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Barney Frank will not seek reelection in 2012

Interesting that after all he has achieved in the liberal scheme of things, and now all of the sudden he packs it in? Funny how after a book outlining how these rats scammed the system comes out, he gets out. He is a crook, and should be investigated, by an independent entity.

j-mac


The restructured his district to only include Brookline and Newton. The new towns in his district are to the west and are more conservative than his former. It was pretty obvious to a lot of us that knew about the areas that he either wouldn't run or he stood a good chance of losing.
 
The restructured his district to only include Brookline and Newton. The new towns in his district are to the west and are more conservative than his former. It was pretty obvious to a lot of us that knew about the areas that he either wouldn't run or he stood a good chance of losing.

So, he is a coward. Because there is a chance of losing, he gets out. See, I thought that libs like him believed that their ideas were better, and anyone that didn't believe as they did were just uneducated rubes. However, like most con men, when there is a chance that they will be defeated, they run like little girls.

j-mac
 
So, he is a coward. Because there is a chance of losing, he gets out. See, I thought that libs like him believed that their ideas were better, and anyone that didn't believe as they did were just uneducated rubes. However, like most con men, when there is a chance that they will be defeated, they run like little girls.

j-mac

That is politicians in general though, they retire to not lose. Although a House member from SC ran, even though it looked like he would lose to the Republican.
 
Hes 70. Hes got a lot of legislation passed he wanted to. Maybe he simply wants to retire in a good place (at least as far as he is concerned). Not too terribly surprising I suppose, but you could wish more politicians would never make to an age where how much power they have accrued over their long career is part of their retirement plans. How I wish term limits for legislature were part of the constitution.
 
The fact that he was so much smarter, and better spoken than his conservative detractors really pissed them off no end. Obviously. :lol:
 
The fact that he was smart enough to have gay sex with underage boys for decades and still get re-elected unlike his conservative detractors really pissed them off no end. Obviously. :lol:

again...corrected for accuracy
 
again...corrected for accuracy

Changing people's quotes ... that is funny.

And AFAIK there is no evidence that he ever had sex with an underage boy.
 
The fact that he was so much smarter, and better spoken than his conservative detractors really pissed them off no end. Obviously. :lol:

just to be clear: we are talking about Barney "I want to roll the dice more in favor of sub-prime mortgages" Frank, right?
 
just to be clear: we are talking about Barney "I want to roll the dice more in favor of sub-prime mortgages" Frank, right?

No, I think you're talking about a different guy.

Oxley hits back at ideologues
By Greg Farrell in New York
Published: September 9 2008 19:25 | Last updated: September 9 2008 19:25

In the aftermath of the US Treasury’s decision to seize control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, critics have hit at lax oversight of the mortgage companies.

The dominant theme has been that Congress let the two government-sponsored enterprises morph into a creature that eventually threatened the US financial system. Mike Oxley will have none of it.

Instead, the Ohio Republican who headed the House financial services committee until his retirement after mid-term elections last year, blames the mess on ideologues within the White House as well as Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve.

The critics have forgotten that the House passed a GSE reform bill in 2005 that could well have prevented the current crisis, says Mr Oxley, now vice-chairman of Nasdaq.

He fumes about the criticism of his House colleagues. “All the handwringing and bedwetting is going on without remembering how the House stepped up on this,” he says. “What did we get from the White House? We got a one-finger salute.”

The House bill, the 2005 Federal Housing Finance Reform Act, would have created a stronger regulator with new powers to increase capital at Fannie and Freddie, to limit their portfolios and to deal with the possibility of receivership.

Mr Oxley reached out to Barney Frank, then the ranking Democrat on the committee and now its chairman, to secure support on the other side of the aisle. But after winning bipartisan support in the House, where the bill passed by 331 to 90 votes, the legislation lacked a champion in the Senate and faced hostility from the Bush administration.
Adamant that the only solution to the problems posed by Fannie and Freddie was their privatisation, the White House attacked the bill. Mr Greenspan also weighed in, saying that the House legislation was worse than no bill at all.

“We missed a golden opportunity that would have avoided a lot of the problems we’re facing now, if we hadn’t had such a firm ideological position at the White House and the Treasury and the Fed,” Mr Oxley says.

When Hank Paulson joined the administration as Treasury secretary in 2006 he sent emissaries to Capitol Hill to explore the possibility of reaching a compromise, but to no avail.
 
Changing people's quotes ... that is funny.

And AFAIK there is no evidence that he ever had sex with an underage boy.

true, he just allowed a gay male prostitute to run an underage prostitution ring out of his home. :roll: there is no evidence that Barney himself actually ever personally sodomized any of the young boys involved
 
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Published in the Financial Times. Unfortunately you have to register to see the direct link.

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You needed to post a credit to them with your original post, not after being asked for it. In light that the article is not easily accessible, and there is no way to verify that the article was not changed content wise, then you need better sources.

j-mac
 
According to the rules: 9. Copyrighted Material - All material posted from copyrighted material MUST contain a link to the original work.
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If a source is not available online, is not free to the public (Lexis/Nexis, books, academic papers, etc), or requires registration to be accessed, then a comprehensive citation will suffice. Keep in mind that your position may be weakened if the original source is not easily accessible.

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You needed to post a credit to them with your original post, not after being asked for it. In light that the article is not easily accessible, and there is no way to verify that the article was not changed content wise, then you need better sources.

j-mac

So I take it that you have no rebuttal to the actual substance of the article, other than play the rule nazi card?

As expected.
 
So I take it that you have no rebuttal to the actual substance of the article, other than play the rule nazi card?

As expected.

Now I am a nazi because I asked for a link? and cited the rule that says you have to supply one?

I'll be reporting this post. Thanks.

j-mac
 
It's Massachussetts, they'll replace him with another lefty.

just like Ted Kennedy right........oh jeeze what was the guys name?....Scott something ..........oh yea Brown...Scott Brown
 
Interesting that after all he has achieved in the liberal scheme of things, and now all of the sudden he packs it in? Funny how after a book outlining how these rats scammed the system comes out, he gets out. He is a crook, and should be investigated, by an independent entity.

j-mac

I think ALL politicians who enrich themselves through public office should be investigated, in fact I believe in this so much that we nee to amend the US constitution in order to put in another check and balance. We have the executive, legislative, and judicial, and we should have the investigative! Not kidding either!


Tim-
 
Now I am a nazi because I asked for a link? and cited the rule that says you have to supply one?

I'll be reporting this post. Thanks.

j-mac

MOMMY MOMMY!! The bad man didn't post a wwiiiiink!! Whaaaaaa!!! :2rofll: :2rofll: :2rofll:

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And I don't have any argument to counter the article he posted!! BWAAAAA!!!!
 
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Did you say the same about whackjob Republican Ron Paul?

The GOP ship is routinely sunk by kids nowadays. . .

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback apologized on Monday for having "over-reacted" to 18-year-old Emma Sullivan, a high school student who had earlier been asked to apologize for making a disparaging remark about the conservative politician over Twitter.

"My staff over-reacted to this tweet and for that I apologize," Brownback said in a written statement, "freedom of speech is among our most treasured freedoms."

Brownback apologizes after Twitter dust-up - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
 
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