[Elizabeth] Warren is the first candidate of the Occupy Wall Street movement, the liberal equivalent of a Sarah Palin or a Jim DeMint. She has tapped the enormous anti-corporate resentment on the left and become a lightning rod for the right.
Here’s my question: in what sense is Elizabeth Warren equivalent to Jim DeMint and Sarah Palin?
conclusion which is the best part of the piece:
“Some fights are worth having”. Oh, how I wish someone would tell Barack Obama.
Every fucking day with you. Beyond tedious.
32 million fewer people able to see the doctor would be a small price to pay for Ed J to be able to hold up his lighter and shout “Wooooooo!!!!”
is there some correlation between that name and IQ scores?
2 out of 2 Joes have a higher score than yours, but it’s probably just coincidence. I mean, who doesn’t?
Ditto, Joe. Are you on the White House payroll?
She’s not. She has solid credentials and knows how to make sense when she speaks. Never quit a job prematurely. Milbank is just being a wanker again.
Add the IQ of Palin and DeMint together and I suspect it will be roughly equivalent to Ms. Warren’s.
Okay, probably Warren’s IQ would still be higher but together Palin and DeMint would come close.
Add the IQ of Palin and Demint together and I suspect you’d get a complex number. Or a quantum event or something. I think nothing even close to Warren.
That will make her a lightning rod for the Koch brothers far right money. Saying Warren’s name in the same sentence as the other two idiots is a sin in any context.
I’m looking for a hero that will define the progressive side of an issue clearly. Someone who believes in social contracts and isn’t afraid to say it.
We need an avenging warrior from the left. I hope she is the one. Obama is sounding more populist lately maybe Warren will help him see the light. The way to victory in 2012 is to side with the people!
Excuse me, please don’t heap your hero worship on another fallible human being. It is unfair to Warren.
Second, Obama sounds exactly like he’s always sounded. Except he uses slightly smaller words and talks louder. Warren didn’t “help him see the light”. Before Warren and before OWS, there was Obama but no one was listening until shit got real. Now he gets to breathe a little and tour around the country with his message. I only wish he could say, “I told you all not to give the damn keys back, now look.”
“I told you all not to give the damn keys back, now look.”
Heh. Exactly.
You should wish Warren becomes the anti-Wall Street Jim DeMint. DeMint inexplicably has power and authority in his caucus. People go groveling before him and his racist brigade for support and endorsements and stuff all the time. He ain’t Michele Bachmann or some teabagging goober in the House.
all three have letters “e” and “n” in their names.
In what sense is Elizabeth Warren equivalent to Jim DeMint and Sarah Palin?
They’re all carbon-based forms of life?
She argues forcefully for political positions outside the political mainstream.
In roughly the same sense that Bernie Sanders is the liberal equivalent of Rick Perry or Louie Gohmert. In some house of fractured mirrors maybe.
Iunno, but she’s not even the candidate of the Occupy Movement according to Ian Welsh. So obviously from this vantage point, they share virtually nothing in common lol:
Liz Warren decides to lose to Scott Brown (October 4th)
Oh, good lord, that is painfully pompous and deluded.
“most of the left”
Yeah, right.
OMG! the article and the comments are beyond bonkers. It is people like that that make me despise the left and want to shout at Warren not to become too close to the left because they will eat her alive at any moment.
Ian Welsh is a genius! A fucking genius I tell you!
http://www.ianwelsh.net/repudiating-liberalism-or-obama/
In the sense of those so enamored of symmetry that there has to be a Left equivalent of everyone on the Right. Ultimately, it is a belief that no positions have worth and substance. All are just meaningless abstractions.
How about “FDR was the Left’s equivalent of Benito Mussolini”? Or “Mother Teresa was the equivalent of Torqemada”? They make as much (non-)sense.
Torquemada? No, no, that’s a false analogy, my friend.
Mother Theresa was the Sisters of Loreto’s equivalent of Attila the Hun.
And while we’re st it …
Tahiti is the South Pacific’s equivalent of the planet Neptune.
The brontosaurus is the Jurassic period’s equivalent of Sir Isaac Newton.
Josef Haydn is often called “the Mozart of Opera.”
Gary, Indiana was once known as “the Pittsburgh of America.”
I think you’re all missing the point. The fact that Warren is intelligent, responsible, qualified, and sane is part of what makes here “the left’s version.”
In what sense is Elizabeth Warren equivalent to Jim DeMint and Sarah Palin?
They’re all hominids?