About Elizabeth Warren

About Elizabeth Warren — she came to Netroots looking for support, and she found it. She needs yours too.

Everyone agreed she should be the head of the new consumer protection agency, but Obama’s Rubinistas aren’t too keen on the idea. Warren is not a technocrat. She’s not a Washington insider and not owned by the right people.

Warren has a unique quality when she speaks about the plight of American families. There is an urgency. Her voice doesn’t exactly crack, but you feel her passion for their struggles. She wears it right out in the open. You know she believes in the mission. That’s what scares the Big Money Boyz: she would actually do the job. All the more reason average people trust her to lead the effort.

So we have to convince Obama to do the right thing. (Here‘s where you can do that.) Beside, going into this fall’s elections, Obama will need all the good karma he can get, says Paul Krugman:

I have to say, I don’t get the administration waffling on Elizabeth Warren at all.

Leave aside the merits of appointing Warren, which are considerable, and think about the politics. At this point, not appointing Warren would be seen by the base as a slap in the face, and would seriously dampen enthusiasm going into the midterms. And Democrats need every bit of enthusiasm they can muster to avoid a Republican takeover of the House.

Digby talks about Warren’s advocacy for families and for how the revolving door between D.C. and Wall Street must end:

I heard Warren speak at Netroots Nation and she was eloquent on all of this. It’s clear that her focus is on working families and not the banks and Wall Street. It’s vital that someone represents those interests and she’s the right one to do it because she comes to it with a political constituency (albeit one that is despised by certain members of the administration) but one which Obama will need as he goes into 2012 against the spoiled princes who are so rich that they are now more worried about being loved by strangers than they are about taking care of the golden goose. (After all, the administration has hardly laid a substantive glove on them, but they get hysterical at every tiny affront to their dignity.)

Give Elizabeth Warren a recommend here. Or you can go straight to the White House.