U.S. Rep. Barney Frank went after a college student wearing a yarmulke yesterday during a testy back-and-forth at Harvard University, where we mistakenly assumed that gay Congressmen whose policies ushered in economic holocausts were welcomed with open arms.
Apparently not, although it’s pretty obvious the Massachusetts Democrat was in front of a sympathetic crowd.
Anyway, the whole exchange began when this conservative, yarmulke-wearing student (seriously, at Harvard?) asked Congresslady Frank a fairly simple question:
“How much responsibility, if any, do you have for the financial crisis?”
Easy enough, right?
Wrong.
Frank totally ignored the question and launched into torrential attack against the young lad, berating him for being part of a vast right-wing conspiracy and incessantly interrupting him by demanding that he (the college student) explain what he would have done differently.
While the kid didn’t, um, “go there” with respect to Frank’s love affair with reckless government lenders … err, lending … he did have a pretty solid reply … you know, for a college student who didn’t actually create this crisis or bungle its solution. And who obviously isn’t an elected official responsible for dealing with this mess.
“For example, I think that instead of using the TARP money to simply roll through AIG and use it to pay out other banks to which it owed other obligations you could have monitored that before you choose to give them $700 billion in taxpayer money,” he said.
Nice.
Of course Frank interrupted him before he could finish his sentence and started jabber-jawing again about how the right wing is out to get him.
“Stop labeling him, just answer the question,” a kinky-haired, female British-accented student yelled at one point during the feisty, five-minute exchange.
No sh*t.
Yarmulkes and British accents are never wrong, people. Never.
Enjoy …
By James the Foot Soldier April 8, 2009 at 12:33 pm
There’s hope for our future – as long as the sperm-guzzlers like barney are outed for what they are – incompetent.
As important – anyone that believes it’s all the democrat’s fault needs to excavate the rocks out of their heads.
By fitsnews April 8, 2009 at 12:42 pm
True that, James.
It is D.C. “bipartisanshit” at its worst that has us in this hella hole.
By Crooner April 8, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Foot:
Don’t hate on sperm-guzzlers. Some of them’s women.
By gary April 8, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Barney is a disgrace and would’ve been locked up behind bars years ago had he had a (R) behind his name.
By Hard One April 8, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Barney Frank is an As_hole looking for an As_hole!
By FWFIV April 9, 2009 at 7:56 am
Gary-
Sure, just like Vitter, Craig and Foley were locked up….
Wait a minute, you mean these upstanding republicans are not in jail for their sexual escapades????
By Pat Hendrix April 9, 2009 at 9:04 pm
Barney Frank is sellout and a clown. His coziness with the banks is fair game and the voters should put him out on his well fed ass. The fact that a college kid cleaned his clock is proof positive he’s over his head. The gay stuff is irrelevant. At least he manages to be skrait up about it. Better than the rest room Republican crowd. By the way, we have a single, non-dating, male crush (McCain) having senator right here in SC. All I gotta say – you go girl.
By John M May 3, 2009 at 3:39 am
Funny, in 2003 he was all for Fannie and Freddie lending out to bad borrowers. Bush sounded the alarm bells, and he said “there is no forthcoming crisis”
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/11/business/new-agency-proposed-to-oversee-freddie-mac-and-fannie-mae.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print