{"id":23355,"date":"2016-11-21T20:56:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T01:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=23355"},"modified":"2016-11-21T20:56:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T01:56:35","slug":"elizabeth-warren-is-ready-to-defend-consumer-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2016\/11\/21\/elizabeth-warren-is-ready-to-defend-consumer-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Warren is ready to defend consumer agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Boston Globe<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/news\/politics\/2016\/11\/20\/elizabeth-warren-preparing-populist-battle-defend-consumer-protection-agency\/vp1DJOu3FREsh99XTqvxzL\/story.html?s_campaign=email_BG_TodaysHeadline&#038;s_campaign\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Warren is ready to defend consumer agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSix years later, Warren and like-minded forces are girding for Round Two, as newly empowered Republicans prepare to kill or gut Warren\u2019s most tangible government accomplishment: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. There\u2019s a good chance blood and teeth will be shed before it\u2019s all over.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is it too sexist if I use the common vernacular &#8220;Ain&#8217;t karma a bitch?&#8221;  If she had supported Bernie Sanders when she had the chance, she wouldn&#8217;t be facing the problem of a Trump Presidency.  When she sold out to Hillary, she sold out the CFPB.  Am I supposed to feel sorry for Warren? <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schadenfreude\" target=\"_blank\">Schadenfreude<\/a> would be more like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe has the article Elizabeth Warren is ready to defend consumer agency. Six years later, Warren and like-minded forces are girding for Round Two, as newly empowered Republicans prepare to kill or gut Warren\u2019s most tangible government accomplishment: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. There\u2019s a good chance blood and teeth will be shed [&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-23355","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\/23355","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=23355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23356,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23355\/revisions\/23356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}