Well, there's one race that may be happening I actually care about.

[LMNO]

http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/08/12/_2012_massachusetts_senate_elizabeth_warren_hints_at_scott_brown.html

Elizabeth Warren may be running against Scott Brown in the Senate.  I can't see much I don't like about her, except (of course) being a politician in the first place.

It could be a lot of fun seeing her kick Wall Street in the balls, repeatedly.

[Cramulus]

fuck yeah! Elizabeth Warren kicks ass. Somebody remind me why Obama didn't put her in charge of the  Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was her idea to begin with?

[deadfong]

As I recall, because the Republicans in Congress basically stated they'd never allow her confirmation.

Although I think also there was more than a little pressure against her from both banking/Wall Street lobbyists and all the former Goldman Sachs people who make up Obama's economic advisers.

[East Coast Hustle]

It tickles me that you guys think she won't be utterly corrupted by the office.

[LMNO]

Hopeless optimist, that's me.


LMNO
-or just pretty much hopeless.  Time will tell.

[AFK]

I predict that given this stiff competition we'll see Brown try to do a subtle tilt to the left. 

[Cain]

I predict that Lloyd Blankfein is currently writing a very large cheque for Brown, and that Brown will have no problems with funding his campaign.

[Cramulus]

It tickles me that you guys think she won't be utterly corrupted by the office.

You could probably post a similar cynical dismissive note in every thread in Aneristic Delusions and you'd probably be right. But "she might get totally corrupted one day" isn't exactly an argument against her.

Elizabeth Warren is one of the whistleblowers who's been raising awareness of the financial bloc's corruption and systemic dysfunction. Every time I've heard her speak I've said to myself, holy shit, I'm glad SOMEBODY in Washington isn't afraid to screech about the emperor's new clothes.

I am not waiting for the purehearted uncorruptable messiah to walk barefoot through the crowd and save all of us. (That spag couldn't get elected if he tried.)

[East Coast Hustle]

Don't get me wrong, I'd like that as much as you would.

I just feel like things have devolved to the point that my cynicism isn't even cynicism anymore, it's just resignation towards the inevitable.

[Doktor Howl]

Don't get me wrong, I'd like that as much as you would.

I just feel like things have devolved to the point that my cynicism isn't even cynicism anymore, it's just resignation towards the inevitable.

I think you and I, our most bitterly pessimistic predictions will turn out to be idiotically optimistic.

[Jenne]

I'm just glad she's running.

[Luna]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/20/ppp-poll-elizabeth-warren-scott-brown-massachusetts_n_972058.html

Looks like she's doing well.

[Faust]

It tickles me that you guys think she won't be utterly corrupted by the office.

Every so often I want to go back and collect all the posts praising obama when he was running and quote them in one big post.

[Disco Pickle]

It tickles me that you guys think she won't be utterly corrupted by the office.

Every so often I want to go back and collect all the posts praising obama when he was running and quote them in one big post.

wasn't it you who posted something along the lines of the best thing to come out of the Obama presidency is the crushing of the belief by democrats that their team is really any different?  I can't remember it exactly, but I'm pretty sure it was you.

[Triple Zero]

Might have been me, that said that. Or I'm just remembering myself vigorously agreeing with that statement.