Sen. Elizabeth Warren was sounding like a presidential candidate Tuesday night on “The Daily Show,” as she crusaded against interest rates on federal student loans, and her favorite target: big banks.
The Massachusetts Democrat is doing a lot of crusading as she travels to sell her autobiography, A Fighting Chance, though she says she’s not running. And the message is the same: The nation’s political and economic system is rigged against average Americans by the “1 percenters,” and she’s fighting on behalf of the 99 percent who don’t share in its benefits.
There’s just one problem: She’s one of the 1 percent, and got that way by gaming the system.
Warren is a rich lawyer (net worth estimated at $14.5 million in 2011) who used her position as a Harvard professor to earn fat fees from corporate clients needing bankruptcy help, such as LTV Steel and Travelers Insurance. She also falsely claimed to be an American Indian in ways that may have helped her benefit from affirmative action in hiring, and stuck to that claim even after it had been refuted by Cherokee genealogists.
Warren should run for president. She’s the perfect nominee for a Democratic Party that has degenerated into a coalition of cronies, rent-seekers, limousine lefties and grievance-mongers of both the ethnic and sexual varieties and is anything but “democratic.”
As Robert Tracinski writes in The Federalist:
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Columnist/Tim Carney: K Street battles Tea Party in GOP primaries.
Columnist/Noemie Emery: Obama’s past lies dog his present health insurance claims.
Columnist/Ron Arnold: Fracking debate may decide Colorado elections in 2014.
Beltway Confidential/Byron York: MSNBC host pens radical ‘climate justice’ manifesto.
Beltway Confidential/Joel Gehrke: Tea Party claims first victory of 2014.
Beltway Confidential/Sen Higgins: Media Matters refused SEIU’s efforts to organize its staff.
PennAve/Sean Lengell: Sen. John Boozman has emergency heart surgery.
PennAve/Meghashyam Mali: U.S. sending troops to Eastern Europe for military exercises.
Watchdog/Kelly Cohen: Misbehaving IRS employees still got bonuses.
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CNN: ‘Object of interest’ in plane investigation washes ashore in Australia.
Righty Playbook
American Thinker: The Obama race card keeps being played.
American Spectator: The Dems went down to Georgia.
The Federalist: Who has it worse: Women in America or elsewhere?
Lefty Playbook
Salon: Poor black people don’t work? Lessons from a former drug dealer.
Mother Jones: How to use the Bible to save the planet.
Talking Points Memo: Meet the oppo researchers trying to derail Hillary 2016.
Blog Right
Mediaite: State Department spokeswoman can’t name any Clinton accomplishments.
Power Line: Tom Steyer’s song of himself.
Gay Patriot: Gay marriage advocates to Gay Mafia: Calm down.
Blog Left
Crooks and Liars: The Right’s sexism on Hillary Clinton.
AMERICAblog: Cliven Bundy is a seditious liar.
TalkLeft: Colombia’s president says war on drugs has failed.
