Here’s how I know that Barney Frank’s re-election race is tighter than he’d like.
Yesterday I asked him some questions. I was bracing to get hammered by his reply.
This time, though, he didn’t tell me I was asking something dumb. He didn’t get mad. He didn’t lecture me on what I should be asking instead.
What’s up? My guess: Barney’s on good behavior because the country’s angry. Lots of voters in his typically adoring 4th District are angry too.
So he’s taking no chances with Marine Reservist challenger Sean Bielat of Brookline who sounds reasonable and earnest, who looks all spit and polish on TV and who hopes to tie the financial collapse around the neck of Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.
“I don’t think there’s been a single event I’ve gone to where that hasn’t come up,” said Bielat yesterday about Frank’s role in the meltdown. He also said Frank’s campaigning hard now – Bill Clinton came to town for him Sunday – because Frank “has seen the same thing in his internal polling that we’ve seen in ours.”
That is, said Bielat, a momentum shift – toward him.
So was the Clinton invite “desperate,” I asked Frank. No, he replied, talking a mile a minute. He said he thought of inviting Clinton at least six weeks ago.
How much of the Fannie and Freddie mess was his fault?
Almost diplomatically, Frank explained that he’s been the target of “mostly inaccurate” attacks by the likes of Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
Read More: By Margery Eagan, Boston Herald
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Drastic people , do drastic things
Barney Frank was the idiot that pushed federal finances into Fannie-Mae and Freddie-Mac knowing that the policies that existed within in them would lead to their collapse. He is the same one that only a few short years ago told the American people that these two institutions were in great shape. He is the same one that lobbied for an unlimited bailout of Freddie-Mae and Freddie-Mac recently and that they be excluded from the financial reform act. It was his opinion for some unknown reason (that should be obvious to most) that they did not require any oversight into their on going operations. He also more recently openly admitted that the two organizations should be abolished, but said that there were no other lending institutions that could make the type loans that these two make. I suppose that he means the type of loan where people don't pay because they never had to produce evidence that they had the means to pay in the first place. Barney Frank = Moron.
If the people of MassAchewsits will get their heads out of their butts and kick this POS out of office I will not eat for a full week. And if the people of CalieOforniA kick out a few like Boxer, and Stark, I will also go a week without eating.
And if the people of New York can kick out the dead wood there, I will go a full week with out eating also.
Barney Frank has expended his pseudo-intellectual abilities into oblivion…
He is way past term limits…
Sarah Palin for president!!!
Good call–with Sarah there are no intellectual abilities to worry about, pseudo or othewise.
Gay Boy James!
Sorry Mentally Retarded Person!
Most definitely Sarah Palin is not only intellegent but will become your next President as well !
I'd be willing to bet you on that, too.
Gay Boy James!
You are bankrupt! You have nothing! You are a loser!
barney Frank's losing the election would not be all that bad for him!
Barney Frank's losing the election would give him even more time to frequent The Gay Clubs & Gay Bath Houses with his Gay friends like Janes McPherson.
JUST another bum to throw out! He is part of the problem, shovingthat queer agenda down our throats and helping to steer this country to socialism, MR Frank get out of this country, I am ashamed to call you an American! You are gone, just leave in peace!!
This is a sick man. Term limits would have thrown him out 25 years ago. What a failure and fraud this man is !!