Elizabeth Warren's New Book Skewers The White House Boys Club [View all]

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/17/elizabeth-warren-book_n_5170018.html

[div class="excerpt" Sen. Elizabeth Warren's new book skewers the boys club who basically ran the nation's fiscal policy in the early days of the Obama administration, contending they carried out a financial bailout that saved the banks but was a major "lost opportunity" to help regular people.

A Fighting Chance, due out next week, makes the case that America needs its government to look out for the metaphorical little guy.

While the Massachusetts Democrat details the successes she had working with the White House and President Barack Obama in those days, she also reveals the constant tension between her -- an outsider and a woman -- and the men on the inside.

She doesn't always say it directly and she usually cuts the sting with some praise, but Warren seems particularly disappointed with two of the lions of Obama's economic team: former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and former National Economic Council boss Larry Summers.
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"He teed it up this way: I had a choice," Warren writes. "I could be an insider or I could be an outsider. Outsiders can say whatever they want. But people on the inside don't listen to them. Insiders, however, get lots of access and a chance to push their ideas. People -- powerful people -- listen to what they have to say. But insiders also understand one unbreakable rule: They don't criticize other insiders."