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This would be good news:
President Barack Obama may appoint Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard law professor who scolded U.S. banks while overseeing their bailout, as the interim head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as early as this week, according to a person familiar with the matter.
An appointment as interim head of the agency could allow Warren, 61, to bypass a confirmation battle in the Senate, where Republicans have raised objections to her possible nomination.
I won't pretend to know if this will really get her past a BS-laden confirmation process, but I do recall Wilfred's 'stache sitting in the UN as the representative of the United States for a couple of years when it was widely known and accepted that he couldn't be confirmed.
It gets really funny when you consider what the GOPers have to say about it:
Alabama Senator Richard Shelby, the senior Republican on the banking committee, said the leader of the agency should go through the confirmation process.
“Someone that’s appointed to that job should be vetted, examined, investigated and have his or her qualifications for that job weighed by the Senate,” Shelby told reporters.
Asked if he could vote to confirm Warren if she were Obama’s nominee, Shelby said he “would like to see a more objective person in that job. Elizabeth Warren, obviously, is not an objective person when it comes to the consumer issues.”
Objective he says. Is objective a code word for bought & paid for?
Maybe a person looking out for consumers would be a good person to head a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau or is it just me?
I am curious...
