Here’s a belligerent Barney Frank denying he could have done anything better with regards to Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac. It’s an odd claim considering his role in Congress at the time was to provide oversight of the two mortgage giants. A perch from which he directed the two companies to give loans to people who could not afford them and said publicly right to the end that they were sound investments. A perch from which he decried Republican attempts at reforming the companies and accused them of manufacturing a crisis where none existed.

Barney is an asshole and a liar. Thank God he’s leaving Congress. The only bitter pill is that Marxist Maxine Waters will be taking over Barney’s committee assignments. Waters is perhaps the most radical left wing member of Congress. She has repeatedly praised Fidel Castro in the past and encouraged the federal government to seize control of the oil industry.

Source: Associated Press
Democratic Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts is expected to announce Monday that he is retiring from Congress, closing out a career of more than three decades capped by passage last year of legislation imposing new regulations on Wall Street.

An arrogant and unrepetant Barney Frank lashed out at the media during his victory speech. This will be Frank’s 16th term in office.

Here’s the awesome new ad from Barney Frank’s challenger Sean Bielat. He’s a former Marine, and a graduate of Georgetown, Harvard, and Wharton.

I and many others have said Obama’s “public option” government run health care plan is nothing but a Trojan horse for Canadian style single payer health care.

I’ve been called a conspiracy theorist, a nut, a fascist, a liar, and many other things even though I’ve provided stone cold proof.

However, some Kool-Aid drinking drones need further proof, so I’ll just let Barney Frank take it from here…

(hat tip Mark Levin)

Here’s proof that the Bush administration way back in 2003 was sounding the alarm about the mortgage industry. Repeated attempts to pass new legislation aimed at getting a handle on Fannie and Freddie before they imploded were blocked by Democrats. Not only did Barney Frank and the dems block any new regulations, they were angry at republicans for even suggesting a problem existed.

So the “mess” that democrats are so fond of saying they “inherited” is a mess of their own making. Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and the rest of those lying pricks should be impeached. The corrupt media will of course never admit any of this.

(hat tip @ronlisy)

Barney Frank is in favor of bailing out the auto industry largely because bankruptcy might “bust” the auto unions. What Barney doesn’t get is that the only way to make the U.S. auto industry a viable industry again is to do just that.

The unions have absolutely crippled the auto industry to the point of near extinction. It’s impossible to stay competitive or get anywhere near competitive when unions have a choke hold on things. It costs an average of $73 an hour to employee a union auto worker. Contrast that with the $43 an hour for the non-union auto workers of Japanese car companies in the U.S.

In a free market system if your business doesn’t generate a profit — you go out of business. The only reason the big 3 auto makers didn’t go bankrupt years ago is because we keep propping them up.

We can give the auto industry 25 billion or 50 billion and it won’t matter. In a few months, they’ll be standing before Congress with their hands out again. Their current business model is simply unsustainable. To keep it going artificially simply for he seek of greedy unions is an outrage.

The fact that Barney Frank is still a member of congress is also an outrage given his responsibility in the Fannie/Freddie mess — but that’s for another day.

-Chris Jones

It takes real chutzpah for the a*shole who caused the mortgage meltdown to recommend more spending and higher taxes. Frank should have been booted out of Congress long ago.

(hat tip Hot Air)