I just secured a statement from Andrew Williams, Treasury’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, about Timothy Geithner’s views on Elizabeth Warren. This has been a raging controversy since it was reported last night that Geithner would potentially move to block Warren’s appointment to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau due to friction between the two in the past.

From the halls of the glibertarian right to the swamps of wingnuttia, I keep reading some lame variation of “it’s unfair to call the Teabaggers racists.”

This weekend the California Democratic Party’s executive board will decide if the party should endorse Proposition 19, the state’s ballot initiative for marijuana legalization. No matter what the party delegates voting this weekend think about the merits of the initiative, they should vote to endorse Prop 19. Here’s why.

“I don’t know where that (report) came from,” Barr said. I asked him if he thought Warren was well-qualified for the position and if anyone at Treasury would stand in her way if she were the top choice. “I think Elizabeth is absolutely terrific,” Barr said. “She’s been working closely with me and Geithner for a year and half to push for this consumer protection bureau. I believe and Secretary Geithner believes that she’s exceptionally well-qualified to run it.”

It’s a sad commentary on American politics that the only honest man left on the playing field, when it comes to the deficit, is Alan Greenspan.

We learn from this poll that people support government spending to create jobs, even if it requires ignoring the deficit in the short term. We also know from political science that increasing employment and average disposable income really helps the party in power politically.

If the Treasury Department was so insistent on the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, you’d think they’d want the most qualified person for the job running it – indeed, the person who came up with the idea. But that’s where you’d be wrong.

And what about Glass-Steagall? Oh right, that was a New Deal era reform, and therefore, useless. [/New Democrat]

Warmest June EVAH! Must have been those “climate-gate” emails.

Bryan Lee — Braille Blues Daddy.