Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) may be the worst United States senator in the history of the republic. As you probably know, she’s up against some pretty stiff competition for that title – including our current incredibly shrinking vice president and former California senator Kamala Harris. Warren’s advocacy for the scandal-ridden Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in and of itself is enough to rank her among the worst ever to occupy a chair in the august body, but there’s much more to her utter failure.
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Here’s a quick list of some of her more egregious bits of nonsense.
First: She has commented on the recent murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and it sure reads like she’s excusing the actions of Thompson’s murderer, Luigi Mangione.
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Sen. @ewarren on the UnitedHealth murderer: “Violence is never the answer. This guy gets a trial who’s allegedly killed the CEO of UnitedHealth. But you can only push people so far. And then they start to take matters into their own hands.” pic.twitter.com/xgtBPqDE0Y
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) December 11, 2024
Note the “but.” Whenever an elected official makes a statement like this, you can depend on one thing: They don’t mean a single word of anything that came before the “but.” Even the legacy media knows that the “universal health care” system that Senator Warren has repeatedly pushed would have an even more chilling effect on the delivery of health care in the United States than the cost-cutting efforts of private insurance companies. Let’s face it, systems like this are never universal, as the ruling classes always – always – carve themselves out an exemption. But these systems always, always result in rationing and hammering providers to drive down costs. For crying out loud, even Vox recognizes this:
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In the past, progressives have emphasized that a Medicare-for-all system would reduce overall health care costs by forcing providers to accept lower payments. With its new policy, Anthem was attempting to do precisely this: force anesthesiologists to accept lower rates of reimbursement. And the case for forcing down payment rates for anesthesiologists is especially strong. According to Medscape’s 2024 Anesthesiologist Salary Report, the average salary for an American anesthesiologist in 2023 was $472,000. This represented a $70,000 increase over the field’s average salary in 2022. This makes anesthesiologists among the top five highest-earning specialists in the United States.
Is the system perfect? No. Can it be improved? Yes. Is socialized medicine the answer? Not only no, but hell no.
Second, Senator Warren is pushing some of the most egregiously stupid “progressive” policies in the history of the United States, including:
1) A wealth tax, which is prohibited by the Constitution, as taxes must be apportioned to the individual states; the implementation of the income tax required a constitutional amendment, the 16th. It is staggeringly unlikely that another such amendment would be ratified for a wealth tax; Senator Warren, however, not only doesn’t care about the Constitution, but she appears to have never read it.
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2) Free college and student loan forgiveness. Another staggeringly stupid idea. Oh, some will point to some of the nations of Europe, in which university education is paid for by the state – nothing, we should note, is ever free. The faculty, the administration, the buildings, and the materials all have to be paid for. What Senator Warren doesn’t seem to comprehend is that in some of these European models, one can only attend university if the government decides you may, and if you are chosen, you have little or no say in what you study.
3) She’s all in on the Green New Deal nonsense. She doesn’t appear to understand energy density and generation issues any more than she understands economics or the Constitution.
Is this why, in the 2024 election, Senator Warren ran behind the worst presidential candidate in living memory – in her own state?
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Some Senate Republicans, listening to calls from the left for “compromise” and “bipartisanship,” both of which may be translated as “Republicans doing what Democrats tell them to,” may be tempted to give in on some of Senator Warren’s less hare-brained ideas. This should not – must not – happen. This is a Senator who should be completely frozen out. If Elizabeth Warren is for an idea, it’s bad for the country. We can take that as an operating maxim, and Senate Republicans certainly should.
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What’s really amazing is that the people of Massachusetts keep sending this woman (I hasten to point out that I am a biologist, unlike a certain Supreme Court justice I could name) back to the Senate.
