" Frank " ly Speaking

Well I must say that I'm appalled ( but not at all surprised ) by congressman Barney Frank's act at his town hall meeting yesterday . The only surprising thing to me is that the so called ' Anti-American dissenters were even allowed in the building . I thought for sure Dartmouth , Mass. would be the East coast version of Obama's Montana town hall . Nothing but softballs lobbed up by human teleprompters to be smacked out of the park . Much to my surprise the senior center in Dartmouth , Mass. appeared to be filled with actual Americans with real , pertinent questions .

It might have been a refreshing example of an elected public servant debating an issue with those he represents , but unfortunately the official in question was none other than one Barney Frank . That's right good old B. Frank was on the scene . Now I'll admit that many of the 500 plus in the crowd were upset and bitter but do you blame them ? The administration has already rammed the Omnibus , and Stimulus down our throats and have now moved right on into health care . A 1000 plus page bill that many have admitted to not even reading .

So when the concerned constituents in Dartmouth started to ask Mr. Frank some hard questions , how did he respond ? Like so .



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Now if you want to say to me that the woman asking the question about Hitler like policies is an idiot herself well then ............... O.K. But at least she was in control of her own emotions and asked her question directly . ( also did you notice that not many people in the crowd even flinched when she held up her sign and invoked the Nazism ? ) So how did B. Frank respond ? Like he always does . Not in any way , shape , or form answering the question . Instead he attempts to completely belittle the woman by asking what planet she resides in and then compares speaking with her to quote " arguing with a dining room table " very nice Mr. Frank .

Furthermore several times during the two and half hour session Mr. Frank lectures the crowd on the politeness of proper debate . What ? Really ? This is a man who has made a career out of responding to any and all criticism by raising his voice and spewing an unintelligible stream of belligerent nonsense . Especially when confronted by his own statements !

Don't believe me ? Lets go to Harvard then ......................




Did you see that ? The man can not even answer a simple question without belittling the questioner ( a young college student ) and blaming Bush , and everyone else he can think of . The kid asked him this ... " do you think that you have any responsibility for the sub prime mortgage crisis ? " and Frank immediately calls the kid disingenuous before he rolls into an unintelligible rant blaming everyone but himself . As always Mr. Frank ( having no answers for his own behavior ) answers a question with a stream of questions . The kid asked him 4 times a simple question and never got an answer .

How do morons like this come into power ? For that matter how do they stay in power ? This guy's act is worse than any other politician I can think of . What are we supposed to devotedly sit in silence to hear the awe inspiring words of Barney ' freaking ' Frank ? As if his words are beyond reproach ?

I'm not sure I have ever heard Barney Frank answer a question directly . So way to go Dartmouth . Keep it up , and for the love of god Massachusetts vote this arrogant radical out of office before the weight of his own hubris crushes your great state .

Honesty is good so lets not be Frank .

Stimuli ... thy name is 'OVER'

Well it's certainly no secret to anyone that the interest in American politics has ramped up a little since Mr. O's ascendancy to the North American throne . Hot button issues such as cap and trade , global warming , cash for clunkers and above all nationalized health care have ( to say the least ) polarized the country .

Everywhere you look lately the debate seems to be raging . Right versus Left , Conservative versus Radical , Elephant versus Donkey . The fight for power in this country ( and that is what all this is ) has even managed to wake up the middle class folk who have never given a lick about the things going on in Washington . People all over the country who have spent a lifetime ignoring the inane platitudes of over payed , out of touch politicians all the sudden are waking up and rolling out to voice they're opinions .

Likewise with so much at stake in this country the privileged in power have lost more than a little control of themselves and turned into belligerent pontification machines attempting to impose there will on an increasingly put off populace . Some going so far as to refer to hard working ( tax paying ) American citizens who are brave enough to exercise they're freedom of speech in a public forum as quote " evil mongers " or " Nazi's " instead of actually reading the bills they want us to vote for and making a reasonable argument .

Now as you know neither side of the political arena can make it's case without the media in some way shape or form . We are constantly inundated with propaganda of some sort fresh from the mind of some highly paid spin doctor . Now if you add that kind of hourly advertising with the total sum of Hollywood's influence on the human mind set you get a completely de-sensitized , overstimulated America .

Seriously , someone recently released a movie simply called " fighting " . Amazingly it bombed .

My point is this . A woman in Miami set herself on fire in clothing store in a Miami mall yesterday . ...... ...... ..... ..... ... ... .. . . . did you even know ? Yeah in a clothing store called the ' Savage Boutique ' a woman actually doused herself in a flammable liquid and lit herself on fire . Then proceeded to walk around with her arms outstretched like specter of death . The most amazing thing about this is that after two good Samaritans put her out with a couple of fire extinguishers she still had the power to walk out of the mall and into the parking lot before collapsing as a result of her third degree wounds .

The second most amazing thing is that this event barely even registered a blip on the world news radar . Many of you I'm sure are fans of the ' Drudge Report ' an up to the minute news page where the biggest story dominates the top of the page and the rest is split up into three columns of headlines ranked by the newness or importence of the story .

This event did not even crack the top five in either column at any point . Really ? How is that not the lead story on for every news outlet on the planet for the next week ? Are we all so concerned about health care that a person lighting them self on fire isn't even a story ? If I had my way I'd be able to attend a town hall meeting with Obama and I would ask him this ;"Mr. President , how has it come to be that the most enlightened society in the history of the world can ignore the fact that a person lit themself on fire in a public place so that we can debate something as ridiculous as ' cash for clunkers " ????

Unfortunately I'm sure he would just blame it on the W Administration and I would never be seen again .