Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard professor, consumer advocate and candidate for US Senate in Masachusetts, said today that the Federal Housing Finance Agence (FHFA) must increase their actions on behalf of homeowners, including principal reductions, something that the agency has resisted to this point. Warren spoke in concert with officials in Massachusetts, from Rep. Barney Frank, [...]

Antonin Scalia thinks that everyone should be blamed but him for the hash that the Citizens United decision, among other things, has made of the campaign finance system. Super PACs have raised more than $30 million just three races into the 2012 presidential race, according to the website opensecrets.org, run by The Center for Responsive [...]

The last time Patrick McHenry, the Billy Zabka of the House Republican caucus, held a hearing with a member of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, it didn’t turn out too well. He called Elizabeth Warren a liar and generally tried to bully her, and received quite a backlash in the process. So we’ll get a [...]

The assumption for the Massachusetts Senate race is that the Big Money Boyz will lard up Scott Brown with oodles of cash, allowing him to run a scorched earth campaign that decimates Elizabeth Warren. In this context, then, it’s worth knowing that Warren has consistently raised a lot more money than Brown, most of it [...]

It was inevitable that some apologist would claim that Martha Coakley actually holding banks accountable for following the law would stunt the nation’s recovery and cause us all to queue up on soup lines. That ignominious honor goes to Liz Peek of the Fiscal Times (a Fox News contributor). I apologize in advance for the [...]

I’m not sure I should be paying this much attention to polls with almost a year to go until the election, but given that the Elizabeth Warren-Scott Brown race incorporates all the themes of contemporary politics in the 21st century, particularly the 1% vs. the 99%, it’s worth pointing out that this message is resonating [...]

If Elizabeth Warren were no threat to the established order, they wouldn’t get around to any effort to stop her ascension in the Massachusetts Senate race until much later in the cycle, if at all. But her surge over Scott Brown, and the possibility that she would have an even bigger perch from which to [...]

Just as a postscript to the Martha Coakley lawsuit (which I’ll have more on in a bit), it was supposed to be her failure to beat Scott Brown that ruined the Democratic Party for generations. As it turned out, she’s doing her job as a public servant, and Brown could have a short-lived Senate career, [...]

If you wanted an indication that Scott Brown was in any way nervous about his impending re-election matchup against Elizabeth Warren next year, check out this – he has now officially endorsed Richard Cordray to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency that was the brainchild of his future opponent. The decision is a [...]

Republicans think they see an opportunity to tarnish Elizabeth Warren by painting her as on the side of a movement designed to show the support of 99% of all Americans. Good luck with that! National Republicans are now attacking Elizabeth Warren for embracing the protests, seeking to make a liability out of the fact that [...]

Scott Brown, the Massachusetts Senator facing a serious challenge next year from Elizabeth Warren, drew inspiration from an unlikely source for his official website: Elizabeth Dole. A Democratic group has unearthed a bit of inspirational autobiography on Senator Scott Brown’s official website that was lifted verbatim from Elizabeth Dole’s site, language that originated in a [...]