Barney Frank: Republicans have a “psychological disorder” or something
posted at 4:21 pm on April 2, 2009 by Allahpundit
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A very particular psychological disorder, as it turns out: They think giving Tim Geithner carte blanche to regulate “excessive” compensation at firms receiving TARP money might be a bad idea. This is a sequel of sorts to yesterday’s vid of Cavuto pounding Democrat Alan Grayson for writing the bill that would grant Geithner that discretion. Frank’s spinning it here as little more than an expanded version of the bill to tax the AIG bonuses that so many House Republicans supported. If they objected to excessive compensation in that case, he reasons, why wouldn’t they object to it in other cases as well? Hence their supposed “psychological disorder” in voting against this one. Of course, objecting to a discrete set of payments at AIG and deciding that Geithner should be appointed salary czar or whatever for TARP companies are two very different things — but seeing the dopey Republicans who voted for the bonus tax squirm is almost worth it.
Grayson’s bill passed last night, 247 to 171. Exit quotation: “The government can barely run the government… To try to tell these companies how to pay the people who work for them is not the right thing to do.” Click the image to watch.
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McCain, as the titual leader of the Republican party, had a duty to hammer Frank into the ground for his role in creating the subprime crisis. His failure to do so is a mistake the rest of America will be paying for, for many years to come.
There’s never been a clearer case of milquetoast, timid campaigning causing real damage to the electorate. All that “Senate collegiality” garbage, coupled with McCain’s own weak grasp of economics, prevented him from pounding home the message that a vote for Obama was a vote for Frank. An existential crisis that should have resulted in the Democrats being swept from power for a generation was allowed to mutate into a net plus for them.
A narrative was written, and chiseled into stone, that absolved Democrats from any responsibility for the disaster they created. Look at it this way: amid all this talk of government firing executives and forcing people to return bonuses, has one single politician taken the slightest bit of responsibility for the financial crisis? If Rip van Winkle decided to catch up on current events by reading all the major newspapers, and watching newscasts on DVD from the last year, he would conclude that Congress was innocently sitting around and minding its own business when the greedy schemes of a gang of faceless, invisible “Wall Street fat cats” went awry and crashed the financial system. Not a single politician other than George W. Bush did anything wrong – not a single mistake was made by anyone in government. Not a single one of them acted out of greed, ideology, or the lust for power.
That is the price we will all pay for John McCain’s painfully polite and collegial campaign to humbly suggest himself as a possible alternative for anyone with the irrational, possibly racist reluctance to vote for the fine young man running against him. That is why the people whose lives Barney Frank and Chris Dodd destroyed have no idea who they are, or how much filthy loot they hauled out of the industry they devastated.
Doctor Zero on April 2, 2009 at 6:06 PM
In an interview with CNBC, Representative Barney Frank says he wants to push for prosecution of the people who caused the country’s financial meltdown.
A September report from the Business & Media Institute suggests one possible target for investigation: a senior member of the House Banking Committee. This congressman is “a recipient of more than $40,000 in campaign donations from Fannie since 1989″ and “was once romantically involved with a Fannie Mae executive.” The same congressman “was and remains a stalwart defender of Fannie Mae.” We won’t mention his name–oh wait, come to think of it, we already did.
In other news, O.J. Simpson has gone undercover in a Nevada prison in search of the real killer.
- James Taranto
MB4 on April 2, 2009 at 6:11 PM
Not if they’re actively working to make our lives harder for us while we’re busy paying them more per year than we make.
MadisonConservative on April 2, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Thank you for saying that.
Frank and Dodd should be in prison.
Frank himself said those responsible for the economic meltdown should be prosecuted.
INC on April 2, 2009 at 6:19 PM
Pot/kettle award of the year. Frank keeps on breaking his own record!
Grafted on April 2, 2009 at 6:19 PM
Hey Massachusetts!
Please do us a favor and vote him OUT. PLEASE!!
OneConservative on April 2, 2009 at 6:21 PM
I have often found, that when one lowers themselves to this kind of vitriol, and name calling , they are often guilty of what they accuse others of being.
Take a look in the mirror Barney, and repeat after me.
She sells sea shells down by the sea shore.
capejasmine on April 2, 2009 at 6:43 PM
That is good, my friend.
omnipotent on April 2, 2009 at 6:55 PM
capejasmine, thank you so much for the laugh. Fwank, the human piece of excrement, infuriates me. Your posting changed my mood. Thanks again.
Jayrae on April 2, 2009 at 7:00 PM
But, somehow, Barney’s irrational hatreds for anyone who opposes his worldview and policy goals aren’t a mental disorder?
SuperCool on April 2, 2009 at 7:05 PM
they say it takes one to know one.
In some circles, homosexuality is considered a ‘psychological disorder’. At a minimum evolutionists think it is a mutation of sorts.
ThackerAgency on April 2, 2009 at 7:11 PM
“Barney Frank: Republicans have a “psychological disorder” or something”
This coming from a guy that sticks stuff in his mouth that the rest of us wash our hands after touching.
Psychological disorder indeed.
csdeven on April 2, 2009 at 7:24 PM
Should we take anything seriously from a man who had no idea his lover was running a whore house in his basement?
If that was the case what else does he not know?
Constitution1st on April 2, 2009 at 7:46 PM
But if they do, some Massachusetts neighborhood will have to put up with Barney Frank 24/7!! It’s much easier to exile him to Washington DC.
(This same problem explains why Harry Reid and Nancy Polosi are still in Washington)
landlines on April 2, 2009 at 7:58 PM
I would say something intelligent but that was disturbing to the point of me needing my “skwqkewwritty bwanlewt”…think I`ll go in the corner and cry.
NY Conservative on April 2, 2009 at 8:20 PM
Another thought, how in HADES would one go about transcribing the drivel that dribbles from the oral stoma of Fwannnnk???
NY Conservative on April 2, 2009 at 8:22 PM
right on, as usual.
2ipa on April 2, 2009 at 9:29 PM
Honestly? Honestly!? This from a guy whose party and its media allies can stop mentioning George W. Bush for even a single frickin’ day!?
LexisTexas2 on April 2, 2009 at 9:57 PM
<em>“I have never seen people so attached to something they hate.”
I have : it is called homosexuality..First , it was tolerate us, then it was accept us , now it is validate us by letting us “marry”…You know that they know it is wrong…No amount of “validation” is going to change what they in their heart of hearts know is wrong
sirpatrick on April 2, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Just hearing that guy speak makes me want to jab a hot spike into my ears.
Yakko77 on April 3, 2009 at 4:29 AM
It makes me want to jab a hot spike into his ears.
jimmy2shoes on April 3, 2009 at 7:03 AM
He makes me totally sick.
becki51758 on April 3, 2009 at 7:27 AM
I think Democrats want the minimum wage and the maximum wage to be the same, except for Congress of course which would be exempt.
Dasher on April 3, 2009 at 8:26 AM
I am most ashamed to say he is MY congressman. I did not vote for him, but most of the sheeple in this one party loony bin of a state have for many election cycles. I only hope we can field a viable challenger for his seat and I will volunteer my time and efforts to try to unseat this prissy, pretentious, overstuffed nancy-boy.
Now, in light Rep. Fwank’s argument, I am hereby undoing all the poor decisions and mistakes I have made in my life.
Skipping class that time in High School? – UNDONE.
Drinking too much at that X-Mas party and making an ass of myself? – UNDONE
Kissing my best friends girlfriend? – UNDONE
There I feel better. Of course, it all begs the question: why don’t they just legislate post facto that there is no economic crisis?
Huckabye-Romney on April 3, 2009 at 8:33 AM
Barney Frank is a steaming pile. MA citizens ought to scrape him off with a stick. They probably won’t though. They just love their flaming queens too much.
SKYFOX on April 3, 2009 at 9:02 AM
Sweet. And so true.
Projectionists never do quite get the irony of their stupid comments.
One set of rules for you, another set of rules for me.
Badger40 on April 3, 2009 at 10:38 AM
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