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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Well....those comments ought to help the DOW, huh? Thanks, Bawny Fwank.
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.
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.
“General George Washington would have had these people literally drawn and quartered.”
There are no George Washingtons today.
Excellent article!
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.
bttt
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