Every Woman Noticed That Infuriating Elizabeth Warren/Joe Biden Debate Moment

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10. This woman noticed it, and I found Warren's behavior infuriating. I thought she

came across as petty and snarky.

I know she doesn't like Biden. She's been sniping at him in print since 2002, and in her 2003 book she suggested he shouldn't even be given credit for the Violence Against Women Act, shouldn't be viewed as helping women, because she disagreed with him on bankruptcies.

This is what she wrote about him in 2003, as explained in a Mother Jones article about their "feud" as the magazine calls it, which Warren started:

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/02/the-2020-race-could-revive-a-bitter-feud-between-joe-biden-and-elizabeth-warren/

She took on Biden again in The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers & Fathers Are Going Broke, the best-selling 2003 book she co-authored with her daughter, Amelia Warren Tyagi. “Women’s issues are not just about childbearing or domestic violence,” they wrote. “More women with children will search for a bankruptcy lawyer than will seek subsidized day care. And in a statistic with special significance for Senator Biden, more women will be victimized by predatory lenders than will seek protection from an abusive husband or boyfriend.”

Warren and Tyagi continued, “The point is not to discredit other worthy causes or to pit one disadvantaged group against another. Nor would we suggest that battered women deserve less help or that subsidized day care is unimportant. The point is simply that family economics should not be left to giant corporations and paid lobbyists, and senators like Joe Biden should not be allowed to sell out women in the morning and be heralded as their friend in the evening.”

Think about that. She resented Biden having received any praise for VAWA.

Despite which he's been fair to her -- much more fair than she's been to him.

I posted an OP yesterday about Jared Bernstein and Austan Goolsbee backing up what Biden said about his role in getting the bill passed that created CFPB.

Warren should give Biden credit. Passing legislation is a team effort. Everyone knows that. But I'm guessing that after so many years of apparent animus toward him, she finds it all but impossible to give him credit. It's apparently galling to her that CFPB would probably never have become a reality, rather than a plan or pipe dream, without his help.

If she had at least acknowledged his help rather than trying to make it sound as if she got CFPB passed by herself when she first started talking about it -- and she was offering that as a counter to what he'd achieved, and she threw in a comment about some Democrats opposing it which could easily have been misread as suggesting he'd opposed it (I don't know whether that was intentional or not, but at that point she should definitely have pointed out that the bill had had Biden's support) -- there would have been no exchange like the one too many people are overreacting to.

Instead, she came across very badly.

I lost a lot of respect for her.