barney frank
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. HEY, 1988 CALLED, IT WANTS ITS LAROUCHIES BACK. [YouTube]
Famous liberal Barney Frank has aligned with famous Internet character Ron Paul and three other congresspeople to make the Marijuana legal, finally, in America! The bill is called the “Act to Remove Federal Penalties for Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults,” which sounds very responsible, and would make it federally legal to possess up [...]
But What Does It *Mean* When Barney Frank Picks At His Nails?
The next time you hear somebody complaining about how news organizations have abandoned hard reporting for celebrity twins updates and mummy funerals and “will breathing air kill you, eventually?” alarmism, just point them to this fine bit of journalism by Bill O’Reilly. Instant rebuttal. [YouTube]
Barney Frank Snaps At Code Pink Multiple Times During Important Money Hearing
by Jim Newell
Here’s your “Tuesday Lunch Video,” hooray! During today’s House Financial Services Committee hearings with archvillains Ben Bernanke and Tim Geithner, Barney Frank interrupted each of them to admonish the daring Code Pink protesters in the room, who came with their usual cardboard signs and cat calls and what not. He told them to “grow up” [...]
Okay we lied, Bill isn’t shouting (and we mean SHOUTING) at Barney Frank for being gay — he’s shouting at Barney Frank for being gay with our money. [YouTube via Michael Calderone]
Barney Frank is ANGRY, again, and John McCain better stay away from the portly House Financial Services Committee chairman. He says they’re all working with “serious Republicans” but that obviously means no McCain. Frank’s doing a live press conference, which we would liveblog, but we already did one of those this morning and it’s not [...]
See, we say things like “[McCain] could also maybe light the current bipartisan compromise on fire and order everyone to draft a new one,” as jokes. You know, “funnies.” You take reality and bend it, to make the humans laugh! HA HA HA, like that! But then the McCain campaign always takes our joke and [...]
LOL, BARNEY FRANK: After actually making the bailout deal with Chris Dodd, Barney Frank says of McCain’s dumb stunt: “He hasn’t been involved. He doesn’t know anything about it.” [Gawker/CBS]
