Elizabeth Warren
Senator Elizabeth Warren did not have a good weekend. After endorsing Hillary Clinton for President on Thursday, Warren was ridiculed by columnist Maureen Dowd in the New York Times on Sunday for previously portraying Clinton as a shill for big money interests while now vowing to jump into the ring to get Clinton elected to the highest office in the land. In a 2003 book, The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke, co-authored by Warren and her daughter, Amelia Warren Tyagi, the pair wrote that "Clinton had taken $140,000 in campaign contributions from the banking industry" and then sold out single mothers by voting in favor of a bankruptcy bill that Clinton had previously called "that awful bill." Warren also addressed Clinton's claim that she had worked to improve the bill by 2001 when she voted in favor of it. In a footnote in the book, Warren wrote:
"...the bill would permit credit card companies to compete with women after bankruptcy for their ex-husbands' limited income, and this provision remained unchanged in the 1998 and 2001 versions of the bill. Senator Clinton claimed that the bill improved circumstances for single mothers, but her view was not shared by any women's groups or consumer groups."
Warren was also roundly thrashed by Seth Mandel in the New York Post. Mandel wrote:
"What's so ironic about this is that if Goldman Sachs, as an institution, were to somehow take human form and run for political office, it would be — hell, it is — Hillary Clinton...Warren can back whomever she pleases. But let's not pretend Hillary Clinton is anything other than the manifestation of everything Warren claims to be fighting against."
Warren was also assailed across Facebook by Senator Bernie Sanders' supporters. Warren had withheld her endorsement of Sanders during the primaries, when it could have made a pivotal difference. Sanders' platform on Wall Street reform is much more aligned with Warren's than is Clinton's. Warren was also greeted by protesters yesterday outside a World War II Veterans Club in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she was set to deliver a talk on income inequality. The protesters were dressed in all black to mourn what they saw as Warren selling out to establishment politics. Jamie Czupkiewicz Guerin, who had participated in the protest, wrote on Facebook that Warren had taken the time to speak to each protester following her talk:

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