Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren—a leading progressive populist, possible Democratic presidential candidate, self-proclaimed champion of the poor, and enemy of greedy corporations (not really, as you will see)—supports the Export-Import Bank.

That's right: The woman best known for demonizing big businesses nevertheless wants to maintain an outlandishly generous subsidy package for them.

Warren's support for Ex-Im was revealed Friday after the Heritage Foundation reached out to her regarding a possible partnership on the issue. Libertarians and Tea Party conservatives are noted opponents of the subsidy, which they see as crony capitalism that helps politically-connected businesses cheat the free market. Liberty-inclined Republicans are working with the left on a host of issues, including NSA spying and marijuana legalization—why not make common cause with Warren on corporatism as well?

Looks like the joke is on Heritage. From Bloomberg:

“Senator Warren believes that the Export-Import Bank helps create American jobs and spur economic growth, but recognizes that there is room for improvement in the bank’s operations,” Warren spokesman Lacey Rose tells us in an e-mail. “She looks forward to reviewing re-authorization legislation if and when it is introduced.”

The irony of Warren rejecting an offer from the right to fight Ex-Im together was not lost on The Washington Examiner's Tim Carney:

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren loves to shoot barbs at Wall Street. She also enjoys forcing taxpayers to absorb Wall Street's risks while the banks pocket the profits.

... At Ex-Im's annual conference, one Wall Streeter described Ex-Im's loan guarantees to me as "free money." Is Elizabeth Warren really fine with free money to Wall Street?

Warren was in Detroit on Friday morning speaking at Netroots Nation 2014, where unaffiliated activists waved signs and led chants urging her to run for president. They even filmed a cringe-inducing music video. Here are some of the lyrics:

Americans want our next president to be a woman. Hey babe, here's looking at you Sen. Elizabeth Warren. The planet is warming and the power is shifting. We need a leader who won't stand for all the corporate bullshit the lobby's grifting.

People think the system is rigged because it is. And it's time that we stand up. We need a leader who won't stand for all the corporate bullies and political phonies.

If they knew Warren supported Ex-Im, would they admit that she is a political phony who absolutely stands for all the corporate bullies? Yeah, I doubt it.

Fat cats shore up Elizabeth Warren’s PAC

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s PAC has raised tens of thousands of dollars from wealthy Democrats, including a top President Obama donor and a close friend of Hillary Clinton’s — even as the Bay State lawmaker travels the country blasting big business and the super rich.

Among the most recent donors with the deepest pockets who gave to Warren’s PAC for a Level Playing Field, according to its latest federal filing:

• Barbarina Heyerdahl, a Democratic activist in Vermont who has given heavily to President Obama. She gave $5,000 to Warren’s PAC last month; Heyerdahl has donated more than $190,000 to Obama and other Democratic candidates and committees since 2006, federal elections data show;

• Susie Tompkins Buell, a major national Democratic donor and fundraiser who has been referred to as the best friend of potential presidential contender Hillary Clinton. She gave $5,000 to the PAC in May; and

• California billionaire John Tu, co-founder and president of Kingston Technology, and his wife. They each donated $5,000 — the maximum allowed — last month; Tu is listed as No. 110 on Forbes’ list of the richest people in America, with a net worth of $4 billion.

Buell, co-founder of the clothing line Esprit, declined a request to speak with the Herald on the record about her donation or whether she would support a potential president bid by Warren. Tu and Heyerdahl did not return calls seeking comment.

The Massachusetts senior senator has so far denied she will mount a White House run as she crisscrosses the country campaigning for Democratic U.S. Senate candidates.

Warren’s PAC has raised $620,365 since April and has $826,525 cash on hand, records show.

Elizabeth Warren Suggests She’s Not In The 1%

In fact, she is. The liberal standard-bearer’s wealth is in the eight-figures.

Jan. 27, 2012, at 2:45 p.m.

The rhetoric of class and inequality is back in force, and Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren — the standard-bearer for a combative new progressivism — made the case to MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell last night that members of the Senate shouldn’t own stock.

“I realize there are some wealthy individuals – I’m not one of them, but some wealthy individuals who have a lot of stock portfolios” she told him.

Hard to see how Warren wouldn’t be, by most standards, wealthy, according to the Personal Financial Disclosure form she filed to run for Senate shows that she’s worth as much as $14.5 million. She earned more than $429,000 from Harvard last year alone for a total of about $700,000, and lives in a house worth $5 million.

She also has a portfolio of investments in stocks and bonds worth as as much as $8 million, according to the form, which lists value ranges for each investment. The bulk of it is in funds managed by TIAA-CREF.

Warren would not, of course, be particularly wealthy by the tony standards of the Senate. But she’s also unlikely to draw the sort of popular identification with her financial status that might attach to Marco Rubio, whose home is underwater.

And efforts to pass herself off as one of the 99% for whom she aims to speak appear likely to backfire.

UPDATE: Warren spokesman Kyle Sullivan emails, “Elizabeth was making the point that, unlike many members of Congress, she does not have a broad portfolio of stocks in individual companies. If elected, she’ll get rid of the one stock she does own.”

Warren’s stock, an aide says, is all in mutual funds, with the exception of holdings in IBM which she has had for decades. [Oh, well that's different. lol]

Wait. Is this the same Heritage Foundation that came up with Obamacare?

Are you stupid?

No, you're stupid. Oh, and nice try at deflecting. Typical libtard tactic. Please stay on topic. We're talking about how Lizzie Warren, the 1/32nd Indian, is just another Limousine Liberal.

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> We're talking about how Lizzie Warren, the 1/32nd
> Indian, is just another Limousine Liberal hypocrite.


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We? You mean you and your repetitive posts?

Quit being a faggot.

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^ butthurtn

Nice shot.

So, where's the hypocrisy in all this?

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There isn't any. The right wing idiots think that liberals all sit on the front porch collecting welfare, so when they're confronted with financially successful liberals (of which there are many millions) like Warren they go into these spasms of outrage, only making themselves look even more stupid. She's in favor of the ex-im bank because it creates jobs in manufacturing. Other than tea baggers, most everybody else thinks ex-im bank is a good thing, and necessary in today's world trade.