Last week Elizabeth Warren gave a speech outlining the 11 Commandments of Progressives. Never mind that Western Civilization has flourished for roughly six thousand years with just 10 Commandments bestowed on us by God. Like all true liberals, Warren believes she knows more than the Creator of the Universe and is therefore entitled to rewrite the rules to fit her agenda.
Both Breitbart and The Blaze have done excellent commentary on the insanity that is her speech. I won't regurgitate those commentaries here, but I do recommend that you check them out for yourselves. Breitbart analyzes what her eleven commandments really mean in the real world, while The Blaze's Buck Sexton accurately describes Warren as a "third rate intellectual with first rate, though fraudulent credentials."
Warren's eleven commandments constitute more of the patronizing drivel that we have come to expect from the world of Obama. Of course, she begins with commandment number 1: Liberals believe that Wall Street needs stronger rules and tougher enforcement and we are willing to fight for it. Breitbart accurately challenges that on the grounds that Wall Street is really the only sector of the society that has actually recovered fully from the economic meltdown of the past seven years. It is true that Dodd Frank provides permanent safety nets for big banks. But at the end of the day, Dodd Frank is not about writing rules at all--Dodd Frank is really about regulation through enforcement rather than through clear cut rules. Because of this policy, small companies can be fined and harassed into bankruptcy for violating rules they didn't know they were violating. This is the regulatory environment Warren promised to create when she was interim acting director of the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. I wrote about this in my first post about Warren, Elizabeth I. She argued that she did not want an agency with clear cut rules, because evil corporations get around rules by hiring attorneys who interpret them. Instead, the agency she helped to craft regulates by determining guilt or innocence through enforcement actions--a situation which allows the government to pick the winners and the losers every time. We see this most dramatically in the CFPB's "guidance" last week regarding "mini-correspondents"--a type of lending entity that is a hybrid of a mortgage bank and a mortgage broker. The CFPB warned that if the agency determines that a "mini-correspondent" does not really meet the very vague guidelines, the agency will revoke its status retroactively, which would leave the company open to numerous enforcement actions for loans closed while it had correspondent status. Those transactions would immediately become violations of the law. BUT, the CFPB still will not issue clear rules--they know misrepresentation when they see it.
My biggest problem with Warren and all those modern day "progressives" like her is not that she is a liberal. If Warren were an honest liberal, I would disagree with her vehemently, but I could respect her if she stuck to her principles. I disagree vehemently with Allen Dershowitz on many issues, but I have come to respect him in many ways because Dershowitz is exactly who he claims to be. He took on Republicans for violating the rule of law, and he is not any easier on Obama. He stood for Hobby Lobby's right to run their business the way they wanted although he is openly and adamantly pro-abortion. He stands against Obama's abuses of the law just as he stood against Nixon's. Dershowitz is not a hypocrite, so though I do believe he is very wrong on many issues, I respect his commitment to his ideals.
Warren, however, is a disingenuous hypocrite. This shrill, supposed defender of consumers played an instrumental role in creating an agency that continues to essentially cut off access to financing for the American middle class. (As an example, look at JP Morgan Chase's statements this week about exiting the FHA market while ramping up their commitment to jumbo mortgage loans for their wealthy clients.) She hates the wealth accumulated through capitalism and yet headed an agency that has the highest payrolls in the federal government--agents of the CFPB commonly earn over six figures and since the agency has the ability to appropriate its own budget they can vote themselves raises. She vows to overturn Hobby Lobby and yet never considers that the Green family made its money through hard work, free enterprise and ingenuity while her greatest achievement is the creation of a huge agency that took all of its money from American taxpayers--people like the Greens--and has used to it to destroy the free enterprise system.
Even her resume is a lie. She claimed to be Native American to gain access to schools and opportunities that would not have been afforded to a shrewish white woman, and by doing so took advantage of the very people she claims to care about. (For every spot filled by some liar like Warren there is a REAL Native American who did not gain access.)
Now we are hearing rumors that she is considering a presidential run and that she is in fact Obama's top pick to succeed him because she will continue on in his footsteps. I have to believe that this is also a lie. Warren may play well to the extreme leftist base, but she has nothing to offer in a general election. She is unattractive, angry and hard left of center--a losing combination for the first potential woman president in an election where the ultimate outcome will be determined, as it always is, by male voters. I can only believe that she is being used (without her knowledge perhaps) as a false flag by Democrats who are hoping to be able to trot out another dark horse candidate who will seem moderate by comparison.
Maybe, instead of writing her own, Warren needs to try reading and memorizing the original ten commandments--the ones that allowed us to build the greatest nation in the history of the world.
She might want to pay special attention to the one about "thou shalt not lie."
Alexandra Swann is the author of No Regrets: How Homeschooling Earned me A Master's Degree at Age Sixteen and several other books. Her novel, The Planner, about an out of control, environmentally-driven federal government implementing Agenda 21, is available on Kindle and in paperback. For more information, visit her website at http://www.frontier2000.net.
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