{"id":20714,"date":"2015-05-11T09:21:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T13:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=20714"},"modified":"2015-05-11T09:21:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T13:21:11","slug":"why-obama-is-happy-to-fight-elizabeth-warren-on-the-trade-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/05\/11\/why-obama-is-happy-to-fight-elizabeth-warren-on-the-trade-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Obama is happy to fight Elizabeth Warren on the trade deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Yahoo<\/em> has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/politics\/why-obama-is-happy-to-fight-elizabeth-warren-on-118537612596.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Yahoo article\">Why Obama is happy to fight Elizabeth Warren on the trade deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cThink about the logic of that, right?\u201d he went on. \u201cThe notion that I had this massive fight with Wall Street to make sure that we don\u2019t repeat what happened in 2007, 2008. And then I sign a provision that would unravel it?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d have to be pretty stupid,\u201d Obama said, laughing. \u201cThis is pure speculation. She and I both taught law school, and you know, one of the things you do as a law professor is you spin out hypotheticals. And this is all hypothetical, speculative.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe width='640' height='360' scrolling='no' style=\"border:thick ridge #009900;\" src='https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/video\/president-obama-answers-tumblr-173242684.html?format=embed' allowfullscreen='true' mozallowfullscreen='true' webkitallowfullscreen='true' allowtransparency='true'><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>What I can&#8217;t understand is why, when Obama finds himself in this hole, he doesn&#8217;t stop digging.  He has exactly identified what I am wondering about him. Yes, why would he fight the massive fight for reforms like Dodd-Frank, and then turn around and sign a provision that would unravel it?  It makes no sense to me, but that is exactly what he seems to be promoting.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it does look like one explanation would be that he&#8217;d have to be pretty stupid.  When he gets to the heart of the matter, he won&#8217;t explain why he says that what she speculates can&#8217;t possibly happen.  He doesn&#8217;t address the evidence that what Warren is speculating on has already happened, and she cites numerous example, that he makes no effort to dispute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo has the article Why Obama is happy to fight Elizabeth Warren on the trade deal. \u201cThink about the logic of that, right?\u201d he went on. \u201cThe notion that I had this massive fight with Wall Street to make sure that we don\u2019t repeat what happened in 2007, 2008. And then I sign a provision [&hellip;]<\/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-20714","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\/20714","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=20714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20715,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20714\/revisions\/20715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}