Barney Frank

flarider
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Won't seek re-election
He's retiring
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flarider wrote:
Won't seek re-election
He's retiring
There is a good chance that there will be more news to come.
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flarider wrote:
Won't seek re-election
He's retiring
35 years too late.
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11/28/2011 7:43am
flarider wrote:
Won't seek re-election
He's retiring
jmar wrote:
There is a good chance that there will be more news to come.
vague...

was that a guess, or do you know something?
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good ridance

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11/28/2011 8:04am
flarider wrote:
Won't seek re-election
He's retiring
jmar wrote:
There is a good chance that there will be more news to come.
bsm121 wrote:
vague...

was that a guess, or do you know something?
Just a guess.
11/28/2011 8:10am
jmar wrote:
Just a guess.
What was your first clue?

Him being in congress for 30 years?
Being chairman of the house financial committee?
His contributions from and support for Fannie and Freddie?
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I think I can actually hear Team Green smiling.
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Things are looking up for them. They have lost a KKK recruiter, a murderer and now a criminal gay guy.
11/28/2011 2:08pm
And we will pay him the rest of his days
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Mr. G wrote:
Things are looking up for them. They have lost a KKK recruiter, a murderer and now a criminal gay guy.
"Criminal gay guy?"
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11/28/2011 2:19pm
flarider wrote:
Won't seek re-election
He's retiring
Thank goodness! I'm just ticked off his constituents didn't retire him several decades sooner. His finger prints are all over this recession.
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11/28/2011 2:21pm
Mr. G wrote:
Things are looking up for them. They have lost a KKK recruiter, a murderer and now a criminal gay guy.
flarider wrote:
"Criminal gay guy?"
you know...Barney Frank.
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Mr. G wrote:
Things are looking up for them. They have lost a KKK recruiter, a murderer and now a criminal gay guy.
flarider wrote:
"Criminal gay guy?"
yes.
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Mr. G wrote:
Things are looking up for them. They have lost a KKK recruiter, a murderer and now a criminal gay guy.
flarider wrote:
"Criminal gay guy?"
Mr. G wrote:
yes.
I must have missed it, what was he convicted of?
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11/28/2011 3:04pm Edited Date/Time 11/28/2011 3:05pm
Mr. G wrote:
Things are looking up for them. They have lost a KKK recruiter, a murderer and now a criminal gay guy.
So, de we cut the Gentleman from W. Virginia some slack or do you call him the Ultimate Hypocrite?

The NAACP gives him the good'ol "5 Stars".

Yet, he shit all over the Civili Rights Act.

He says it was his Greatest Mistake; yet, as a Exalted Cyclops (WTF?)...I mean SHIT...ya think a good'ol boy from WV might'a been involved in some evil shit?

A man has the ability to change. Do ya give him any "room" on that?
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People have the right to redeem themselves. If Bird did so I would like to see it. If the man was anti-slavery then he could not in good conscience be in the Democrat party because of their pro stance on slavery.
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11/28/2011 3:57pm
Mr. G wrote:
People have the right to redeem themselves. If Bird did so I would like to see it. If the man was anti-slavery then he could not...
People have the right to redeem themselves. If Bird did so I would like to see it. If the man was anti-slavery then he could not in good conscience be in the Democrat party because of their pro stance on slavery.
"because of their pro stance on slavery"

Are you referring to the Southern Democrats here? Most of which jumped parties in the 60's?

Just curious what point you are trying to make.

Something like when Glenn Beck said that the 'civil rights movement belongs to us?' whatever that 'us' was supposed to mean, presumably pasty-faced mormons?
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Mr. G wrote:
People have the right to redeem themselves. If Bird did so I would like to see it. If the man was anti-slavery then he could not...
People have the right to redeem themselves. If Bird did so I would like to see it. If the man was anti-slavery then he could not in good conscience be in the Democrat party because of their pro stance on slavery.
indy_maico wrote:
"because of their pro stance on slavery" Are you referring to the Southern Democrats here? Most of which jumped parties in the 60's? Just curious what...
"because of their pro stance on slavery"

Are you referring to the Southern Democrats here? Most of which jumped parties in the 60's?

Just curious what point you are trying to make.

Something like when Glenn Beck said that the 'civil rights movement belongs to us?' whatever that 'us' was supposed to mean, presumably pasty-faced mormons?
Civil Rights Act of 1964 (note the percentages for/against):

By party

The original House version:[13]

Democratic Party: 152-96 (61%-39%)
Republican Party: 138-34 (80%-20%)

Cloture in the Senate:[14]

Democratic Party: 44-23 (66%–34%)
Republican Party: 27-6 (82%–18%)

The Senate version:[13]

Democratic Party: 46-21 (69%–31%)
Republican Party: 27-6 (82%–18%)

The Senate version, voted on by the House:[13]

Democratic Party: 153-91 (63%–37%)
Republican Party: 136-35 (80%–20%)
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Mr. G wrote:
People have the right to redeem themselves. If Bird did so I would like to see it. If the man was anti-slavery then he could not...
People have the right to redeem themselves. If Bird did so I would like to see it. If the man was anti-slavery then he could not in good conscience be in the Democrat party because of their pro stance on slavery.
indy_maico wrote:
"because of their pro stance on slavery" Are you referring to the Southern Democrats here? Most of which jumped parties in the 60's? Just curious what...
"because of their pro stance on slavery"

Are you referring to the Southern Democrats here? Most of which jumped parties in the 60's?

Just curious what point you are trying to make.

Something like when Glenn Beck said that the 'civil rights movement belongs to us?' whatever that 'us' was supposed to mean, presumably pasty-faced mormons?
vet323 wrote:
Civil Rights Act of 1964 (note the percentages for/against): By party The original House version:[13] Democratic Party: 152-96 (61%-39%) Republican Party: 138-34 (80%-20%) Cloture in the...
Civil Rights Act of 1964 (note the percentages for/against):

By party

The original House version:[13]

Democratic Party: 152-96 (61%-39%)
Republican Party: 138-34 (80%-20%)

Cloture in the Senate:[14]

Democratic Party: 44-23 (66%–34%)
Republican Party: 27-6 (82%–18%)

The Senate version:[13]

Democratic Party: 46-21 (69%–31%)
Republican Party: 27-6 (82%–18%)

The Senate version, voted on by the House:[13]

Democratic Party: 153-91 (63%–37%)
Republican Party: 136-35 (80%–20%)
Anybody recall the Douchebag that Fillibustered the '64 vote and some of the shit he said?
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Who fillibustered the '64 vote?
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11/28/2011 4:54pm
Was Barney the one dating Herman Cain for 13 years >?
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TeamGreen wrote:
Who fillibustered the '64 vote?
"Civil Rights Filibuster Ended

June 10, 1964



At 9:51 on the morning of June 10, 1964, Senator Robert C. Byrd completed an address that he had begun fourteen hours and thirteen minutes earlier. The subject was the pending Civil Rights Act of 1964, a measure that occupied the Senate for fifty-seven working days, including six Saturdays. A day earlier, Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey, the bill's manager, concluded he had the sixty-seven votes required at that time to end the debate.



The Civil Rights Act provided protection of voting rights; banned discrimination in public facilities—including private businesses offering public services—such as lunch counters, hotels, and theaters; and established equal employment opportunity as the law of the land.



As Senator Byrd took his seat, House members, former senators, and others—150 of them—vied for limited standing space at the back of the chamber. With all gallery seats taken, hundreds waited outside in hopelessly extended lines.



Georgia Democrat Richard Russell offered the final arguments in opposition. Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, who had enlisted the Republican votes that made cloture a realistic option, spoke for the proponents with his customary eloquence. Noting that the day marked the one-hundredth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's nomination to a second term, the Illinois Republican proclaimed, in the words of Victor Hugo, "Stronger than all the armies is an idea whose time has come." He continued, "The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!"



Never in history had the Senate been able to muster enough votes to cut off a filibuster on a civil rights bill. And only once in the thirty-seven years since 1927 had it agreed to cloture for any measure.



The clerk proceeded to call the roll. When he reached "Mr. Engle," there was no response. A brain tumor had robbed California's mortally ill Clair Engle of his ability to speak. Slowly lifting a crippled arm, he pointed to his eye, thereby signaling his affirmative vote. Few of those who witnessed this heroic gesture ever forgot it. When Delaware's John Williams provided the decisive sixty-seventh vote, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield exclaimed, "That's it!"; Richard Russell slumped; and Hubert Humphrey beamed. With six wavering senators providing a four-vote victory margin, the final tally stood at 71 to 29. Nine days later the Senate approved the act itself—producing one of the twentieth century's towering legislative achievements."
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11/28/2011 5:11pm
Frank will get some big bash, celebrating his SERVICE to the country.
When will bastards like him and McCain get BLAMED for the condition THEY put us in. But no! He will be celebrated.
Run a list of names starting in the '80's, of politicians who KNEW we were headed for the shitter, yet they just stood around, looking concerned and making happy talk about how the government needs to get it's act together on spending. They didn't do shit! 30 fucking years of nothing lies and bullshit.
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borg wrote:
Frank will get some big bash, celebrating his SERVICE to the country. When will bastards like him and McCain get BLAMED for the condition THEY put...
Frank will get some big bash, celebrating his SERVICE to the country.
When will bastards like him and McCain get BLAMED for the condition THEY put us in. But no! He will be celebrated.
Run a list of names starting in the '80's, of politicians who KNEW we were headed for the shitter, yet they just stood around, looking concerned and making happy talk about how the government needs to get it's act together on spending. They didn't do shit! 30 fucking years of nothing lies and bullshit.
Noting was inevitable until '99.

That's when they took the 'Cuffs off.
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11/28/2011 6:10pm
"Well that, well that, thats all folks !"
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dynomike wrote:
"Well that, well that, thats all folks !"
I wouldn't bet on it. He may end up going to work as a lobbyist, or some type of adviser or consultant for someone.
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11/28/2011 7:48pm
Maxine Waters is in line to take his place as ranking member on the banking committee.
From the frying pan into the fire.

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