To: James Seagrove who wrote (997094 ) 1/27/2017 9:31:20 PM From: FJB 3 RecommendationsRecommended By
Respond to Things keep getting worse for Elizabeth Warren Power Line by Paul Mirengoff here about Elizabeth Warren’s unimpressive poll numbers in Massachusetts. In light of recent developments, those numbers may not have bottomed out. pressed Department of Health and Human Services nominee Tom Price about what she considers possible financial improprieties, is under fire regarding a $1.3 million line of credit from the Bank of America on her Cambridge home. For two years in a row, the sanctimonious Warren failed to list it on the financial disclosure form all senators complete each year. A loophole seems to permit her non-disclosure But Warren’s reliance on the loophole strikes a discordant note, given her tough, ethics-centered questioning of President Trump’s Cabinet nominees and her statement in a Washington Post op-ed that “it is critical that each nominee follows basic ethics rules to ensure that they will act for the benefit of all the American people.” Warren argued that financial disclosures are needed to “reveal potentially damaging information that may undermine fitness to serve” and that nominees with “complex financial histories” need to be “forthcoming and transparent.” Isn’t transparency by U.S. Senators also necessary to ensure that they will act for the benefit of all American people? If not, why not? Colin Reed of American Rising writing in the Boston Herald, observes, “transparency has never been a hallmark of the former Harvard Law School professor.” Indeed, “throughout her political career, she has been dogged by lingering questions about a number of controversies, including her employment status at Harvard, her work as a corporate lawyer and her real estate holdings in Oklahoma.”William Jacobson reminds us that when she ran for the Senate in 2012, Warren had a ground rule for reporters allowed into her home — the inside of the house was deemed “off the record” and could not be reported on. Clearly, as Jacobson says, Warren felt she needed to conceal the disconnect between what must be something of a palace and her political persona as a populist who demonizes the rich. Even some on the left — the faction with which she almost exclusively has worked with — are disillusioned. Days after the WBUR poll [the one with the weak approval numbers], Warren. . .tried to score some bipartisan points by announcing her support for Dr. Ben Carson to become the next housing and urban development secretary. It’s even possible that some on the left might be put off by Warren’s failure to disclose her $1.3 million line of credit. Let’s not hold our breath, though.Hypocrisy and lack of candor are at the core of the Elizabeth Warren story. Many Massachusetts voters seem to be catching on.
