Remember when certain overly-ardent progressives questioned the president’s progressive credentials because he didn’t appoint Elizabeth Warren as head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? Here’s something to think about:
Nearly every Republican senator is vowing to block any presidential nominee to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) unless major changes are made to the agency.
In a letter sent to the president Thursday, 44 GOP senators said that any pick to become the first director of the CFPB, regardless of political affiliation, will be unacceptable unless the bureau is significatly altered to reduce its “unfettered authority.”
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“The CFPB as created by the deeply-flawed Dodd-Frank Act is set to be one of the least accountable and most powerful agencies in Washington,” said Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). “The reforms outlined are necessary before we will consider any nominee to head this agency.”
The president could nominate the dead corpse of Ronald Reagan and the Republicans would still filibuster.
Maybe this example will help a couple of people understand how Washington works. The president doesn’t get to decide what he wants to do and then, presto, it is done. The way things work is that the president asks for something, and if it is okay with the Senate Republicans then it is done.
