Video: Barney Frank town hall on health care goes pretty much as expected
posted at 10:04 pm on August 18, 2009 by Allahpundit
Via JWF, a treat while we wait for that NYT bombshell to burst. Hannity culled the best soundbites of Frank displaying the special charm for which he’s so well known and loathed, but you’re cheating yourself if you don’t watch this, too. The crack about how arguing with the “Obama = Hitler” crowd is like arguing with furniture is worth the price of admission.
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I can’t bring myself to watch it.
blatantblue on August 18, 2009 at 10:04 PM
When will Barney put some teeth in his mouth? His slobbering speech is quite annoying.
mizflame98 on August 18, 2009 at 10:06 PM
He ALWAYS looks like he woke up on the wrong side of the bed
blatantblue on August 18, 2009 at 10:06 PM
I rarely truly despise people. Barney Franks is a special exception.
Rightwingguy on August 18, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Saw Barney at the Lowell MA Folk Festival 2 weeks ago. He sat there stone-faced the whole time while some great music was being played, and never even clapped.
Del Dolemonte on August 18, 2009 at 10:09 PM
OT: is Greta going to confront the pink-slip rumor tonight?
John the Libertarian on August 18, 2009 at 10:10 PM
I despise people daily
blatantblue on August 18, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Loathe. I LOATHE this person. Loathe.
blueknight99 on August 18, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Exactly! Provocation is the preferred strategy of Dr. Rahm in order evoke a nasty backlash that will frighten the moderate middle into compromise. Hold your fire soldiers. This is a feint.
Randy
williars on August 18, 2009 at 10:14 PM
pass on the video.. I can read.
redrock on August 18, 2009 at 10:15 PM
Barney Frank should be Spanked with a Plank.
Parley on August 18, 2009 at 10:15 PM
Frank did get a good one on that lady.
What struck me was the next guy to step up to the mike.
“I’ve been out of work for 3 weeks and my mortgage is about to readjust. I can’t refinance. What, if anything, will this legislation do for me.”
In America. A free born citizen is asking this question in America. God damn leeches.
Aquateen Hungerforce on August 18, 2009 at 10:16 PM
What’s the “NY Times bombshell”?
rrpjr on August 18, 2009 at 10:17 PM
He’s a real Control Freak Man
Ruling in what he wants to be a hostage held land
Making all his controlling plans
For everybody
Doesn’t listen to an opposing point of view
Control Freak man, ruling all he thinks is his purview
Control Freak Man, he had better listen
He don’t know with what he’s messin’
Knows already just what he wants to do
Doesn’t he seem a lot like Hitler and Mussolini to you?
He’s a real Control Freak Man
Ruling in what he wants to be a hostage held land
Making all his controlling plans
For everybody
He’s as blinded by his lust for power as he can be
Just sees what he wants to see
He’s got such a God complex point of call
Control Freak Man can you even see America at all?
Knows already just what he wants to do
Doesn’t he seem a lot like Hitler and Mussolini to you?
He’s a real Control Freak Man
Ruling in what he wants to be a hostage held land
Making all his controlling plans
For everybody
About Control Freak Man we should all worry
To destroy all America built he is in a hurry
If he controls everything his fascist way
It will be a forlorn day
Hes going to leave it all a mess
Anyone of sound mind must confess
He’s a real Control Freak Man
Ruling in what he wants to be a hostage held land
Making all his controlling plans
For everybody
MB4 on August 18, 2009 at 10:17 PM
You can shave with his voice.
Good Lt on August 18, 2009 at 10:17 PM
I’m sure he’d look forward to it.
Chewy the Lab on August 18, 2009 at 10:18 PM
Barney Frank: Bush this, Bush that, Bush Bush Bush.
Damn fool talks about bush more than any 10 straight guys combined.
By the way, the Nazi guy he shot down was a Lyndon Larouche guy. How long before he gets labeled as just another Conservative racist?
xblade on August 18, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Throw in some whips and chains and maybe a set of battery cables and Barney will be your friend for life.
MB4 on August 18, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Here is your times bombsehll, call me underwhelmed:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/health/policy/19repubs.html?hp
this is about ginning up netroots so strike a deal in the fall.
rob verdi on August 18, 2009 at 10:21 PM
From Drudge:
NYT: DEMS PLAN TO GO IT ALONE ON HEALTHCARE… DEVELOPING…
xblade on August 18, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Just maybe those folks will get motivated next election to throw Barney out on his fat ass.
GarandFan on August 18, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Maybe if Barney Frank swallowed more often his speech would improve. Salivary disorder?
ADB on August 18, 2009 at 10:24 PM
These people in Frank’s district deserve everything that they get. They vote for this freak every time he runs. Do they think he is going to change?
d1carter on August 18, 2009 at 10:25 PM
I did, I wanted to see Bawney’s head expload or something when asked “Why are you talking down to us?”
FontanaConservative on August 18, 2009 at 10:26 PM
Maybe if Barney Frank swallowed more.
ADB on August 18, 2009 at 10:24 PM
I highly doubt that’s a problem.
txag92 on August 18, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Why do the people of that district agree to that treatment?
ted c on August 18, 2009 at 10:27 PM
I don’t give these bastids any airtime on my new laptop
don’t need it tainted
blatantblue on August 18, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Let me tell ya ’bout my best friend, Frank…
FontanaConservative on August 18, 2009 at 10:28 PM
He can’t put teeth in his mouth. It is useful for him so that he can slobber away on other things or objects that are more important to him.
triplef on August 18, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Mr. Frank, will you and your boyfreind take this plan? Did you read the Bill?
Frank: Boooooooossh!
Alden Pyle on August 18, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Assholes don’t need teeth to bite off sh!t.
ICBM on August 18, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Has he seen the Weiner plan? Is he up for Weiner?
29Victor on August 18, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Point of order! Point of order! The Gentleman is out of order!
Buy Danish on August 18, 2009 at 10:31 PM
The man who is largely responsible for the banking “crisis” is now taking on health care. That makes sense.
ramarious on August 18, 2009 at 10:32 PM
My guess is that he would like to sleep on it.
ADB on August 18, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Thoughtful people,having a thoughtful conversation!
WTF!!!!!!!!
canopfor on August 18, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Bwawney is upset that he had to hold this meeting with the unwashed masses instead of sharing an upside-down barstool with his friends in P-Town
phreshone on August 18, 2009 at 10:34 PM
As if anyone in that room would change Frank’s mind.
That is what is so aggravating about these ‘rats and their townhalls, 90% made up their mind long ago and nothing from the public will possibly alter their decision.
Bishop on August 18, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Well that Larouche chick was pretty crazy.
Lance Murdock on August 18, 2009 at 10:36 PM
You owe me a new monitor, now that I exhaled a good Irish beer onto it.
massrighty on August 18, 2009 at 10:36 PM
I just came from a townhall meeting our State Rep. Tom McMillin (r) put on becasue our Congressman, Gary Peters (D) is in hiding. Standing room only, about 600 attended, where only about 20 supported H.R 3200. There was a panel of physicians to answer questions. It was a good setting for people to vent! One episode of booing when young man supporter said we should read the bill. Loudest applause and standing ovation was when someone stated we should not have to pay for abortions.
Bullhead on August 18, 2009 at 10:38 PM
You’re right, but I also see the sense of the comment upthread that this was a tactica provocation.
Barney does that “I’m a pit-bull” thing so often (remember how Fannie and Freddie got to be Bush’s fault?) that they now trot him out like a character actor.
massrighty on August 18, 2009 at 10:39 PM
This may be an attempt to force the Republicans into a lose-lose situation. This is because though there may be other defense strategies to reconciliation, the frequently cited counter is to threaten to bring the entire apparatus to a halt. Perhaps, then, this is an attempt to recreate the shutdown of 1995-6, with the Republicans once again placed in the role of petty obstructionists who are pilloried.
It will not work this time, for reasons that will become clear if it is attempted.
It will also stray far too close to the line where “interesting times” start off from. The credibility of the political class in America is not what it was in 1994. The people are against this plan. In that sense, the opposition of the GOP is merely incidental to their own sense of what should happen. Tarring the GOP as obstructionists if they oppose what the people oppose will not work, for the people will not be with you. The media can only carry so much water, and James Carville can predict the future only so much.
Allow me to humbly suggest that perhaps Democrats should rely on the power to persuade instead of the power of changing rules when inconvenient, lest one get the idea that the rules are never going to be allowed to benefit one side in a debate, only the other. There is, after all, something of a belief out there that the Democratic party is the one that can never seem to do anything but take its bat and go home if the rules aren’t changed to allow it to win.
It could also cause one to get the idea that the people who always pride themselves on their superior intellects cannot use that brain power to make a logical and self-evident case about the benefits of a program they have deemed wise. Which would then give one the idea that they are not superior in intellect, but in arrogance, and in that only.
Horatius on August 18, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Bullhead – what state are you in.
phreshone on August 18, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Assholes don’t need teeth to bite off sh*t.
ICBM on August 18, 2009 at 10:40 PM
A-holes don’t need teeth to bite off sh*t.
ICBM on August 18, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Meanwhile, I am sure the Daily KAOS and DU sites are still peeing on Bob Novack’s yet to be dug grave.
Del Dolemonte on August 18, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Sorry Michigan/
Bullhead on August 18, 2009 at 10:43 PM
That’s pretty much the definition of “conversation” to Democrats.
They pretend to listen to you and say “that’s an excellent point” and “I feel your pain” and “I’m glad you asked that” while talking on their cell phone.
Then they tell you what to think and you agree. If you don’t you’re a racist Nazi hick partisan shill.
29Victor on August 18, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Pulleaze! Let’s not go there.
Drained Brain on August 18, 2009 at 10:45 PM
The guy was setting Frank up for his follow-up, which was essentially to say that he was responsible for his own situation, and to ask why others should be expected to bail him out.
surrounded on August 18, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Mark Levin just played some clips from Bawney Fwank’s townhall.
Made me hurl. Vote this freak out!
Geochelone on August 18, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Barney Frank. Yet another poster child for Congressional term limits.
What a repugnant toad.
Left Coast Right Mind on August 18, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Barney Frank is one of the key factors that caused the global economic meltdown by pushing through a social engineering program to give loans to people who could not afford them, then having the government buy up the notes, then sell them on wall street all over the world through Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac that festered for over twenty years until the United States Tax payer was left on the hook for Trillions of bad debt…………….
….. Now he wants to be in charge of giving you a rectal exam, before his next proposal.
Government funded rental properties………..
…….. It just amazes me that the damage that has be done to this country once our ‘Free and Independent’ press decided to take sides.
And he treats voters with contempt…….
…….. Why is he still in power and not in a damp, dark cell somewhere screaming for forgiveness?
Seven Percent Solution on August 18, 2009 at 10:47 PM
I have a question for Libs. Would Jesus, who was a community organizer, run a male prostitution ring out of his basement?
And yet Barney Franks butt boy (not that there is anything wrong with being a butt boy) did just that.
Geochelone on August 18, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Barney is a disgusting pile of steaming excrement and the worst Congress has to offer…the sad part is that he will be elected forever regardless of his unworth…
JIMV on August 18, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Hunt down and destroy the douche flashing the peace sign in the background.
MadisonConservative on August 18, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Thoughtful people,having a thoughtful conversation!
WTF!!!!!!!!
canopfor on August 18, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Meanwhile, I am sure the Daily KAOS and DU sites are still peeing on Bob Novack’s yet to be dug grave.
Del Dolemonte on August 18, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Del Dolemonte:No sh#t,they probably have a List of the RIGHT
that are on their top 50,:)
canopfor on August 18, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Shouldn’t Rep. Franks constituents be unconcerned about nationalized health care? I thought they already had mandatory coverage that is working out just fabulously. /
Cindy Munford on August 18, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Del, are you from the area?
massrighty on August 18, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Self-loathing hater.
tessa on August 18, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Maxine Waters and Barney Frank would make a
dynamite Duo at any townhall,I could just see
Maxine waving her finger,and telling average
Americans,
“keep it up,keep it,I tell you what,will take you over,
I mean your healthCare”,
like a redo,of Maxines infamous,get the price if gasoline
down,or will take it over,and Socialize it!!!!!hehe
canopfor on August 18, 2009 at 11:01 PM
What in the world could make a voter say; “THIS is who I want to represent me?”
Star20 on August 18, 2009 at 11:03 PM
Don’t forget to preface that with, “I’ll tell you what THIS liberal will do!”
surrounded on August 18, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Brilliant Barney. Treat the American people like Bill O’Reilly. Did you really think that helps your argument slobermouth? Did you run belittling people through a focus group? Is that a winner?
cubbieblue25 on August 18, 2009 at 11:05 PM
I pull the lever ‘D’ and I get my check
cubbieblue25 on August 18, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Typical leftwing bullshit. Silence the people’s microphones after they ask a question so they can’t interrupt the lies and drivel he spews in response and then ridicule the crowd for laughing and shouting. The only way a liberal can ‘win’ an argument is by being the only person with a mic.
This is exactly why Obama wouldn’t do townhall style debates against McCain; liberals are unable to win a legitimate, even-handed debate.
And yes I live in the state with the clowns who keep electing this lying Communist. I understand that the people who vote for him deserve this, but what have I done to deserve this? They should have nuked Woodstock when they had the chance.
SittingDeadRed on August 18, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Let me get this straight. Hannity aired the “highlights” og the townhall but not Frank’s smackdown of the Obama=Hitler dude?
Color me not surprised.
YYZ on August 18, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Ok…eeeeewwww..!!!!!
BigWyo on August 18, 2009 at 11:14 PM
But his boyfriends love it…..
izoneguy on August 18, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Oh snap. I got so disgusted I stopped watching. My bad.
Aquateen Hungerforce on August 18, 2009 at 11:20 PM
I tried to watch, but only could not do it. Man makes my skin crawl.
Terrye on August 18, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Bottom line:
“I am Barney Frank and you are not.”
This from the founding politician of the Fanny and Freddie collapse.
coldwarrior on August 18, 2009 at 11:20 PM
“what’s the matter with you all?”
That should be obama’s new bumper sticker.
keep the change on August 18, 2009 at 11:21 PM
BTW, Barney is a gay man. He is also a despicable liberal democrat. Quite making fun of him for the former when you should be mad at him for the later.
Aquateen Hungerforce on August 18, 2009 at 11:21 PM
I wonder what his breath smells like?
poppieseeds on August 18, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Please, don’t mention Barney Frank and Fanny in the same sentence.
keep the change on August 18, 2009 at 11:22 PM
He must run unopposed. That is the only way I can fathom that he keeps getting re-elected.
yogi41 on August 18, 2009 at 11:24 PM
I have been appropriately chastised. Thank you.
But, I hear Barney will be turning over a new page soon.
coldwarrior on August 18, 2009 at 11:24 PM
Barney Frank will forever be know as the fool that instigated the sub-prime mortgage meltdown. Barney said Freddie and Fannie were solid. In truth Freddie and Fannie were as inviscid as one of Barney’s after feasting on Ben and Jerry’s “Cake Batter” flavored ice cream.
Geochelone on August 18, 2009 at 11:24 PM
I saw this at JammieWearingFool:
I am so sick of this crap. The Democrats are running the show now, if they want to abandon Iraq and or Afghanistan, they can. The cowards. They just lie all the time.
Terrye on August 18, 2009 at 11:24 PM
Nooooo, he woke up on the wrong side of Fred.
ExSubNuke on August 18, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Quick get Frank Luntz. Get the dials. This may be it.
cubbieblue25 on August 18, 2009 at 11:30 PM
To be more exact, he woke up on the wrong side of Freddy’s Fannie.
keep the change on August 18, 2009 at 11:32 PM
.
Teeth just get in the way.
ronsfi on August 18, 2009 at 11:33 PM
The true face of ‘leadership’ in Washington!
phil81 on August 18, 2009 at 11:40 PM
Central Mew Hampshire, but started going to this Fest in the late 1980s because it was easy to access, free, and evolved into a northern version of JazzFest in New Orleans.
Del Dolemonte on August 18, 2009 at 11:54 PM
Here’s a youtube video of the set I attended when I noticed Bawnry. He’s not seen here.
How could anyone not listen to Milk Cow Blues and not be dancing?
FYI, I’m the dweeb in the blue hat and the red beans and rice Hawaiian shirt at the start of the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2G6LLqMNvA
Del Dolemonte on August 19, 2009 at 12:02 AM
That was always a lie. Of course Democrats don’t want to leave Iraq and Afghanistan any more than they wanted to invade. The only thing liberals ever wanted to do was pretend they don’t exist.
But because of the “evil NaziMcChimpmeister”, it’s impossible for them to do that. That’s the only thing Bush got right.
logis on August 19, 2009 at 12:03 AM
Has anyone ever seen anyone have a intellegent conversation w/Barney Rubble Frank?
BigMike252 on August 19, 2009 at 12:03 AM
Barney Fwank wants healthcare for his gay hooker employees…
Keef Overbite on August 19, 2009 at 12:04 AM
Only about 10 minutes away from Lowell; never been a jazz fan, though.
Just wondered if you were a neighbor.
massrighty on August 19, 2009 at 12:10 AM
i wonder how Jim Traficant feels about health “insurance” reform…no one could top his one minute speeches…beam me up.
equanimous on August 19, 2009 at 12:16 AM
His teeth on on hinges. He forgot to pull them down to talk mode.
Texas on August 19, 2009 at 12:18 AM
His boyfriends don’t like him with teeth.
Mojave Mark on August 19, 2009 at 12:25 AM
OK, please pardon my ignorance, I know what Daily Koz and Puff Ho are, but what is DU?
I like to check in on the lefty sites every now and then to see what they’re babbling about. Ever seen Bartcop? Probably one of the vilest, stupidest leftwing hate sites ever.
UltimateBob on August 19, 2009 at 12:26 AM
DU = Democratic Underground.
massrighty on August 19, 2009 at 12:28 AM
That’s not cake batter that he’s been gobbling down.
UltimateBob on August 19, 2009 at 12:28 AM
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