This one’s from the “U” drawer of the filing cabinets, under “Utterly Predictable:”
Speaking to a group of students at the University of Louisville on Sunday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said incumbent Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is more interested in protecting “billionaires” than students.
“When you’ve got a choice between billionaires and students, Mitch McConnell says it is more important to protect the billionaires,” said Warren, according to The Associated Press. Warren was in town raising support for Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, a Democrat, who is challenging McConnell in the November elections. “And that’s what this race is all about. It’s about a man who stood up and filibustered the student loan bill,” Warren said.
Yes! “Filibusters!” Billionaires! Students! Yes! Take it away, Daniel Bryan!
This “billionaires versus students” narrative that Warren spoke of is based in her election-year messaging tool poorly disguised as legislation. The Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act would allow certain student loan debtors to refinance at lower interest rates, and to make up for the lost government revenue, would hike taxes on “the wealthy” with the Buffett Rule.
As I wrote in early May, when Warren introduced this thing:
To play this out, the GOP won’t go along with the tax hike, and the student loan refinancing debate will turn into a mudslinging match about how Republicans are holding millions of student loan borrowers hostage to protect their rich friends (like the KOCH BROTHERS!). The issue will go unresolved, Democrats will get a few soundbites for the nightly news stating that Republicans care more about the wealthy than deeply indebted young adults, and we’ll all continue to go about our lives.
A procedural vote to advance the bill failed June 11.
Democrats immediately jumped on Republicans for “protecting” their rich buddies.
Even Jon Stewart wouldn’t buy what Chuck Schumer was selling about it.
Yet here is Elizabeth Warren, dutifully continuing the messaging attack.
An apolitical narcoleptic could see this sort of stuff coming. Forget the partisanship of it — voters should send incumbents who practice this sort of politics home on account of boredom.
