Barney Frank calls Barack Obama dumb.


(H/T Instapundit) Come, I will conceal nothing from you: I respect Barney Frank‘s political skills.  I absolutely can’t stand what he uses those skills for, but I recognize that Rep. Frank has them, and that he knows how to use them effectively.  To give just one example, Rep. Frank was about the only Democrat to make it through last year’s August health care meltdown without looking like either an abject coward, or a purblind fool*. You don’t have to like him – and I don’t – to recognize that.

Which is why Rep. Frank calling the Obama administration “dumb” for putting out an expectation of 8% unemployment if the stimulus passed is so interesting. First off, it’s a refreshing change from the previous narrative, which was that you were a dirty racist right-wing homophobe for taking the Romer-Bernstein graph seriously in the first place**.  True, it turns out that people were idiots for taking the stimulus as a job saver seriously, but that’s a different issue.Add this to the news that Rep. Frank now wants to abolish Fannie/Freddie (which, as Will Collier notes, is a bit of a switch) and one is forced to wonder: does he have access to polling data that apparently the rest of his party does not?  Or does Rep. Frank merely smell November on the breeze?

Moe Lane

PS: With regard to the Fannie/Freddie thing, it never hurts to review the timeline.

*I refer, of course, to his striking back against that Larouchite Democrat (found here).  Admittedly, he was responding to a left-wing universal health care advocate there, but still…

**I exaggerate, of course: Media Matters couldn’t stuff in the homophobe bit effectively enough.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.


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I trust Barney to be Barney,

NoDoze Wednesday, August 18th at 3:28PM EST (link)

but I don’t trust his good intentions any farther than I can throw a full-grown polar bear. Here is his “tell” on the subject:

“[Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac] should be abolished,” Frank said in an interview on Fox Business, when asked whether the mortgage giants should be elements in housing market reform. “They only question is what do you put in their place,” Frank said.

Fan and Fred have become so politically radioactive that any self-interested Dem. should run from them like I had better run from that polar bear I was trying to throw. BUT, Barney wants to replace them with something else. I feel certain that their replacements would be as bad, or worse, than the present abominations.

they know what they want and i know i dont like it

danmiles (Diary) Thursday, August 19th at 8:59AM EST (link)

“They only question is what do you put in their place,” Frank said.

Frank wants fannie and freddie to oversee rental property and condos.

rental for the serfs and condos for the real rear suckers.

Keep

dude Thursday, August 19th at 12:58PM EST (link)

in mind that this is the guy who said there is nothing wrong with Fred and Fan every time Republicans and even Clinton tried to tighten regulations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs&feature=related

 
 
 

Autumn does come earlier in New England...

acat (Diary) Wednesday, August 18th at 3:36PM EST (link)

Perhaps Barney is feeling the nip* of fall in the air.

Mew

* there’s too many possible tasteless jokes, I couldn’t pick just one.

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I think that Barney is covering his tracks and getting that bandwagon to call Obama dumb on this issue

Richard Mullins (Diary) Wednesday, August 18th at 4:04PM EST (link)

is one of those things. I don’t think that the brains work well and while it’s nice that he want to have Freddie/Fannie abolished, it seems a little late. I think that this is the case of the pot calling the kettle black.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

Pot calling the kettle dumb

havasu Wednesday, August 18th at 4:26PM EST (link)

Hey, was that some narrow-minded, loony conservative racist reference? Would you have said ‘pot calling the kettle black’ if the president was white? Huh? HUH?

Sorry, I just had to throw in the prototypical liberal distraction comment, if only to deprive the liberals of it.

Now, if it was the pot calling the kettle an amoral, scheming political tapeworm: now, there’s a comparison I can live with…

Hey, Troll did ever think about what you typed

Richard Mullins (Diary) Wednesday, August 18th at 6:49PM EST (link)

probably not and you seem to be at home at the Daily Kos(you seem like a cossick). Just to let you know, Obama is much black as i am Native American(in other words, very little). Oh and by the way, even if it was Joe Biden, I’d say the same thing. I hope the blam hammer comes out on you.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

Psst

Neil Stevens (Diary) Wednesday, August 18th at 7:12PM EST (link)

He was kidding :)

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Well the start of the post, rubbed me the wrong way

Richard Mullins (Diary) Wednesday, August 18th at 7:22PM EST (link)

and I knew what I meant. Barney has only known public sector and getting rid of Freddie/Fannie is another way to have a new public housing company named after him. Having Freddie/Fannie as a Public/Private company set it up a fall. Not giving regulation of it was very stupid.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

 
 
 
 

Doubt you can do that

dude Thursday, August 19th at 12:52PM EST (link)

Can we bankrupt Soros, BP, Moveon.org? Not likely.

But we can use their own words against them, like in this video on Fannie May hearing. I would truly love to see Maxine Waters and Franks become unemployed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs&feature=related

Maxine Waters and Bawney Fwanks

dambama Thursday, August 19th at 2:53PM EST (link)

Maxine Waters and Bawney Fwanks are Barry Obama’s biological parents.

They were going to name him Bawney Jr., but decided on Barry.

This explains Obama’s stupidity, and his limp wristed leadership. It also sheds light on his tendency to bend over at the waist when meeting other men.

 
 
 

I suspect that "abolish Freddie/Fannie" is code for

clintonformccain Wednesday, August 18th at 4:10PM EST (link)

“another huge government bailout of Fredde/Fannie Mac”.

"Abolish Freddie/Frannie" may be code for a cover-up.

fastfission Wednesday, August 18th at 5:40PM EST (link)

What better way to hide Frank and Dodd’s roles in the housing bubble explosion.

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ywhyvon1 Wednesday, August 18th at 5:53PM EST (link)

Socialist with fork looking for Socialist with pork pie-unknown

 

"Abolish Freddie/Frannie" means "This chicken coop is watched, need a new one".

acat (Diary) Wednesday, August 18th at 6:02PM EST (link)

Simple.

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LOL. Yep, they have outlived their purpose,

NoDoze Wednesday, August 18th at 6:17PM EST (link)

now we need to change the names to “Agency for Balancing the Budget” or some such deceptive nonsense.

I think that Barney Frank wants to have a new agency named after him

Richard Mullins (Diary) Wednesday, August 18th at 6:53PM EST (link)

that way in case he loses a primary or a general election, they can think of him. Freddie/Fannie aren’t his type of agencies, he wants to have an ego filled one.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

The really devious ones don't put their own names on the door.... [nt]

acat (Diary) Thursday, August 19th at 12:13AM EST (link)

That’s why there are jokes about renaming West Virginia after Robert Byrd…..

Mew

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I must vent, sorry

bwakefield Thursday, August 19th at 10:28AM EST (link)

Barney is a lying, scum bag faggot!! This no good son of a you know what, along with Chris Dodd, lied to the American people, lied to congress put hundreds of thousands of people who could not afford a house into a house at the taxpayers expense. We the taxpayers have been bilked by Barney for trillions of dollars in a ponzi scheme worse than that of Bernie Maddox. Barney has lined his pockets with Freddie and Fanny kick backs, made his buddies rich with the taxpayers millions, and this piece of crap is still walking the streets. What Barney has done is a crime if not treason. Someone needs to lock this fat slobbering piece of garbage up in a prison where he can be the resident butt boy for the general prison population. I can’t believe that Barney and Dodd are still free men.

Barney Frank, lying criminal scum!

benson1 Thursday, August 19th at 9:30PM EST (link)

As for the rest of your comments ditto, ditto, ditto!

 
 

Or does Rep. Frank merely smell November on the breeze?

dambama Thursday, August 19th at 2:30PM EST (link)

More than likely he is smelling his own farts.

Bawney is just pointing out the stupidity of anyone thinking a socialist nation can ever have unemployment as low as 8%, much less say it out loud.

Bawney knew it would be disproven publicly, and Obama would have it shoved in his face over and over again. Like the tea bagging thing the libs keep referring to, and Bawney is an expert at.