Is Barney Frank Nervous? Bill Clinton Coming to Rescue in MA
Former President Bill Clinton will appear to endorse Barney Frank in Taunton, MA, on September 26. When he announced President Clinton’s visit, Frank attempted to deflect the inference that he is concerned about the election by asserting that the visit was President Clinton’s idea. Sean Bielat — the young, attractive Republican challenger — accused Frank of “running scared”:
It’s like David and Goliath, and Goliath just got a tag team from his older brother.
Frank is reluctant to acknowledge that he may lose because of his political positions and that Bielat, now relatively unknown, is a formidable candidate. The issue was resolved on September 22, when Bielat released a private poll that showed Frank at 48% to Bielat’s 38% with 13% undecided. The split shows two key facts. First, Frank is below 50%, and for a 29-year incumbent that spells trouble. Second, that the ten-point spread is insignificant considering that Beilat is still not well known.
Indeed, Bielat, who has a prominent jaw reminiscent of Jay Leno’s, has shown that he can use Frank’s ethical lapses to good effect by using humor and satire and without being mean-spirited. Frank appeared recently on Jay Leno’s show, ensconced between Norah Jones and Kim Kardashian. Bielat pointed out that even though Frank is supposedly campaigning, he is so out of touch that he believes that his recent appearance on the show takes the place of meeting his constituents in Massachusetts and answering their questions about the economy and OneUnited Bank’s $12,000,000 bailout.
While Bielat takes heart from Senator Scott Brown’s successful Senate run, Frank appears to be focusing on his real weaknesses. The Democratic politically correct lessons from Martha Coakley’s loss are attributed to Coakley being a poor candidate who ran a bad campaign — no blame is assigned to the policies of the Obama administration. As is the case with Sarah Palin, Coakley’s election victories in Middlesex County for district attorney, her election statewide as attorney general, and her defeat of other elected Democrats in the primary are discounted. She was defeated because she did not campaign hard and did not know enough about the Red Sox.
Frank knows better. He does not underestimate Bielat, nor will he underestimate the real negatives that he faces.
Why will President Clinton give the endorsement, and not President Obama or another Democratic leader? Frank needs to separate himself from the economic policies of the Obama adminstration in which he has been a major player, and associate himself with the economy of the Clinton years. Further, Frank surely remembers that in the Democratic presidential primary of 2008, Hillary Clinton soundly beat Obama, and that Obama’s highly publicized visit to Massachusetts to endorse Coakley was not effective. Frank is even running away from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, even though he has until recently been their champion in Congress.
Why will President Clinton appear in Taunton, at the southern tip of the gerrymandered Fourth District, rather than in the populous northern portion including Brookline and Newton? With a $2.4 million campaign fund, Frank has probably conducted polling. By inference, Frank feels safe with the Volvo liberals and Jews of Newton and Brookline. However, he has discovered that the blue collar Democrats of Taunton and Fall River, who are unsure of their livelihoods and jealous of the vast funds handed to Wall Street and government unions, feel abandoned by the Washington elites and are ready to jump ship.
Sean needs to create a lot more events where he can connect to voters. Drill down to demographics.
He should find someone to fix his wiki page.
And put a lid on the grotesque images on supportive websites.
Sorry – I vote in New York, which is suddenly shaking up everyone – except , so far, not Chuck Schumer
Sean Bielat should invite Michelle Bachmann to visit to talk about conservative values. That would provide a nice contrast to the philanderer in chief.
Every Democrat has internalized Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. The Rules advise how to campaign but NOT how to manage the nation. Really, who cares about managing; it’s winning that’s important.
Meanwhile, the Republicans insist upon playing by Marquis of Queensbury rules. Winning is not everything. Good manners and playing fair trump all else. Somehow the voters will just figure out, without being patiently educated, that the Republicans’ logical and sensible management (okay, for the past few years, not so much) will result in a successful nation with those who work hard becoming more successful than those who sit home watching soap operas and eating bon bons.
Unfortunately, while the Democrats fight like junkyard dogs, the Republicans fight like lapdogs. This could change once the entrenched Republicans are edged out by the young guns with a little more energy and drive. One can hope.
And speaking of junkyard dogs, perhaps more than any other single person, Barney Frank brought about our current “crisis.” That Bill Clinton is willing to help him gain reelection says much about Bill Clinton.
Hey, at least Barney didn’t drown a young woman. Or even a young man. But he has sure caused a lot of heartache and ulcers.
“Meanwhile, the NEW Republicans insist upon playing by Marquis of Queensbury rules. Winning is not everything. Good manners and playing fair trump all else.”
Fixed.
The old ones were just as bad (see Specter, Crist, Murkowskey[hehe])
Those three are “playing by the rules”??? Whose rules?
They’re Republicans??? They’re from the Moderate, Very, Very Moderate, Party but just can’t get listed on the ballot as such.
Frank isn’t as aware as he thinks. There are a lot of disgruntled Independents here (Brookline), such as myself, and many many others. After all, we are the ones who got Scott Brown elected, and we can do it again.
The voters keep voting for him….
Conservatives need to quit playing nice. Will they do it?…doubtful. Too prissy, starched collar, don’t want controversy.
Conservatives need their own “James Carville”. James, I do believe he will make an appearance for Hillary in the near future..and he’ll be stomping Obama into the ground…and then any conservaive that gets in his way.
* Conservatives need to find their ‘Cojones’, no more playing niceynice, or we lose as a nation.
I’ve been sayin the same thing for 30 years. But look at the mindset of liberals vs conservatives – even the ones only accused of being conservative by the MSM. Ever heard of G.H.W. Bush criticize another president? Or his son? Or Reagan after leaving office?
Contrast that with Jimmy Carter – a big mouth and nearly empty head. Thoughts roll out of his head and onto his tongue with all the thought of a penny gum-ball rolling out of a gum-ball machine. (Penny for your thought?)
Clinton? – just wants to be ‘relevant’ again – but is another big mouth. Truth and Clinton haven’t been partners for a very long time. Carter seems to have set the high water mark for stupidity for an ex POTUS.
And Republicans? Never hear from them again. And that is the main difference between the ‘opposites’. I guess the Democrats are always having to defend who they are and what they say/believe.
Translation: As Michael Savage says “Liberalism is a mental disease”.
And he’s right.
“As Michael Savage says “Liberalism is a mental disease”.”
That is pretty much like the kitchen kook complaining about the dining room crackpots.
Barney Frank has managed to stay in office in spite of his participation in activities usually considered outrageous.We feel good when we call out umethical and immoral actions but it is not effetive in Massachusetts. Bielat is highly intelligent. He has found an effective way to use those issues or, considering the usual conspiracy amongst the liberal media to bury/not report the immorality, alive. He presents the eissues with a wry smile and a bit of humor. I prefer successful elections rather than just a fleeting feeling of rightiousness.
You can win this one. Just like you got Scott Brown elected. I lived in Watertown some thirty years ago, but still have fond memories of the area. People who read this article and have never lived in a totally Democratic one party state can’t understand that while Barney Frank might get re-elected many times he is still vulnerable now. You understand why as do I having once lived there. The state of Massachusetts is full of independents or as they call them “unaligned” voters who never bother to actually go out to the general election because the outcome is pre-ordained by the democratic primary results. This time and in this economy it is different and I don’t think the ACORN,SEIU and the teachers and public sector unions can swing it. Good luck to you.
I do understand, living in Washington State, what it is like to be totally unrepresented in government. From my county comissioners on up to POTUS, all are leftist Democrats.
Frank is one I would love to see receive his walking papers, if for his indignance and arrogance if for nothing else. Warned by the Bush administration on multiple occasions of the perilous condition of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Frank defended the management and financial health of both public/private corporations. The rest is history, as Frank should be on November 3rd.
….and we out here across these great United States of America appreciate your election of Scott Brown and ask you, pretty please, do perform this kind of miracle on our behalf again.
Do you have ANY idea what a strengthening it would be for all of us at this point to know that Barney Frank, a vile person if there ever was one, has been sent packing? Please.
Thank you.
I would love to see Bawny Fwank relegated to the dungheap of history, along with Reid, Pelosi, et al., but will it happen? It is up to the voters in their respective states. This may be the last chance we are given by God to pull up out of the nosedive we as a country are in. . . .
There needs to be a massive effort to pump up Bielat’s war chest. If Americans thought Barney Fwank might be going down, there might be a groundswell.
We must “put our money where our mouths are.” It will be terrible feeling if, for lack of funds, candidates like Sean, a serving Marine with a strong resume does’nt get the money he needs to get out his message.
It’s time for Barney to retire to Provincetown, Massachusetts, possibly to open a cheese shop with that “friend” of his. Maybe if he spent some time trying to actually RUN a business he will understand how much damage his laws have done TO business. This is a guy who should have been thrown out of office years ago, but because of the gerrymandering in his district was able to protect his, ah, seat.
November is coming. Time for a change, Barney. Hope you find a nice hat to go with the cheese shop.
Funny how you don’t see Barney in the national media anymore. funny how his last few public statements have been conservative lite. Funny how a lot of these entrenched Dems are about to be rode out of town on a Tea Party Rail.
Rick, what will screw the pooch will be if enough of Frank’s lockstep Liberal voters come out in enough force (particularly here in the ‘burbs). I can tell you that they are delusional and very adept at waving away any negatives about Frank, and would vote for him if he turned out to be the Anti-Christ.
Until the advent of the net in its current form, it was essentially impossible to follow the politics of a distant state in any real detail. Barney Frank belongs to a small subgroup of politicians that always leave me asking “HOW could people keep re-electing that guy?”
You live there, you tell me – what the dirty word is it about this fellow that causes people to keep voting him in? The speech impediment alone should be enough, but he has been an embarrassingly bad public servant for decades. The home mortgage debacle could be traced almost exclusively back to him. I don’t understand how he hasn’t been tarred and feathered.
I don’t live in Frank’s district, but do live in Mass and spend a great deal of time as an engineering consultant dealing with high tech firms, startups, etc in the 4th district, mostly in and around Cambridge. It is a drastically gerrymandered district. You can get a feel for it here:
http://www.sec.state.ma.us/cis/cispdf/mauscongdist4.pdf
As long as the wine and brie liberals from the top end of the district did not see their personal interests – pocketbooks – impacted by Frank’s shilling for the progressive agenda, he was assured of reelection every time. There have always been enough reflexively democrat votes in the lower mostly blue collar end of the district to offset any thought of challenging Barney in the past.
Given that the latest dalliance with progressivism is dying – rises for a time every 40 years or so then falls once they trash the producers – progressives and their enablers are facing another long sojourn in the wilderness. This causes a bit of worry for Frank. he could be swept out as an afterthought.
Clinton is campaigning down the lower end of the district because given enough disaffection with the wine and brie crowd, the far more conservative lower end of the district that he could safely ignore in the past becomes more important.
Frank will probably survive this election cycle. The wine and brie liberals are most definitely not universally happy with Frank as they have been in the past but admitting that to their friends is also an admission that they were not as smart as they all assured each other they were, and human nature being what it is….
Barney sees the writing on the wall though. Look for him to take a teaching position at the Kennedy School instead of risking flaming out with Obama in 2012
We have such a district here in Colorado, occupied by the wretched Diana Degette, and previously old Pat Schroeder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado%27s_1st_congressional_district), but at least her objectionables stem from her liberal beliefs, not venality and corruption – as far as I know. There has never been a hint of scandal around her. Barney Frank, though, has been brazen to the point of amazing.
I have to wonder, since so many politicians of both parties are being slammed by cell phone video and the public’s new ‘net ability to track down everything they ever said, if we might not be on the verge of a whole new era in politics. Conventional lying isn’t really possible anymore. They can still stall, obstruct, and misrepresent, but we no longer have to rely on some journalist for the big three feeling motivated to do a lengthy fact check. Is it actually possible that these self-serving vermin might actually have to display honor and do their freaking JOBS now…? I doubt it, but they will have to find new ways to cheat, lie, and steal. At the very least, it should be entertaining.
Most of the members of the house are not the sharpest knives in the drawer and one thing about Barney Frank he isn’t stupid. Corrupt yes, venal yes, dumb no. He filled the Financial Services commitee with six or seven clueless members of the Congressional Black Caucus and then used them as a voting block. One of these Black Caucus members described Barney as their Red Auerbach. For none basketball fans Auerbach was the famous short fat white Boston Celtics basketball coach of days gone by. This little arrangement allowed them to force through legislation on Sub Prime aka minority housing that Barney and his “gang” where trying to get passed at the time.
Dear RamBam: We all become worked up about electing a President and Seantors and do not pay attention and expend great effort to elect State representatives and Seanators. But they are crucial. I think that opinion polls confirm that people in Mass are less liberal than the people in the State Legilature. Why? I believe that when the Kenndys were riding high they dragged alot of state legislators in. Then, the Democrats so gerrymanderd the districts, the gerrymandering and the natural passive power of incumbancy has kept the Dems in control. Now, republicans are dispirited and have trouble getting good people to run. Republicans must use 2010 and 2012 to change the narrative and get some power in the legislature. Mass will be redistricted and lose a seat. Great effort must be made now.
BC, the local PJM representative of the marching moron crowd from Cambridge, should be showing up shortly. He’ll defend Barney’s election as assured because he and his wicked smart friends are typical of the district. Then again, he claimed that they were representative of all of Mass before Scott Brown spanked Coakley. The spin afterwards was to point at Frank’s district voting for Coakley by a good margin and claim that if it weren’t for the redneck suburbanites, the wicked smart people would have put Coakley in. He’s probably right about the outcome in Frank’s case – probably – because the money gap is daunting, but the outcome hasn’t been assured for some time now.
Do we live in a time when Democrats are competent campaigners but destructive managers of the nation, while Republicans would be competent mangers of the nation’s affairs but incompetent campaigners?
Isn’t that the tie we’ve always lived in?
That is the picture that the legacy media paints. Harder to hide incompotent pols from the nation now.
Our dim (dem) pols get most of their contributions from out of state. The last, Cryin’ Charlie Melancon, even went to Canada for his latest fund raiser. I think it was hosted by the “Aaron Broussard School of Leadership”.
If the voters are dumb enough to return Frank to office, then they deserve what they get. Unfortunately, the rest of us will have to suffer Frank’s bungling too.
That’s why limited government is necessary – to minimize the collateral damage from aggresively incompetent ideologues like BF. The wine and brie crowd can not be trusted to think or vote logically.
Dear Rebecca: We must see Barney clearly for what he is and so does Sean. I think that Sean sees barney correctly, like a good Marine should do before he launches his attack. Barney is not a bungler. He is a smart person who believes in socialistic policies so he intentionaly does harmful things and refuses to recognize the harm that results. He just decides, after every disaster that they did not do enough, borrow enough or tax enough. After all, Barney is convinced that he smarter than everyone else. On the other hand, he is now so scared thathe refused to appear with Sean on Channel 25, Fox in Boston. View the interview before it is taken down. You wil see Sean an see why Barney blinked.
It’s still early. If Sean gets Scott Brown, Chris Christie and even Rudy to endorse him, he’s got a real shot.
I live in Frank’s district, have never voted for him, and have blanked the race the past several times as the Republicans have not run a credible candidate against him. I voted for Bielat in the primary.
Two days ago, I received a fund raising call from Bielat’s campaign. I was easily the worst such call I have ever received. The person making the call was obviously very inexperienced, was reading from a script that gave him no options, and wasn’t sure where to go when I moved off the expected path of the conversation. I will vote for Bielat in the general election, but it is obvious that the campaign has not received any national support.
It’s a pity. There’s a real candidate there, and the national crew is still sitting around waiting for someone to read the chicken entrails and tell them what to do.
I know exactly what you mean. I, too, got a fundraising call from someone who was way over the top against Frank, almost to the point of being incoherent. Bielat is a smart, sophisticated candidate, but he had a buffoon calling on his behalf. I gave the guy some advice. Yes, I know you don’t like Frank–neither do I, and I will certainly be supporting Bielat. But you are going to turn off many undecided voters with your spiel, particularly in Brookline where I live (yes, believe it or not, there is one person in Brookline who subscribes to PJTV). Calm down, talk like a grownup in a meeting, not a college kid at a pep rally.
I’m also in Brookline, and definitely a Bielat voter. To be fair, I’m on the Brookline Republican Town Committee, so I’m a committed Republican – there are some of us, even here, if not many. Try to drum up the vote – let’s paint this town red on Nov. 2!
Dear SE Voter: It is time to take the musket off the hooks over the fireplace and join the campaign. I suggest that the people in Sean’s campaign are now first rate. Go to one of the three camapign offices and volunteer to have a meet and greet, mske some cslls, give some money. Your money will be well spent.
I’m hopeful on Barney going down.
A gut feeling on Harry Reid.
Blood is in the water in Nevada.
Boy what a pair to deal with. Neither one can keep their thing in their pants and don’t really care who they introduce it too. It amazes me that those in MA would have to think twice to get rid of Frank as he is the thief in charge of the melt down in the housing market among other things he has put his tainted hands on. Oh well, if the Republicans were serious about stopping Frank they would invite Monica to be where Bill is giving his speech. That would certainly distract him and show the state he really doesn’t give a darn about Frank as he has a woman to do his bidding
The fact that there are people that will vote for Barney Frank is the reason I don’t have confidence in America.
“Former President Bill Clinton will appear to endorse Barney Frank in Taunton, MA, on September 26. ”
APPEAR to endorse Frank? Well, who then will Clinton actually be endorsing?
LOL. That’s the way I first read that sentence too. Hey, it’s Bill Clinton …
Is Monica living there now??
Barney has lots of history that should have long ago bothered the voters in that district. I’m guessing that male escort services are pretty popular in Massachewsits and the only thing that has him worried is that the people are waking up to the fact that he’s had a major part in giving away their kids futures. Or probably not. Remember: the gerrymander allows the legislator to select his voters. There is almost no chance without serious funding of his opponent that Frank can lose. The only bummer for him here is that he’s spending money he thought he wouldn’t have to in order to play it safe in this tsunami year.
It would take Frank being caught with a smoking gun in his hand and all six bullets fired, standing over a bed with two dead men in it each with three bullets in them, caught on the video camera set up in the corner being simulcast to YouTube and FaceBook, while he himself tweeted that he killed his lover and lover’s lover for the Mass voters to begin to think he should not be re-elected. And even then it would be a stretch. I am sure they would vote for him in prison.
Frank has three things going for him: O”ppressed minority” X2 (Jewish and gay), progressive and corrupt.
Good point about the Stupid Party’s ineptitude this season. I wish Michael Steele was on the ballot this year. I would vote for Daffy Duck rather than him. Loathe Obama though I do, all my RNC mail goes right into recycle.
As an old Bob and Ray fan, I’m glad to hear from you. Looking forward to seeing Abby Eliot (Bob’s granddaughter) on SNL tonight.
As for Michael Steele, ‘what were they thinking?’ I guess after the election, nobody was willing to step up.
Clinton will “appear” to endorse him? Will he be lying, as usual?
Anyone who would be swayed by Clinton, wasn’t going to vote Republican anyway. It’s simply an attempt energize a base, not pull swing votes, I would think.
And, if I was running a campaign for a solid candidate, who did not yet have great funds…I would contact National Review Online, PJM, Real Clear Politics, Townhall…and ask to write an article.
I would ask questions about where the investigation is, regarding Fannie and Freddie and Herb Moses. I would ask where the ethics committee stands on prostitution rings. I would ask where are the dots being connected to the toxic loans, the Community reinvestment act, the stalling of the Bush inquiry and why we had to spend trillions of dollars bailing out the banks that made those loans and bought them as bundled investments. Where are the quotes from Chris Dodd and Barney Frank related to “protecting” this boondoggle as it was unfolding?
Why are they buried? Who is fronting for this coverup?
Do the people of Massachusetts feel any kinship and camaraderie with their countrymen? Are they willing to help this land of ours be free of the naked power grab and overreaching by the leftists? We got a glimpse of that with Scott Brown, but they could make a huge statement of solidarity with the tossing out of Barney Frank. Enough is enough. Even the northeast has to have a point across which they will not allow this country to be dragged.
Fine comment! Right to the point!
Sean Bielat is the guy running against Barney Frank. Sean Bielat is his name. Sean Bielat.
Vote for him. Who’s that again? Sean Bielat, that’s who. Vote for Sean Bielat. Sean Bielat.
I have several blue collar acquaintances who like Clinton and who will vote for Republicans. They didn’t like Obama, Kerry or Gore, but they like Clinton.
Bill Clinton will “appear” to endorse him? Will he be lying as usual?
Bill Clinton will “appear” to endorse him? Will he be covertly disendorsing him?
“Young attractive challenger”? Sounds like Barney’s kind of guy.
I think the dems have gotten to Murkowski and Castle, i wonder what their 30 pieces of silver will be?
Maybe Barney could invite Monica…for guidance
How about a little proof-reading? With PajamasMedia being a small, fledgling news company, one would think you would be looking to appear professional and not publish articles with numerous typos that even the MS Word underlining feature is probably highlighting for you.
The fact that people of Mass would elect this vicious and corrupt schmuck even twice gives me no confidence in their decency to do the right thing. I simply believe there are parts of this country beyond hope. Frank’s district is one of them, as is Pelosi’s district.
To straighten things out, we’ll have to work around Frank. But if Obama’s opponents win and take control, we don’t have to make friends with this district either. Stick it to them if given the chance.
Frank is but a figurehead – it’s the people voting for him who are the problem. They need to feel the burn this time.
This sort of story always leaves me wondering something: in this day and age just who the heck is swayed by ANY endorsement by ANYBODY? I think I can honestly say that I have never been swayed by any bigwig saying that so-and-so was a goodie or a baddie. Are there actually people out there who will vote for Frank (and otherwise might not have) simply because Bill Clinton says HE thinks it is a good idea?
No offense but you obviously have never lived in Massachusetts. Home of the moonbat par excellance and numberous variations of all kinds of enviro weirdos with little or no common sense. People like Bill Clinton are still reverred as some kind of saint regardless of their past. After all Barney Frank’s district is home of Wellesley College, Hillary Clinton’s alma mater and all those nutty gender studies professors from the dozens of super liberal colleges in the surrounding area outside Boston. Unfortunately, they would vote for Jimmy Carter again if he was on the ballot and Rachel Maddow told them it was a good idea. You ever wonder where MSNBCs miniscule audience is located? A large part of it is in towns like Newton, MA.
Could it be worse than here in Boulder, Colorado? I bet my commies can beat up YOUR commies!
Great article. I will be contributing to Sean Bielat’s campaign.
Trying to get an endorsement from a washed up public speaker and former president vs getting an endorsement from the sitting Democrat President?
That isn’t desperation. That’s full blown panic.
Anybody with half a brain would take Clinton’s endorsement for what it is…one lecher endorsing another…as that seems to not bother the democratic base I wouldn’t worry about his endorsement. Generally I don’t care what people do in their private time as long as they’re not hurting anyone else…however, these two have brought their bedrooms into the public sector…Clinton in the oval office and Frank into legislation for his boyfriend’s benefit. If his constituents had any conscious at all they wouldn’t have continued to vote him into office.
All this to say…the only way to get this albatross out of office is for those of us with good conscious to move to Massachusetts and begin to change things by speaking out and voting. Since that isn’t going to happen…we’re stuck with Father Frank Frank….
As I read this article I was struck by the image of persons (Barney Frank et al) running from a burning building – gas can and matches in hand and hoping nobody remembers seeing him/her as they flee the scene.
This is what it’s come to – they think we have such short memories that we can’t connect the dots between the past two years worth of job killing legislation to what is happening in our nation today.
Blame it on Bush? Give it a try Frankfurter.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. (Abraham Lincoln)
I live in the district (Newton). Bielat is a great candidate in every respect – high IQ, great on TV, and strong military, academic and business pedigree.
The national guys need to wake up and feed this guy some serious cash. He can win.
Sean needs you to help. The way to rid yourself of frustration is to participate.
Barney Frank is the single man in office most culpable for the real estate aspects of the Great Recession. This is a simple fact. Repeat this simple fact at every opportunity. If a day goes by without an opportunity your first job in the am is to MAKE an opportunity. Even in his deeply blue district this is an undisputable fact that is kicking people square in the butt each and every day. If they re-elect Barney Frank it will only be because of ignorance. Let none be able to claim ignorance on the disastrous, treasonous crimes of this witless, worthless schemer, Barney Frank. If they are going to deny it, make them do it with eyes open and before witnesses.
Clinton proves again that is is nothing but a political hack. Any thinking human that doesn’t have a financial or personal interest in Barney Frank that supports him really doesn’t have the mental tools to be voting in the first place. I can’t understand how the Washington Post and the NY Times don’t expose him for the hack that he is. Shame on you Massachusetts voters you insult your state and the Union.
I sent Bielat $25. Do it.
As the article said, Frank’s district is a classic in gerrymandering. The vulnerable part is the working class districts near Falls River, New Bedford and Taunton. He can be kicked out by swinging the vote there. In a normal year in a fascist one party state like Massachusetts no one of substance bothers to vote in the general election, since it is all pretty much decided in advance in the Democratic primary.
Consequently the teachers unions, SEIU, AFSCME union, UAW union and other hack supporters can pretty much throw the election to the favored Democrat with little or no competition. But with the arrival of broadbased anti-government sentiment and the depressed economy, the real independents and unaligned voters and the relatively small number of Massachusetts Tea Party voters will come out and swamp the Democratic vote stuffers.
This year a Republican like Sean Bielat can win. SEND MONEY OR VOTE FOR HIM IF YOU ARE IN HIS DISTRICT.
Miss Fwank is apparently suffering from a slight case of the vapors. Having slick Willie come to campaign for him? My goodness, Bawnie, you are a radical leftist, seeking your Nth term in the most liberal state in the country! Oughta be a shoe-in, shouldn’t it??!! Oh well…those damned ignorant, inconsiderate, unappreciative voters. After all you’ve done to bankrupt this nation, you STILL get no love and respect! Maybe a good cry will make it all better.
@RebeccaH – not ‘bungling’, burgling!
I sent Mr Bielat $100 and I live on BI in RI! “Just say YES” to paraphrase Nancy Regan.
Being un-elected is not enough punishment for Frank…that SOB deserves to suffer as much as others have due to his lack of proper and correct oversight of the financial industries.
How is Frank even a viable candidate after the video evidence of his complete dishonesty over the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac fiasco? The guy is either insanely wrong all the time or a liar, why would anyone of any party vote for such a failure?
As long as voters are stay uninformed and blinded by party labels enough to keep pulling the lever for people like Frank, who have been proven criminally inept at their job in Congress, the country will continue its slide towards mediocrity and eventual socialism.
Massachusetts— show me you are better than a man like Barney Frank.
It would be delectable to see Barney gone. Him with his affordable housing which nearly brought down the Banking System ( and may yet do ) And all based on the fatuous notion that there is a certain class of people entitled to have their neighbors pay for their houses ( so long as the recipients keep voting Democrat. )
Barney and Billy go back a long time. Rumor is that poor Monica Wohlinsky really wasn’t the one wearing that little blue dress that night, it was really Barney.
Barney,
“I love you, please love me
I will make you happy!
I will tax and spend and
give your money away
please vote me in today!”
Did you like that children? Did you? Whooopie!
Children, what’s big and purple and talks funny and is dangerous because he steps on people?
You’re right its Barney!
I’m going over to one of Beilat’s offices tomorrow to leave off a campaign contribution.
Beilat won’t win but it will be great to put the fear of God into that rat skunk Fwank with him mumbling about tens of billions for this and tens of billions for that.
Don’t bet on that, Beilat’s win could be one of the November surprises. Giving Beilat a contribution is money well spent. I think the whole nation is sick and tired of Barney’s song and dance.
Yes kids!
Barney is a dinosaur
who stomps about this nation
all we want is him to have
a permanent vacation!
Wasn’t that good children?
Hallelujah!!!
I no longer live in Brookline or even Massachusetts. Finally, the toll of outrages undertaken by Mr. Barney Frank and glibly laughed off, is starting to lose its humorous effect.
I never understood how he could commit atrocities and expect others to overlook his foibles. If a heterosexual politician ran the Best Little Whorehouse in Brookline from hi home, he would have been run out of town with Tar and Feathers. Or prosecuted by Salem’s own Witch prosecutor Martha Coakley, like the Amiraults.
Barney gaily goes to his fellow gays and says “You must support me. Look at all those Homophobes out to get me”. He demands they act contrary to their inclinations and sensibilities as citizens; and demand they rally round the rogue. And they do, it!
He downheartedly goes to all the guilty white liberals and says “Protect me. I’m a minority and being discriminated against by racist Republicans”. And playing on their permanent Guilt trip, they do!
Now he is going to his constituent Rubes, and saying “It was all just a little graft that me and Senator Dodd, and Raines at Fannie Mae, and Johnson at Freddie Mac, cooked up to boodle just a little bit, for a rainy day. Maybe it got a teeny little bit out of and and created the mortgage banking collapse that dropped the whole world into a Great Recession. Whats a little graft among friends?”
The Gays, and guilt-laden Libs, look at their destroyed 401Ks, and the collapsed prices of their homes and aren’t laughing so hard, at his brand of Blarney from Barney, anymore.
I don’t even live in Massachusetts but I will give a donation to Mr. Bielat’s campaign as I did to Scott Brown. Even if he loses I will feel as if I did something worthwhile. Frank has to go, he has lived off the people long enough.
Another MIRACLE in Massachusetts… REALLY!! Might Fanny and Freddie FINALLY be held accountable for the housing crisis? Come on Massachusetts… FIRE BARNEY FRANK! Give him a pink slip and send him to the back of the unemployment line.
Elaine,
No pink slip, as Barney will retire with a fullboat pension, unlimited healthcare and federal protection…on OUR dime.
To answer your ending question, unfortunately the answer is YES.
This is actually happening right in my high school’s field house (it’s so weird to see the name of my city in the news).
According to the mayor Clinton’s horrified by the state of our gym, which was just renovated. It just goes to show how elitists these guys really are, when they feel disgusted by a public school, which the majority of Americans pass through, and which is actually in really great condition after undergoing four years of renovation.
I sincerely hope that this bit of stumping won’t persuade MA voters to keep this guy in office! We need some change we can believe in here, but it’s not coming from Barney and the Democrats!
Maybe next term Madam Frank will go back to the other “oldest profession”…
Help us Obi Bill Clintoni, you’re our only dope.
Why is Frank so active to release the traitor Jonathan Pollard
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=189117
He sold secrets to Israel, which they then sold to the USSR and led to the torture and deaths of many our agents in USSR, he also sold secrets to South Africa and Pakistan.
It is clear that Pollard should have been executed for treason –what is Franks agenda in this matter.