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1. #101
   On October 24th, 2008 at 11:25 am, Rob said:

   That wascally wabbit

2. #102
   On October 24th, 2008 at 11:26 am, Yiddish Steel said:

   He has often been referred to as the “brainiest,” “funniest” and “most eloquent” member of the House…

   He also is also the inspiration behind Homestar Runner

3. #103
   On October 24th, 2008 at 11:33 am, rocketman said:

   Our country has been going steadily downhill in many areas during my 67 years of life. Some areas–fair treatment of Black people and other minorities have improved a lot. But on the whole we have become a “DUMBED DOWN” electorate.

   Our country seems divided evenly between smart and stupid people. My company sent me from Texas to Boston for a year to work on the then new SAM-D (later Patriot) Missile System in 1969. The state of Massachusetts seemed crazy to me then–very bright people at work, but many people seemed to have lost the normal American values. How can they keep re-electing Teddy Kennedy, Barney Frank, and other crooks / weirdos? Maybe ACORN is at work–reading the Boston newspapers was like reading the Juarez, Mexico papers–corruption, cronyism, and Mafia / drug gangs everywhere.

   It felt very good to return to Texas–sanity still prevails here. Other posters have commented on how the U.S. Congress would have improved if the 9/11 Flight 93 hijacked aircraft had reached it’s intended target–with them in session–TERM LIMITS YOU CAN BELIEVE IN! This would have been like the old Russian joke, “A plane carrying all the Russian leaders crashed–there were no survivors. Who was saved?” Answer, “The Russian People”. Ditto for the American People.

   Maybe the devil prevented the last plane from completing it’s mission. Osama Bin Ladin must be thanking Allah every time he sees our disgraceful Congress in action. He is also waiting for the Messiah to take over in the U.S.S.A.

   John Bibb

4. #104
   On October 24th, 2008 at 11:35 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

   That was cruel Yiddish Steel #102. I hope you realize Homestar Runner will never invite you to his Bath House-Pimpatorium. The wascally wabbit does hold a grudge.

5. #105
   On October 24th, 2008 at 11:35 am, iamsaved said:

   An interesting story going around the internet…

   Today on my way to lunch I passed a homeless guy with a sign that read”Vote Obama, I need the money.” I laughed. Once in the restaurant my server had on an “Obama 08″ tie, again I laughed as he had given away his political preference — just imagine the coincidence. When the bill came I decided to do a little experiment. I would NOT tip the server. Instead I explained to him that I was following the Obama”spreading the wealth” concept.” He stood there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to”redistribute his tip” to someone who I deemed more in need–the homeless guy outside. The server angrily stormed from my sight. I went outside, gave the homeless guy $5 and told him to thank the server inside as I’ve decided he could use the money more. The homeless guy was grateful. At the end of my rather unscientific redistribution experiment I realized the homeless guy was grateful for the money he did not earn, but the waiter was pretty angry that I gave away the money he did earn even though the actual recipient needed money more. My initial conclusion is that redistribution of wealth is only a good thing when it’s someone ELSE’S money being redistributed to YOU!

6. #106
   On October 24th, 2008 at 11:36 am, mytake said:

   Good luck on Obama collecting on capital gains taxes. All my capital gains have been wiped out by my contributions so far to income redistribution.
   Unfortunately, as I expected, the poor got no richer from my loss. So much for trickle-UP economics! Wake up America!

7. #107
   On October 24th, 2008 at 11:50 am, teachem2 said:

   I have no idea as to why people would cling to living in squalor, crime-ridden neighborhoods and collecting welfare checks and somehow conclude that they are living on top of the world.

   30,

   I started my career in inner-city schools and I was an idealistic liberal. It was exactly this type of attitude that I witnessed day in and day out. That’s precisely why I have the beliefs and principles I do now. It was a conservative-making experience. I’m a full believer that if someone doesn’t have a stake in something, they are not interested in making it a success. Public education is a prime example.

   There are many of us out there that are trying to change the “entitlement” attitude that is pervasive in the schools, but what I find totally astounding is that many people who share my beliefs still vote liberals into office. I think there’s a great disconnect in people’s beliefs and voting habits. There are so many that vote for candidates that have nothing to do with said candidate’s beliefs or principles, much less their voting record if they are incumbents. They tend to vote their own wallet (as many of us do to some degree), or race (as I see all the time here in Memphis), or just along straight party lines regardless of who it is.

   This is how we get people like Barney Frank. I’m all for term limits, but I doubt I’ll see that in my lifetime.

8. #108
   On October 24th, 2008 at 12:03 pm, FamilyMan said:

   mytake said:
   Good luck on Obama collecting on capital gains taxes. All my capital gains have been wiped out by my contributions so far to income redistribution.

   Does Barney realize that the housing market and stock market plunge will force people to take a capital LOSS this year, therefor reducing their income tax.
   Smart move with you finance committee Barney.
   “brainiest,” ??????????????

9. #109
   On October 24th, 2008 at 12:08 pm, 30 pcs of silver said:

   On October 24th, 2008 at 11:50 am, teachem2 said:

   You can say that again.

10. #110
    On October 24th, 2008 at 12:09 pm, 30 pcs of silver said:

    On October 24th, 2008 at 11:35 am, iamsaved said:

    Maybe he’ll not only rethink wearing that stupid tie but also reconsider voting for The Bum, er, um, The One. A girl can dream….

11. #111
    On October 24th, 2008 at 12:13 pm, cicerokid said:

    “I was teasing (U.S. Rep.) Jack Murtha (a key supporter of military budgets) and I said to him,: “Oooh! You animal! Stop it! Wanna shag?”

12. #112
    On October 24th, 2008 at 12:16 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    I’m all for term limits
    

    I used to be quite the advocate for term limits, which we have here in California state offices.

    I’m not so sure of them anymore. Once a politian is term limited out of one office here, he or she turns around and runs for a different office. And voters just replace them with cookie cutter duplicates, no thanks to jerry-mandered districts that overwhelmingly favor one party’s hold on them.

    So, term limits are worthless as long as the voters continue to vote for the same pol in a diffent office or a new face with the same old politics.

    I want REAL term and service limits such as: Serve in one public political office – two term maximum with a 5 year moritorium for running for another office elsewhere, just to get exposure and experience in the private work environment, a place where many career politicians are too far removed to comprehend what effect legislation and its unintended consequences have.

13. #113
    On October 24th, 2008 at 12:16 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    iamsaved #105 said:

    An interesting story going around the internet…

    That works. If I had a waiter with an Obama tie, pin, whatever I would not tip them either.

    Capital gains? Worth may well be destroyed but with the planned inflation the total dollars will go up so they will be able to tax your loss. Neat tricks these folks pull. LBJ was a master at it. Inflation is governments friend–they can pay back treasury notes and savings bonds with cheap money and start all over.

    Invest in brass, lead and powder so you can give as you receive.

14. #114
    On October 24th, 2008 at 12:36 pm, JeffH said:

    Is that award for real? That’s like when Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor got safety award on the show Home Improvement.

15. #115
    On October 24th, 2008 at 12:38 pm, jeanie said:

    Barney certainly gives the lie to what goes around comes around. How come these guys get away with so much? Here he’s one of the major forces in pulling down the world economy and taking all our hard earned money and he still floats free. Not sure I believe in higher justice!!

16. #116
    On October 24th, 2008 at 12:46 pm, cheapseat said:

    aznean you are absolutely correct, inflation HELPS governments, while hurting citzens and savers. we have quasi government entities, ie, healthcare, education, etc going up by 6 to 12 percent per year for the last 15 years, while interest on savings goes up by 4%. you don’t win in that system.

17. #117
    On October 24th, 2008 at 12:46 pm, Regulus said:

    NH&RA will recognize Congressman Frank by presenting him with the NH&RA 2008 Affordable Housing Vision Award.

    This kind of self-interest back-slapping is a major reason why I never watch things like the Academy or Emmy awards. Watching a beneficiary of disastrous government fiscal mismanagement presenting one of the key architects of that disaster with an award gets my Chutzpah Prize.

    On a second topic, I’m with Sergeant Tim above in the conviction that Hopenchange’s laundry list of how he’s going to “improve” our military will get tossed into the trash shortly after he’d get into the White House — and realize that his Robin Hood wealth redistribution plans won’t be covered by his tax increases.

    That’s when he’ll follow Barney Franks’ advice and treat the defense budget like a piggy bank to bust open in favor of expanded entitlements.

    Which is why a Hopenchange presidency would be a worst-of-both-worlds combination of Jimmy Carter’s second term (confiscatory taxes, a rising “misery index,” interest and inflation-rate stagflation and blaming it all on the American people’s “malaise”), and George McGovern’s first (“There’s no problem that can’t be solved by America walking away, so let’s gut the military!”).

    God help us all if we get the perfect storm of a Hopenchange presidency coupled with a donkey Congress.

    God help us all.

18. #118
    On October 24th, 2008 at 12:46 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    I used to be quite the advocate for term limits, which we have here in California state offices.

    hawkeye54, I live in the People’s Socialist Quagmire of California, too. I have seen the same thing you have; politicians that are term-limited out, just switching offices with another term-limited politician.

    Here’s a better way to do term limits. Once you get elected, you get 12 years. The clock starts and doesn’t stop for ANY reason. At the end of 12 years, you are out of politics forever. Once out, you cannot take any job that is paid from public funds. Not a teacher, police officer, firefighter, dog catcher, you can’t even be employed in a non-profit if it takes public funds. And you can’t be a lobbyist, either.

    Think of how many out-going politicians are going to have to get real jobs in the private sector. Do you think they would support a tax increase or anything that would cause a down-turn in the economy? Nope! They have to get a job!

19. #119
    On October 24th, 2008 at 12:49 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    On October 24th, 2008 at 12:38 pm, jeanie #115 said:

    Barney certainly gives the lie to what goes around comes around. How come these guys get away with so much? Here he’s one of the major forces in pulling down the world economy and taking all our hard earned money and he still floats free. Not sure I believe in higher justice!!

    Believe jeanie, believe. Don’t let the thieves steal that from us too. There is a GOD in Heaven-HE is patient-HIS way are not our ways-but HE will not be mocked for long.

    Drop off the bloggs for awhile and read your Bible–Our GOD is just–but His Time is not our time. Keep the Faith my friend-Justice will prevail.

    And if you do not own a gun for self protection get one–that IS your GOD given right. Believe jeanie believe.

20. #120
    On October 24th, 2008 at 1:17 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    Here’s a better way to do term limits. Once you get elected, you get 12 years. The clock starts and doesn’t stop for ANY reason. At the end of 12 years, you are out of politics forever. Once out, you cannot take any job that is paid from public funds. Not a teacher, police officer, firefighter, dog catcher, you can’t even be employed in a non-profit if it takes public funds. And you can’t be a lobbyist, either.
    

    I like your concept. Also, I’d like to see eliminated their defined-pension plans and voting themselves raises. In fact, NO pensions for elected offices would be perfect and let the voters decide if they deserve raises or for that matter, based on performance, reductions in salary.

21. #121
    On October 24th, 2008 at 1:18 pm, Gorebot said:

    And the dupes in Taxachusetts will almost certainly re-elect Blarney Funk.

    Paraphrasing loosely from Michelle Obama:

    “For the first time in my adult life, I fear for the long term future of my country”.

22. #122
    On October 24th, 2008 at 1:18 pm, d1carter said:

    This is a joke, right?

23. #123
    On October 24th, 2008 at 1:24 pm, right_on said:

    Please remind me, which party wanted an end to the appointments of “Special Counsels?”

    Congress is unable to honestly investigate itself (look at the Ethics Committees results.) The Democrats who are now in charge will not be “bullied” (a Barney Frank favorite saying) in to initiating a non-partisan look at it’s members dealings with the crooks involved in the current financial fiasco.

    These elected enablers will never be held accountable. Idiots will keep them in office, and they will enact laws with loopholes to escape prosecution. We can only pray that karma happens sooner, rather than later!

24. #124
    On October 24th, 2008 at 1:58 pm, Papa Louie said:

    We don’t need all these fancy new weapons.

    Which fancy new weapons are you talking about, Barney? SDI?
    With North Korea and Russia developing new long range missles and selling them to terrorists in Iran, no, we don’t need no stinking missle defence system. So what if they wipe out Israel and a few cities on our coast. We need to reduce the global population to help the environment and slow Global Warming. Besides, these places will be wiped out by rising seas, anyway. Is that what you’re thinking, Barney?

25. #125
    On October 24th, 2008 at 2:02 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    On October 24th, 2008 at 1:18 pm, d1carter #122 said:

    This is a joke, right?

    Yes, Barney Frank is a joke-we are the punch line.
    —
    God Bless America except for the blue states.

    Vote McCain
    Not Hussein
    Then cry.

26. #126
    On October 24th, 2008 at 2:18 pm, Elm Creek Smith said:

    On October 24th, 2008 at 9:09 am, lgm said:

    I don’t even have to ask the question today. This diatribe is proof that he’s stoned and stupid.

    ECS

27. #127
    On October 24th, 2008 at 2:21 pm, iamgman said:

    Hawkeye54,

    Toss these on to your suggestions. All government officials should be forced into the SS system. If we have to pay into that cesspool, then so should elected officials, teachers, etc. Either we are all in it, or none are.

    Taking bets on how long it would take before SS was done away with.

28. #128
    On October 24th, 2008 at 2:35 pm, RetFireman said:

    Is it just me? Or does nothing make any fricken sense anymore? I swear to God, every morning I wake up and look at the news, I wonder just what the hell is going on.

    And right when you think things couldn’t get any more bizarre…sure enough they do. Take for example the architect of the Nations financial and housing crisis getting an award for doing the EXACT OPPOSITE!

    No…nothing makes sense anymore.

29. #129
    On October 24th, 2008 at 2:38 pm, Flyover State said:

    If anyone has time for an off-topic (sort of) question, I’ve been wondering… is it possible to do away with the term limit for President? I mean, could they change that if they had enough backing?

30. #130
    On October 24th, 2008 at 2:59 pm, flaming_o said:

    I always thought the NHRA was the National Hot Rod Association. (Insert humorous double entendre at Barney Frank’s expense here. The traitor’s earned it.)

31. #131
    On October 24th, 2008 at 2:59 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    On October 24th, 2008 at 2:38 pm, Flyover State #129 said:

    If anyone has time for an off-topic (sort of) question, I’ve been wondering… is it possible to do away with the term limit for President? I mean, could they change that if they had enough backing?

    Sure, Repeal the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution.

    Get yourself a copy of The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America by Roger Pilon (Paperback – Sep 25, 2000) $4.95

    Your forefathers paid a whole lot more.

32. #132
    On October 24th, 2008 at 3:15 pm, thetoysurgeon said:

    When our new Czar takes over the country, he has plans for the 2nd and 22nd amendments. This Obama is a commie to the first degree. The ideology of Ayers and his buddies is the same of “that one”. He is hiding behind the Democratic party because they want to win the presidency so bad they overlook the man and what he stands for.

    http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=78945

    http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=78929

    http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=78931

    http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=78671

    this country is being shamed…. PC has been in the works for the last 15 years just for this moment in history.

33. #133
    On October 24th, 2008 at 3:19 pm, Papa Louie said:

    Nothing scares me more than the thought of living in a Liberal Utopia, and Barney’s America is the most frightening of all. I’ve always thought that the greatest punishment you could inflict on a Liberal would be to have them design their own ideal world and then force them to live in it.

    The happy picture they paint of a world where everyone is equally prosperous quickly turns into a false facade. Behind the facade is a world like that of Cuba or North Korea where everyone is equally miserable and equally impoverished (except for the ruling elite, of course.)

    Unfortunately, if the country doesn’t wake up soon, we’ll all be forced to live in their “Utopia”.

34. #134
    On October 24th, 2008 at 3:20 pm, Flyover State said:

    Thanks for the answer. And er… my forefathers were German, but I take your sharp pointy point.

35. #135
    On October 24th, 2008 at 3:37 pm, HeatherRadish said:

    my forefathers were German, but I take your sharp pointy point.

    My familial ancestors were German, but the Founders are my intellectual forefathers.

36. #136
    On October 24th, 2008 at 3:38 pm, Rob said:

    Yes, Barney Frank is a joke-we are the punch line.

    I disagree, Barney Frank is the punchline, America has become the joke.

    We have an old, paunchy, effeminate, socialist as an ELECTED leader of a once great country, and a screechy, botoxed, liberal female as the leader of the Senate.

    America is a joke that is being laughed at around the world, and they are hoping we elect the weak, drug addled, terrorist and anti-American preacher loving socialist Obama as the final punch line to the weak joke that America has become.

    Our founding fathers would weep.

37. #137
    On October 24th, 2008 at 3:53 pm, Little Ma said:

    No, RetFireman, it isn’t just you. Madness reigns supreme.

38. #138
    On October 24th, 2008 at 3:54 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    On October 24th, 2008 at 3:20 pm, Flyover State said:

    Thanks for the answer. And er… my forefathers were German, but I take your sharp pointy point.

    No Flyover State what was over there doesn’t count. My ancestors-biological-were Spaniards and Indios. Somebody’s chart lists me as mestizo-Mexico does. But I was not born in Mexico, my parents were not and either were my grandparents. Beyond that we do not know. (Mexican food IS better though)
    Unlike others in my extended family I was not raised Mexican-we were raised American. My history most certainly goes to Lexington/Concord, Valley Forge, Trenton, Kings Mountain and the Cow Pens. To be square about it “LAND WHERE MY FATHERS DIED” and for those who disagree, be they white supremacist, La Raza or Liberal bean counters, they can kiss Mr. Brown to be somewhat crude.
    Hell lad, I drive a full size pick-up not a low rider. Coconuts rock.
    My wife does drive a BMW, I’ll have to talk to her about that; she keeps saying Achtung! Any Mexicans in your family drive BMWs? It is all so confusing.

39. #139
    On October 24th, 2008 at 4:28 pm, Flyover State said:

    ArizonaNeanderthal (and Heatherradish), I think you misunderstood my comment to mean that I somehow have no regard for the Forefathers since I’m not related to them. Actually, it just kind of irked me to be sort of told off for asking what is apparently a stupid question, so I made a flip remark.

    So, for the record: although I wasn’t born in this country and some of my ancestors were probably Nazis, I’m an American. Period. And anyone who tries to tell me that I’m ‘less American’ because I wasn’t born here will see some of that Nazi DNA in action. /joke /sort of

    (And, I will ask any future stupid questions somewhere else.)

40. #140
    On October 24th, 2008 at 4:43 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    (And, I will ask any future stupid questions somewhere else.)

    Naw, ask stupid here-we all do and it is fun. I was not being harsh, not at all- merely strident in my increasingly PC, multi-cultural, hyphenated America
    

    I’m an American. Period. And anyone who tries to tell me that I’m ‘less American’ because I wasn’t born here

    Exactly the kind of sentiment we like. Alexander Hamilton was not born here either. George Washington wasn’t even born in the United States, the damn foreigner was born in a Colony! again.

    We are the good guys Flyover State. I don’t know; I had a teacher once say there are no stupid questions so I asked a question.
    Teacher changed her mind.

41. #141
    On October 24th, 2008 at 5:06 pm, BKennedy said:

    Must. Psionically. Strangle. My. Doucebag. Representative.

    That THING is just so terrible. Again, I wish I were just a few years older so I could take this filthy peon out of office.

42. #142
    On October 24th, 2008 at 5:30 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    On October 24th, 2008 at 5:06 pm, BKennedy said:

    Must. Psionically. Strangle. My. Doucebag. Representative.

    That THING is just so terrible. Again, I wish I were just a few years older so I could take this filthy peon out of office.

    Psionics -the study and/or practice of using the mind to induce paranormal phenomena?
    Hey, give it a shot, maybe two.
    May the Force be with you GrassHopper Skywalker. Worked for Dear Darth.

43. #143
    On October 24th, 2008 at 6:48 pm, Flyover State said:

    I was not being harsh, not at all- merely strident in my increasingly PC, multi-cultural, hyphenated America

    I understand completely. We’re on the same side.

44. #144
    On October 24th, 2008 at 6:58 pm, JennyBea said:

    Great. Not only did I lose my dinner, but my breakfast tomorrow.

    Who does he think he is? Did I get abducted by aliens? Am I on drugs? I don’t understand for the life of me why any affordable housing anyone is giving anything to anyone- let alone to someone who helped cause the LACK OF affordable housing.

45. #145
    On October 24th, 2008 at 7:15 pm, Atlas Shrugged said:

    He and the rest of his ilk, liberals, will keep getting elected. We have reached a tipping point. The “masses” have figured out how to raid the treasury and do not care about this country, it is only a piggybank. Stock up on beans and bullets. Dark days ahead.

46. #146
    On October 24th, 2008 at 8:30 pm, T-Bone said:

    Lets be Frank Barney. You got these poor people into houses by taking money from others to pay for it. There was no extra wealth laying around. You just shifted it. Now, others are about to really suffer. They will lose their jobs and their houses.

    And you want to spend more? More of what? If you spend money on poor people, it just come from someone else, there is no “creation” of wealth, just a transfer. If you want to transfer more, you are just redistributing what one person thought they earned to someone else who didn’t earn it. But it makes you feel good? Yeah, like a thief.

47. #147
    On October 24th, 2008 at 10:24 pm, LC said:

    Rep. Frank is also an outspoken advocate on civil rights issues. He has often been referred to as the “brainiest,” “funniest” and “most eloquent” member of the House…

    They forgot most tyrannical.