You know Elizabeth Warren, the woman who’s running against Scott “The Nekkid RINO” Brown. She’s the creatrix of the intellectual underpinnings of the Occupy movment, and stop laughing. She’s also a millionairess who opted not to pay Massachusetts’ opt-in higher tax rate, though she thinks that the wealthy should be more heavily taxed. The wealthy, having means at their disposal to flee to other states, or if that is inconvenient at least dock their yachts* there to avoid those higher taxes that they advocate, will get out of the Bay State when they reach the conclusion that the fresh turbot is just not worth the Commonwealth’s surcharges, so it’s necessary to impose a Global Minimum Tax (and later Skynet) to make sure that international bureaucrats have the means at their disposal to enmiserablize one’s life wherever one goes.
So, in concert with Obama, she’s been stumping on the issue of student loans. Let’s set aside the insanity of their continuing to make hash out of hash tags on Twitter, and just note that they want the bros to think they’re not getting tased until after the election. That’s why it’s so downright funny when information such as this emerges:
U.S. Sen. Scott Brown’s campaign is blasting Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren’s financial history as she campaigns in support of low-interest student loans, saying the Harvard Law professor’s interest-free loan from Harvard means she is too out of touch with students’ everyday struggles.
Warren disclosed the 20-year interest free loan from Harvard, which lent her between $15,000 and $50,000 in 1996, in financial disclosure forms filed with the Senate last September.
“Let me get this straight: struggling students and families pay more, so multi-millionaire Warren can pay nothing? This sweetheart deal adds insult to injury for the students whose high tuition costs have already made Warren a wealthy one-percenter, and reveals yet again Professor Warren’s hypocritical idea of fairness,” wrote Brown’s campaign manager Jim Barnett.
Yes, Mr. Barnett, due to their practice of making things clear and also perfectly clear, straight is the way you have gotten that. As for who paid Obama’s loans, we are still in the dark, but we do know that the financial burden of those loans caused him to ask not to have to pay off the advance that he got from a publisher to write his first book, straight out of Harvard Lawgh School, when he blew the deadline repeatedly, even though he had a job with a financial news analysis memo-writing company straight out of law school where he was famous among his co-workers for sitting on his duff, writing his memoirs, and taking a paycheck. It was a pattern of entitled shit-headedness that he would repeat at the University of Chicago, where he was not well liked by a different set of colleagues:
The highest tenured faculty member at Chicago Law spoke out on Barack Obama saying, “Professors hated him because he was lazy, unqualified, never attended any of the faculty meetings.”
Doug Ross reported this and more:
I spent some time with the highest tenured faculty member at Chicago Law a few months back, and he did not have many nice things to say about “Barry.” Obama applied for a position as an adjunct and wasn’t even considered. A few weeks later the law school got a phone call from the Board of Trustees telling them to find him an office, put him on the payroll, and give him a class to teach. The Board told him he didn’t have to be a member of the faculty, but they needed to give him a temporary position. He was never a professor and was hardly an adjunct.
The other professors hated him because he was lazy, unqualified, never attended any of the faculty meetings, and it was clear that the position was nothing more than a political stepping stool. According to my professor friend, he had the lowest intellectual capacity in the building. He also doubted whether he was legitimately an editor on the Harvard Law Review, because if he was, he would be the first and only editor of an Ivy League law review to never be published while in school (publication is or was a requirement).
Lovers of verse still contend with political haters of Obama whether it was a good thing or not that he decided to ditch the pecuniary advantages of the poet’s life for politics, or the life of a high-powered consultant for that of a graft-powered insultant. There’s a mise-en-abyme in one of his PETAphagical memoirs about him taking an elevator to the floor on which he pretended to work at that “high-powered consulting firm,” and seeing himself in a three-piece suit opts for a career in which mom jeans pose not too much of an impediment, after which he ordered up some hookers, blow and imported beer on the company tab as his way of saying goodbye.
Why he and Mooch surrendered their law licenses to the State of Illinois, where lots of felons seem still to have theirs, is shrouded in gorilla midstery.
All of this carping will get us nowhere, though. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person engaged in taking money from one group of people (let’s call them ‘earners’) to lavish on another (let’s call them ‘occupiers’) in order to try to keep a scam (let’s call it the ‘education bubble’) afloat are doing such manifestly humanitarian work that their personal foibles should pass unnoticed, especially if they involve eating dog.
Besides, Obama is so omnicompetent he can do any job better than you.
* Full disclosure: the writer had his yacht docked when he was an infant, and doesn’t feel that it has interfered with his enjoyment of life.
The only people with a stronger sense of undeserved entitlement than a member of an identity-politics grievance “community” are rich, pasty New England liberals.
No, they can’t. Yes, they can.
here is a list showing how high the number of Scott Browns is in our perverted Senate – it’s from the comments here, and it’s disheartening – 9 Scott Browns is many
Roy Blount – MO.
Scott Brown – MA.
Cochran – MS.
Susan Collins – ME.
Hoeven – ND.
Snowe – ME.
Roberts – KS.
Murkowski – AK.
Moran – KS.
I knew lots of Barack Obama’s growing up. I was one, in fact, for the last couple years of college and in the short years before my kids showed up, unannounced, at the door of my responsibility gland. I recognized him the moment I saw him, and I bet he has an ulcer.
Oh, and welcome back Dan.
Thanks, LMC, it’s nice to see you, too.
LMC, you should have been a hipster, like the rest of us cool kids.
Anybody else witnessing the wavy text?
That was a nice, slow-burn rant.
I didn’t realize that the Obamas had both surrendered their licenses to practice law. That’s the sort of thing a diligent media would have long since investigated. Too bad we have one that only does that for its ideological opponents.
Did I not close a tag? Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I think that’s something that should have been gone over during orientation. I can’t be expected to memorize ever rule in the employee handbook and still have time to do my job. Besides, my boss is never at work and I think may be sleeping with someone else in my department, I won’t name names, but my guess is she’ll be team lead before long… Really? She is? I wasn’t at that meeting, I was at Bonnaroo that weekend and there was no way I was getting on a conference call at 8 AM… I was probably still in line at Starbucks and the wifi there has been really slow lately and I can’t upload all the pictures I promised people AND call in at the same time on the crappy used blackberry this place gave me. Seriously, I don’t know how you expect me to be productive when I can’t even facetime with this thing. Gaah. By the way, I was playing pickup basketball with Dave last week and he invited me to his son’s wedding, so I need Friday off.
Dan, I wish I could remember where I read it, but it seems that Bernardine Dohrn wrote the syllabus for Obama’s law class. IIRC, it mirrored most of her syllabi and not only that, featured virtually NO teaching and relied heavily on classroom participation that counted toward 30% (or more?) or one’s grade.
It would be clarifying to know just where the pressure came from for the Trustees to demand that Barack be found a position at the University. who were the trustees
in 1992? Who could pressure them? Who would and why?
Who sent him?
Who sent him?
Nobody. Actually, I’m willing to bet Bill Ayers dad was either on the board or doing the pressuring.
Leigh, it was a Ann Barnhardt. I’m going to quote the whole thing as it is impossible to link there.
Thanks! I knew there was no way I was going to remember where I read it.
Barry is nothing but a fraud. I want to see his school records. Did he ever pass the Bar? If he did, who took his test for him?
I was trying to find the link to the Diamond article “who sent ya” and his blog is now readable by invitation only.
Academic integrity.
Chuck Todd on Warren story:
Because JOURNALISM!
Motionview, a part of it is here.
Here I believe is the whole thing.
Yes, Mr. Barnett, due to their practice of making things clear and also perfectly clear, straight is the way you have gotten that.
HA!
Dan, you’ve been missed around here. Don’t be any stranger than you already are.
Thanks for that link geoffb. Talk about damning evidence. It’s too bad there aren’t any investigative journalists anymore.
Colombian hookers are much more interesting, Leigh.
Ssssshhhhhhh, Jim. That’s a secret.
The Secret Service inherited those predilections from Booooosh!
I threw some money in Scott Brown’s direction last cycle when it looked as if he would be the 41st vote against Obamacare. Little did I know that voting rules really didn’t count.
Since then, Brown has been a liberal Massachusett Senator who happens to have an (R) in front of his name. I’m thinking he’s going to have to work harder to get my support. That is, unless Ms. Interest-Free Harvard loan one-percenter implodes on her own.
15 hours and nothing?
Either Dan has learned some new unrecognizable racial-fu or JD is losing his touch;)!