For a guy who loves to talk and loves to be on TV, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank sure is touchy about having his own words from a national TV interview quoted:
“Here’s what he said, my friends, and I quote, ‘focus on an immediate increase in spending,’ we should take him at his word,” McCain went on. “And when he says there are, quote, ‘a lot of very rich people out there whom we can tax,’ it’s safe to assume he’s talking about you.”
Frank yesterday dismissed McCain’s words as “an appeal to prejudice” that he said reminded him of past Republican efforts to raise voter concerns about the prospect of congressmen Charles Rangel and John Conyers, who are black, becoming committee chairs.
“I’m flattered by this,” said Frank, who is gay. “But I don’t think I’m the single most important member of the House after Nancy Pelosi. There are also a lot of straight white men who are committee chairmen.”
McCain’s chief speechwriter, Mark Salter, shook his head when asked to respond. “We’re bringing him up for his quotes,” said Salter. “We’re prejudiced against wasteful spenders and tax hikers.”
McCain also knocked Frank for calling for cuts in the defense budget to pay for new domestic spending.
Chairman Frank is a very powerful man in Washington, and about to get a lot more powerful if Obama wins the White House. He said on national television what he wants to do with that power. He can’t hide from what he wants to do to the taxpayers by invoking his sex life.
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I don't care...
liberalrepublican (Diary) Wednesday, October 29th at 5:58PM EST (link)What Barney does in his private life.
I don’t care who he marries.
But when he makes his sexuality an issue when no one brings it up is offensive.
He is acting like a jerk.
“Broadly speaking, liberalism emphasizes individual rights and equality of opportunity. … including extensive freedom of thought and speech, limitations on the power of governments, the rule of law, the free exchange of ideas, a market or mixed economy”
Barney's taking a page out of the Obama playbook.
Husker (Diary) Wednesday, October 29th at 6:05PM EST (link)Criticize him or his Democrat collegues, and your a racist, homophobe, xenophobe, add your own -ist or -phobe, as I get a headache trying to keep track of them all.
I told everyone here last week...
izoneguy (Diary) Wednesday, October 29th at 6:09PM EST (link)…that Franknfurter would hide behind his gayness.
Not that their is anything wrong in being gay.
But when you use excuses to cover up your actions that is not acceptable and should not be ignored. This time McCain is not ignoring the obvious truth that should be told.
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
BARNEY FWANK
abgeraci Wednesday, October 29th at 6:24PM EST (link)Why do the voters in his district keep sending this fairy to Washington?
He should go to jail!
JRD Wednesday, October 29th at 6:29PM EST (link)We have to hold these dudes accountable for the financial crisis they created in this country. Barney Frank can call me all the names he wants. I just want him in jail! He screwed up and left us with the bill. You know what they say about paybacks. I ain
t shutting up about this I dont care who is the president. Nancy Pelosi this isn`t going away. If there was a conservative to blame you would have crucified him already. Looks like Barney Frank is your sacrificial lamb!He should go to jail!
JRD Wednesday, October 29th at 6:30PM EST (link)We have to hold these dudes accountable for the financial crisis they created in this country. Barney Frank can call me all the names he wants. I just want him in jail! He screwed up and left us with the bill. You know what they say about paybacks. I ain
t shutting up about this I dont care who is the president. Nancy Pelosi this isn`t going away. If there was a conservative to blame you would have crucified him already. Looks like Barney Frank is your sacrificial lamb!Out of all the people involved in the FM/FM debacle...
izoneguy (Diary) Wednesday, October 29th at 7:08PM EST (link)..I am sure Franknfurter would enjoy being in jail with big guys.
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
Dem's are like a skipping CD
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Wednesday, October 29th at 10:03PM EST (link)I’d say a broken Record, but it would show my age.
Like a horrible Snoop-Dogg Gangsta Rap tune you can’t get away from cuz it’s on all the Radio stations….
pick another of your own metaphor
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Breaking......Barney Frank needs to get a grip
speciallist (Diary) Wednesday, October 29th at 10:18PM EST (link)When will the torture end???
MomInFlyOverZone Wednesday, October 29th at 10:18PM EST (link)When does this dolt come up for re-election? Heaven help us if the send him back. I can’t believe him, he’s a true blue idiot!
I just used the last page of their playbook for personal hygiene.
Tim_Schieferecke (Diary) Wednesday, October 29th at 10:29PM EST (link)The only way that crap works is if you let it work. It’s fun to laugh at idiots that play their various lib cards and then tell them to “focus”. They hate being refocused on the argument at hand because they can’t win.
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