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Barney Frank lays into successor (Headline of the year alert!)
bostonherald.com ^ | 12/16/2010 | Jay Fitzgerald

Posted on 12/16/2010 7:52:41 AM PST by massmike

Rep. Barney Frank is already brawling with the man who will succeed him as chairman of the powerful U.S. House Financial Services Committee.

Frank, the Newton Democrat who next month will lose his committee chairmanship due to Republican gains in the November elections, went on the offensive against Rep. Spencer Bachus, an Alabama Republican who’s already made clear his displeasure with the recently passed financial-industry overhaul bill, known as Dodd-Frank.

Frank, who played a major role crafting the bill, jumped on a comment that Bachus made to Alabama’s Birmingham News, which reported Bachus as saying “Washington and the regulators are there to serve the banks.” Bachus later clarified the remark to say “regulators should set the parameters” for banks without micromanaging them.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: bawneyfwank

1 posted on 12/16/2010 7:52:43 AM PST by massmike
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To: massmike

Title is just TMI!


2 posted on 12/16/2010 7:56:37 AM PST by Gamecock (Christian humility consists in laying aside the imaginary idea of our own righteousness....J Calvin)
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To: massmike

LOL...I guess i will just follow with another Double entendre.... WATCH YOUR BACK..when you’re around Barney Frank!


3 posted on 12/16/2010 7:57:37 AM PST by jakerobins
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So Bawney was the layor and not the layee. That’s not a pretty image.


4 posted on 12/16/2010 8:02:37 AM PST by llevrok (Born a ham but never cured)
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To: massmike

One must be careful around this little fecal-munching pervert and not forget that practically all serial killings were committed by homosexual men.


5 posted on 12/16/2010 8:08:12 AM PST by IbJensen ("How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think"-A. Hitler)
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To: massmike

I really would prefer that Barney Frank not talk with his mouth full.

It makes it so hard to understand just what the hell he’s blathering on about.


6 posted on 12/16/2010 8:08:49 AM PST by Howie66 (I can see November (2012) from my house.)
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To: massmike
mortgagate
7 posted on 12/16/2010 8:09:33 AM PST by FrankR (The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
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To: massmike

So, maybe the incoming chairman can get some investigations started into
the CRA,
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,
Franklin Raines’ bonuses,
Fannie & Freddie’s campaign contributions to Frank,
etc.


8 posted on 12/16/2010 8:10:11 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: massmike

http://www.adherents.com/misc/hsk.html


9 posted on 12/16/2010 8:10:57 AM PST by IbJensen ("How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think"-A. Hitler)
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To: MrB
maybe the incoming chairman can get some investigations started

Not likely. Bachus is my congresscritter. If you look up "empty suit" in the dictionary you will find his picture. He doesn't like to rock boats, so it's unlikely he will go after Frank, and he's just not smart enough to actually come up with his own ideas, so he will wind up going along with whatever the lobbyists tell him to do.

10 posted on 12/16/2010 8:16:48 AM PST by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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To: 6ppc

Sounds like he needs some encouragement from his constituency.


11 posted on 12/16/2010 8:18:56 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: massmike

Wish this little fruit would just go away. Damn I can’t stand that corrupt rotten little worm.


12 posted on 12/16/2010 8:23:32 AM PST by Logical me
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To: MrB
Sounds like he needs some encouragement from his constituency.

I attempt communication frequently but get back nothing but form letters and platitudes.

On the other hand one of my senators, Jeff Sessions, is very responsive to his constituents.

13 posted on 12/16/2010 8:28:02 AM PST by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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To: massmike
Barney's just upset he'll no longer be able to use a lofty position to procure dates.

So many handsome Fannie Mae executives, so little time.

14 posted on 12/16/2010 8:33:38 AM PST by skeeter
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To: skeeter

Boy, I’ll be the sound of shredders going full bore is heard all over Washington right about now...


15 posted on 12/16/2010 6:18:14 PM PST by redhead (Where do I get my RINO hunting license?)
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