From The Corner, NRO online:
House Dem: Elizabeth Warren is Getting Ready for 2016
By Joel Gehrke
December 11, 2014 8:43 PM
At least one member of the House Democratic caucus suspects that Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass) scuttled the cromnibus in order to boost her profile ahead of the 2016 presidential campaign.
“I would not be surprised if Mrs. Warren’s position has something to do with the 2016 campaign,” retiring Representative Jim Moran (D., Va.) told National Review Online, although he allowed that he was speculating. “I assume it does.”
Warren’s owes her success in driving the Democratic caucus as much to her rivals as her friends, he suggested minutes earlier.
“There are a lot of people in the caucus that understand that the public at large, at least their more liberal constituencies, feel that this is a giveaway to Wall Street,” Moran told reporters. “And I think frankly there are some people that — they’re not going to let Elizabeth Warren get to the left of them.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner
Just to be clear, I am one-hundred percent in favor of scuttling this bill. A short term CR that covers only the period until the new congress is sworn in—and that defunds Amnesty even in the short haul—would be the best outcome. It is interesting, though, that once Warren staked out her ground, at least according to Moran, she brought many Dems with her.