Obama reportedly to name Warren ‘special adviser’

Don’t you worry about that pesky Elizabeth Warren, Wall Street, the poodles are here

President Obama plans to appoint Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren to a Treasury Department advisory post that will allow her to help create the consumer protection bureau, a key component of the new financial regulatory overhaul, without subjecting her to [...]

HuffPo. So why doesn’t Obama nominate Warren

Maybe I should call up that Obama fellow and ask for a few hundred more billion dollars

So why isn’t the White House rushing to nominate her for the position? In a word: fear.

This time, it’s not the ire of Glenn Beck that has Team Obama’s backbone turning to mush — it’s [...]