Posted on 04/07/2009 6:29:16 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
It all started with a question: "How much responsibility, if any, do you have for the financial crisis?" Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) and a conservative Harvard law student debated over how Frank should have handled his role as the House Chairman of the Financial Services Committee. Frank was at Harvard University for a speech at the Kennedy School of Government. Frank said the student wasn't backing up his claims, invoking some laughter from the crowd, and the student told Frank he wasn't answering his question.
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More blather from Barney....
send the student a “thank you” card.
I can only take so much of that butt boy’s jabbering
I’d like to see a Republican Congress Critter slap him like this.
The Barney show is a huge part of the current problem and nearly everything that unethical man comes out to say is diversionary...cause he has no integrity.
Barney Frank blathers and jabbers and bloviates, and the thing I hate the most about Frank is that he tries to demean and belittle people who simply ask a question which in his paranoid mind he takes as a criticism; apparently, Frank is imperial and beyond question, comment and critics. He is the single most mean-spirited Congressman in D.C.
Listening to Barney butt-boy blather on like he does is a revolting experience ... notice he NEVER answered the question, just directed the blame onto others who were not there to defend themselves from accusation.
Marker... I watched it.
Haha, that guy’s in my tax class. He are I were among the five or so people who raised our hand when asked who would eliminate the graduated income tax.
I can’t watch the jerk. Did the kid score any points?
Did you notice the Lady defend this guy when she accused Frank of labeling people? Nice to see at least 2 people at Harvard getting the picture.
Too bad the student wasn’t better prepared; nothing about Frank’s longtime protection of fannie mae, the fact that his boyfriend was a FNMA exec while Barney was on the committee overseeing FNMA, Barney’s repeated resistance to Bush’s attempts to reign in FNMA, etc.
The Jewish student asked some excellent questions, to which Barney did not respond appropriately. I couldn’t hear what the female student said, but that got Barney riled, too.
Barney Frank is a walking, talking case study in the theory that excessive proctological examination can bring on premature senility and dementia.
The student should have quoted Frank and Maxine Waters telling the Fannie and Freddie regulators that there was no problem under the magnificent leadership of Howard Raines.
Frank is an incompetent and pompous buffoon.
It's a technique that most liberals use, if you' think about it.
Barney protests to much!
ML/NJ
Master spinners and clowns like Frank are always going to “win” arguments like this, even as we enjoy seeing him have to do some fancy footwork in avoiding responsibility or blame for anything. Questioning people like Frank should be carefully limitied to a prolonged special focus on ONE THING AND ONE THING ONLY, like his and Waters’ and Dodd’s and Meek’s ‘official’ defense of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. ALL their quotes should be at the ready, to be pulled at will and thrown in their faces, joined to a clear and comprehensive view of how the vehicles of FM and FM served to make many many people rich, while it ultimately knocked down the house of cards it created, and stripped billions of dollars of wealth from all the innocent people it hurt.
Anything less than this prolonged and relentless special focus will allow Frank to bring up obscure bills no one knew about, which date from 1932, and spin any legitimate questions away into oblivion, leaving him and probably half the audience thinking he’s done his duty and put in his time with them. Which he hasn’t.
Barney is a bully
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