Why Elizabeth Warren should have voted for John McCain

The Massachusetts Democrat recently blasted Obama for failing to help struggling homeowners. A certain Republican candidate had a plan for that...

Elizabeth Warren
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In a recent interview, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) accused the Obama administration of siding with the wealthiest 0.1 percent of Americans over the 99.9 percent. "They protected Wall Street," Warren told Salon. "Not families who were losing their homes. Not people who lost their jobs. Not young people who were struggling to get an education. And it happened over and over and over."

You read that right. Warren didn't accuse the Bush administration of this bad behavior. It's the Obama administration whom Warren accuses of giving Main Street the stiff-arm by only bailing out bankers. Of course, Warren still publicly supports President Obama and likely voted for him twice. But if she really wishes Washington would have done more to help battered homeowners back in 2009, maybe she should have pulled a different lever back in 2008.

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James Pethokoukis

James Pethokoukis is the DeWitt Wallace Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where he runs the AEIdeas blog. He has also written for The New York Times, National Review, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, and other places.