Enero 4, 2013

Barney Frank does want Kerry's Senate seat.

"A month ago, or a few weeks ago, I said I wasn’t interested... It was kind of like you’re about to graduate, and they said: 'You gotta go to summer school.' But [the fiscal cliff deal] now means that February, March and April are going to be among the most important months in American financial history.... “I’ve told the governor I would now like, frankly, to do that...."

73 komento:

rehajm ayon kay ...

How can we miss you if you won't go away?

Widmerpool ayon kay ...

Christ almighty.

MadisonMan ayon kay ...

Continuing a fine tradition of excellence in Democratic Senators.

Peachy ayon kay ...

Our nation cannot absorb any more Barney Chris Dodd Fannie Freddie Frank.

Widmerpool ayon kay ...

But hey, he can't be worse than my godawful congressman, Ed Markey.

Guildofcannonballs ayon kay ...

It is amazing to imagine the selfless task this wonderful Jimmy Stewart and Mark Twain type-of-a-man, a public servant longer than I have been alive, is willing to endure to help his country in this great time of need.

Barney Frank is a true American hero and I doubt America will do anything but quickly implode if Frank ever leaves the stage for any reason, ever.

Jay Vogt ayon kay ...

Is it just me, or has he chronically overused the word "frankly" for years? I don't trust people that say frankly, honestly, or truthfully in their day to day speach.

Peachy ayon kay ...

Frank wants it. Meaning - the MA democrats better hand it to him.

Nonapod ayon kay ...

Just what we need now. Clearly we don't have nearly enough buffoons, twits, nitwits, morons, and pin heads running things as it is. Let's cram some more into the ol' clown car.

X ayon kay ...

I guess his boyfriend needs to loot Freddie Mac some more.

Expat(ish) ayon kay ...

I read that as "Barney Frank wants Kerry's seat" .....

-XC

LuAnn Zieman ayon kay ...
Naalis ng may-ari ang komentong ito.
Guildofcannonballs ayon kay ...

Barney Frank rises above most everyone by great heights.

He also, being a mega-giant of an American hero, crushes other little giants, on whose shoulders most of the rest of us stand.

Therefore, to the unsophisticated, Barney Frank looks like he's near our level when in fact he towers above us like a gentle Angel of Economic Enlightenment.

Unknown ayon kay ...

Massachussetts is gonna be Massachussetts. And it's not like the opposition is real or anything. It's very much a case of pick your poison. It'll all kill you.

Charlie Currie ayon kay ...

Hasn't he done enough damage to the country.

Cheers

Unknown ayon kay ...

Keep the extra s's to use next time you need to spell Mississippi.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

You couldn't make this stuff up.

Bryan C ayon kay ...

Thank God. I was really worried there for a while.

Cedarford ayon kay ...

Corrupt old (72 years) Queen either wants:

1. His Congressional pension padded.
2. Ability to pimp his boyfriend to new plush Fed appointments, since he can't do it in the House with Reps in charge, but can pimp "Sugarbritches" as quid pro quo in the Senate.

This assumes of course that Massachusetts Dems are really that arrogant they would foist Barney up to higher office after the days of Dodd-Frank-Raines..
They really are that arrogant.

And Ed Markey is hardly an improvement.

McTriumph ayon kay ...

Barney Frank doesn't want to find himself a private citizen when the Nantucket sleigh ride he helped instigate ends abruptly.

Peachy ayon kay ...

Cedarford. That's right. Frank wants it just long enough to pad his pockets, help his cronies, and do what he states he wants to do: Hike the debt ceiling.

Known Unknown ayon kay ...

He's 72?

Go home. Like a normal person.

gerry ayon kay ...

I went in the boss one day to complain about something, and said, "May I be frank?"

She said, "OH MY HEAVENS NO!!!"

Big Mike ayon kay ...

It's called "Potomac fever." Once a politician gets it, it's incurable.

dbp ayon kay ...

Using "frankly" when your name is Frank is totally gay. And by gay, I mean lame.

tim maguire ayon kay ...

I can't picture Barney Frank without seeing his eyes bug out with dollar signs. Just the thought of how much more money he'd get to steal from the American people must keep him awake at night.

Christmas every day!

McTriumph ayon kay ...

Maybe he just realised Newton, Mass. has shitty gay bars, compared to Georgetown.

Brian Brown ayon kay ...
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Brian Brown ayon kay ...

Hey if this "public service" these guys do is so valuable and challenging, why can all these 70, 80, and 90 year olds continue to do it?

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

Once Barney realizes he only has to face re-election every 6 years, he'll change his mind.

McTriumph ayon kay ...

tim maguire

I can imagine barney's eyes bugging out and it reminds me of an old joke.

Drivers' ed teacher asked the class, "Does anyone know how to make a u-turn?"

John raises his hand and the teacher calls on him. John excited says, "No, but I know how to make her eyes bug out".

Yes, I can imagine Barney's eyes bugged out.

Chip Ahoy ayon kay ...

where u = ewe, ha ha ha, that's bad so very very bad. My brain tried to protect me by not understanding that and I go, understand that! and it did and then it went, see? I tried to protect you.

bagoh20 ayon kay ...

Regardless of one's creativity, if you try to do a caricature of Barney it always comes out less absurd than the original.

Balfegor ayon kay ...

Barney Frank isn't so bad. After all, look who replaced him on the House Financial Services Committee. Maxine Waters.

edutcher ayon kay ...

Ed Maakey, though a dolt, has always gone along to get along.

Slobbering Barney has to impress people with his brilliance, wit, and acerbic tongue.

I'd say the smart money's on Maakey.

Jay said...

Hey if this "public service" these guys do is so valuable and challenging, why can all these 70, 80, and 90 year olds continue to do it?

Public service in this case is being fellated on the floor of the House by a 15 year old page.

McTriumph ayon kay ...

Chip, it was a funnier joke when I first heard it on the golf course, told by Craig, a gentleman farmer lawyer, that raises sheep. We were standing on the sixth tee box, which abuts his farm and suddenly fifty sheep come charging up to the fence baying "craaaaaaaaaig".

Michael Haz ayon kay ...
Naalis ng may-ari ang komentong ito.
Cedarford ayon kay ...

tim maguire said...
I can't picture Barney Frank without seeing his eyes bug out with dollar signs. Just the thought of how much more money he'd get to steal from the American people must keep him awake at night.

Christmas every day!

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In his case, Hannuka every day.

And as a country, we really have to rethink favoring corrupt old pols and aged judges clinging to power and money and wanting more of each when we generally in every other job, institution, and industry want people to retire to make way for new blood.
I don't think the courts, the Congress work well as a gerentocracy.

bagoh20 ayon kay ...
Naalis ng may-ari ang komentong ito.
bagoh20 ayon kay ...

Balfegor, One of the biggest embarrassments of my life - and there are some doosies - is that Maxine Waters is my Congressperson. I mean she so perfectly represents my values and political desires. It's like we were separated at birth, and someone pulled her out of the medical waste dumpster and raised her as a human being.

McTriumph ayon kay ...

bagoh20 , that last line trumps my sheep joke, I'm stealing it.

TMink ayon kay ...

Barney does want Kerry's seat. He probably wants the seat of most men in government.

Trey

tim maguire ayon kay ...

Hannuka every day. I'm showing my biases.

McTriumph, what Chip said. I'm ashamed I laughed at that, but I did.

Balfegor, I'd rather have utter incompetence.

While there is a lot of blame to go around on the financial collapse, and everyone deserving of blame is doing what he can to make sure the finger is pointed elsewhere, the two individuals by far the most responsible, the two individuals without whom this disaster would not have happened, are named Barney Frank and Chris Dodd.

It's no coincidence that they wrote the reforms that are supposed to prevent a future melt-down. How better to make certain the real culprits are never brought to justice than to have those very culprits leading the inquiry?

Methadras ayon kay ...

Won't someone think of the children and keep this raving lunatic away from our economic collapse?

Shouting Thomas ayon kay ...

Barney Fwank and Fauxcahontas!

Together in the Senate!

Fuckin' A!

bagoh20 ayon kay ...

Yea, what if it was Barney's foot that roamed in that bathroom stall - like that's never happened. Would Republicans have attacked him for it and run him out of town? Would Dems have defended him?

I think we know the answers. The guy had a gay escort service run from his home, and he is still around decades later.

Shouting Thomas ayon kay ...

The Republic has disintegrated into glorious comedy!

To quote the Grateful Dead:

I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe
But at least I'm enjoying the ride, at least I'll enjoy the ride.
Ride, ride, ride
At least I'll enjoy the ride.


Sit back and enjoy the ride. There's no way to stop the descent.

Paul ayon kay ...

Barny Frank? The one who presided over the Fanny Mae fiasco? The one who helped crash Wall Street?

We need him in the Senate like we need Al Franklin (well we already have him but who needs another catastrophe!)

Barny can stay home with his Man/Wife.

F ayon kay ...

The mind boggles at just how ludicrous it is to think about Barney Frank in the Senate taking care of financial matters. The mind just boggles. Fox guarding the henhouse doesn't even come close to describing the image. Maybe something like "Obama improving employment figures."

garage mahal ayon kay ...

Wait a cotton picking minute. Isn't Scott Brown owed this seat!?

Seeing Red ayon kay ...

John Adams to Barney Frank & Fauxahontas.

How far Massachusettes & we have fallen.

Eric the Fruit Bat ayon kay ...

"Barney Frank does want Kerry's Senate seat."

I'm going to assume the Senate cafeteria serves better food.

Brian Brown ayon kay ...

Again,

His tenure in the House in a nutshell:

“These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis,” said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ”The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.”


Note that the Bush Administration and Republicans in Congress wanted to have more oversight of Fannie & Freddy.

Frank and the Democrats fought it at every turn.

Shouting Thomas ayon kay ...

Didn't MA just legalize medicinal marijuana, too!

Why don't they just skip to the chase and send Cheech & Chong to the Senate?

Not That There's Anything Wrong With That!

Shouting Thomas ayon kay ...

affordable housing!

Sailer has coined another term to describe what this is really about... awardable housing!

In other words, payoffs to the politically favored!

RonF ayon kay ...

Barney Frank has been interested in a lot of men's seats.

RonF ayon kay ...

Barney Frank has been interested in a lot of men's seats.

Sam L. ayon kay ...

Can he be worse than the former SNL writer who's a Minnesota Senator?

I'll take "LIKELY" for $200, Alex.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

Frank has already blown his chance.

Michael Haz ayon kay ...
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SteveR ayon kay ...

Somehow given what has transpired over the last few months, this makes perfect sense. Here's a guy who played no small part (personally and politically) in a government program that has negatively affected the U.S. economy. He has been defensive to the extreme, taken no responsibilty, and paid no price.

Promote him.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

lmao.

Corrupt little pimp and bribed official (all public information now) wants a senate seat.

Why not? Massachusetts elected Kennedys, for crying out loud. Minnesota elected an unfunny, failed SNL comedian. Virginia elected a turncoat liar and Obama suckup. NY elected a carptetbagger who did nothing for the state and lived there less than a presidential term. Hell, Chicago elected Mayor a man who blatantly violated the rules and should not have been on the ballot at all.

This is the corruption you OBama whores wanted. Enjoy the decline, asshats!

Mary Beth ayon kay ...

Michael Haz said...

Gay jokes and double entendre that involve Barny Frank. So totally original.

And the obvious headline regarding wanting another man's seat....enlightened.

1/4/13 11:47 AM


I Googled "wants Kennedy's seat" (because that was the first one I could think of) just to compare and about half of the first page of results said "Senate seat" and the rest just said "seat". How is not using a common phrase because you're talking about a gay man more enlightened?

Drago ayon kay ...

NotquiteunBuckley said: "Therefore, to the unsophisticated, Barney Frank looks like he's near our level when in fact he towers above us like a gentle Angel of Economic Enlightenment."

Actually, he's a gentle Engels of Economic Enlightenment....

Icepick ayon kay ...

Goddamn, hasn't he fucked the entire nation in the ass enough for one eternity?

Scott M ayon kay ...

It would be only slightly less outrageous than the lip-peeling anger wrought when Ted Kennedy did a 180 on whether or not vacancies in Mass should be chosen by the people not the governor (when a Republican was a governor) to making sure the governor chose (when it was a democrat).

This is the kind of thing that makes you want to violently drive things through other things, neither of which were designed for one another.

Scott M ayon kay ...

Frank has already blown his chance.

What did Chance have to say about it?

SGT Ted ayon kay ...

Once a whore, always a whore.

Aaron ayon kay ...

I guess he wants to "roll the dice" again.

SGT Ted ayon kay ...

I think all Senators should be required to wear red clown noses when speaking. That way, it's obvious to everybody whats really going on.

JackWayne ayon kay ...

When will people not in Massachusetts begin to realize they are dealing with the uber-drunk in the family, the crack-head, the vicious criminal, the black sheep that HAS TO BE KICKED OUT OF THE FAMILY? They keep sending us drunks, manslaughterers, traitors, communists, mental midgets and all number of woeful individuals. Isn't it time for an intervention?

Amartel ayon kay ...

Poli-tick. Sucking the blood of the people. Can't be deprived of the host, can't live outside the beltway.

"Why don't they just skip to the chase and send Cheech & Chong to the Senate?"

Cheech and Chong would get stoned and do nothing all day which would be a vast improvement. Also, Cheech and Chong have discernible talent, are funny, endearing and entertaining. Stop comparing Cheech and Chong to this old whore.

Mountain Maven ayon kay ...

He was run out of his seat in congress so now he wants a promotion. Shame is a quaint anachronism.

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