Tag Archives: Barney Frank

Frank: “I haven’t got a lot of respect for these people, to be honest, so who cares what they say to me?” He goes on to express concern about the example set for children.

At the behest of wingnut Rep. Steve King (R-IA), teabaggers are flooding the office buildings of Congress today. And things are getting very ugly. Things seem to be getting pretty heated in the Capitol with crowds of anti-Reform/Tea Party activists going through the halls shouting slogans and epithets at Democratic members of Congress. As our Brian Beutler reports, a few …

According to Rep. Barney Frank, the reason the DADT repeal wasn’t attached to a defense appropriations bill is that the White House doesn’t want it repealed this year. Kerry Eleveld at the Advocate: As Rep. Barney Frank told me Friday, “I’m disappointed with the administration talking about delaying legislation for a year. But I’m working with Patrick Murphy [the lead …

A teabagger’s take on Ernest Thayer’s classic 1888 baseball poem Casey At The Bat has been updated to include digs at Nancy Pelosi, “that aging queen” Barney Frank, ACORN, Chris Matthews, and others. Marxism, socialism, blah blah blah. You really DO need to watch this to grok the boiling hatred here.

Tracey Ullman does Rachel Maddow, Ariana Huffington, Christiane Amanpour, Meghan McCain, even Barney Frank. Her Ariana kills. (Tipped by JMG reader Zed)

Yesterday Rep. Barney Frank says that a repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” will likely be attached to a fiscal year 2011 Department of Defense funding authorization bill that will be voted on in the spring of next year. Via Washington Blade: “The House will take up and the Senate will take up ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ repeal,” he said. …

Barney Frank talks to Joy Behar about health care reform, then at the 4:00 mark, defends his comments ripping the National Equality March.

Appearing on Michelangelo Signorile’s SiriusXM show yesterday, Barney Frank dismissed the effectiveness of the National Equality March, saying it would be better if folks stayed home and lobbied locally. Signorile: Barney Frank believes the march this weekend and rally on the mall are “useless” and don’t put pressure on the White House. “I literally don’t understand how this will do …

Barney Frank spoke as bluntly as always at yesterday’s House ENDA hearings. Watch this. Good As You has many more clips.

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) begins hearings tomorrow in the U.S. House. The House Education & Labor Committee will hear testimony on ENDA on Sept. 23, according to committee spokesperson Aaron Albright. He said witnesses had not yet been finalized for the hearing and a subsequent markup for the legislation hasn’t been scheduled. Albright said the hearing “will be the …

Barney Frank voted “present” on the Wilson rebuking because he thinks “it’s a bad precedent to put us in charge of deciding when people act like jerks.” Maddow goes on to list the various merchandising that has sprung up with “You Lie!” slogans.

Saying he has a “strategic difference” with NY Rep. Jerrold Nadler and other Congress members signing on to Nadler’s DOMA repeal bill, Rep. Barney Frank will not be signing on as a co-sponsor. Frank objects to a portion of the bill that would allow gay couples who marry out of state to file for federal benefits in their home states …

The Hill reports that Rep. Barney Frank would like to join the Obama administration as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. But at least not until 2011 or so. Rep. Barney Frank is interested in capping his political career as a member of the president’s Cabinet, according to a new biography of the Financial Services Committee chairman. Frank (D-Mass.) …

“Barney Frank spends most of his time living around Uranus.” I know you are, but what am I?

Good As You points us to this just-posted “sermon” by Pastor Steven L. Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church of Tempe, Arizona. The clip is audio-only and NSFW as the good gentle Christian pastor screams things like “Faggots run this country!” He also accuses Barney Frank of being a pedophile and lies that Frank has been arrested for it. …

Finally, a Congressman fucking PWNS a teabagger.

Oh, ha ha ha…my sides! Barney Frank is gay and talks funny! Comedy FAIL. (Via – Good As You)

Surf over to Michelangelo Signorile’s site and listen to him tangle with Rep. Barney Frank over the way gay activists have reacted to the Obama administration on LGBT rights. Things get quite heated. Signorile: Barney became very unhappy with me and pretty heated when I played Howard Dean’s comments on the DOMA brief, trying to stop me and saying he …