Warren took on President Obama and her party\u2019s leadership, and appeared to inspire an uprising in the House.
\nThe fight earned her comparisons to Texas firebrand Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, another relative newcomer to the Senate who has shown outsized clout in his party.<\/p>\n
Warren lost the battle, but if\u00a0 she continues to fight hard she may be in a battle with Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), the third-ranking member of the Democratic leadership who represents New York\u2019s powerful financial industry.<\/p>\n
Peter Ubertaccio, a political science professor at Stonehill College in Massachusetts, sais, \u201cIf she\u2019s able to succeed at the expense of her own leadership team \u2014 the team that she\u2019s on \u2014 it will have the practical impact of moving the center of power away from folks like Schumer and toward her,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s pretty significant for a freshman senator that\u2019s been brought into the leadership.<\/p>\n
It could also reverberate in the 2016 presidential race, which liberal Democrats are dying for Warren to enter as a rival to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n
Warren is now a national figure in a tradition of influential Massachusetts politicians who have run for president such as former Sen. Ted Kennedy (D), former Gov. Michael Dukakis (D), former Gov. Mitt Romney (R), former Sen. John Kerry (D) and former Sen. Paul Tsongas (D).<\/p>\n
Warren\u2019s efforts also carried risks, and rubbed some Democrats the wrong way. Warren exhorted fellow Democrats to defeat the spending bill because it repealed a key provision of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law. She lost, but the battle was important.<\/p>\n
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi\u2019s (D-Calif.) position appeared to harden .\u00a0 She harshly criticized the White House.<\/p>\n
Sen. Warren has recognized an opportunity to be the voice of the progressive side of the Democratic coalition and she\u2019s taken full advantage.<\/p>\n
Ending ‘too big to fail’ is far from over. Before Congress starts handing out Christmas presents to the megabanks and Wall Street, beware.<\/p>\n
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