Oh, Happy Day! Barney Frank Is Retiring!

28 Nov

In the past few days, I’ve gotten a puppy, a Kindle Touch, the Harry Potter 8-DVD box set… and now I got the news that Barney Frank is finally retiring. Christmas certainly has come early this year!

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Categories Congress
Author Matt Margolis

17 Responses to “Oh, Happy Day! Barney Frank Is Retiring!”

neocon1 November 28, 2011 at 1:48 pm #

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- neocon1 November 28, 2011 at 2:05 pm #
  
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Cluster November 28, 2011 at 3:37 pm #

Adios Banking Queen – we just need more of these “career” politicians to follow him out the door.

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- neocon1 November 28, 2011 at 3:57 pm #
  
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  - neocon1 November 28, 2011 at 5:47 pm #
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tiredoflibbs November 28, 2011 at 6:16 pm #

Don’t celebrate just yet….

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/banking-financial-institutions/195645-maxine-waters-in-line-to-take-over-from-frank-on-financial-services

This self proclaimed socialist could be in the driver’s seat.

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- neocon1 November 28, 2011 at 6:29 pm #
  
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- js03 November 28, 2011 at 7:10 pm #
  
  it stinks…there has to be dozens of other elected reps who have never been investigated for ethics violations that could take this seat…
  
  i would speculate that the wall will crumble and someone else gets it…waters has to many enemies…
  
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  - Cap'n Obvious November 28, 2011 at 7:59 pm #
    
    “there has to be dozens of other elected reps who have never been investigated for ethics violations ”
    
    Yeah, but none of them are Democrats.
Bigfoot November 28, 2011 at 9:33 pm #

Matt, don’t get too happy just yet. He’ll be around until Jan 3, 2013.

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- neocon1 November 29, 2011 at 4:04 pm #
  
  Barney Frank Lashes Out at ‘Today’ Host for ‘Gotcha’ Questions During Interview
  
  “It’s gotcha this, it’s gotcha that.”
  
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  - neocon1 November 29, 2011 at 6:10 pm #
    
    Perhaps another reason was he’s no longer chairman of the House Financial Services Committee and like a lot of bullies, Mr. Frank found it’s not easy to be stripped of the power to torment and humiliate others.
    
    Brilliant, but acid tongued and generally unpleasant, Mr. Frank ruled with an iron gavel, ran over critics with delight and treated committee members and especially Republican colleagues as lesser forms of life.
    
    Mr. Frank’s departure in January 2013 will remove from the House one of its more offensive members. Until then, this petulant, abrasive and downright nasty Congressman will keep making his presence known.
    
    Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/11/karl_rove_on_the_real_reason_barney_frank_should_retire.html#ixzz1f8QPuwUk
  - neocon1 November 29, 2011 at 6:40 pm #
    
    In his 31+ years in the House of Representatives Frank was always there to remind people why term limits should be added to the constitution. Be it the brothel that was operated out of his house, his lover that worked for Freddie Mac which led to his unbridled support of Fannie and Freddie which helped cause the housing bubble and great recession, his progressive stances which would make the most avid socialist proud, or that unexplained arrogance (he has nothing to be arrogant about).
    
    http://biggovernment.com/jdunetz/2011/11/29/buh-bye-barney-a-video-tribute-to-a-lying-arrogant-sob/
  - neocon1 November 29, 2011 at 6:48 pm #
    
    bill & bwany
Chrissy Ann November 30, 2011 at 9:17 am #

Can you imagine if a Republican hired male prostitutes young enough to be his grandsons and then had his picture taken with his hand on their buttocks for all the world to see. Not one Democrat said a word. This happened for a couple decades. Then when it was found that his lover was growing pot on the porch, Frank said he wasn’t an agronomist and had no idea what they were. Either Frank is a liar or he was too stupid to be walking on this planet.

But what I find most reprehensible about Frank is that he is a filthy lying pervert who teamed up with another filthy lying pervert by the name of Chris Dodd.

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- neocon1 November 30, 2011 at 5:23 pm #
  
  chrissy
  
  it is even worse than that.
  can you imagine if the GOP head of the banking committee’s gay boyfriend was the head of fannie or freddy and ignored the warnings of imminent collapse while they made MILLIONS and MILLIONS…right before they collapsed???
  
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