Elizabeth Warren slams McConnell over cost of college tuition, but quickly trips over her past job



Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) tried to slam Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for opposing President Joe Biden's student loan debt forgiveness plan.

But she quickly tripped over her own contributions to the student loan debt crisis.

What did McConnell say?

On Wednesday, McConnell released a terse statement condemning Biden's plan.

The statement said, in part:

Washington Democrats have found yet another way to make inflation even worse, reward far-left activists, and achieve nothing for millions of working American families who can barely tread water. President Biden’s student loan socialism is a slap in the face to every family who sacrificed to save for college, every graduate who paid their debt, and every American who chose a certain career path or volunteered to serve in our Armed Forces in order to avoid taking on debt. This policy is astonishingly unfair.

How did Warren respond?

Warren deployed her trite narrative about the exploding cost of college.

"Senator McConnell graduated from a school that cost $330 a year. Today it costs over $12,000," Warren responded, referring to the University of Kentucky.

"McConnell has done nothing to fix it — and is irate that the President is stepping up to help millions of working Americans drowning in debt. He can spare us the lectures on fairness," she added.

\u201cSenator McConnell graduated from a school that cost $330 a year. Today it costs over $12,000. McConnell has done nothing to fix it \u2014 and is irate that the President is stepping up to help millions of working Americans drowning in debt. He can spare us the lectures on fairness.\u201d
— Elizabeth Warren (@Elizabeth Warren) 1661463838

Warren loves to talk about the skyrocketing cost of college tuition to argue for student loan debt forgiveness.

Rarely, however, does Warren address why college tuition has skyrocketed and how the federal student loan system incentivizes college administrators to increase tuition prices.

Thus, in response to Warren's attack, it was widely noted that Warren has negatively contributed to the crisis.

As PolitiFact explained, Warren was paid more than $400,000 for teaching two classes at Harvard Law School in 2010 and 2011. One wonders why Warren accepted such a large salary to teach students who most likely received student loans to attend her class if she believes there is something deeply amiss with the system.

Anything else?

Americans hold $1.6 trillion in outstanding student loan debt. That is a problem worth addressing, but simply forgiving debt without fixing the underlying problems will erase any progress Biden's plan will make toward reducing student loan debt.

As the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found in 2017 study, "The average tuition increase associated with expansion of student loans is as much as 60 cents per dollar. That is, more federal aid to students enables colleges to raise tuition more," the Cato Institute explained.

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, in fact, estimates it will take just five years for outstanding student loan debt to return to its current level if Biden's plan is fully implemented.

Harvard Law instructor: SCOTUS justices who overturned Roe v Wade 'should never know peace again; it's 'our civic duty to accost them every time they are in public'



A Harvard Law School instructor tweeted that the conservative Supreme Court Justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade — the 1973 ruling that legalized abortion in the U.S. — "should never know peace again."

Alejandra Caraballo, a cyberlaw clinical instructor at the prestigious institution, tweeted her comments June 25 — the day after the headline-grabbing decision by the high court. Her tweets made headlines only in the last couple of days.

What are the details?

"The 6 justices who overturned Roe should never know peace again," she wrote. "It is our civic duty to accost them every time they are in public. They are pariahs. Since women don't have their rights, these justices should never have a peaceful moment in public again."

\u201cThe 6 justices who overturned Roe should never know peace again. It is our civic duty to accost them every time they are in public. They are pariahs. Since women don't have their rights, these justices should never have a peaceful moment in public again.\u201d
— Alejandra Caraballo (@Alejandra Caraballo) 1656155919

She also said the conservative justices are "coming for contraception, same sex marriage, and the ability to criminalize LGBTQ people again. May those justices feel the unease, insecurity, and anxiety they seek to inflict on us."

Caraballo also posted photos of Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Samuel Alito, Justice Neil Gorsuch, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Justice Amy Coney Barrett — all of whom voted to overturn Roe v. Wade. They represent the court's conservative majority.

\u201cFor reference.\u201d
— Alejandra Caraballo (@Alejandra Caraballo) 1656155919

Fox News said it reached out to Caraballo and Harvard Law School for comment; the cable network did not say it received replies.

Anything else?

Kavanaugh was forced to leave Morton's Steakhouse in Washington, D.C., last week after pro-abortion activists showed up there to harass him. Morton's was not on the protesters' side, issuing the following statement: "Honorable Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh and all of our other patrons at the restaurant were unduly harassed by unruly protestors while eating dinner at our Morton’s restaurant. Politics, regardless of your side or views, should not trample the freedom at play of the right to congregate and eat dinner. There is a time and place for everything. Disturbing the dinner of all of our customers was an act of selfishness and void of decency.”

Prior to the official Roe v. Wade overturn — but after a leaked draft of the decision — an armed California man who wanted to kill Kavanaugh was arrested near the justice's Maryland home.

There have been numerous reports of protests against the conservative justices over their opposition to Roe v. Wade.

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