Huh?… Barney Frank Brings in Dukakis For Closing Argument
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, October 31, 2010, 1:40 AM
Sean Bielat is sprinting to the finish line. His crowds are massive and excited.
But across town the mood is much different.
Fleming and Hayes reported:
In a last-minute move of desperation, Barney Frank called in former governor and presidential-nominee, Michael Dukakis, to help him rally support…amongst his base in the liberal town of Brookline (well, maybe not so liberal anymore). Finding a Barney Frank event these days is harder to do than one might think. Despite the fact that Frank is truly fighting the reelection campaign of his life to republican challenger Sean Bielat, he’s staying peculiarly quiet and randomly popping up at small events amongst democrats. Ever since we organize a counter-rally to protest former President Bill Clinton’s visit to stump for Frank, Barney has avoided publicly announcing his campaign events, choosing to instead attend events with other (more popular?) candidates.
We finally tracked the elusive congressman down when we went undercover at an early morning democrat GOTV (get out the vote) rally in Brookline, MA. It gave an interesting perspective to be amongst the most “energized” of the democrat base, to hear what liberals have to say when they think no one is listening. Imagine our surprise when it was just more of the same! This could have simply been called a “Blame Bush” rally. The only refreshing aspect was the Dukakis angle, which meant that, for a change, George Bush Sr. (and even Reagan) shared some of the blame. Frank, on the other hand, stuck to the current talking points of a typical progressive: lashing out at Bush, the Republicans and the Tea Party.
Here’s Dukakis lashing out at Bush, Bush and Reagan.
What a dirge. That was sad.
Meanwhile… Across town Sean Bielat brought in big dog Senator Scott Brown and the crowd was fired up.
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Khan Krum commented:
He forgot to have him sticking out of the commander’s hatch in a tank wearing a ill-fitting tanker’s helmet.
newton commented:
Hey Barney Frank!
Four little words for you: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
Here’s the context. Look them up!
Happy reading (and weeping),
The American Tea Party
P.S. You don’t want to know what happened to the last guy who received that message…
Don’t Tread on US!
Bill Mitchell commented:
In a long list of satisfying moments Nov 2nd, watching Barney Frank lose may be the most satisfying of all.
After all, is he not the singular cause of the Fannie/Mae Real Estate Meltdown?
Yes, the banks were involved bundling bad mortgages and then creating derivatives to cover that risk, but wasn’t the reason they needed to do that Barney Frank’s insistence that they make bad loans out of “fairness”?
“Fairness” (the liberal version) is the single most destructive force in society today. By its definition, liberal “fairness” mean “equal outcomes, not equal opportunity”. On the other hand, conservatives believe fairness means “a level playing field”.
If everyone wins, there are no winners. If everyone is great, no one is great. Should I hold the scribblings of a second grader in the same esteem that I hold Shakespeare? Should my afternoon doodle be hung in the Louvre next to the Mona Lisa?
It is the law of natural selection that winners multiply and losers fade away. The further we try to engineer humanity away from that natural law, the more trouble we get ourselves into. It is like gravity: you can defeat it for a while in an airplane, but when you run out of fuel, even the most advanced aircraft falls back to earth.
Everyone gets a chance – not everyone wins. Even God himself has a heaven and a hell.
Elmo commented:
I tried to watch (got thirty seconds in) … can’t we just give ‘em their own planet?
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Militant Conservative commented:
One fact in the clip. American’s HAD a very short memory. Because of this they elected Democrats. Now they have seen in a short time span the damage done by the Democrat Majority in the House,Senate lead by a socialist president. SIMPLE, we get it. Now the country has risen up to vote the problem out.
the Tsunami is a coming in 2 days.
powder is dry
#1JetsFan! commented:
Never mind the hassels ’cause al-Bama is here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9JAKP4OhWM
Male Silverback commented:
Elmo #5: Funny, I have often wondered why we coulnd’t allow Claifornia to stand on its own as well. I guess we could call it a liberal “penal” colony, Barney would be on the 1st plane there.
squeaky commented:
every party has their pooper and that’s why….and so on. even the best of plans gets messed up by incompetent boobs and i hope obama has a million of them….
http://bigjournalism.com/pjsalvatore/2010/10/30/anchorage-cbs-affiliate-caught-on-voicemail-conspiring-against-alaskas-gop-senate-candidate/
Elmo commented:
Well Silver … I believe Texas the only state with an ‘out clause’?
Far too long the South’s been the butt of libturd humor. But if somehow that supah freak Brown, defeats Whitman? Don’t laugh … just say a prayer (for us). Can you imagine ANYONE voting for that &%#@*! It just boggles the mind. Then again, Meg ran a campaing that was far less than salutory … with a 150m … even I coulda beat him!
Scott commented:
Every American homeowner has been damaged by Fannie Mae…I worked in the Real Estate industry for decades and can tell you that virtually every discussion of mortgage qualifications led with “Fannie Mae rules.” The lax lending standards supervised by Barney Frank blew up our entire housing industry. Now, if you own a home your values have been impacted by the millions of foreclosures, some of which are right next door to you I’m sure…We should rightly have the biggest class action suit in history against Fannie Mae for damages. However, Fannie Mae is now a zombie company and ward of the state so we would in essence be suing ourselves…Re-electing Barney Frank, the architect of doom would be criminal!!!! The world is watching…
Mrs. X commented:
Ruh roh, Bawney…!
Scott commented:
Bringing in Dukakis….Well, as Drudge said, they are sending in the clowns.
Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:
newton
October 31st, 2010 | 3:50 am | #3
Interesting!
Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:
Tea anyone?
nadadhimmi commented:
Come on people. Time to realize with whom we are dealing. I find it hard to believe that The most liberal precincts in Brookline and other cities will not just simply destroy enough opposition votes to steal this election for Bawney. This will occur nationwide and will cheat into office many Dems that were outvoted! Please realize that for the Democrat opposition to win, they must carry the vote by over 1%. Vote fraud and election fixing is THE next big scandal. Of course, the Republicans will most likely meekly accept this assault on our Constitution. Ergo; the rise of the Tea Party Movement. Tea Partiers should and ARE taking over the GOP from the Precints on up. In 5 years, all the old hacks like Gingrich, McCain, Huckabee, Bush’s, Graham, et al , will be just a bad memory kinda like that explosive diarhrrea attack you had last year. And, like following that episode, stains will have to be removed.
Mil-tech Bard commented:
The corruption involved in the Fannie/Mae Real Estate Meltdown & bail out is doing to Chairman Frank exactly what the Savings & Loan mess/bail out did to the House Banking chairman then (named Rep Saint Germain?).
donh commented:
Friday I drove through Fall River and New Bedford , rolled down my car window, and shouted FIRE THE FANNY MAN….Monday I will go through what is left of Taunton. The place is turning into a ghost town.
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Valerie commented:
Bill Mitchell
October 31st, 2010 | 5:07 am | #4
…”If everyone wins, there are no winners. …”
Because I am a Liberal, I would say it differently. Nobody wins all the time. That is because the great Creator of us all built a wide range of capabilities into us, so that in a group, we can adapt, survive, and thrive in our unsafe, changing world.
One great genius of our species is its ability to acquire skills through education: dormant potential abilities that can be wakened through the magic of training, reading and practice.
We have the broadest livability range of any species that I know, broader than cockroaches. I know this, because I have lived in two cities in the United States where cockroaches cannot survive, except with human help.
We can live in the desert, the forest, on ice, under water and outside the atmosphere of this planet: all because we can be different from one another.
This means that, when we compete with one another on an even basis, we all lose, often. It’s a side effect of what makes us valuable to one another.
Gini commented:
Dukakis? You must be joking!
Gini commented:
Dukakis? Surely you jest!
newton commented:
“Espresso Logic – The 6th Sense
October 31st, 2010 | 7:21 am | #14 ”
Well, do you know where the expression “seeing the writing on the wall” comes from?
Gini commented:
Maybe Dukakis is the only politician who would speak well of Frank ……
donh commented:
This is the link of Michael Savage talking about the Fanny man refusing to pay a ferry boat fare to Fire island gay fantacy land….. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb_EDeRCjX8Here .. This link shows the Fire Island Fairy Boat that the Fanny man demanded a free ride fare…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2pIjzxp8Tg
AuntieMadder commented:
Heh…Fwank needed someone who doesn’t have a speach impediment to finish up the debate for him. Too bad for him that the best either of them could come up with was “It’s Boooosh’s fauwt!”
Jennifer commented:
send in the clowns, Barney!
billy sol commented:
hilarious! was iron mike come charging in on a tank. I wonder where he got his “Patton” gear, at a surplus store. I betcha Patton wouldn’t ride in the same tank with barrrrrrrney!!
LON commented:
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them” – Albert Einstein
We all need to critically evaluate from an objective perspective the facts pertaining to why or why not Mr. Frank should not be re- elected or elected.
Clearly, Washington is broken will and is the status quo acceptable? Has 30 years proved enough to say you may be part of the business as usual problem? A total lack of transparency and the outright cover up of Trap funding for AIG and GM..
This is not nor should it be about partisan politics IT IS NOT about Democrats V. Republicans!
As a proud member of the Jewish faith I find Mr. Franks disparaging comments below highly disturbing and reason for concern as they relate to Counter -terrorism ties in the middle-east, National security and US/Israel relations -
In the Boston Globe, Published: June 2, 2010. Hillary Chabot and Marie Szaniszlo “Barney Frank calls for probe of Gaza raid” I quote:
Frank, in a wide-ranging interview with the Herald, went on to say that “as a Jew,” Israeli treatment of Arabs around some of the West Bank settlements “makes me ashamed that there would be Jews that would engage in that kind of victimization of a minority.”
Next we all need to seriously consider the push for “rolling the dice” with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Stephen Labaton (Published: September 11, 2003). “New Agency Proposed to Oversee Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae – New York Times” Frank stated, “These two entities…are not facing any kind of financial crisis…. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.”
I am sure that Mr. Frank has provided some benefit during his 30 years service in the congress to the district. That being said the system in Washington is broken and as part of that dysfunctional system for 30 years you need to accept responsibility. Let us all remember the words of Albert Einstein when we vote tomorrow…