{"id":12738,"date":"2012-10-28T11:11:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T16:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=12738"},"modified":"2012-10-28T11:22:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T16:22:28","slug":"in-senate-warren-would-lead-where-brown-has-fallen-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/10\/28\/in-senate-warren-would-lead-where-brown-has-fallen-short\/","title":{"rendered":"In Senate, Warren would lead where Brown has fallen short"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think The Boston Globe<\/em> has really nailed it in\u00a0 In Senate, Warren would lead where Brown has fallen short<\/strong><\/a> their endorsement of Elizabeth Warren for Senate.\u00a0 The subhead also captures what I have strongly felt about her candidacy, “The real promise in Warren\u2019s candidacy lies deeper in her character.”<\/p>\n

On the campaign trail, Warren warns incessantly of a coming crisis in student-loan debt and the challenge it would present both for students and universities. This is a matter of no small concern in the higher-ed capital of the United States, and it\u2019s easy to envision Warren becoming the Senate\u2019s leading policymaker on higher education.<\/p>\n

She also speaks passionately about medical research, a once-bipartisan priority that\u2019s diminished under the Republican party\u2019s ideological clampdown on government spending. Two years ago, for the first time in memory, the National Institutes of Health budget was reduced by 1 percent \u2014 this in a federal account that Kennedy twice succeeded in doubling over five-year periods. One of every five of those dollars goes to Massachusetts. Kennedy, for one, would never have let such a reduction happen. Brown voted in favor of the cut.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Where Scott Brown is content to see his job as only deciding which side of any legislative initiative he will support, Elizabeth Warren is much more likely to become a leader in the resolution of very important national issues of major concern to Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

But on the biggest issue of the moment, the looming \u201cfiscal cliff\u201d of automatic budget cuts and expiration of multiple tax cuts, Brown foolishly tied his hands by signing Grover Norquist\u2019s anti-tax pledge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One thing Scott Brown seems adamant about is not raising taxes at this time.\u00a0 This is one issue that he is dead wrong about.\u00a0 Any extra liquidity that the Fed tries to inject into the economy to get it moving again is instantly sucked up by the wealthy to invest in non-productive financial chicanery.\u00a0 The only way to prevent this is to tax some of this money out of the hands to the super wealthy and put it back to work in the economy.\u00a0 The one remedy that is sorely needed to get us out of the economic doldrums, is the one remedy that Scott Brown is sure he will not let happen.\u00a0 This alone is enough of a reason to get Scott Brown out of the Senate so he can no longer do more harm to our economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think The Boston Globe has really nailed it in\u00a0 In Senate, Warren would lead where Brown has fallen short their endorsement of Elizabeth Warren for Senate.\u00a0 The subhead also captures what I have strongly felt about her candidacy, “The real promise in Warren\u2019s candidacy lies deeper in her character.” On the campaign trail, Warren […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12740,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12738\/revisions\/12740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}