Comments on: Barney Frank: “…Now They’re Starting to Hate Me…”

By: Diana

Diana — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:53:04 +0000

Won’t be that way for long. Barney Frank doesn’t need to worry either whole lot of people are going to be hated here shortly, he won’t be alone in his boat. Although for Barney to me his biggest problem is he doesn’t know when to stop, he’s once again screwing around in the housing market asking them to drop the qualifications, we’re going to end right back up in the same boat.

WASHINGTON — Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad has risen sharply in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis of travel records shows, involving everything from war-zone visits to trips to exotic spots such as the Galápagos Islands.

The spending on overseas travel is up almost tenfold since 1995, and has nearly tripled since 2001, according to the Journal analysis of 60,000 travel records. Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in 2008 at a cost of about $13 million. That’s a 50% jump since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago.

The cost of so-called congressional delegations, known among lawmakers as “codels,” has risen nearly 70% since 2005, when an influence-peddling scandal led to a ban on travel funded by lobbyists, according to the data.

For complete story:
http://tinyurl.com/nmvohp

By: oowawa

oowawa — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:32:38 +0000

O’s a snugglebunny for sure, but I don’t think he’s got the nerve to hug Barney in front of the cameras . . .

By: cathnealon

cathnealon — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:47:38 +0000

The people he screwed have no money left, no jobs, no future and he worries that everybody hates him. Who are these crooks, these idiots that the Americans put in office? America is a sinking ship and Frank is whining, BO poses with fake hugs and gives luaus while N Korea threatens to aim a missile at Hawaii. These are crazy Madoff like criminals but instead of ripping off billions they’e into he trillions. God save us.

By: tzada

tzada — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:45:55 +0000

From the WSJ

Barney Frank, Car Czar
Let GM restructure…except in my state.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124416281882387463.html

By: foxyladi14

foxyladi14 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:40:56 +0000

vote out all these crooks.asap

By: Ferd Berfle

Ferd Berfle — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:32:32 +0000

Yet another irrelevant argument from the master of illogic. Your constant appeal to common practice has become old, Zippy. How many times does one have to instruct you that such arguments are fallacious. Let me add that even if we grant you this petty little diversionary tactic, it does not answer the current charge. You are never on point, never respond in a straightforward manner, and always fall back on the such and such did it, too. This thread is not about past administrations, your insipid protestations to the contrary. Try for once in your sorry comic-strip existence to stay on topic, focus on the subject at hand, and refrain from non-sequiturs.

By: Peggy Sue

Peggy Sue — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:10:11 +0000

Your apoligies and excuses are becoming more and more irrelvant, ziggy. That was then, this is now.

The ship is sinking. Or haven’t you noticed?

And you know what? Regardless of the party with the biggest footprint, even Obamatrons will drown.

By: jbjd

jbjd — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:52:56 +0000

R3A, I recall you mentioned you had voted for BF in an earlier comment. I meant to ask whether you lived in MA; sorry to find out, you moved.

By: CentralMass

CentralMass — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:17:11 +0000

On every single interview I’ve seen him give for months, he ends up dodging questions and angrily accusing the interviewer of trying to ambush him, and then end’s the interview. Even if it is a “friendly” interviewer. When a tough question is asked. he never give and answers to anyone (liberal or conservative)

By: Lee12

Lee12 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:00:55 +0000

On behalf of the LGBT community:

Go S.C.R.E.W. urself Barney!

By: DeniseL

DeniseL — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:44:07 +0000

And who controls the purse strings? Congress.

By: Docelder

Docelder — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:25:32 +0000

I am thinking Barney (the big white dinosaur) is going to want to resurrect the housing bubble as soon as they realize that stimulus isn’t going to work and the closer we get to another socks and underwear Christmas for Americans.

By: Ziggy

Ziggy — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:16:41 +0000

Wikipedia has compiled a plethora of numbers for us, president by president, party by party, showing federal spending, federal debt, and the corresponding GDP:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_by_U.S._presidential_terms

Note the increasingly steep spikes in annual federal deficits over the past 40 years, and then take note of who was running the store during each of those spikes.

Now perform the same sort of review, looking instead at decreases in the rate of deficit spending.

The numbers speak clearly. Draw your own conclusions.

By: Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:13:33 +0000

I can’t believe I voted for this guy when I lived in MA. It may be hard to believe NOW, but he USED to be for “the little people” - or at least he gave a much better performance that he was.

That being said, I lost respect for him a while ago…

By: socalannie

socalannie — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:11:09 +0000

now they’re starting to hate me

Gee, that’s a damn shame. Thanks for the laugh LD!

By: Ray SF

Ray SF — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:10:07 +0000

Hate him? I hate Satan. I absolutely DETEST that Barney Frank!!!

By: Peggy Sue

Peggy Sue — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:06:59 +0000

Hahaha. Good one, oowawa. And perfect for Barney!

Frank must be tone deaf if he thinks the growing distrust and animosity started last week. His comments about Frannie Mae and Freddie Mac last year, how they were perfectly sound and solid, shortly before they collapsed was the point at which I said, “something’s very rotten in Denmark.”

It would be bad enough if Barney was the exception to the rule. But we have a whole slew of these so-called “representatives” from both parties with dirty hands and blanched hearts.

Time to start calling them out. They deserve more that our disdain. They deserve a Spartan jailcell. Toss them in with Bernie Madoff, birds of a feather.

The Frank whine is incredible. These people really have no regard for the public. They’re too busy covering their own rearends.

By: candymarl

candymarl — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:42:23 +0000

Who could hate Mr. There’s nothing wrong with Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae? I mean the folks who bought homes using those programs, and then lost them, couldn’t possibly be upset could they? Nah.

By: HC123

HC123 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:37:47 +0000

Awwww, poor BF. Maybe President Obama can hug him like he did the homeless woman or cancer lady? He is such a snugglebug this kee-razy new POTUS of ours. Or are his hugs only for the tee vee?

By: oowawa

oowawa — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:29:36 +0000

Nobody likes me, everybody hates me,
I think I’ll go eat worms!
Big fat juicy ones,
Eensie weensy squeensy ones,
See how they wiggle and squirm!

I bite off the heads, and suck out the juice,
And throw the skins away!
Nobody knows how fat I grow,
On worms three times a day!