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:shock:Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA): "You can reach out to your fellow young people and make it clear to them, that when [sic] they may not be satisfied with everything we've done -- we're not satisfied with everything we've done. The way to cure that is to give us more authority and more ability"
Hey Reveren....I was just wondering how we go about giving Barney "more ability".......Harv
:lol: no idea.... no idea.
Every so often, leftie / progressive ideolgues slip up and expose exactly what they are, and a complicit, obfuscating media, our own short memories, complacency and apathy prop open the gelding pen gates.
I honestly don't know who Barney Frank is, and don't care. ANY politician that says "Give us more authority" scares the ****ing hell out of me.
I honestly don't know who Barney Frank is, and don't care. ANY politician that says "Give us more authority" scares the ****ing hell out of me.
You must be kidding me.I honestly don't know who Barney Frank is...
Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA): "You can reach out to your fellow young people and make it clear to them, that when [sic] they may not be satisfied with everything we've done -- we're not satisfied with everything we've done. The way to cure that is to give us more authority and more ability"
Senate Banking Committee, June 15, 2006:
Sen. Robert Bennett (R., Utah): I think we do need a strong regulator. I think we do need a piece of legislation. But I think we do need also to be careful that we don't overreact.
I know the press, particularly, keeps saying this is another Enron, which it clearly is not. Fannie Mae has taken its lumps. Fannie Mae is paying a very large fine. Fannie Mae is under a very, very strong microscope, which it needs to be. . . . So let's not do nothing, and at the same time, let's not overreact. . .
those examples should derail your attempts to make this a partisan issueSen. Richard Shelby (R., Ala.): [T]he federal government has [an] ambiguous relationship with the GSEs. And how do we actually get rid of that ambiguity is a complicated, tricky thing. I don't know how we do it.
I mean, you've alluded to it a little bit, but how do we define the relationship? It's important, is it not?
a couple of other quotes from that cite were not posted and deserve not to be missed:
those examples should derail your attempts to make this a partisan issue
....He was talking about the midterm elections. When he said "give us more authority" he meant send us back to Washington rather than electing the Republicans. He wasn't asking people to give up their civil liberties or support changing the constitution to make the government more powerful. He was campaigning in front of a group of likely supporters, you can disagree with his policies all you want but you can't fault him for campaigning. This thread is silly.
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More authority and ability.
If you read the whole thing it seems pretty clear he is talking about the federal government, not the Democratic party.
No offense, but I think you might be reading a little to much into it. I watched it again and again after you said this and honestly I don't see what you're talking about. He's addressing a Young Democrats, and he's saying "us" as well as being very critical of the Republicans. I think it's pretty clear he is talking about the party, not the government. Not that I don't think he was being overly critical of the Republicans.
But that's the thing about Barney Frank, he's not just a regular Democratic Congressman. He's a long time incumbent and a party boss. It's basically his job to be a partisan more than an ideologue and to bash the Republicans at every opportunity, especially with elections right around the corner. That may be annoying or repulsive to you in and of itself but I think his intentions in this video are being misrepresented.
Well, if I'm misreading it, so is pretty much everyone else who has reported on this. And anyways, you can't give a party "more ability" just by voting more of them into power; more ability requires more government funcitons.
Though, I wouldn't be surprised if later Frank tries to claim that what he meant is what you are saying.
....He was talking about the midterm elections. When he said "give us more authority" he meant send us back to Washington rather than electing the Republicans. He wasn't asking people to give up their civil liberties or support changing the constitution to make the government more powerful. He was campaigning in front of a group of likely supporters, you can disagree with his policies all you want but you can't fault him for campaigning. This thread is silly.
I watched it. He meant send democrats not republicans and says as much in prelude.
Of course, it does sound both evil and funny out of context.
Really?
tell me what is the definition of "authority"?
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