Rep. Barney Frank on Obama's Health Care Joint Session Of Congress

[mucifer]

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:rofl:

we love you Barney!

[PDJane]

1. I love that man........

My mother calls him 'that wonderful old curmudgeon,' and he is that.

[travelingtypist]

2. Off to the Greatest with you.

"The president is really getting to them and they can't handle it." Yup.

[damonm]

He didn't go far enough...

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asking what was stopping the GOP from coming forward with something - he should have mentioned that they had 14 YEARS to come up with something (while they controlled Congress), and did NOTHING.

[heliarc]

7. 14 long years...

Let's remember how terrible that was and fight now to end it.

[ccharles000]

3. k/r

[GivePeaceAchance]

4. Barney calling it like it is don't give the GOP too much credit. They're scared of Pres.bama's...

potential success.

[abq e streeter]

5. Barney Frank--you are...freakin...awesome

(you too of course,Rachel)

[heliarc]

6. I have post partisan depression too...

I'm sick of this post partisan nonsense. I'm a partisan and I'm proud of it.

[Douglas Carpenter]

8. so am I - but it is politically more clever to appear compromising and reasonable which

makes the crazies of the Republican Party appear even more insane.

The people who hold the balance of power at the ballot box are not only not partisans, they tend to hold at most only a cursory interest in politics. The sight of a reasonable Democratic Party offering compromise makes an incredible contrast to the birthers,tea baggers, town hall disruptors and the nuts on Fox News and hate radio.

Without this contrast, those voters who will determine who wins the elections - which includes some of the least knowledgeable people on the face of this earth - can only judge by impressions.

But I do have to agree with Representative Frank that the Republican Party is certainly far more extreme than President Obama probably realized. Unfortunately, they are also far more extreme than what most Americans realize. It is a good idea to set the stage for the public to recognize it for themselves.

[heliarc]

10. There is a virtue to intolerance

of the intolerable. The racism, bigotry and pigheadedness of republicans has reached the level of intolerability a lot lately. It is also politically clever to show that you have balls and can stand up for something.

[Turborama]

9. Damn! Too late to rec but here's a well deserved kick to the top

What he said about bipartisanship was spot on, as were his comments about the "loons" needing emergency mental healthcare!

:kick: