennis Kucinich, Barney Frank, Elizabeth Warren are phony progressives?
Frank is clearly a tool of Wall Street, which is probably why he's retiring. Sanders and Kucinich have a history of voting for establishment bills after promising they wouldn't. Their rhetoric on TV is clearly out of tune with their activities in Congress. Warren would appear to be from the same mold as those two, based on what I've heard from her.
I remember a lot of people thinking Al Gore, Wes Clark, Howard Dean, and Barack Obama were some kind of great progressive hope, only to find out out they were not nearly as progressive as their rhetoric indicated. Once Warren starts her campaign and is forced to take concrete positions on the issues, I'm sure we will learn that she is also not as progressive as she would appear to be.
Are you also saying the Warren was educated at Harvard? I don't think she was.
...associated with Harvard.
...to kneecap them.
Does rove think we in MA as dumb as the gop?
....The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then get elected and prove it.--P.J. O'ROURKE, Holidays in Hell
If youth is wasted on the young, then money is definitely wasted on the rich.
Warren's a Wall Street-hating elitist socialist!
...And also, she's too close to Wall Street!
I love when Republicans run ads against Democrats, trying to insinuate that they've acted too.... Republican.
He is a lying sack of shit that belongs in jail or worse. I hope his head is one of the first to roll.
... and Warren is no progressive. I can't believe I'm seeing all of these people concluding that Warren will be the nominee, when there's been no primary vote and she still has several competitors, one of whom just took her to pieces in a debate two nights ago. Warren is no liberal; believing that financial institutions should be subject to reasonable regulation is NOT a liberal position, and Warren has no interest whatsoever in seeing the guilty punished with criminal prosecutions. She's also anti-OWS (she thinks municipal ordinances are more important) and has no positions at all on foreign policy. No concrete positions on poverty alleviation. Take a second look, kids, Warren is no savior.
O'Donnell says things that don't make sense
Yet another very impressive interview with Elizabeth Warren. She knows exactly how to handle the lies and smear tactics coming from Rove and the rest of the wingnuts. Can't wait to see these little weasels' faces when Ms. Warren wins the election. Seriously, what kind of weasels would denigrate Ms. Warren for being a college professor? Just shows you how desperate these sons of b***hes really are.
Now I am confused, my head might split. Thought that Warren could not be head of the consumer protection agency because she was overly antagonistic to wall street. Now she is to close? Help I am drowning.
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