Who Is The Ultimate Game Changer In Politics?

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Changed the game by ... being a tireless champion for America’s beleaguered middle class -- and forcing Congress to acknowledge that banks and credit-card companies were ripping off consumers. The plain-spoken Harvard Law professor was tapped in 2008 to run the Congressional Oversight Panel, an agency responsible for monitoring the Wall Street bailout, and she used that position to shine a light on the shadowy bailouts and take to task those who doled out hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars with little strings attached. Her idea for an agency that would regulate financial products such as credit cards and mortgages in the way that the FDA regulates drugs was eventually embraced by lawmakers and the White House. Banking lobbyists fought desperately to derail the proposal but in the end the wisdom of Warren’s idea prevailed – and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was enacted into law. She said it: "There should never be a doubt about the point of any government action: it should always be to help families directly, or help markets in ways that help families. If that isn't clear, I think the action is wrong, or the description of the action is wrong." Must-click link: COP.Senate.Gov

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Changed the game by ... being a tireless champion for America’s beleaguered middle class -- and forcing Congress to acknowledge that banks and credit-card companies were ripping off consumers. The plain-spoken Harvard Law professor was tapped in 2008 to run the Congressional Oversight Panel, an agency responsible for monitoring the Wall Street bailout, and she used that position to shine a light on the shadowy bailouts and take to task those who doled out hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars with little strings attached. Her idea for an agency that would regulate financial products such as credit cards and mortgages in the way that the FDA regulates drugs was eventually embraced by lawmakers and the White House. Banking lobbyists fought desperately to derail the proposal but in the end the wisdom of Warren’s idea prevailed – and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was enacted into law.

She said it: "There should never be a doubt about the point of any government action: it should always be to help families directly, or help markets in ways that help families. If that isn't clear, I think the action is wrong, or the description of the action is wrong."

Must-click link: COP.Senate.Gov

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AlexNYC said on 15 Wednesday 2010 pm30 2:03 pm: A very strong category. My vote goes for Elizabeth Warren, one of the few people to seriously stand up and defend the average citizen. If Obama nominates her to head to the consumer protection agency, he can somewhat redeem his previous actions which heavily favored the corporations instead of the people.

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[aamfo]

05:26 PM on 10/29/2010

Elizabeth Warren is ' The Gamechanger' hands down. She is not only intelligent, brave,
honest but also putting up a fight for all of us against the banks and credit card companies

[Deltalk]

05:05 PM on 10/22/2010

Never underestimate the American People.

On november 2nd 2010; We, The People, take America back!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Os0cwpCQE&feature=player_embedded

[springsm]

11:50 AM on 10/23/2010

Back is the direction in which we will travel too. Going forward is impossible for some.

[jtenn]

12:34 AM on 11/09/2010

Back in the direction of the "duped".

[Firbolg]

07:19 PM on 10/21/2010

The list of candidates is incomplete.
There are no images of the real game changers – dollar bills.

[ctblue]

02:56 PM on 10/21/2010

Corey Booker and Elizabeth Warren along with Alan Grayson and Anthony Weiner best people to grace our country.

[OGSal]

02:25 PM on 10/21/2010

My top two votes!
Elizabeth Warren changed the "game" from the sidelines - by making it come to her!
Corey Booker - never stops moving & innovating - a lot of people wish for him as the mayor of their city!

[FrancescoFemia]

02:11 PM on 10/21/2010

Insanely, President Obama was not one of the "game changer" candidates for "politics," so I didn't bother voting in that category.

[SJML]

02:26 PM on 10/21/2010

The President is the game changer, I did not vote for the same reason. Elizabeth Warren would still be at Harvard doing an excellent job but would not be the face of reform with President Obama.

[Sassys]

12:52 PM on 10/21/2010

The reason Elizabeth Warren is a clear winner is because she brings something rarely seen to our government...her belief in being fair and truthful. She deserves the kudos!

[larmarch5]

12:46 PM on 10/21/2010

Anthony Weiner and Alan Grayson
Madeleine Korbel Albright
Hillary Clinton

[LaBrayne35]

12:38 PM on 10/21/2010

None of these people are kicking and screaming as we travel down the Obama led path to Marxist/statism, socialism, fascism etc. The rest of us fight it every day...liberals have accepted it.

[eyelashviper]

12:46 PM on 10/21/2010

lemming harangue, with side order of delusions.

[larmarch5]

12:47 PM on 10/21/2010

So, you're nominating MythBusters?

[giatny]

12:37 PM on 10/21/2010

"There should never be a doubt about the point of any government action: it should always be to help families directly, or help markets in ways that help families. If that isn't clear, I think the action is wrong, or the description of the action is wrong."
Would someone please send this woman a copy of the
Constitution before she crashes what's left of the financial
system.? I can't remember when I have ever read anything
as factually and philosophically incorrect. The purpose of
government is to provide a safe environment for freedom,
innovation and opportunity. It is not to engineer one woman's
ideological concept of equal results without responsibility.
American is not a nanny state, it is a meritocracy. If you borrow money, you must pay for the privilege and pay the money back. If you have a history of not honoring your debts, credit will cost more or not be available at all. If you write checks that bounce, you pay the administrative cost of the procedure plus a penalty. If you can't understand a financial
document, don't sign it. Other people are not responsible your
mistakes. Continuing the same misguided policy that encouraged giving mortgages to those who couldn't afford them will have the same disastrous result. Legislating
bad business policies guarantees bad results.

[Firbolg]

07:46 PM on 10/21/2010

“The purpose of government is to provide a safe environment for freedom, innovation and opportunity.”
Agreed.
Let’s see where this leads.
It would appear to definitely rule out creating enemies abroad by invading and occupying other countries for trumped up reasons, kidnapping and torturing their citizens and/or hiding them away in secret prisons.
At home it would require regulating financial institutions so that they can’t gamble with money we deposit with them and making sure that sickness and disease are minimized by having basic healthcare services for everyone. For innovation to flourish the primary recipient of government largesse should be the education system, a system that builds a nation of less dependent citizens rather than the military that sucks in vast resources to kill, maim and destroy. People trapped in unemployment and poverty are less likely o be free to avail of opportunities that arise to everyone’s detriment, so the government should make sure this does not occur by punishing corporations that move operations offshore or that band together in “too-big-to-fail” blocs so they can challenge the legitimate government.
I’m delighted we could have this little chat and clear things up once and for all.

[wtf-please]

12:30 PM on 10/21/2010

WE WANT Elizabeth Warren to RUN THE GAME.. not just fringe change!

[R Car]

12:15 PM on 10/21/2010

Gallup's Likely Voter Model Has Fatal Flaw - NDN Challenges Gallup To Revise or Drop its 2010 Election Polling


Dem disregard all the 2010 polls and get out and vote on November 2, 2010. It's obvious, there is a concerted effort by the our corporate MSM, the GOP, corporations and Gallop and other polling services to keep dems from voting on November 2, 2010.

http://ndn­.org/blog/­2010/10/ga­llups-like­ly-voter-m­odel-has-f­atal-flaw-­ndn-challe­nges-gallu­p-revise-o­r-drop-its­-2010


Gallup Scandal. Urged to STOP Polling Immediately.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/10/21/912204/-Gallup-Scandal.-

[HowardScottPearlman]

12:02 PM on 10/21/2010

If Obama would just release the 83 unseen Pentagon 911 video tapes

It would be Obama who was the 2010 game changer !

[LaBrayne35]

12:39 PM on 10/21/2010

No, not quite...Obama is the REASON there will be a huge game change on Nov. 2

[mahercrit]

11:56 AM on 10/21/2010

stop with the nauseating and in this case completely off base cliches..
None of these are the robust, gravitas, our time , game changers that the Tea Party is

[eirrac]

12:19 PM on 10/21/2010

I don't like the Tea Party's game. Now that actual links have been established between them and neo-Nazi militants, frankly, they're frightening. And run by corporatists besides. The original tea party had something going for it, but the gun toters/minority haters and the greedy rich guys stole their party, fed them corporatist lies, and ruined a good thing.

[springsm]

11:56 AM on 10/23/2010

Those people, however, were the ones who WERE and ARE the Party of Tea. Some of the complaints that brought the "victims" together were legitimate. But they wanted instant gratification to the "me" part of their lives. Trying to work within the system is frustrating but couldn't that have been tried. Unfortunately so many of them are under informed, misinformed or have totally closed minds because the ratcheted up rhetoric is catching. And now they are a very scary group. Also some of the rants of people I know who are Baggers didn't know why some things were not happening. Fox does not tell people the story, the make it up to make themselves feel suprerior. However, they do have the Superior Court on their side, too. My take and I know it will draw hateful comments, because that seems to be where all things have gone.

[ESK]

12:20 PM on 10/21/2010

So you're saying that the Tea Party has gravitas? LMAO!

[realpolitic]

11:45 AM on 10/21/2010

I liked Christina Romer, the president's former economic adviser. She unfortunately told the press the stimulus package would hold unemployment to 8 1/2 percent and the announcement came back to haunt her as it hovers around 9 1/2 percent. Conservative have come to measure the success of the stimulus by her benchmark and call it a failure. It is unfair. Almost all mainstream economists label the stimulus as a success by creating and saving several million jobs and pulling us out of a near depression. She also said the original stimulus should be much larger than it was and turned out to be correct. She advanced the idea of helping Main Street and not Wall Street throughout her tenure.