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Barney Frank: Tea Partiers have tied me to the railroad tracks! (Response to TPX!)
washingtonexaminer.com ^ | 10/12/10 10:15 PM EDT | David Freddoso

Posted on 10/12/2010 9:10:30 PM PDT by Syncro

Barney Frank: Tea Partiers have tied me to the railroad tracks!

By: David Freddoso

Online Opinion Editor

10/12/10 10:15 PM EDT

This has to be one of the more colorful fundraising emails of the cycle, from Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.:

Today, the “Tea Party Express” announced that not only has it made my one of their top targets in the entire nation, they are formally endorsing my opponent..

*snip*

The Tea Party Express also announced a that it will make a special stop in Massachusetts just before the election in order to defeat me.

The Tea Party Express thinks that it has me tied to the tracks. The right-wing is readying its engines. Fox News and talk radio are ready to call the play-by-play.

Read the rest at Washington Examiner


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: barneyfran; barneyfrank; fanniemae; frank; freddiemac; massachusetts; obama; palin; seanbielat; teapartyexpress; tpx
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To: gov_bean_ counter
No silly. He'd rather it be Snydley Whiplash.

EWWW! I just grossed myself out!

41 posted on 10/12/2010 9:46:32 PM PDT by milagro
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To: Syncro

What’s Barney complaining about?
I thought he liked riding the chocolate choo-choo.


42 posted on 10/12/2010 9:47:32 PM PDT by counterpunch (End the Government Monopoly!)
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To: Syncro

Hey, Barney, there’s a train coming down the tracks on November 2nd and you can’t stop this conservative locomotive.

Barney should be in prison.....then again, he’d probably enjoy being locked up in a building with a thousand other guys.


44 posted on 10/12/2010 9:50:30 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (The rallying cry of American patriots.....REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!)
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To: Texas Eagle

Casey Junior coming down the track with a smokey stack
I think I can I think I can


45 posted on 10/12/2010 9:51:02 PM PDT by funfan
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To: Rocky
It might happen!

More from the www:

Eye On ...(nymag.com)

Massachusetts-4:

The Tea Party Express, the tea-party group that helped push Joe Miller and Christine O'Donnell to come-from-behind victories, are apparently targeting longtime Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank. According to Politico, it'll start airing radio ads against Frank and is asking supporters for money. Frank's seat is considered safe ... but that's what they said about Lisa Murkowski and Mike Castle, too, at one point. This year, you really never know. For what it's worth, Frank's opponent, Sean Bielat, released an internal poll in late September showing him within ten points of Frank.

And from the Wall Street Journal:

CROSS COUNTRY

The Marine Who Has Barney Frank Worried

In a district where Scott Brown won, Sean Bielat mounts a serious challenge.

By JAMES TARANTO

Fall River, Mass.

'I don't consider myself a tea party candidate," Sean Bielat tells me over dinner. "I don't know what it means." But an hour later Mr. Bielat, Rep. Barney Frank's Republican challenger, receives a hero's welcome at the Spindle City Tea Party, a gathering of nearly 200 citizen- activists in this economically depressed mill town. As he approaches the stage, they stand, applauding and chanting "Go, Sean, go!"

What he tells them is consistent with this reporter's view of the tea party: "I'm starting to think that people want to take this country back—that people no longer believe that the government has the answers for our betterment, that the government can tell them how they should use their money. People believe that they have the power to create their own opportunity, if only they are given the chance. . . . There is so much wrong in Washington, I almost don't know where to start."


46 posted on 10/12/2010 9:51:29 PM PDT by Syncro (Tea Party Express IV: Liberty At the Ballot Box! Oct 18th - Nov 1st.)
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To: Syncro
Bwanny...that would be "twacks" to you...you know, like the Twain wuns on.
47 posted on 10/12/2010 9:52:19 PM PDT by FrankR (You are only obligated to obama to the extent you accept his handouts.)
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To: Syncro

I hear the train a comin’
It’s rolling round the bend
And I ain’t seen the sunshine since I don’t know when,
I’m stuck in Folsom prison, and time keeps draggin’ on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1xSt7iganA


48 posted on 10/12/2010 9:56:34 PM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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To: Bhoy

Of course it’s open to interpretation, as it represents events that happened a hundred years ago.


49 posted on 10/12/2010 10:04:59 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: All
More, this from The Daily Caller:
October 13, 2010

NRCC money to retire Barney Frank?

Barnie Frank, always the drama queen!
50 posted on 10/12/2010 10:05:15 PM PDT by Syncro (Tea Party Express IV: Liberty At the Ballot Box! Oct 18th - Nov 1st.)
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To: Syncro

Unhand her Dan Backslide! Unhand her Dan Backslide!


51 posted on 10/12/2010 10:05:38 PM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
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To: Impy; GOPsterinMA; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; ExTexasRedhead; randita; justiceseeker93

I’m tempted to make a bondage fantasy joke, but that might not be suitable for a family-friendly site like this.


52 posted on 10/12/2010 10:10:01 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Obama's more worried about Israelis building houses than he is about Islamists building atomic bombs)
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To: Syncro
Anybody know when the train comes by? Anyone going to be there to film the happy event?

vaudine

53 posted on 10/12/2010 10:15:06 PM PDT by vaudine
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To: Syncro
From The Boston Herald, Frank takes a vaction that cost us $200 Million:

Rival blasts Barney Frank’s swanky free jet ride

By Dave Wedge
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 -

U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, immersed in one of the toughest political fights of his career, took a free private jet to the Virgin Islands courtesy of a Maine congresswoman’s billionaire fiancée — whose company received a $200 million federal bailout, the Herald has learned.

Frank, who’s facing feisty Republican challenger Sean Bielat, flew to the tropical paradise for a vacation in 2009 on a $25 million jet owned by Paloma Partners honcho S. Donald Sussman, the fiancée of U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine). Paloma Securities — a subsidiary of Sussman’s Greenwich, Conn.-based hedge fund — received $200 million in 2009 as part of the $180 billion federal bailout of troubled insurance giant AIG, records show.


54 posted on 10/12/2010 10:15:14 PM PDT by Syncro (Tea Party Express IV: Liberty At the Ballot Box! Oct 18th - Nov 1st.)
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To: Syncro
The Coasters - "Along Came Jones"

I plopped down in my easy chair and turned on Channel 2
A bad gunslinger called Salty Sam was chasin' poor Sweet Sue
He trapped her in the old sawmill and said with an evil laugh,
"If you don't give me the deed to your ranch I'll saw you all in half!"
And then he grabbed her (and then)
He tied her up (and then)
He turned on the bandsaw (and then, and then...!)

[Chorus:]
And then along came Jones
Tall thin Jones
Slow-walkin' Jones
Slow-talkin' Jones
Along came long, lean, lanky Jones

Commercial came on, so I got up to get myself a snack
You should've seen what was goin' on by the time that I got back
Down in the old abandoned mine, Sweet Sue was havin' fits
That villain said, "Give me the deed to your ranch Or I'll blow you all to bits!"
And then he grabbed her (and then)
He tied her up (and then)
He lit the fuse to the dynamite (and then, and then...!)

[Chorus]

I got so bugged I turned it off and turned on another show
But there was the same old shoot-'em-up and the same old rodeo
Salty Sam was tryin' to stuff Sweet Sue in a burlap sack
He said, "If you don't give me the deed to your ranch I'm gonna throw you on the railroad tracks!"
And then he grabbed her (and then)
He tied her up (and then)
He threw her on the railroad tracks (and then)
A train started comin' (and then, and then...!)

[Chorus]

55 posted on 10/12/2010 10:18:50 PM PDT by GVnana (I'm a Mama Grizzly)
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To: Syncro
Can I get a leg as a souvenir?
56 posted on 10/12/2010 10:31:36 PM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: GVnana; All
     
It's all over sweetie!                   Bite Me!

He's talking to him/her self!

57 posted on 10/12/2010 10:35:52 PM PDT by Syncro (Tea Party Express IV: Liberty At the Ballot Box! Oct 18th - Nov 1st.)
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To: All
More, this from Politico:

Tea Party Express targets Frank

By ALEX ISENSTADT | 10/12/10 3:57 PM EDT Updated: 10/12/10 4:29 PM EDT

After successfully targeting Republican establishment candidates in two Senate primaries, the Tea Party Express is taking aim at a new high-profile figure conservatives love to hate: Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank.

The Tea Party Express will launch a radio ad campaign directed at the House Financial Services Committee chairman. The group sent an e-mail appeal to its supporters on Monday afternoon asking for donations to help power its campaign against Frank.

“He’s one of the worst offenders,” said Amy Kremer, chairwoman of the Sacramento, Calif.-based Tea Party Express. “It’s something we’ve heard from our people over and over again.”

“We’re trying to put a stop in that district,” said Kremer.


58 posted on 10/12/2010 10:42:56 PM PDT by Syncro (Tea Party Express IV: Liberty At the Ballot Box! Oct 18th - Nov 1st.)
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To: ikka
I had such a clever remark ready to go, and it took but post 5 for someone to beat me to it!
59 posted on 10/12/2010 11:21:59 PM PDT by Captainpaintball
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To: Captainpaintball

Whooo woooo...and here comes the train!


60 posted on 10/12/2010 11:37:20 PM PDT by Bulgaricus1 (Fill your hand you son...)
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