HMMM – ELIZABETH THE SPHYNX – AT 9:55 A.M. ET:   Watch Elizabeth Warren carefully.  She's one of the most popular figures in the Democratic Party, with almost all of her power centered in the party's dominant left wing.  From The Hill: 

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Monday that she has no intention of backing a contender in the Democratic presidential primary just yet.

“No endorsements now,” she said before Iowa’s first-the-nation caucuses that night, according to MassLive.com.

“We’ll see,” the progressive lawmaker added when asked if she would announce a pick following contest’s results.

Warren also praised the Democratic presidential field for conducting a policy-oriented race in comparison to their GOP counterparts.

“I think that what the Democrats are doing is terrific,” she said. "We’re out talking about the issues. I look at the Republican debates and the difference between what they’re doing and what the Democrats are doing that really shows who’s on whose side.”

Warren then refused comment on whether Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton’s past ties with Wall Street trouble her.

“[I have] concerns about everybody’s relationships with Wall Street,” she said in Springfield, Mass. "This is a rigged game and it’s rigged because Wall Street makes sure that in every decision that gets made they’re there. They make sure they’ve got their lobbyists and their lawyers so that everything tilts just a little more in their direction. This is what I’m fighting every day in the United States Senate.”

Warren has notably remained silent on who she supports for her party’s presidential nomination. She has refrained from picking fellow progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), but remains the only female senator who has not backed Clinton either.

COMMENT:  Ah, the only female senator (the writer of the piece meant the only female Democratic senator) not to back Clinton.  I wonder why.  What is Warren planning? 

We've been noting that Joe Biden seems ready to step into the race should Hillary be brought down by the FBI investigation into her behavior at the State Department.  To pacify the left, Biden, often seen as a traditional liberal, could easily choose Warren.

Or...Warren, with Hillary rubbed out, could make a run for it herself.  Or be a compromise candidate if no one goes to the convention with enough votes to win.

I don't know what her strategy is...but I do know that it's all about Liz.

February 2, 2016