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Barney Frank at Town Hall: "We'd have the money for Obamacare if Bush hadn't started illegal war"
Fox 25 - Boston | 8/18/09

Posted on 08/18/2009 7:22:07 PM PDT by pabianice

Barney Frank got the snot kicked out of him tonight at a raucous Town Hall, but "punched back twice as hard." TV clips show enraged constituant after constituant asking him how he could support such a horrid bill. He refused to budge an inch, although he was sweating heavily in the summer heat. His money quotes: "We'd already have the money for national healthcare if Bush hadn't started his illegal war in Iraq" and, to his constituants, "talking to you is like talking to a table." Perhaps the glow is off the Barnster come Nov 2010.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 08/18/2009 7:22:07 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: pabianice

That’s a poofter argument for ya.


2 posted on 08/18/2009 7:22:40 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (When did it become the Democrat You-Shut-Up-And-Listen-To-Me Tour?)
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Bush’s fault again. I mean it’s not like any RATS voted to appropriate money for it.


3 posted on 08/18/2009 7:23:17 PM PDT by freespirited (The only thing growing faster than the deficit is Chris Matthews' man crush on Obama -- Tim Pawlenty)
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To: pabianice

to his constituents, “talking to you is like talking to a table.”

FULL FRONTAL CRUDITY

The Iraq war didn’t crash the US economy- but Barney’s meddling in the banking system sure did


4 posted on 08/18/2009 7:24:43 PM PDT by silverleaf (If we are astroturf, why are the democrats trying to mow us?)
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To: pabianice
"talking to you is like talking to a table."

Barney's 2010 campaign slogan.
5 posted on 08/18/2009 7:25:08 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! FairTaxNation.com)
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To: pabianice

The arrogance of this guy is unbelievable.


6 posted on 08/18/2009 7:25:22 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: pabianice
It's quite simple.

The Federal government is supposed to defend America (illegal my little brown eye).

The Federal government is NOT supposed to provide health care.

7 posted on 08/18/2009 7:25:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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So Barney, bottom line is that no matter HOW we got here, there is NO money for Obamacare. That's what you just said. NOW, how can you get that money without taking anything away from seniors???? Please let us know.
8 posted on 08/18/2009 7:26:06 PM PDT by fish hawk (Lord, help us to attain knowledge and the wisdom to apply it toward your ultimate will.)
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Sounds like Bawney slept in on 09-11-01.


9 posted on 08/18/2009 7:26:14 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (January 20th, 2013)
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To: pabianice

Barney Frank talks to tables?

(From above or below them?)


10 posted on 08/18/2009 7:27:57 PM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: pabianice

How much you wanna bet he gets re-elected again?

I would say he probably will.


12 posted on 08/18/2009 7:29:40 PM PDT by Anti-Kenyan
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And if the government was sitting on a ton of cash it would still be wrong for them to get involved with Health Care. We don't need bigger government.

And another thing - these 'folks' in the Dem party never argue issues over their merits. Its always a game of distract and accuse. "Bush's fault", 'If I hadn't inherited this deficit...', 'IF we didn't have this "illegal war" (the spending which, by the way, Congress approved...)' ... These 'folks' never offer ideas or solutions that don't involve government takeovers. And when they get called on it -- throw up dust in the air and blame everyone else rather than defend the fact they are pushing the Country towards a communist State.

And besides, Mr. Frank, had you not 'enabled' the Housing debacle, and steered billions towards a corrupt Fanny Mae -- we'd also be sitting on a ton of cash (which should've gotten refunded back to the taxpayers - and not spent for another harebrained Government program)...

Our Capitol is infested with two-legged vermin...

13 posted on 08/18/2009 7:30:39 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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The illegal war is irrelevant. We would never have enough money for Obamacare.


14 posted on 08/18/2009 7:31:18 PM PDT by SandWMan (While you may not be able to legislate morality, you can legislate morally.)
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I am about to lose it.....Barney is one of the reasons whe had the crash and everyone is worth about half what they were......he still thinks the public is stupid and he is smart.....jeez


15 posted on 08/18/2009 7:31:31 PM PDT by dalebert
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16 posted on 08/18/2009 7:31:51 PM PDT by Bratch
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HE THINKS HE IS THE QUEEN......


17 posted on 08/18/2009 7:31:59 PM PDT by dalebert
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Sounds like Bawney slept in on 09-11-01.
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SSSShhhhhhhhhh! We’re NOT supposed to talk about THAT day or show pictures. Tooooooooooo ‘disturbing’, ya’ know. /s

Thanks, MSM for ‘sterilizing the attack and tragedy, and revising history because of your utter, seething HATRED of Bush’.

It’s almost like. “Shhhhhhh. Don’t TALK about the Holocaust. It’s just TOOOOOO disturbing. Everyone should just ‘faggetaboutit’. Move along. NOTHING to see, here.”


18 posted on 08/18/2009 7:32:33 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ('Always love your country — but never trust your government!' ~ Robert Novak (RIP))
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Perhaps the glow is off the Barnster come Nov 2010.

Naw. He'll just make sure he's caught running a gay prostitution ring in his basement (again), and his constituents will remember that they love the guy.
19 posted on 08/18/2009 7:32:33 PM PDT by tanknetter
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Of course he will. Liberals love their pet gay congressmen, pet hippie carpenters, pet black mayors, governors, presidents, pet lesbian dog groomers. It makes them feel ... liberal.


20 posted on 08/18/2009 7:32:54 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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