Senator Warren 1, President Obama 0

[RobDownSouth]

Senator Elizabeth Warren got her way, she marshalled up enough Democratic AND Republican votes to convince Antonio "the Big Bank's Friend" Weiss to withdraw his name from consideration as undersecretary of the Treasury.

President Obama made a poor choice in nominating this guy in the first place. He would not have served the public interest.

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[Jennifer]

I was not surprised to hear that she won. Common sense need not always be difficult.

 

[KingOrfeo]

I was not surprised to hear that she won. Common sense need not always be difficult.

. . . What country do you live in?!

 

[Que]

I like the way this is headed. Reagen often said, it is amazing what you can get done if you do not care who gets the credit.

Ever vote should go like that. I care not at all if each and every vote is credited to Warren's brilliant leadership.

PS...you did not have to obscure the source.

It's OK that you got your "talking points" on this vote from "Talking Points Memo."

 

[KingOrfeo]

I like the way this is headed. Reagen often said, it is amazing what you can get done if you do not care who gets the credit.

I've read that proverb, but not with attribution to Reagan. Cite?

 

[Que]

Having digested two left-wing articles on this, it appears the good Senator is grandstanding and would have done so on anyone with a Wall Street pedigree to differentiate herself from Obama for strategic reasons.

The guy is not gone, and doesn't sound like a particularly odious choice. He will still work there, and be called an counselor. So Obama lost nothing in the talent that his Treasury Secretary felt he needed.

So maybe this sort of politics I am not in favor of after all.

Daily beast, by a former partner of his a Lazard: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/07/antonio-weiss-is-not-part-of-the-problem.html

Salon predictably is solidly Team Warren and doesn't like Weitz because of the same reasons they didn't like Romney. Weitz did some mergers and acquisitions http://www.salon.com/2014/12/23/elizabeth_warrens_huge_battle_why_shes_really_fighting_so_hard_against_antonio_weiss/

The TPM article you linked is more of the same and not altogether flattering. She wanted an anti-Wall-Street feather in her war-bonnet and she got it. I am not seeing the Republicans necessarily hated the guy, but any pick of Obama's they are going to to be suspicious of. Don't think the should hold them up just "because." It actually sounds like they didn't mind giving Warren some sun if it embarrassed Obama, and that isn't, in my view, good politics.

 

[Que]

I've read that proverb, but not with attribution to Reagan. Cite?

It is one of the most quotable political quotes from Reagan. Reagan did not originate the thought but it was one of his favorites. He used it often.

He was famous for collecting anecdotes, jokes and quotes. He did it long before he was President as a personal habit of his. He never claimed to be the author of any of them but he was a great story-teller and always had a stack of such index cards in his pocket.

That particular one was also used by Harry S. Truman.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I've read that proverb, but not with attribution to Reagan. Cite?

This seems pretty comprehensive, but it still might have been some unknown person: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/21/doing-good-selfless/

 

[Que]

This seems pretty comprehensive, but it still might have been some unknown person: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/21/doing-good-selfless/

Pretty interesting. I wonder if Reagen got it from the sports magazine in 1975. That would explain why he would have said that Truman used to say it. It sounds like Truman may have actually not known or used the quote.

I did not know it was on a plaque on his desk. That might be why so many people remember him "saying" it when maybe they just saw it on his desk. Or he did say it often and that is why it was memorialized on his desk.

That saying is quite significant because the sentiment is credited with helping Reagan in his getting "his way" from the more than begrudging Tip O'Neil.

 

[KingOrfeo]

I like the way this is headed. Reagen often said, it is amazing what you can get done if you do not care who gets the credit.

Well, he might have said it, or quoted it, but he didn't live by the principle, quite the reverse.

 

[Jennifer]

. . . What country do you live in?!

One that has lost even the most basic common sense.

 

[KingOrfeo]

One that has lost even the most basic common sense.

Indeed.