Takepart has the article Watch Elizabeth Warren School the Senate on the Keystone XL Pipeline: ‘It’s About Money and Power’.

The Massachusetts senator blasted colleagues for fast-tracking the controversial tar sands oil project on the first day of the new Congress.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., lit into Senate colleagues on Thursday for putting a bill to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline ahead of legislation that would do much more for American job growth and infrastructure.

This is what a fighting progressive Senator looks like. Why shouldn’t she get as much coverage telling the truth as the Boners and McConnels get telling their lies?

Thanks to Elizabeth Ann St John for posting this on Facebook.

The Fiscal Times has the article Why Elizabeth Warren Trumps Obama’s Economic Message. You all scoffed when I wrote all this on my blog over the past few months.  Will you continue to scoff?  I know the issue you have.  I have seen it over and over again in my career and not only for me.  People never believe the experts they know personally.  They can’t believe they actually know anybody personally who has a handle on what is going on or what to do.  So, in industry, you just hire a  consultant to tell your company the same thing  you have been telling them for years.  If the company pays the consultant enough money, then, and only then, does the message get through.

Well here are a few tiny snippets from the consultant that I “hired” to speak to you on this blog.  For the full message, you’ll have to read the full consultant’s report by clicking on the link above.

Things could be different next time depending on the presidential matchup. Yet even a candidate as formidable as former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton may have trouble breaking through the lethargy or indifference of disgruntled middle class Democrats who have lived with wage stagnation for years.
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“This analysis suggests that a good message to the middle class could potentially yield you a lot of votes,” he added.

This is why I have been such a strong supporter of Elizabeth Warren and other politicians who deliver the same message with the same urgency.  This is also why I have been saying that Hillary Clinton would be a disastrous candidate.  What would be even worse would be if Hillary Clinton actually got elected to be President.

Personally financially, I would probably do OK if Hillary Clinton got elected.  The 90% of the population that has less financial wherewithal than I have would continue to get hammered.  If Elizabeth Warren or someone like her got elected, I might not do as well financially, but I would be able to sleep better at night by not having to worry about whether I will do well, or whether the stock market and the economy will crash instead.  I would be more than happy to trade a little chance for huge profits for the assurance that I won’t have to be eating dog food to make ends meet in  my retirement.

And then there is the other worry I have.  When the bottom 90% finally wake up to what has been done to them, and when they have so little left to lose that they decide to rebel, I will be lumped in with the crowd that they will come after with pitch forks.  I can see myself as they lead me to the guillotine, “But just read my blog.  You’ll see I have always been on your side and fighting for your welfare.”

Here is a little video to help you realize that Elizabeth Warren is not alone in her fight against the regressives.

I found this video in a Crooks and Liars article Hall Of Shame: 35 Dems Voted Yesterday To Roll Back Dodd-Frank Provisions

Among the names listed, I found the following: [see retraction below]

Elizabeth Esty (CT-05)

I have been receiving a lot of email from Elizabeth Esty in this recent election season and continuing right up to January 6, 2015. I have been ignoring these emails because I am not in her district.

I went back to my email trash and found an email where she was requesting me to vote on what were my priorities. Below is the email I sent her in response.

Subject:	Re: Your priorities
Date:	Fri, 09 Jan 2015 12:18:19 -0500
From:	Steven Greenberg <steve@ssgreenberg.name>
To:	administrator@elizabethesty.com

I have been ignoring these emails because I am not
in your district.

However, I noticed your name in the Crooks and Liars
"Hall Of Shame: 35 Dems Voted Yesterday To Roll Back
Dodd-Frank Provisions"

So don't think that these things go unnoticed.  I will
work for your defeat in the next election.

/Steve

January 15, 2015

In the FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 37, Esty is recorded as voting No.

I have posted an apology on Esty’s Facebook page.

Talking Points Memo has the article Progressives Seek Control Of The Democratic Party.

Progressive advocates see the next two years through the prism of the coming 2016 race. They want Democrats to use their minority to lay down a sweeping populist agenda for the country ahead of the election, which could include breaking up the big banks, a major clean energy jobs bill or investments in education to let college students graduate debt free.

This is almost enough to make me think that change is possible.  Who would have thought that the constant promotion of progressive values by the likes of Elizabeth Warren could make so much change in the Democratic Party in such a short time?  I would have, that’s who.  I have been urging Democrats to promote progressive ideas as hard as the Republicans push their regressive ideas.  In fact I have been saying that to get the truth through the barrage of false attacks, the truth must be spoken at least twice as often as the lies.