Elizabeth Warren: Passed Over for CFPB Post, But…

David Corn writes for Mother Jones: “[Elizabeth] Warren, the populist Harvard professor who birthed the idea for a government agency that would protect consumers from tricks and traps perpetrated by banks, mortgage firms, and credit card companies, was the right person for the job. So much so that congressional Republicans have been howling about the prospect of her leading the agency even before the bureau was created last year by the Wall Street reform legislation.”