The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the brainchild of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), has become the latest battlefield in the left's war on President Trump.  Richard Cordray, the bureau's director, quit suddenly on November 24 and named his former chief of staff, Leandra English, to be acting director.  This move would have kept the bureau in leftist hands until a successor, named by President Trump, could be confirmed.  Disregarding Cordray's partisan action, President Trump named Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget, acting director of the CFPB.  (Apparently, Mulvaney would wear two hats for the time being.)  Mulvaney is on record as being critical of the CFPB. Sen. Warren was quoted in the New York Times, November 28, as saying that the bureau "'was built to be as far away from partisan politics as humanly possible – including exactly what Donald Trump is doing now." And what is...(Read Full Post)