What is going on here?  From the story: 

We get a history lesson on the FDA as well.   From an op-ed in The Hill: 

This might sound like today’s debate over the choice of the new director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection—but it is a more accurate reflection of the drama that played out a century ago, in 1906, when the first director of what became the Food and Drug Administration was selected by President Teddy Roosevelt.

Landmark legislation can finally protect the public from hidden dangers which might happen to any of us any day. For the first time we have the real prospect that products will be safer and that we will know more about the dangers in store. But this can happen only if the new Agency has an independent and assertive start under an experienced leader with loyalties that run toward the public interest, and not toward special interests who have from the start tried to kill the new authority. The new director will, for better or worse, personify the strength of this new effort. There can hardly be any doubt about who the head of the new agency should be. The question is who will it actually be?

From The Hill: 

The chairman of the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday hedged when asked whether or not he would back Elizabeth Warren to head the newly-created Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA).

“If the president wants to name her and it goes through the hearing process, then fine, she’ll have my support,” Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) told the Hartford Courant editorial board. “But she has to tell me more than just she’s a good consumer advocate or that’s she’s got a great campaign.

Last week I thought Warren would be appointed this week.  I based my guess on a blog post in The Nation newspaper.  However, the President is on vacation.  Certainly, it could still happen while he’s in Martha’s Vinyard, I just don’t think so.   My new guess?  The first day he’s back from vacation.

Franks seeks meeting with President to push Warren.

She gets a mixed review from Fiscal Times. 

And the rap video we posted the other day is getting out everywhere.

But your enemies closer.  From The Washington Post:

Elizabeth Warren, a top candidate to lead the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, met quietly last week with some of her sharpest critics: big bank lobbyists.

The industry is fighting back with a new website.

Must be slow news day out there.

I was at movies yesterday and paid $15 for bucket of pop corn and medium soda. I could have had both for less than a $1 at home but I ended up paying 15 times more than it was worth.

Should we call that predatory selling? And should we have our States and Federal government to regulate it, crack down on it, or ban it?

This is strange.  Now a Kentucky Senate candidate is supporting Warren.