But apparently you will support a person who lies about her heritage to get ahead professionally. Takes advantage of foreclosures to flip properties for profit. Defends the large corporations that she says she against as long as they are paying her well (asbestos litigation), and trumpets the role of government over the hard work of entrepreneurs. I will make the assumption that you support the current administration. So you support the use of drones to kill terrorists and the "good war" in Afghanistan.

Alan, do you really believe that the financial crisis was the result of "wall street excess" only? Do you not see that the CRA was just as responsible? That those in Congress who decided that home ownership was a right, not a privilege to be undertaken with responsiblity, were just as responsible? Do you think people who took out $400k mortgages with zero down and no financial capacity to support them are not responsible for the crisis?

You talk of the Republican Party moving right without acknowledging how far left the Democratic Party has moved.

Elizabeth Warren lied about her heritage. Period. And still refuses to acknowledge it. She cares about getting into office. Luckily she has her daughter to help her in that endeavor. The health care that she so cares about is causing businesses not to hire. So all of those people who are out of work won't be finding any jobs soon.

And let's not forget Alan, Democrats reap the majority of fundraising from those "fat cats" on Wall Street. Unfortunately we never hear that topic addressed. I don't feel any sorry for the regulations that get set upon those Wall Street firms. They reap what they sew.

Carl, you raise good points, which I'll try to address. I don't believe the financial crisis was the result of any one factor. I do believe that "Wall Street excess" -- as shorthand for any number of mistakes and abuses -- was a major one.

How big a factor was the CRA? Ron Paul says biggest, Paul Krugman says none. The answer may lie between, but the evidence is mixed (see exurban foreclosures, and CRA-regulated loans outperforming non-CRA loans). But some say the CRA encouraged a "culture" of risky lending, and that's harder to refute (though hard also to prove).

Do reckless borrowers share the blame? Sure they do. Does that change the argument for regulating banks? I don't see how.

The Democratic Party did move left -- on social issues, including same-sex marriage, women's reproductive rights, and immigration -- while the GOP moved right. Both parties moved to the right on economic issues, which is why tax plans from Democrats today are both lower and less progressive than Reagan's.

Warren never lied about her heritage. She believed what her family had told her. I don't know what I'd do if challenged to prove my parents account of my ancestry. Do you?

Warren's daughter works with a voting rights group that pressed many states, including Massachusetts, to comply with the federal "motor voter" law. How anyone spun a conspiracy theory out of this astounds me.

At char. limit, so: Where's the evidence for your last two claims, hiring and donors?

Cheers!

What does that even mean?