Elizabeth Warren Picks A Fight With Paul Ryan
Speaking at the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor’s Humphrey-Mondale Dinner on March 29th, Senator Elizabeth Warrent, (D-Mass) took a crack at Representative Paul Ryan's crass and nearly racist comments about the culture of "inner city men" not working.
For Ryan, an oppressive nanny state has created coddled citizenry too lazy to find work. For Warren, special interests have successfully written the rules of the game in their own favor, depriving the middle-class of a fair shot. ... Warren keyed in on what Ryan recently dubbed as an "inner-city" culture of "men not working."
She began by quoting comments that Ryan made on a conservative radio show last month, stating, "We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work, and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with." ...
She went on, "Paul Ryan says don't blame Wall Street: the guys who made billions of dollars cheating American families; don't blame decades of deregulation that took the cops off the beat while the big banks looted the American economy. Don't blame the Republican Secretary of the Treasury, and the Republican president who set in motion a no-strings-attached bailout for the biggest banks. Nope. Paul Ryan says keep the monies flowing to the powerful corporations, keep their huge tax breaks, keep the special deals for the too-big-to-fail banks and put the blame on hardworking, play-by-the-rules Americans who lost their jobs."
Warren said Paul Ryan blames unemployed workers for the fact that there are three unemployed workers for every available job. She reminded her audience that the 2008 economic crash wiped out millions of jobs.
This kind of passionate speech on behalf of working people, the poor, and the unemployed explains in part why Senator Elizabeth Warren remains a favorite of many progressive Democrats, and why her name keeps coming up with regard to the 2016 presidential nomination. Senator Warren is one of our finest political leaders and I am proud to have her as a Senator of our great commonwealth of Massachusetts.
My services are at her disposal at any time. Just let me know what I can do for you Senator Warren, anytime, anywhere. Seriously. And, I know many other Kossacks here feel the same way. Keep on truckin' Senator Elizabeth Warren. We are proud of you, and you are an inspiration to, and role model for our next generation of upcoming political leaders.
Thank you Senator Elizabeth Warren for leading with such courage, vision, brilliance, and progressive passion! - The HoundDog's Progressive Leader's Hall of Fame - The Daily Kos
8:43 AM PT: Thanks to CommonMass for reminding me once again that our great state of Massachusetts is actually a Commonwealth which is even better than a state in so many ways, I can not even list them but which CommonMass is happy to explain to everyone who asks.
And, I would take it as a personal favor to me if everyone here ask him to explain this every time you encounter several times, with lots of clarifying expansions on the details. For several days, perhaps. LOL (Humor alert, humor alert. Commonmass is one of my best friends here, and one of my favorite pastimes is when he keeps reminding me of critical and vital information like that Massachusetts is not a state but a Commonwealth. Perhaps, we can all ask him to do a special post explaining why this is so vital for everyone to know, as well, as a special Easter treat? Come on - a big hand, for CommonMass's Special Easter Commonwealth Post - A New Annual Kossack Tradition - filled with some of the finest wit, humor, inspirational personal anecdotes, heartbreaking stories of personal struggle and triumph, overcoming obstacles, - a real tear jerker of a moving drama. My understanding is he may have this ready by tonight or tomorrow. (humor alert, humor alert!)
8:58 AM PT: Added, My new official HoundDog's Progressive Leaders Hall of Fame seal of approval. I've been talking about of for nine years. Time to take action.
I'm going to give one to Bernie Sanders too. after Breakfast..