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Fowmew MA Congwethman Thwowth Обама Undew The Buth?

by Deplorable Macker ( 4 Comments › )
Filed under Bailouts, Barack Obama, Economy, Headlines at September 15th, 2013 - 6:37 pm

Yep, it sure seems like it: Courtesy of Weasel Zippers!

Fiwtht of all, many of the bankth didn’t want thith money. It’th not that we did it fow them. But thecondly, the fedewal govewnment made money on the advanceth to the bankth. What cost uth money wath the automobile induthtwy bailout. But we made money on the bankth.

Read this through the lisp and speech impediment: BUSH‘s TARP, as bad as it was, made money! I wonder what The SCOAMF have to say about that!

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Senator. Barney Frank.

by Deplorable Macker ( 215 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party, Economy, Regulation at January 10th, 2013 - 5:00 pm

And here we thought we were done with him. Apparently not:

Former Rep. Barney Frank says it was the year-end standoff over the fiscal cliff that prompted him to seek an appointment to John Kerry’s Senate seat and then to go public with hopes for his next career move.
Asked why he changed his mind, Frank told POLITICO that, during a House Democratic Caucus meeting on the heated fiscal cliff negotiations, he had a change of heart, as he confronted the details of the bill that Congress would pass.
“We’ve put off the sequester for a couple of months, and we will decide in a couple of months what to do about spending cuts,” Frank said. “And the debt limit will come up. And there will be efforts to reduce Medicare and Social Security. … So it was when I sat there and learned what important decisions were going to be have to be made in February, March and April, I decided that I wanted the job.”
Frank had previously said it would be “presumptuous” to comment on a job that hasn’t been offered when asked whether he would want the interim Senate seat that will open up if Kerry is confirmed as secretary of state. But soon after, Frank revealed on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that he had told Bay State Gov. Deval Patrick he wanted the job.
“Previously, I was facing a situation in which the first few months of the year, as they often are, would not be very important in terms of legislation, and it would have been more ceremonial than substantive. I’m not a big ceremony guy,” Frank told POLITICO in an interview Tuesday.

Frank goes on to say that he has ruled out running in the Special Election, which would take place if Massachusetts’ current senior Senator, John F. Kerry, is confirmed as the next Secretary of State. Why should we trust his word, given how much he helped cause this entire mess and now he wants to “help the country?” Yeah, RIGHT. He’ll help shove more crap down our throats…and I’ll just leave it at that.

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Do You Remember January 3, 2007 – Five Years On?

by 1389AD ( 33 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Economy, George W. Bush, Progressives, Regulation, unemployment at February 6th, 2012 - 8:30 am

This message has been making the rounds of the Internet. While the original author is unknown, the timeline and the facts are accurate and easily verified.
Please email, tweet, post on Facebook or on your own blog!

This is just a history lesson. I am sending it to all regardless of party. It is history and nothing can change it. All Americans should pass this on to everyone in their database. Both parties need to cut expenses, both parties have some blame, but this is truly what happened and Americans need to wake up and take our country back in 2012!!

REMEMBER JAN. 3, 2007

The day the Democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009, it was January 3rd 2007, the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, the start of the 110th Congress. The Democratic Party gained a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995.

For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is “Bush’s Fault,” think about this:

January 3rd, 2007, the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress:

  • The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77
  • The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%
  • The Unemployment rate was 4.6%
  • George Bush’s Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB CREATION!

Remember that day…

January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee.

The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy?

BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES!

THANK YOU DEMOCRATS (especially Barney) for taking us from 13,000 DOW, 3.5% GDP and 4.6% Unemployment…to this CRISIS by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOES!

(BTW: Bush asked Congress 17 times to stop Fannie & Freddie – starting in 2001 because it was financially risky for the US economy). Barney blocked it and called it a “Chicken Little Philosophy” (and the sky did fall!)

And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac? OBAMA

And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie?
OBAMA and the Democrat Congress, especially BARNEY!!!!

So when someone tries to blame Bush…
REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007…THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!

Bush may have been in the car but the Democrats were in charge of the gas pedal and steering wheel they were driving the economy into the ditch.

Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democratic Party.

Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for 2008 & 2009 as well as 2010 & 2011.

In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases. Bush should have vetoed every bill that came in front of his desk!

For 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the 2009 budget.

And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete 2009. Let’s remember what the deficits looked like during that period:

If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.

If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself.

In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is, “I inherited a deficit that I voted for,
And then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th, 2009.”

There is no way this will be widely publicized unless each of us passes it on.

“The problems we face today exist because the people who WORK for a living are outnumbered by those who VOTE for a living.”

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Say goodbye to the nastiest man in congress

by Mojambo ( 100 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party, Politics, Progressives at December 5th, 2011 - 8:30 am

Actually I would put Pete Stark and Maurice Hinchey (and even Alan  Grayson had he not been defeated) as being even nastier then Barney Frank.

by Jeff Jacoby

BARNEY FRANK may be the only member of Congress who has ever made headlines for not acting like a jerk.

When the longtime Massachusetts representative found himself last year facing — for the first time in decades — a surprisingly strong Republican challenge, journalists noticed something strange: He wasn’t being as nasty as usual. He wasn’t responding to questions with his trademark put-downs. He wasn’t condescending to critics with quite as much sneering contempt.

“Barney Frank reinvents himself as a nice guy,” wrote Jonathan Strong in a story for The Daily Caller. The Boston Herald’s Margery Eagan, “bracing to get hammered” when she asked Frank some questions, was amazed when, instead of insulting or berating her, he answered her questions “almost diplomatically.”

But Frank’s unwonted restraint vanished on election night. In what may have been the most graceless victory speech in US congressional history, he savaged the Herald, accused Republicans of engaging in “vituperation [and] anonymous smears,” and proclaimed his re-election “a victory for a concept of government which eschews anger and vitriol.”

Which was quite a proclamation, coming from someone who is as renowned for his invective and browbeating as for his liberalism and smarts. When Frank eventually goes to his eternal reward – and I wish him many more years of activity and good health – it’s safe to assume that the words “He eschewed anger and vitriol” will not be engraved on his monument.

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Politics and passion have always gone together, and all other things being equal, a quick-witted congressman with strong views and the ability to defend them is preferable to a colorless drudge. No one has ever doubted Frank’s intelligence or wit, and it isn’t only liberals who could appreciate his gift for wry retorts. (“My colleagues on the other side have decided to adopt a Marxist idea,” he said during one House debate. “The Marx in question, of course, is Chico.”)

But it’s one thing to be a quotable curmudgeon. It’s something quite different to be a bully.

Frank has long been “one of the most notorious bullies” on Capitol Hill, remarked Dana Milbank in The Washington Post. The Massachusetts Democrat will be remembered not just for his left-wing politics or as the first openly gay member of Congress, but also for his “gratuitous nastiness,” as Milbank put it – the public tongue-lashings, the spiteful mockery, the caustic abuse of aides, the almost routine willingness to tell people how stupid they are. This isn’t just impatience; Frank plainly takes a certain pleasure in publicly humiliating his victims. It isn’t hard to find stories of Frank berating someone to the point of tears. But I have never heard of him apologizing for it afterward.

Ironically – or maybe it’s just human nature – Barney Frank has no trouble excoriating in others the ugly behavior to which he so often resorts. He has been unsparing toward Newt Gingrich, for example, describing him as having “made a career out of attacking people around here and trying to rip them apart.” I have heard him caution his allies on the left about the importance of “showing a bit of respect for cultural values with which you disagree,” and admonishing them not to “call people bigots and fools just because you disagree with them.”

But when Frank – who often condemns the sour tone in Washington and Congress — was politely asked on NBC’s “Today” show last week whether he might have contributed to the bitterness in the Capitol, his answer was no. Instead, he nastily scolded the anchor for her “negative approach.”

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Read the rest: Frank’s sneering insults wont be missed

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