Public Option redux

Ezra Klein likes the three front runners to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - Elizabeth Warren, Gene Kimmelman, and Michael Barr - but ultimately hopes Warren will be nominated.

He believes Warren's nomination is being blown out of proportion by the left. However her selection would keep her inside the tent, pissing out - including forestalling a possible run for election - and it would help "firm up the base" in time for the November elections.