{"id":8275,"date":"2011-10-11T10:53:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T15:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=8275"},"modified":"2011-10-11T10:53:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T15:53:47","slug":"elizabeth-warren-speak-up-i-cant-hear-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/10\/11\/elizabeth-warren-speak-up-i-cant-hear-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Warren, Speak Up, I Can&#8217;t Hear You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted to <a title=\"Facebook page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ElizabethWarren?sk=wall&amp;filter=1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s Facebook Page<\/strong><\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The forces that the Occupy Wall Street movement is fighting are exactly the forces Elizabeth Warren has been fighting &#8211; for her whole career. As TARP watchdog and as inventor of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, this is Warren&#8217;s cause and her natural constituency. If she cannot speak up strongly for this fight, why are we to assume that she is more than just empty words?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And I posted<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why can&#8217;t Elizabeth Warren respond to the Occupy Wall Street movement <a title=\"Previous post\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/10\/11\/senator-sanders-responds-to-occupy-wall-st\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>as forthrightly as Senator Bernie Sanders has<\/strong><\/a>?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Instead of responding to what the whole world is talking about, Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s web site and Facebook page are full of the news that she raised $3.5 million for her campaign.\u00a0 This sounds very Marie Antionette like, the people are starving, and have no bread and she wonders why they don&#8217;t just eat cake, or get excited about her campaign fund raising?<\/p>\n<p>Speak up forcefully now, and the funds will follow.\u00a0 Fail to speak up now and the votes may not follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted to Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s Facebook Page, The forces that the Occupy Wall Street movement is fighting are exactly the forces Elizabeth Warren has been fighting &#8211; for her whole career. As TARP watchdog and as inventor of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, this is Warren&#8217;s cause and her natural constituency. If she cannot speak [&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":["post-8275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8275","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=8275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8276,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8275\/revisions\/8276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}