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Posted on 02/23/2010 5:18:53 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Rep. Barney Frank on Monday night called Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) “cowardly” for suggesting that he was misled by then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in order to get his support for the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program.
McCain told the Arizona Republic in a story published Monday that he was told the federal funds would only be used to address the meltdown in the housing industry.
But, the Arizona senator – who is facing a primary challenge on his right from former Rep. J.D. Hayworth – told the paper, “obviously that didn’t happen.”
Asked about McCain’s claim by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Frank said it was a “pathetically, obviously untrue statement .”
“Those of us who were there know it,” the Massachusetts Democrat said of the meeting Paulson and Bernanke had with lawmakers to request the funds. “I`ve gone beyond being disappointed for John McCain to feeling sorry for him.”
“For him to blame Paulson or Bernanke is cowardly,” Frank continued. “This was Bush. Paulson and Bernanke were acting for [former President] George [W.] Bush.”
Frank recalled that every person, including McCain, involved in the meeting “was trying to get a solution, from the president to the members of Congress.”
“It’s an invention,” the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee said of McCain’s claim. “Look, he’s got a very conservative primary opponent. He voted for the TARP money. He clearly supported it. And he’s now just trying to reinvent history, but it’s unseemly for a man like that to blame other people, because he changed his mind for political reasons.”
LOL!
I hope Hayworth uses this in radio and tv ads to hammer mclame.
I never thought I’d write this: Barney’s right.
McCain’s “friends” are now turning on him in a way that only Grahamnesty might enjoy.
Ouch! Called a coward by a wuss.
And the wuss is right
Barney rank is related to Shemp Howard’s wife...
Scary, isn’t it?
“Cowardly” as in “I had no idea my boyfriend was operating a male prostitution ring out of my apartment” cowardly?
How is Juan feeling about that “reach across the aisle,” “big tent” now?
LOL!
Bingo. I was thinking the same exact think. Pot, meet kettle....
This is the only time I can ever remember agreeing with Barney on something. Go JD Hayworth.
Is the pot calling the kettle black again?
(I hope that’s not racist!)
Even a broken clock is right two times a day.
I can’t help but wonder if dems help McCain lose the primary, it is the best way for them to have a chance at that seat. Thoughts?
I'm disappointed politically in McCain, but I honor him for his service to our country.
Donks attack Republicans at every chance. I don’t take this easy, McCain is a war hero, slipped in the old age, but to have that fag calling a US POW A Coward and getting away with it on this site is to much
Barney Frank is right, but I think there’s something even more telling about this in regards to human nature in general. Most people think moral courage is somehow “easier” than physical courage. McCain survived physical horrors most of us can’t begin to imagine, yet couldn’t summon the moral courage to be honest about the motivation for his voting record.
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