{"id":820,"date":"2011-05-11T15:10:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T19:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www3.law.harvard.edu\/journals\/hlpr\/?p=820"},"modified":"2015-10-02T15:57:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T15:57:06","slug":"a-law-professor-who-stays-on-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/lpr\/2011\/05\/11\/a-law-professor-who-stays-on-message\/","title":{"rendered":"A Law Professor Who Stays on Message"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zach Luck<\/em><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Warren,\u00a0on the Daily Show<\/a>\u00a0a few weeks ago, managed to successfully articulate a clear vision of how government and the market can and should work together. \u00a0This success holds particular value when other Democrats appear to be giving in to Republican rhetoric on the relationship between government and the economy. \u00a0President Obama,\u00a0in his address on the budget compromise<\/a>, said: \u201cA few months ago, I was able to sign a tax cut for American families because both parties worked through their differences and found common ground. \u00a0Now, the same cooperation has made it possible for us to move forward with the biggest annual spending cut in history.\u201d\u00a0 Really?\u00a0 The budget compromise, brought about by bringing the government to the brink of shutdown over which social programs to cut, signaled great cooperation and government doing what\u2019s right for the economy?<\/p>\n


\nFar from it. \u00a0Even after agreeing to the budget compromise, arguing as he did that it was the best deal he could get for the American people, the President still could have used the bully pulpit to put forward another vision of what government should be doing for families in need. \u00a0He could have put forward a vision of how government can help make the economy run better by, for example, pointing to specific programs attacked by Republicans that do just that.<\/p>\n

Warren\u2019s must-watch interview is available online\u00a0here<\/a>. \u00a0Extended parts\u00a0two<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0three<\/a>\u00a0focus more on the\u00a0Consumer Financial Protection Bureau<\/a>\u00a0(CFPB).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zach Luck Elizabeth Warren,\u00a0on the Daily Show\u00a0a few weeks ago, managed to successfully articulate a clear vision of how government […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peZQka-de","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/lpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/lpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/lpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/lpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/lpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/lpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/lpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/lpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/lpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}