Czarina Elizabeth – it’s not just the confirmation end run we should worry about

By: Curt Levey (Diary)  |  September 18th at 07:06 AM  | 

Criticism of President Obama’s appointment of Elizabeth Warren to oversee the establishment of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) – the Dodd-Frank Act’s contribution to growing the federal bureaucracy – has focused on Obama’s end-run around the Senate confirmation process.  By making Warren the White House czar for the CFPB instead of the agency’s director, Obama allows her to “effectively run the agency” (quoting the | Read More »