elizabeth warren among liberal activists

Now that President Obama has decided to nominate someone else to run the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, at Daily Kos we are ratcheting up the effort we started in February to Draft Elizabeth Warren into the 2012 campaign for .By Noah Bierman Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard Law School professor whose consumer protection work has made her a favorite among liberal activists, will spend early August assessing whether to try to unseat Senator Scott Brown, an adviser said. .That's how one member of the House Oversight Committee described Thursday morning's hearing featuring Elizabeth Warren, the de facto leader of the soon-to-launch Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, who was alternately pummeled by Republicans and lauded .Thanks to united Republican opposition to Elizabeth Warren as the permanent head of the consumer protection agency she dreamed up and shepherded through Congress, the administration is largely able to avoid it .Elizabeth Warren, the White House and Treasury adviser in charge of setting up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, testifies at a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing May 24, 2011. Amy Bingham reports: After a year of planning and defending the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Elizabeth Warren has been tossed out of the running to lead it. President Obama officially announced today that Ohio .To dump Elizabeth Warren, the most qualified, most motivated and most articulate candidate for the directorship of the Consumer Financial Regulatory Bureau is an act of political cowardliness by President Obama