Thread by @RealRichWilkins

I’m sorry, Elizabeth Warren bothers me. Her entire political career is completely impossible white paper plans on issues and then blaming the people who actually produce and pass plans for not doing enough.

She has basically spent a decade plus saying Dodd-Frank was insufficient market regulation, and President Obama/Senator Dodd/Congressman Frank should have gone further. Then she cites the CFPB as part of her amazing record, which Dodd-Frank created.

Mind you, she’s been a Senator since 2013, or nine years now. She could write a new bill anytime, or even just amend Dodd-Frank to address some of the real issues with it. But she hasn’t. And won’t. My guess is that she thinks it’s too hard, but I really don’t know why.

Then there’s #CancelStudentDebt, which is a great hashtag and even a decent goal. Some sort of reform is needed. Let’s be clear though, in real government you don’t solve huge problems like this through executive orders. It doesn’t work.

Presidents can’t just cancel privately held debts, which a big chunk of student is. He might be able to forgive *some* interest, but even that’s questionable. Any attempt to cancel $50k likely ends up struck down in court right now. It’s just not that easy.

Besides that, executive orders only last as long as the next person in office allows them to. You know what the next President can’t unilaterally repeal? A law. Something a U.S. Senator can write and try to get the votes to pass. So Senator Warren could try that.

Instead of doing that though, I guess it’s easier to call on Joe Biden to do something he probably can’t do, while completely ignoring the billions in student loan debt his administration has used existing programs to forgive. Because, you know, that’s smart politics 🙄…

And just to close the loop on student loan debt, if forgiveness is so popular, Senators Warren and Schumer should put said bill on the Senate floor every week and make the Republicans pass it or eat the political crow for it. Why aren’t they?

I guess though this is what bothers me- we keep hearing how great of a politician Senator Warren is, and how great her fantasy Presidency would have been, but she’s not really good at this, and we dusted her in her home state primary in 2020. It’s annoying af.

Does she have some good policy ideas? Yeah. Do I appreciate her telling Trump and McConnell to pound sand a few times? Sure. Did I even empathize with her when Bernard called her a liar in a debate? Yes. I don’t hate her. I’m just tired of the hero worshippers for her.

She ain’t ever going to be President, she ain’t ever going to be Vice-President, she ain’t Ted Kennedy, and she never had a real plan for the two most important things- winning the 2020 election and passing all of her white paper policies into law. So how is she good at this?

So that’s my rant about her. “Blood and Teeth” 🩸🦷 ain’t a strategy. Or at least it wasn’t one for the Massachusetts Primary, I guess. Just do your job.