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    OK, TPM! Let's Get Behind Elizabeth Warren for Head of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency!

    By CVille Dem on Thu, 07/15/2010 - 7:33pm |
    It Seems that Tim Geithner doesn't want Elizabeth Warren in the new position.

    If we have a voice here at TPM, it is time to raise it now:

    Warren has been an aggressive proponent for the bureau in public and behind the scenes, working regularly with President Barack Obama's top advisers and the Democratic leadership in Congress. Since 2008, she has overseen the Congressional Oversight Panel, a bailout watchdog created to keep tabs on how two administrations spent hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to bail out Wall Street while struggling to keep distressed homeowners out of foreclosure and small businesses from collapsing.

    This may be Geithner's problem with her, but that is just too bad:

    Geithner's critics have enjoyed watching Warren question him during his four appearances before her panel. Her tough, probing questions on the Wall Street bailout and his role in it -- often delivered with a smile -- are featured on YouTube. One video is headlined "Elizabeth Warren Makes Timmy Geithner Squirm."

    Ok, gang!  It is time to stand up for ourselves!  Elizabeth Warren is certainly the best possible person in this position, but she also has the trust of ordinary people who have heard her compassionately explain the mess that we are in.  
    Start calling, emailing, faxing, and generally making a bunch of noise!  If we lose this battle, well...I just don't know....