Virtue is its own reward

The soon to be unemployed Elizabeth Warren

As we know, President Obama nominated Richard Cordray to be the first Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. By making Cordray his pick, Obama passed over Elizabeth Warren, the woman who oversaw the actual creation of the Bureau. One might have expected Obama to take the highly competent and dedicated person who championed the Bureau and brought it into being. Yet, as Theresa Amato of Citizen Works and the Fair Contracts Project
points out:

[Obama’s] Wall Street supporters don’t like Warren and his political fundraising is underway with a bang. Elizabeth Warren is an aggressive, savvy and earnest advocate on behalf of consumers everywhere and she deserved to be nominated to this position for which she has worked tirelessly. Cordray, her lieutenant, is sure to carry on the work, but Obama has shamefully robbed Warren of the opportunity to run the entity she championed to make a difference for the American people.

This, unfortunately, will not stand as Obama’s only shameless and craven act. And, to be sure, the Congressional Republicans intend to block Cordray’s nomination if they have the chance to do so.

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