How The Republicans Cleared Elizabeth Warren's Path

slate.com — I have no idea whether President Obama plans to nominate Elizabeth Warren as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. If you'd asked me a year ago whether he should, I'd have probably said no, on the grounds that she was too much of a lightning rod. Better to install somebody with a lower profile who can get confirmed, I'd have argued. And, besides (as I wrote in September), she had no real management experience. Now I think Obama should nominate Warren. Partly that's because Warren, in her six months as de facto CFPB director (ahem, I mean "special adviser to the secretary of the treasury and assistant to the president") has demonstrated sufficient political and managerial skills (inasmuch as anyone can demonstrate such skills while running an agency that hasn't actually done anything yet). But mostly it's because Republicans have talked me into it.

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