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God Bless Barney

by John Cole|  November 17, 20117:12 pm| 26 Comments

This post is in: Election 2012, Humorous

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And not that purple dinosaur who has ruined so many millions of parents lives. At any rate, Barney Frank unplugged, shredding Gingrich:

Is there a funnier congressman?

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  1. 1.

    KG

    November 17, 2011 at 7:14 pm

    funny “haha” or funny “fuck an eh”?

  2. 2.

    cathyx

    November 17, 2011 at 7:23 pm

    Barney and the Teletubbies. Ugh.

  3. 3.

    Alex

    November 17, 2011 at 7:46 pm

    “Is there a funnier congressman?”

    You made Al Franken cry. :(

  4. 4.

    Constantia

    November 17, 2011 at 7:57 pm

    @ KG

    I think in the local patois that’s “fuckin’ A” ! not to be an obnoxious grammar nerd or anything.

  5. 5.

    jnfr

    November 17, 2011 at 8:01 pm

    He was so fantastic tonight. I mean, he always is, but with an extra helping this time. It helps that he knows Newt so well, of course.

  6. 6.

    metalgirl

    November 17, 2011 at 9:19 pm

    @jnfr: So true! And I’m so glad the reply link is back (although I’m mostly a lurker, not so much a poster).

  7. 7.

    beergoggles

    November 17, 2011 at 9:23 pm

    @KG: Funny as in wicked funneh. Frikkin southerners…

  8. 8.

    someguy

    November 17, 2011 at 9:26 pm

    Barney’s awesome but he really doesn’t have a whole lot of room to accuse other members of Congress of being in bed with Fannie Mae executives.

  9. 9.

    rob!

    November 17, 2011 at 9:33 pm

    Is there a funnier congressman?

    Unintentionally, it’s Virgina Fox. Intentionally, no.

  10. 10.

    Mnemosyne

    November 17, 2011 at 10:02 pm

    @someguy:

    Given that Barney’s been blamed for the housing crash since at least 2008 thanks to his (much weaker) connections with Fannie and Freddie, I think it’s more that he’s enjoying pointing out that the same people who were vilifying him were taking Fannie and Freddie’s money.

    ETA: A guy who took $3.2 million in payments from Fannie Mae has no room to talk about who should be arrested for their ties with Fannie Mae.

  11. 11.

    someguy

    November 17, 2011 at 10:19 pm

    Barney Frank was both the regulator of Fannie Mae and the life partner of Fannie Mae’s head of innovative new product lines through the booming 90’s, and Barney pressed to get him hired. Newt’s a turd for sure, but the hypocrisy from Barney on this is a little too much for me.

    Ahh, fuck it. I guess if nobody is going to call him on it, then it never happened and we’ll pretend like it never happened.

  12. 12.

    Jamie

    November 17, 2011 at 10:41 pm

    @someguy –

    Nobody calls him on it? I take it you haven’t visited a single Republican blog in 4 years? In which case, you also must not know that the only other reason for the crash was that the poor, put upon bankers were forced to make loans to shifty darkies.

  13. 13.

    BrianM

    November 17, 2011 at 11:16 pm

    It’s all insider jokiness. Cutting other members of the country club. No relevance to us.

  14. 14.

    Marc

    November 17, 2011 at 11:26 pm

    @someguy:

    Republicans are so drearily predictable. We should just refer to the arguments by number.

  15. 15.

    Mnemosyne

    November 18, 2011 at 1:41 am

    @someguy:

    Ahh, fuck it. I guess if nobody is going to call him on it, then it never happened and we’ll pretend like it never happened.

    Dude. Republicans have been “calling him on it” for at least four years now. Did you just wake up from a coma? Or did you actually buy into the whole “the only reason the housing market crashed was because Fannie and Freddie gave mortgages to Those People” idea and now you’re crushed to find out that Washington Mutual and Countrywide were more responsible for the disaster than Fannie and Freddie combined?

  16. 16.

    TheMightyTrowel

    November 18, 2011 at 1:55 am

    my parents just moved into his district. MightyTrowel = well content.

  17. 17.

    gocart mozart

    November 18, 2011 at 2:04 am

    If the Newt campaign fizzles, I recommend Barney’s dining room table as the next not-Romney.

  18. 18.

    Elizabelle

    November 18, 2011 at 2:32 am

    I like Benjy Sarlin’s last line.

    On Wednesday, Frank told MSNBC’s Martin Bashir that Gingrich was a “lobbyist and liar” in another enthusiastically vicious interview.

    Enthusiastically vicious. (And accurate, let’s be honest.) Go get ’em Barney Frank.

  19. 19.

    TheMightyTrowel

    November 18, 2011 at 4:36 am

    @Elizabelle: my cousin who works in the Warren campaign and has spent a good deal of time schmoozing with various MA politicians characterises Frank as having ‘a special brand of cranky pragmatism’.

  20. 20.

    debbie

    November 18, 2011 at 5:55 am

    Is it not a fact that Bush ordered Freddie and Fannie in either 2005 or 2006 to loan 50% of their funds to lower-income applicants?

  21. 21.

    harlana

    November 18, 2011 at 6:56 am

    shred away, Barney, shred away! he’s the only candidate i absolutely despise. the others just make me laugh.

  22. 22.

    MarkJ

    November 18, 2011 at 10:03 am

    That was very funny. I still can’t believe the media is treating Gingrich as a legitimate presidential contender. He’s got so many skeletons both in and out of the closet that there’s just no way. That hasn’t stopped NPR, for one, from issuing a series of uncritical fluff pieces (which haven’t mentioned any of the skeletons that have escaped the closet) on him this week.

  23. 23.

    someguy

    November 18, 2011 at 10:09 am

    @Mnemosyne:

    Innovative products. You know what the fuck innovative mortgage products are? Zero down, interest only, 5/2 ARMs, shit like that. He’s not the only guy, the Republicans were there too. But he’s on a high horse about it now. Has nothing to do with minority loan programs, has to do with him pressuring Fannie Mae to hire his life partner, then that guy (Herb Moses) inventing a bunch of sketchy mortgage products at the heart of the housing bubble and financial crash.

    I guess I’m not allowed to be liberal if I point out the corruption and hypocrisy of a Democrat.

    BTW, he had a $10k/plate fundraiser in Manhattan targeting Wall Streeters three weeks ago. I suspect that Occupy folks weren’t in attendance…

  24. 24.

    agrippa

    November 18, 2011 at 11:43 am

    Plenty of blame to go around. Fannie Mae/ Freedie Mac did this; B O A did that, and so on. Need a score sheet to add up all the misdeeds by virtually every actor in this black comedy.

    I let no one off the hook; there were very few innocent parties; that is what a bubble is about.

    I do not think that very many public figures would ever say that there very few innocent parties; each political actor has their pet to protect; each has their favorite villain to attack.

  25. 25.

    agrippa

    November 18, 2011 at 11:45 am

    @harlana:
    Yes.
    Gingrich is a pompous, histrionic and narcissistic drama king.

    Throw him a fish.

  26. 26.

    Marc

    November 18, 2011 at 12:19 pm

    @someguy:

    The first thing out of your mouth when Frank attacks Gingrich is an attack on Frank. I smell a Republican pretending to be a liberal. It’s just such a *coincidence* that you seem to be able to only attack Democrats here….

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