LECTURE TO LIZ – AT 10:31 A.M. ET:  Elizabeth Warren is starting to believe her own press clippings.   She had a prominent economist fired from a liberal-leaning institution, and now there's a backlash against her.  It's about time.  From The Hill: 

Five top Democratic economists are criticizing Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and the left-leaning Brookings Institution for forcing one of its nonresident economic fellows to resign.

Warren raised concerns earlier this week that Robert Litan, a nonresident and unpaid economics fellow at the think tank, was using Brookings to peddle an industry-backed study that was critical of a financial advice regulatory pitch championed by Warren and the White House.

In a letter to Brookings earlier this week, Warren questioned the independence of the study, which Litan openly notes in the text "was supported by the Capital Group, one of the largest mutual fund asset managers in the United States."

Hours later, Litan was forced to resign.

The Democratic economists say they're "concerned" about Litan's treatment.

They said Warren's approach and Brookings' "complicity with it threatens ad hominem attack on any author who may be associated with an industry or interest whose views are contrary to hers."

"Those who differ with Litan instead should offer a substantive rebuttal to the paper in question, which would do much more to clarify the issue than implicitly depicting him as being inherently corrupted by the sponsorship of his work," the economists wrote in a letter submitted to The Washington Post but first obtained by The Hill.

COMMENT:  The Democratic Party's left wing is increasingly totalitarian, which is not entirely surprising.  The left is very authoritarian.  But now Liz has gone too far, and is getting slapped around a little.  Maybe she'll learn something about how free discussion operates.

October 2, 2015