Alas, Poor Barney ─ 'Tis Pity He's a Whore


                                
                                 This is the ugliest photo I could find of Frank, but the
                                            rest aren't much better. Maybe I should photoshop
                                            one or two. I'll bet Barney would like that, it's his style

    Someone reading Dome of Glass might think that I have some sort of visceral dislike, even hatred, for long-time Massachusetts Democrat Representative Barney Frank.
    Well, if you’re laboring under such a suspicion, this is to let you know that you’re absolutely right.
    I loathe Frank. I loathe his blubbery face. I loathe his immoral behavior. I loathe his attack-dog politics. And I loathe the lies, evasions, viciousness, and moral cowardice that characterize the man.
    By coincidence (this post was already written pre-Thanksgiving) Frank announced on Monday that he will not seek reelection. Of course, if you’re familiar with the behavior of the Massachusetts pimp, he may very well yield to the pleas of his loyal constituency of idiots, fag hags, and congenital Liberals and rise from his silk-lined coffin like Dracula to seek re-election.

* * *

    My detestation of Frank (as opposed to mere revulsion) is nothing new, but was solidified a few months ago when I happened to remote* onto Bill O’Reilly exchanging insults with the Massachusetts brothel operator ** Before I was able to switch channels, I was rendered immobile by the yawning chasm of Frank’s mouth as it ejaculated a torrential sewer of fabrications, half-truths, and spittle concerning, as I recall, the cause of the 2008 housing bubble and the ensuing worldwide economic downturn.
    Amazingly, the Massachusetts gay panderer was able to shout down even O’Reilly, an acknowledged master of the put-down, shut-down, and turn-off as he blamed the catastrophe on Big Banks, Big Oil, Republican Lobbyists, Right-Wing Conservatives, Henry Kissinger, Wall Street Speculators, the Tea Party, George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Southern Baptists, and ─ if memory serves ─ George Washington, the Gabor sisters, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Three Stooges.

    Let’s set the record straight.

The recession that engulfed America, Europe, and most of the developed world is the direct result of policies promulgated by BARNEY FRANK, ramrodded through congress by BARNEY FRANK, and forced down the throats of financial institutions by BARNEY FRANK.

    It was Frank, with his motor-mouth, his machinations, and his threats (all wrapped in standard Liberal pita as "help for the poor, the needy, and the blacks") that coerced and duped and bullied presidents and courts and legislators into pursuing the ruinous, irrational fiscal policies that led to the wreckage we see today.
    "I was blinded by ideology," Frank is quoted as having whined before switching back into attack-dog mode and laying the blame for the fiasco on the very financial institutions his racist policies forced into their shotgun wedding with "subprime" mortgagees; i.e., people who could never and would never be able to repay their loans.

    Here's some relevant commentary:

November 1, 2011, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg addressing the Occupy Wall Street mob
"It was not the banks that created the mortgage crisis. It was, plain and simple, Congress, who forced everybody to go and give mortgages to people who were on the cusp. ...They were the ones who pushed Fannie and Freddie *** to make a bunch of loans that were imprudent, if you will."

2003, Barney Frank

"I do not want the same kind of focus on safety and soundness [in the regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac] that we have in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision. I want to roll the dice a little bit more..."

October 20, 2010, Syndicated Columnist Tom Sowell,

"You would be hardpressed to find a politician who is less frank than U.S. Rep. Barney Frank. Even in an occupation where truth and candor are often lacking, Frank is in a class by himself when it comes to rewriting history in creative ways...No one contributed more to the policies behind the housing boom and bust, which led to the economic disaster we are now in, than Barney Frank. His powerful position on the House Committee on Financial Services gave him leverage to force through legislation and policies that pressured banks and other lenders to grant mortgage loans to people who would not qualify under the standards that had long prevailed, and had long made mortgage loans among the safest investments around.".

November 12, 2011, John Hinderaker, Powerline

"If there is a single face of the financial crisis, it is probably Barney Frank, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s chief Congressional patron, who shouted down all warnings and resisted all efforts to bring those agencies under control."

2004, Rep. Barney Frank

"I believe that we, as the federal government, have probably done too little rather than too much to push them [the banks] to meet the goals of affordable housing...I would like to get Fannie and Freddie more deeply into helping low-income housing."

September 20, 1999, Stephen Holmes, New York Times

"Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people...In moving, even tentatively, into this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk, which may not pose any difficulties during flush economic times. But the government-subsidized corporation may run into trouble in an economic downturn, prompting a government rescue similar to that of the savings and loan industry in the 1980's.‘From the perspective of many people, including me, this is another thrift industry growing up around us,’ said Peter Wallison a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. ‘If they fail, the government will have to step up and bail them out the way it stepped up and bailed out the thrift industry.’"

2003, Barney Frank, (when asked if taxpayers might have to bail out Fannie and Freddie in the event of a meltdown)

"There is no guarantee [of a Federal bailout]...there is no explicit guarantee, there is no implicit guarantee, there is no wink-and-nod guarantee."

December 30, 2009, John Hinderaker, Powerline

"When a private citizen like Bernie Madoff commits fraud, he gets a long jail sentence. But when Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, and the well-connected (and now rich) Democrats who headed Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae commit fraud ─ on a far larger scale ─ they simply send the bill to the taxpayers. Or, rather, the taxpayers' children."

    Barney Frank is the most reprehensible and disgusting excuse for a human being that has ever been voted into office by a blind, ignorant, partisan, and bigoted electorate.

Norm Mack, Peterborough, dog@myfairpoint.net

* For the record, I don’t watch the assholes that infest evening television.─ O’Reilly, Schultz, Hannity, Maddow, O‘Donnell, Schieffer, Cooper, and the other bullshit artists who make money spewing claptrap about things of which they know less than nothing for an audience that is even more ignorant than they are. An exception to my boycott is Keith Olbermann whom I watch for a minute or two now and then (I don’t have the stomach for longer sojourns) to keep abreast of what American Nazis are up to.

** In 1989 Frank was living with one Steve Gobie, a male homosexual prostitute who practiced his profession from Frank's apartment. When the matter came to light, Frank claimed he had no knowledge that his home was being used as a brothel. Right. And O. J. Simpson didn’t kill his wife, Bill Clinton never had sex with Monica Lewinsky, the Holocaust never happened, and Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus..

*** Fannie and Freddie are short for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which in turn are nicknames for the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, respectively. Both are quasi governmental bodies that underpin the mortgage market and whose collapse in 2008 cost American taxpayers between $100 billion and $300 billion depending on which book-cooking federal agency you choose to believe. ($95 million of those tax dollars went to lucrative pay packages for the firms' top executives )
Posted by dome of glass at 12/1/2011 8:00 AM
Categories: Politics
Tags: Barney Frank recession Fannie and Freddie
 

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  • 12/2/2011 9:06 AM nun wrote:
    Yes. And the progressives are trying to recruit a Kennedy to replace the despicable slime. Good lord almighty there sure must be a lot of really stupid people in MA.
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