Breaking: Barney Frank will not seek re-election

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 28, 2011 09:54 AM


Buh-bye.

The news just broke over Twitter via WBZ Radio.

All together now: DLTDHYOTWO!

The original Tweet: Here.

Press conference at 1pm Eastern:

Congressman Barney Frank will hold a press conference in Newton Monday to formally announce and answer questions about his decision not to run for re-election in 2012.

Frank of Massachusetts 4th Congressional District, Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee, was elected to office in 1981.

The press conference will be held 1 p.m. at Newton City Hall in the auditorium.

Related redistricting developments that may have influenced Frank’s decision:

Walpole will move from U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch’s district to U.S. Rep. Barney Frank’s if a redistricting proposal released on Monday sticks.

A state legislative committee has released a proposal to whittle Massachusetts’ congressional districts from 10 to nine to reflect changes in the state’s population over the past decade.

Leaders of a committee of state lawmakers who drew up the plan said they would accept public comment for three days before making a final recommendation to the full Legislature.

Walpole would fall into the new 4th Congressional District represented by Frank, a democrat from Newton.

Although voting records show Walpole leans right, the town has largley supported Lynch — many see the the South Boston democrat as a moderate in the political specturm.

Frank, on the other hand, is seen as a much more liberal democrat. Brookline Republican Elizabeth Childs has already announced plans to run against him.

Alas, we almost certainly have not seen the last of Barney Frank. Corruptocrats always find a way to keep mooching off the public dime.

Top Barney Frank job prospect: Advising wealthy Wall Street clients how to weasel out of the Dodd-Frank regulatory monstrosity. Cha-ching!

Great send-off…flashback October 2010 Sean Bielat ad via FilmLadd…“The Barney Shuffle:”

***

Question: Can Maxine Waters please follow Barney Frank out the Capitol Hill exit door?

Speaking of Mad Maxine and Barney Frank, how’s that OneUnited congressional ethics trial coming along?

Chilling words of the morning: “Maxine Waters (D) is next in line to become ranking member of the [House Financial Services] committee.”

“Ranking”…or “Reeking?”

***

May 27, 2011 flashback:

Barney Frank’s Friends with Benefits
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2011

If you want to watch a corruptocrat start sputtering like Porky Pig with allergies, confront him with three simple words: conflict of interest. Asked this week about his role in securing an ex-lover’s highly coveted job at government mortgage giant Fannie Mae, Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Barney Frank retorted:

“Aba-dee aba-dee aba-dee aba-dee.”

Or that’s what it sounded like, anyway. Frank was rather miffed about the recent disclosure that he helped former lover Herb Moses land a job with the behemoth lender while sitting on a House committee that regulates lenders a decade ago. The Boston Herald reported Thursday that Frank immediately invoked the Everybody Does It card: “It is a common thing in Washington for members of Congress to have spouses work for the federal government. There is no rule against it at all.”

Frank then switched to the Everybody Knew defense: “It was widely known. It was out there in the public.”

Next, he dismissed any controversy about his ethical judgment with the Nobody Cares shield: “It’s nonsense.”

No doubt he’ll spring the Homophobia Card on critics at an opportune moment to ice his multitiered cake of excuses.

Funny thing. Not too long ago, it was Frank himself counseling fellow Democratic scandal magnet Rep. Maxine Waters to butt out of Boston-area OneUnited Bank’s bid for $12 million in federal TARP bailout funds because of conflict-of-interest odors. Waters’ husband, Sidney Williams, was an investor in one of the banks that merged into OneUnited and owned stock holdings estimated at $350,000.

Frank’s exact words to Waters: “You should stay out of it. … You should stay away from this.”

Waters didn’t listen. The House ethics committee charged her with several ethics violations (though no trial has yet been scheduled). Frank nearly broke his arm patting himself on the back and pronouncing himself “vindicated” after the charges were filed last year.

But where was Mr. Clean when his own sleazy dalliances needed self-policing?

While head of the House Financial Services Committee in 2009, amid economic upheaval across the country, Frank was jet-setting with hedge-fund mogul and TARP beneficiary S. Donald Sussman to his private Caribbean resort. The foxes in the House Ethics henhouse granted what they called “unusual” permission for the jaunt because Frank’s partner, Jim Ready, is close pals with Sussman. When Republicans raised questions about ethical improprieties, Frank — whose party has perfected the art of class warfare demagoguery — whinnied that it wasn’t a crime to have wealthy friends.

What should be criminal is the Democratic friends and fat cats protection racket run by the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac overlords. While political operatives have raked in tens of millions of dollars in directors’ fees and lavish compensation packages, the government-sponsored lenders have bled billions and will soak up an estimated $400 billion in bailout funds. Financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson reported this week that Frank “was very aggressive and really tough” on Fannie critics after the corrupt institution “rolled out the red carpet” for his ex-lover. After his friend with crony benefits broke up with him, Frank remained a dogged Fannie defender.

Sneering at financial reformers before a 2003 House hearing, Frank asserted: “I want to begin by saying that I am glad to consider the legislation, but I do not think we are facing any kind of a crisis. That is, in my view, the two government-sponsored enterprises we are talking about here, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are not in a crisis. … I do not think at this point there is a problem with a threat to the Treasury.”

Not that such spectacular bad judgment and lack of foresight should be any surprise coming from a politician whose early career was punctuated by a formal reprimand for using his office to fix another lover/prostitute’s parking tickets and lying about his criminal probation history. As a cocky Frank said at the time of that scandal: ”I think members of Congress rise or fall on their own individual records.” Eventually, yes.

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  1. #101
    On November 28th, 2011 at 2:00 pm, Hiraghm said:

    On November 28th, 2011 at 1:14 pm, Roland said:

    The thing that takes votes from Newt is his makeout session with Nacy Pelosi on the couch.

    Speaking of flawed predictions. That is just wow.

    Given the choice between an unrepentant Romney and a repentant Gingrich, there is no way any conservative is going to opt for Romney.

    And only a nut would say he is conservative and then fail to vote for Gingrich against Obama. That is like Saturn’s Rings far out there.

    This is like Chris Matthews trying to tell Republicans who to vote for out there.

    I won’t vote for Gingrich against Obama BECAUSE I’m conservative!

    Gingrich, like Bush, like McCain, will take us right down the same road that Clinton and Obama have us on, they’ll just make us walk instead of ride a rocket-sled.

    If America is going to go in the toilet, I want it FAST, so I’m still around when we manage to rebuild it.

    It’s called, Roland, taking counsel from our fears. You’re so dreadful of Obama that you’d prefer anybody.

    Pop quiz, hotshot… would you vote for Hillary over Obama? If not… why not?

    Aaron Altman: What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he’s around? Nobody is going to be taken in if he has a long, red, pointy tail. No. I’m semi-serious here. He will look attractive and he will be nice and helpful and he will get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation and he will never do an evil thing… he will just bit by little bit lower standards where they are important. Just coax along flash over substance… Just a tiny bit. – Broadcast News

  2. #102
    On November 28th, 2011 at 2:06 pm, right_on said:

    Like the little cowards they are, the agitators like

    Ilovemyturgidsternomastoidganglion

    will be there supporting the cannon fodder…from afar, out of harm’s way. Of course, he’ll be there to toss around harmless threats of violence, or inuendos of the same. Like the pusillanimous statists he adores and emulates, the huevos to stand out in front leaning the charge, are not there.

    There’s more than one reason they have been referred to for ages, as limp-wristed liberals.

  3. #103
    On November 28th, 2011 at 2:12 pm, Roland said:

    If America is going to go in the toilet, I want it FAST, so I’m still around when we manage to rebuild it.

    There are two things badly wrong with that remark:

    1) It is not conservative. It is exactly the opposite of conservative. It is radical. Conservatives hang the best they can, fighting to the bitter end to hold the center against collapse.

    2) It could not be more completely wrong about the consequences of collapse. There will be no ‘rebuilding.’

    Decadent societies do not recover from collapse. Ever. They are eaten. They are reshaped into whatever the victors want to make them.

    That is why conservatives fight to the bitter end to avoid collapse.

  4. #104
    On November 28th, 2011 at 2:13 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On November 28th, 2011 at 12:23 pm, letget said:
    I have often wondered if barney has any teeth? He looks like someone who has dentures but doesn’t wear them in almost every picture I have seen of him.

    If he wore his dentures all the time he wouldn’t have won the “Most Popular” P-Town 2011 tiara.

  5. #105
    On November 28th, 2011 at 2:17 pm, letget said:

    Rush is playing ‘Banking Queen’ now! It is so funny! It sounds just like barney, Shanklin does a GREAT job.
    L

  6. #106
    On November 28th, 2011 at 2:19 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Rogue said: …the “Most Popular” P-Town 2011 tiara.

    LOL
    does he have a flat head on which to set a beer?

  7. #107
    On November 28th, 2011 at 2:22 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    Peter Hughes, right_on,

    OWS about as ‘threatening’ as month old pudding. However, their willingness to commit acts of violence, they feel, is the one ‘positive’ takeaway from the whole shameless tantrum.

    I’m not about to allow they or their sympathizers get away w/ saying “make sure you are ‘visible’ or “we can see you!”. Blog-thuggery worked in ’08. Zero traction in ’10 and a non-factor in ’12.

  8. #108
    On November 28th, 2011 at 2:25 pm, Hiraghm said:

    On November 28th, 2011 at 2:12 pm, Roland said:

    There are two things badly wrong with that remark:

    1) It is not conservative. It is exactly the opposite of conservative. It is radical. Conservatives hang the best they can, fighting to the bitter end to hold the center against collapse.

    No, conservatives fight CHANGE. When CHANGE is inevitable, there’s no more reason to fight. Sometimes you really do have to burn the village to save it.

    2) It could not be more completely wrong about the consequences of collapse. There will be no ‘rebuilding.’

    Decadent societies do not recover from collapse. Ever. They are eaten. They are reshaped into whatever the victors want to make them.

    That is why conservatives fight to the bitter end to avoid collapse.

    Tell that to England, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, Poland, Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, etc. Even Germany and Japan were not shaped into what we wanted them to be (hell, Japan launched almost immediately into an economic and cultural war on the U.S. that resulted in us being more like them than they like us.)

    In the case of Rome, it collapsed many times before it was ultimately destroyed. And what destroyed it? Going along with the moderates who wanted to compromise and embrace the invasion of alien cultures and mores to the Republic.

    You presume we are a decadent society. We aren’t, yet. But if we keep playing footsie with phonies like Gingrich and Romney, we will be. If we bring it down before we become too decadent, then we’ll still be here to rebuild, and enough of the leftists will have been killed off or reformed that we can still save the republic.

    Gingrich is an internationalist; I said this about him in the 90s. He, in leftist fashion, takes an elitist “global” and “historic” view of America.

    We don’t need Gingrich today. We need Cicero.

    Now… answer my question:

    WOULD YOU VOTE FOR HILLARY AGAINST OBAMA?

  9. #109
    On November 28th, 2011 at 2:27 pm, plymouthacclaim said:

    Good riddance to bad rubbish!

  10. #110
    On November 28th, 2011 at 2:31 pm, granite said:

    On November 28th, 2011 at 1:52 pm, Hiraghm said:

    A Study in Contrasts:

    Reagan always told us how we were essentially good, that we were competent, that we were powerful. And, above all, that we were worthy.

    This wasn’t an original viewpoint; it’s the foundation of the New Testament, IMO.

    People like Obama, Frank, Pelosi et al can’t offer this, because they must believe that people are inherently incompetent, crooked, worthless and/or helpless, because they have a compulsion to rule. They do not govern from love of their fellow men as they so often proclaim, but from their lust for power.

    Correct.

    The America-destroyers hold a diametrically opposite, irreconcilably different worldview from traditionalists/conservatives.
    That is why we disagree with them on virtually every last G.D. issue, if not actually every issue, that is ever discussed/debated.

    They cannot be persuaded/convinced to change their worldview; they can only be defeated and politically crushed/marginalized/neutered/crippled.

  11. #111
    On November 28th, 2011 at 2:37 pm, granite said:

    Breaking: Barney Frank will not seek re-election

    Is Frank possibly finally going to doing something good for our country?

  12. #112
    On November 28th, 2011 at 2:38 pm, Ilovemycountry said:

    Marshall_Will said:

    Stay active in your communities and make sure people are able to see you.

    Sounds like a thinly veiled threat. Keep it up. So… some Occr@py losers are going to thump us while we’re out putting signs in yards for non Soft Coup (TM) candidates?

    Keep it up.

    Sorry if that sounds like a threat, it isn’t. I don’t want anything bad to happen to any of you people.

    The American public has already thumped that conservative congress you folks installed – 8% approaval rating says everything.

    I want the rest of America to see what the folks who are crazy enough to support Herman Cain look like.

  13. #113
    On November 28th, 2011 at 2:44 pm, stillontheroad said:

    On November 28th, 2011 at 2:38 pm, Ilovemyunclebarneyknob said:
    Well rest assured there nimrod – we already know the intellect of the clownshoe liberal that voted for fearless leader.

  14. #114
    On November 28th, 2011 at 2:47 pm, Green eyed Lady said:

    On November 28th, 2011 at 10:29 am, happyscrapper said:
    WTF??? There has to be more to this. And would the Congress ever pass a bill like this?? I don’t believe that.

    It’ true, Happy, I saw this last week…

    Congress to Vote Next Week on EXPLICITLY Creating a Police State
    http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/congress-vot

    If you go to http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.php ; you can look up the exact text, a summary, current status, etc. on any House or Senate bill. This bill has so many amendments, it is worthy of a “No” vote for that reason alone.
    *****
    Good riddance to Bwaney Fwank :roll:

  15. #115
    On November 28th, 2011 at 2:53 pm, Roland said:

    Tell that to England, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, Poland, Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, etc. Even Germany and Japan were not shaped into what we wanted them to be (hell, Japan launched almost immediately into an economic and cultural war on the U.S. that resulted in us being more like them than they like us.)

    Of course both Germany and Japan were remade into what we wanted, and the Old South was gone with the wind.

    In the case of Rome, it collapsed many times before it was ultimately destroyed. And what destroyed it? Going along with the moderates who wanted to compromise and embrace the invasion of alien cultures and mores to the Republic.

    The rise of Rome ended when the Republic fell. After that it was two steps backward, then one step forward, over and over and over, with conservatives fighting to hold the center until the bitter end.

    You presume we are a decadent society.

    Overall, the modern developed world has become the most decadent still functioning society in the History of the Planet. Our technology and its constant advance has hidden that reality.

    Islam would be no threat to us at all if we had not rotted to the core. Instead, it is overrunning us with ease.

    You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what creates strength and what feeds the mob. Collapse will feed the mob. The socialists will sweep the table.

    That is why they are so hot and excited at the idea of collapse.

  16. #116
    On November 28th, 2011 at 2:57 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    The Zero-Hedge linked page is missing

  17. #117
    On November 28th, 2011 at 2:59 pm, Green eyed Lady said:

    Just for laughs…

    We Just Want To Try To Build A New World”

    The Occupoopers are starting to lose it. This guy cries over the loss of his “library”. I wonder if the library was stocked with comic books, because that’s the kind of fantasy world these loons live in.

    Once again, I have to warn you to put down your coffee. Spew alert!

    h/t Hillbuzz
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UPJHCGkZ0GU

    Hey, Tiny Tim…that sound you hear is me plinkin’ out the world’s saddest song on the world’s smallest ukekele:

    “Tiptoe through the feces,
    On the sidewalk, that’s where I’ll be,
    Come tiptoe through the feces with me

    Tiptoe from the garden,
    ‘Cause it’s startin’, to reek of pee
    Come tiptoe from the garden with me

    Knee deep in needles we’ll stray,
    We won’t take showers for days,
    And if freaks rape you, in the garden,
    By the moonlight,
    Will you pardon me,
    And tiptoe through the feces with me.”

    66chevelle
    :lol: :lol: :lol:

  18. #118
    On November 28th, 2011 at 3:12 pm, RedDog said:

    Quitting is great but Frank still must be prosecuted and jailed. He has committed gross criminal acts against the economy and the American people, not to mention the world economy. He is one of the faces of the latest Great Depression – all a result of personal and political greed.

  19. #119
    On November 28th, 2011 at 3:13 pm, happyscrapper said:

    I’ve been gone all afternoon… just returned home and caught the last 10 minutes of Rush. He was playing an old song that I remember from the fifties called “The Happy Organ” in honor of Barney. It really cracked me up!! Even my husband laughed!

  20. #120
    On November 28th, 2011 at 3:16 pm, Roland said:

    Of course both Germany and Japan were remade into what we wanted, and the Old South was gone with the wind.

    And, btw, in all of those examples you gave from the modern world, that was America rebuilding them (or helping them or ‘allowing’ them to rebuild … take your pick).

    If you are betting your chips on the idea someone will be so kind to us, whether it be China or an Islamic Caliphate or some other society, you are making a hideously bad bet.

  21. #121
    On November 28th, 2011 at 3:21 pm, Green eyed Lady said:

    On November 28th, 2011 at 2:57 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    The Zero-Hedge linked page is missing

    So sorry, AlohaGuy…

    But there is a way to stop this dangerous legislation. Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) is offering the Udall Amendment that will delete the harmful provisions and replace them with a requirement for an orderly Congressional review of detention power. The Udall Amendment will make sure that the bill matches up with American values.

    ***

    The solution is the Udall Amendment; a way for the Senate to say no to indefinite detention without charge or trial anywhere in the world where any president decides to use the military. Instead of simply going along with a bill that was drafted in secret and is being jammed through the Senate, the Udall Amendment deletes the provisions and sets up an orderly review of detention power. It tries to take the politics out and put American values back in.

    ***

    Now is the time to stop this bad idea. Please urge your senators to vote YES on the Udall Amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act.

    http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/congress-vote-next-week-explicitly-creating-police-state

  22. #122
    On November 28th, 2011 at 3:22 pm, RedDog said:

    On November 28th, 2011 at 10:25 am, Rufus Levin said:
    Rumor has it that he is being hired as head football coach at Penn State.

    “All locker rooms to be retrofitted with glory holes.” Gweat googewy moogewy…. fank you verwy much.

  23. #123
    On November 28th, 2011 at 3:24 pm, kwrxxx said:

    lollipop lollipop Oh lollipop!

  24. #124
    On November 28th, 2011 at 3:44 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    Hello, Peter H. @99: Peter, you always make me laugh, especially about Bwaney.

  25. #125
    On November 28th, 2011 at 3:53 pm, Peter Hughes said:

    “All locker rooms to be retrofitted with glory holes.”

    RedDog, you owe me a Gateway monitor after that one! :-)

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  26. #126
    On November 28th, 2011 at 3:55 pm, Peter Hughes said:

    Peter, you always make me laugh, especially about Bwaney.

    Thanks, FirstSkirt. It’s pretty easy – look at the material I have to work with! ;-)

    I mean, when Bawney Fwank was flying to SFO one time, the flight attendant told him that the plane was cruising at 30,000 feet and he responded, “So am I.”

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  27. #127
    On November 28th, 2011 at 4:19 pm, Collateral Damage said:

    Thank God we won’t have to put up with and listen to this limp-wristed LIAR for much longer. Frank was a major protector of the corrupt cash cows of Fannie and Freddie (just check Frank’s PAC receipts). Frank is a primary reason for the current depression many are suffering through. This jerk deserves a firing squad, NOT a pension!?!

  28. #128
    On November 28th, 2011 at 4:22 pm, swede said:

    Ilovemyprojectilevomit said:

    Super sale on enema kits at CVC. Hours of fun for you and the whole family!

    Bye bye Barney. Be sure to drop by some time – but call first. Seriously, call first.

    One less turd in the cesspool – but a looooong way to go.

  29. #129
    On November 28th, 2011 at 4:25 pm, Joshua P. Allem said:

    This would be even better news if we could count on him also retiring from appearing on political analysis shows shorting out the cameras with his usual spittle.

  30. #130
    On November 28th, 2011 at 4:27 pm, Southpaw said:

    I was in Barney Franks’ district when I lived in Newton, Mass.

    I haven’t checked the redistricting map yet, but hopefully I didn’t get redistricted into Maxine Waters’ district. :(

  31. #131
    On November 28th, 2011 at 4:34 pm, Truesoldier said:

    I love the update at Doug’s site on this:

    Update: President Obama: “There has never been a congressman like Barney Frank and the House will not be the same without him.” – Thank God…

  32. #132
    On November 28th, 2011 at 4:43 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    Ihatemyselfandmycountry said:

    Sorry if that sounds like a threat, it isn’t. I don’t want anything bad to happen to any of you people.

    Yeah, I’m sure you didn’t. Nice retro-fit though. Look around clownboy, the intimidation thing isn’t working.

    Your ilk has done their level best to distort and disrupt the system by whatever means available. Nothing you pukes do surprises us any more.

  33. #133
    On November 28th, 2011 at 4:52 pm, happyscrapper said:

    Update: President Obama: “There has never been a congressman like Barney Frank and the House will not be the same without him.”

    Even Obama had to dig deep to say something positive. This is a great left-handed compliment, saying nothing but sounding good…kinda like he does with everything. What a smooth politician he is!

  34. #134
    On November 28th, 2011 at 4:56 pm, MacEamonn said:

    I want to know when he’s going to jail?

  35. #135
    On November 28th, 2011 at 4:58 pm, Ilovemycountry said:

    Marshall_Will said:

    Yeah, I’m sure you didn’t. Nice retro-fit though. Look around clownboy, the intimidation thing isn’t working.

    This Marshall_Will poster is obbessed with intimidation.

    I’m trying to encourage you folks to get out and show America what you think – why does that threaten you?

    Must be that even you folks know how silly you sound.

  36. #136
    On November 28th, 2011 at 5:04 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    Barney is an Ass, but if this is true – it’s what we all should be talking about.

    Where’s Chap the lawyer to defend Obama on this?

  37. #137
    On November 28th, 2011 at 5:05 pm, babiesgrandma said:

    ILoveMyNewBawneyFwankDress said: I don’t want anything bad to happen to any of you people.

    I keep telling you, ILMNBFD, when you say “you people” you think that you are among the chosen few who will Rule the World (aka Plankton on SpongeBob). In fact, you only are the Plankton on the bottom of the shoe of life to these power-desperate people. You are the useful idiot. You are playing into their grimy, grungy Bawney Fwank hands…….. **shivers**

  38. #138
    On November 28th, 2011 at 5:09 pm, Cybergeezer said:

    Rush Limbaugh said “Barney’s seat is wide open”. I thought it always was.

  39. #139
    On November 28th, 2011 at 5:12 pm, Hiraghm said:
  40. #140
    On November 28th, 2011 at 5:20 pm, stillontheroad said:

    On November 28th, 2011 at 4:58 pm, Ilovemybigbumcakes said:

    What is it about liberal vermin that, like a toilet bowl slopping over,makes them want to swoop and poop? Illiterately I might add considering the orifice you and your ilk speak from.
    I bet you are still in a tiff because mommy did not get you Ballerina Barbie
    last Christmas?

  41. #141
    On November 28th, 2011 at 5:34 pm, Hiraghm said:

    On November 28th, 2011 at 2:53 pm, Roland said:

    Of course both Germany and Japan were remade into what we wanted, and the Old South was gone with the wind.

    We wanted a socialist Germany, and we wanted to be raped out the butt by Japan?

    The new south is very different from the antebellum South, but it in no way resembles what the yankees imagined makgin the South into. And compare the Southern States with Northern States, today, in terms of individual liberty and, for that matter, prosperity.

    The rise of Rome ended when the Republic fell. After that it was two steps backward, then one step forward, over and over and over, with conservatives fighting to hold the center until the bitter end.

    Time frame; Rome was a republic for 500 years. Rome was an empire for… 500 years. Rome didn’t end, but it was fundamentally transformed. If, perhaps, the populace had ignored the corrupt Marc Antony and equally corrupt Octavian, and instead followed the patriots like Cicero, the republic could have continued. But, there were no conservatives to defend the republic. The public then, as now, was swayed by the aura of Great Men, like Antony and Octavian.

    Bad example. What you propose we do is fight a retreating action, and repeat the rest of Rome’s history. It reveals your lack of belief in conservative values.

    Overall, the modern developed world has become the most decadent still functioning society in the History of the Planet. Our technology and its constant advance has hidden that reality.

    I disagree. But, then, I live in Oklahoma, a relatively conservative State. But, we’re not the only one. We will serve as the bastions of civilization.

    You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what creates strength and what feeds the mob. Collapse will feed the mob. The socialists will sweep the table.

    I have no such misunderstanding; that’s why I want the collapse NOW, if there’s going to be one rather than later; before the mob wins the day.

    You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what creates strength and what feeds the mob. Collapse will feed the mob. The socialists will sweep the table.

    No, what I’m betting on is that if Obama is re-elected, there will be a civil war between conservatives and socialists within the next 4 years. And if the civil war takes place within that time frame, conservatives will still have enough strength to defeat the socialists. I can only hope that we emulate the socialists in one practice of theirs after every one of their victories: a pogrom. If we can wipe out enough socialists, we may be able to rebuild the republic. The Roman republic had more than one civil war, *before* it turned to empire, btw.

    But, let’s presume you’re right. There’s nothing we can do. The republic is dead, we’re going to have a socialist future; that’s what you’re preaching. You’d prefer a socialist future under Gingrich rather than under Obama. As I find a socialist future unacceptable under anyone, I’d just as soon burn the whole place down and start over.

  42. #142
    On November 28th, 2011 at 5:36 pm, Hiraghm said:

    Btw, Roland, unlike you, I have nothing to lose.

    “He either fears his fate too much, or his desserts are small, who will not put it to the touch, to win, or lose it all” – Montrose’s Toast

    But, I’m certain you’re already familiar with that toast.

  43. #143
    On November 28th, 2011 at 5:45 pm, Republicanvet said:

    Even though this disgusting pig will be gone, we still lose without prosecution and jailing.

    Nobody learns from his getting away from what he has done.

  44. #144
    On November 28th, 2011 at 6:43 pm, yaymm said:

    Hiraghm,I appreciate your knowledge of Roman History and your erudite presentation here for Roland. I cannot help but wonder though, what has made you so certain that none of our candidates will be any better than Obama?

    Moreover, what information supports your belief that we will have a civil war if Obama is re-elected. Riots, possibly, whether he is or not, but outright war, you’d better hope not, because the result would be so horrific that it would take decades to rebuild our Nation, if it would be possible at all.

    We do not want four more years of Executive Orders, costly regulations and Liberal Supreme Court Justices. It would likely take your lifetime to repair the damage Obama and friends could do. In the meantime, all those who are younger than we are would have to suffer the results.

    This election is pivotal. We win it, or we lose much of what we stand for.

  45. #145
    On November 28th, 2011 at 6:57 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    Might as well watch this video now before the Dems force us to watch it 24/7 once Romney wins the nomination. Seriously. This guy has been the “front runner” seemingly forever.

    Outside of Sean Hannity, who could hold their nose and vote for this polymorphic chameleon? And you know what is worse? The same video could be made for Newt!

  46. #146
    On November 28th, 2011 at 7:01 pm, Roland said:

    No, what I’m betting on is that if Obama is re-elected, there will be a civil war between conservatives and socialists within the next 4 years. And if the civil war takes place within that time frame, conservatives will still have enough strength to defeat the socialists.

    That is a hideously bad bet. Why should the socialists start the shooting? Why would the squishy masses who flee toward socialism at every whiff of danger support ‘violent’ ‘rightwingers’ shooting at ‘authorities’ who were elected??

    Fear and hopelessness is rich ground for socialism. It is opportunity that pushes socialism back.

    But, let’s presume you’re right. There’s nothing we can do. The republic is dead, we’re going to have a socialist future; that’s what you’re preaching.

    Absolutely not. I am saying giving the socialists what they want is not a way to win.

    In the early 1970′s I saw there was a race between accelerating societal rot and our accelerating charge toward the technology singularity. Back then I predicted the singularity would hit about 2040.

    I still say 2040. We have to hold the center until then, and perhaps another ten years beyond that.

    Crashing everything now, throwing us into a crumbling America and a ‘popular’ socialist tyranny, would be the most catastrophic possible thing to do.

  47. #147
    On November 28th, 2011 at 7:05 pm, Straight_Talk_Luigi said:

    Question: Can Maxine Waters please follow Barney Frank out the Capitol Hill exit door?

    Don’t stop there…

  48. #148
    On November 28th, 2011 at 7:10 pm, OK_Loyalist said:

    On November 28th, 2011 at 6:57 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    Who cares what a lying sack of sh!t as yourself has to think about any Republican? Remember you’re the dildo going all in 3rd party. Let me re-iterate, a Marxist sympathizer.

  49. #149
    On November 28th, 2011 at 7:20 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    One of the greatest CNBC moments ever featuring the late great Mark Haynes cutting the BF to pieces and ending with BF ending the interview in a hissy fit.

    Classic ending comment by Haynes.

    There was a similar moment between Rick Santorelli (Tea Party guy) and Tom Friedman a couple of months ago but that’s for another time.

  50. #150
    On November 28th, 2011 at 7:22 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    Hey OKL, you’re losing your edge so let me help. Donald Trump! Look out! He’s standing right behind you!

    Hahahahahahahaha!

    Oh no! There’s Ross Perot too!!! What are the odds of that!

  51. #151
    On November 28th, 2011 at 7:25 pm, OK_Loyalist said:

    There you go lying again syPhillis

  52. #152
    On November 28th, 2011 at 8:03 pm, Peter Hughes said:

    Most MSM coverage of Butt-Boy is fawning without noting that Bawney Fwank was wrong about just about everything since his initial election in 1980, when he opposed most of Reagan’s policies.

    Furthermore, he was mean and nasty to boot. His supposedly legendary wit was nothing more than tart-tongued insults of Republicans. And he couldn’t handle tough questions, as we’ve seen in interviews on Fox News with O’Reilly.

    Hope they disinfect that MA House seat before Sean Bielat takes it in 2012! ;-)

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  53. #153
    On November 28th, 2011 at 8:32 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On November 28th, 2011 at 8:03 pm, Peter Hughes said:

    That seat will never be occupied again. Oh, there will be another person to take the job. But that SEAT will be burned. You would never get it clean after 16 terms.

    I believe the same happened to the seat occupied by Ted the Swimmer Kennedy. Firewood.

    P.S. Everyone…the only way to get rid of trolls is to starve them. Resist! If just one person feeds it, it will be back!

  54. #154
    On November 28th, 2011 at 8:59 pm, sbw999 said:

    This just made my millenia.

  55. #155
    On November 28th, 2011 at 10:07 pm, Long Haired Country Boy said:

    Goodbye Barney Fag….my apologies to Dick Armey. Don’t let the door hit you in the azz.

  56. #156
    On November 28th, 2011 at 10:39 pm, BK said:

    So how long will it take for another leftwingwacko to take his place?

  57. #157
    On November 28th, 2011 at 11:31 pm, BigRedFan said:

    Somewhere, a gerbil sheds a tear.

  58. #158
    On November 29th, 2011 at 12:16 am, Patronedheart said:

    Thank you, God!

  59. #159
    On November 29th, 2011 at 2:56 am, tbear44 said:

    Good riddance! Hopefully, there is a jail cell someplace with his name on it.

  60. #160
    On November 29th, 2011 at 8:21 am, Dexter Alarius said:

    Barney said he would have retired sooner, but he just couldn’t leave his colleagues behind.

  61. #161
    On November 29th, 2011 at 8:34 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    I saw Barney on the news last night right at the moment he was saying how in 2005 2006 he was trying to implement legislation reforms that would prevent these banking institutions from giving out high risk loans to people that could not pay them back. At that moment I wished to witness his lying ass head bursting into flames. I realize it was not very Christian of me, but sometimes people like Barney make me think bad things. Pray for me.

  62. #162
    On November 29th, 2011 at 9:16 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Barney singing a slightly revised version of ‘Big Bottom’ from Spinal Tap.

    The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin’
    That’s what I said
    The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand
    Or so I have read

    My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo
    I’d like to sink him with my pink torpedo

    Big bottom, big bottom
    Talk about bum cakes, my boy’s got ‘em
    Big bottom drive me out of my mind
    How could I leave this behind?

    I met him on Monday, ’twas my lucky bun day
    You know what I mean
    I love him each weekday, each velvety cheek day
    You know what I mean

    My love gun’s loaded and he’s in my sights
    Big game is waiting there inside his tights, yeah

    Big bottom, big bottom
    Talk about mud flaps, my boy’s got ‘em
    Big bottom drive me out of my mind
    How could I leave this behind?

    My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo
    I’d like to sink him with my pink torpedo

    Big bottom, big bottom
    Talk about bum cakes, my boy’s got ‘em
    Big bottom drive me out of my mind
    How could I leave this behind?

  63. #163
    On November 29th, 2011 at 9:34 am, stillontheroad said:

    On November 29th, 2011 at 9:16 am, Rogue Cheddar said:
    Hopefully Bawney will be regulated to playing second billing to a Puppet Show any time he wants to speak.

  64. #164
    On November 29th, 2011 at 10:05 am, happy2behere said:

    It took too long and he left on his own. He should have been prosecuted and put in jail.. The damage he did to this country is historic and irreparable. And we celebrate his choice to retire with a rich pension. That’s just sick.

  65. #165
    On November 29th, 2011 at 10:09 am, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    After all these years covering for Freddie and Fannie (not covering his fanny, of course), maybe Barney’s Frank will get a cushy job like Jamie Gorelick.

    He may have enough money from his pension and whatever corruptions he has engaged in to afford to shower trinkets like new cars on young men to sodomize him in Key West or P-Town. Like the gay Hugh Hefner, but even creepier, if possible.

  66. #166
    On November 29th, 2011 at 10:37 am, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    I think I know why there are so many pictures of Barney’s Frank not wearing his dentures…

  67. #167
    On November 29th, 2011 at 11:19 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    He can’t remember at which rest stop glory hole he left them.

  68. #168
    On November 29th, 2011 at 12:17 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    I don’t remember the exact timing of this, but when Bwaney was questioned about his involvement with Freddie and Fannie and their horrific record, Bwaney is quoted as saying how he was pushing for low-income people to not buy homes but rent them. This is a blatant lie, among the many he has told over the years. He should not be going into retirement, but into incarceration.

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