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Upon returning from Hawaii this week, President Obama will confront a growing firestorm around a key Treasury nominee, with senators across the ideological spectrum seemingly ready to do battle with the White House in one of the first political fights of 2015.

The confirmation of Antonio Weiss tapped by Mr. Obama to serve as Treasurys undersecretary for domestic finance is in doubt, as liberals such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Democrat, have taken direct aim at the former investment bankers close ties to Wall Street.

The uproar highlights how some on the left, led by Mrs. Warren and also powerful progressive organizations outside Capitol Hill, now feel more emboldened to take on both the administration and so-called Wall Street Democrats.

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They argue the administration must move to the left, particularly on financial matters, and needs to break associations the Democratic Party has with powerful banks and other financial institutions. Mrs. Warren has, for example, made the case that the federal government should pursue harsher regulations on Wall Street and should seek to break up large banks.

The overrepresentation of Wall Street banks in senior government positions sends a bad message. It tells people that one and only one point of view will dominate economic policymaking, Mrs. Warren wrote in the Huffington Post late last year after the White House put forward Mr. Weiss.

It tells people that whatever goes wrong in this economy, the Wall Street banks will be protected first, she continued. Thats yet another advantage that Wall Street just doesnt need.

In recent weeks a number of other Democrats have voiced similar criticism, including Sens. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, Al Franken of Minnesota and even Joe Manchin III of West Virginia.

It is important to send the message that we will no longer allow Wall Street to exclusively make our fiscal policy decisions, especially when they affect so many on Main Street, Mr. Manchin, one of the Democratic caucus more conservative members, said on the Senate floor last month.

Mrs. Warren, Mr. Manchin and other opponents have been joined by groups such as the Progressive Change Campaign Committee which has rallied liberals to oppose Mr. Weiss nomination and organizations such as the Independent Community Bankers of America, which argues the nominee would be yet another Wall Street voice in the federal government.

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Laughing At Liberals Featured In KATU News Story
Joe Douglass of Portland #39;s KATU covers the "Deck The Halls With Rows Of Dead Cops" video, posted last week by LaughingAtLiberals ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. - With former Gov. Mario Cuomo's death, liberals have lost one of their last, best champions, a proud populist who represented an older breed of Democrat.

During his three terms as governor, the former minor league baseball player from Queens championed the working class, reproached Ronald Reagan and flirted - repeatedly - with a run for the White House. In his 1984 address at the Democratic National Convention, he talked of a nation of haves and have-nots, of a yawning disconnect between rich and poor largely ignored by Reagan.

"A shining city is perhaps all the president sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well," he said. "Mr. President, you ought to know that this nation is more 'A Tale of Two Cities' than it is just a 'Shining City on a Hill.'"

The 82-year-old Cuomo died Thursday at his home in Manhattan of natural causes from heart failure just hours after his son, Andrew, began his second term as New York's chief executive. Services are planned for Tuesday morning at a Manhattan church.

Mario Cuomo's progressive legacy is reflected today by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose own 2013 campaign kickoff speech recycled the "Tale of Two Cities" image.

By contrast, Andrew Cuomo epitomizes the mainstream Democratic Party's recent tendency toward centrism. While Cuomo is socially liberal on gun control and abortion, he's seen as more fiscally conservative, willing to battle teachers unions and supportive of business-friendly tax cuts.

The elder Cuomo came from an older, more liberal strand of Democratic politics that included Franklin Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson. Like them, Cuomo combined public eloquence with an intellectual rigor. Unlike those two, however, he never ran for president, despite pleas to do so in 1988 and 1992.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who also spoke at the 1984 convention, said Cuomo's supporters "literally begged him to run." Jackson said Cuomo's brand of outspoken liberalism is needed now that "too few have too much and too many have nothing."

"He had room for everybody. There's so much polarization these days," Jackson said. "He was a big tent visionary."

Even those who disagreed with his policies respected Cuomo's passion and his rise as the son of Italian immigrants to the pinnacle of American politics. Republican state Senate Leader Dean Skelos called him "one of the great orators of our time."

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Neil deGrasse Tyson is why Liberals and Science are Losing.
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If you want to identify a serious potential leader, someone committed to getting America back on track as a free and prosperous nation under God, just check the intensity of efforts of those on the left to try and destroy the reputation and career of that individual.

The more time and energy liberals invest to destroy someone, you can bet that this is someone who loves America, what it stands for, and who can make a difference.

Latest case is attacks on Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) because he spoke, in 2002, to the European American Unity and Rights Organization, a white supremacist group founded by racist David Duke.

Scalise says the remarks were in the context of promoting tax reform legislation he was sponsoring when he was in the Louisiana state legislature, that he addressed many groups in promoting this legislation, and that he didn't appreciate then who these folks were.

But, really, who cares who they were? Shouldn't a legislator with reforms to improve his state or his nation be free to sell good ideas to anyone? How far do we let liberals go in censuring speech and ideas in America?

Even Dr. Ben Carson, whose magnificent career led to becoming head of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, had to pull out of giving the commencement address at the very university where he built his career because liberals didn't like his views about marriage.

Is Steve Scalise a racist? Absurd. I know him since he started serving in the House of Representatives in 2008. He is an outstanding Christian American patriot without a racist bone in his body.

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