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Investor's Business Daily ^ | 3/24/2009 | Uncredited

Posted on 03/25/2009 3:54:34 AM PDT by AJMCQ

The spectacle of the very same people responsible for one of the nation's great financial calamities angling to be given even more control to fix the problem would be funny if it weren't so tragic.

Rep. Barney Frank, the Democrat who sits atop Congress' efforts to deal with the financial crisis, has enough chutzpah for 100 politicians — which is saying a lot.

In comments before testimony from both Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Fed chief Ben Bernanke Tuesday, Frank said he wants to regulate pay on Wall Street — even for companies that aren't getting bailouts.

And he called retention bonuses — a time-honored practice on Wall Street and elsewhere in America in which key employees are compensated for their enormous value — "extortion" and "bribes."

Frank, one of the chief architects of the housing mess that's brought us so low, isn't satisfied merely with pretending he and his Democratic pals aren't to blame for all this.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: barneyfrank; chrisdodd; housingcrisis; hypocrisy
General George Washington would have had these people literally drawn and quartered.
1 posted on 03/25/2009 3:54:34 AM PDT by AJMCQ
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To: AJMCQ

Well....those comments ought to help the DOW, huh? Thanks, Bawny Fwank.


2 posted on 03/25/2009 4:04:58 AM PDT by CanaGuy (Go Harper!)
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To: AJMCQ

It stands to reason that the same party that gives us the minimum wage will have to give us the maximum wage - Marx with a lisp.


3 posted on 03/25/2009 4:05:56 AM PDT by JimSEA
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Speaking of Barney’s Frank, I heard that only 17% of all elections within the State of Massachusetts are even contested! It’s not even a functioning democracy! How far we’ve come since Bunker Hill that our new leadership is now comprised of a ankle biting fag from a failed one party state.


4 posted on 03/25/2009 4:15:02 AM PDT by RU88 (The false messiah can not change water into wine any more than he can get unity from diversity.)
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“General George Washington would have had these people literally drawn and quartered.”

There are no George Washingtons today.


5 posted on 03/25/2009 4:16:30 AM PDT by caver (Obama's first goals: allow more killing of innocents and allow the killers of innocents to go free.)
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To: AJMCQ

Excellent article!


6 posted on 03/25/2009 4:53:24 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: AJMCQ
Rep. Barney Frank, the Democrat who sits atop Congress' efforts to deal with the financial crisis, has enough chutzpah for 100 politicians

Fwank's full of something but this is the first time I've heard it called chutzpah. And as far as sitting atop anything...I'd bet Barneyfagg is the bottom guy in all of his Ultimate Fagging Championship cage matches.

7 posted on 03/25/2009 5:32:53 AM PDT by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash ?)
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bttt


8 posted on 03/25/2009 3:07:46 PM PDT by AJ in NYC (Liberals are ill-mannered children)
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