When I learned Cong. Barney Frank (D–Libertine) was retiring after 30 years in the House, my first thought was don’t let the door hit you in the behind. That’s because Frank personifies everything that’s wrong with the political class currently infesting our nation’s capitol.

Frank is morally, politically and ethically corrupt. This Democrat party leader helped produce a nation that’s economically crippled and morally adrift. He may be the Congressman from Taxachusetts, but everyone is enjoying his legacy.

When the first warnings regarding the housing bubble were sounded Frank was rabid in his defense of federally supported Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s ‘come one, come all’ lending practices. Frank stated, “I do not want the same kind of focus on safety and soundness. I want to roll the dice a little bit more in this situation towards subsidized housing.”

What Frank didn’t say was that he had used his influence as a member of the House Financial Services Committee to land his homosexual lover a job at Fannie Mae. So while Frank was rolling our dice his boyfriend was one of the croupiers.

Herman Cain may have been squeezin’ the Charmin while he was head of the National Restaurant Association, but I guarantee he didn’t twist arms at Denny’s to get them to hire his sweetie.

Unfortunately, Frank’s roll of the dice came up snake eyes for the rest of us as we continue to endure the Great Recession.

Are foreclosed homes lowering your property values and contributing to the decline of your neighborhood? Thank Barney Frank.

Are you having trouble refinancing because loan documentation is causing you to jump through hoop after hoop? Is getting a loan to buy a new home impossible because down payment requirements have skyrocketed?  Or is selling your home difficult because every appraisal is low–balled? Thank Barney Frank.

Are your annual dues increasing while your homeowner’s association is simultaneously cutting back on services due to budget deficits caused by foreclosures? Thank Barney Frank.

Is your retirement nest egg now your retirement embryo after your 401k tanked? Thank Barney Frank.

Lacking any moral compass, Frank doesn’t feel any shame over what his advocacy and legislative record caused. He doesn’t fade into the background. Instead, as Chairman of the Financial Services Committee, he co–authors the Frank–Dodd financial reform legislation that’s supposed to repair what he’s destroyed.

Only in Democrat party politics does the master of the disaster get to write the legislation that’s supposed to clean up the mess. At least the captain of the Titanic had the decency to go down with his ship. Frank would have demanded a seat in the lifeboat so he could direct the rescue.

But why shouldn’t Frank feel entitled? His longevity is a product of a gerrymandered district that made him impervious to public opinion. Frank’s first scandal involved putting a live–in homosexual hustler and convicted drug dealer on his House office payroll. Frank used his position to fix parking tickets for his roommate and later lied to a Virginia prosecutor who was investigating the prostitution ring the hustler was running out of Frank’s townhouse.

Then Frank finds a new boyfriend and puts him on the job at Fannie Mae. Now Frank’s latest paramour is growing marijuana in their home, but who knows, maybe Massachusetts voters believe progressing from prostitution ring landlord to in–home illegal agriculture is progress.

Barney Frank’s personal and political record is a living endorsement of term limits. He survived for 30 years because his district was drawn to prevent Republicans from running and Democrat political insiders prevented primary opponents from challenging him.

Term limits would prevent much of that insider gaming of the political system. There is simply no reason for someone to be in Congress for 30 years.

And please spare me the “seniority means we have more clout” argument. Seniority rewards longevity, not productivity. If your elected representative is able, your district will have influence.

There is a perfect example near where I live in Virginia. Del. Jackson Miller (R–Manassas) was just elected Majority Whip by the Republican caucus in the House of Delegates. This puts him number four in the House hierarchy, yet he’s only been in office since 2006. Miller didn’t have to get arthritis in service of the public before his merit was recognized.

The average tenure of a CEO in business is six years; surely a Congressman can do enough to have a post office named after him in twelve.

Good riddance to Barney Frank. Now if only two or three hundred members would follow him out the door there might be a chance to change the incestuous culture in Washington.

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Where do I even start this morning? I woke earlier than usual and pulled up Memeorandum (aggregated news) to find what the chatter and fallout is this morning, surprise, surprise the left is in a tizzy with infighting, finger pointing, name calling, blame-pinning and all other kinds of goodies. In fact, there is so much of it I don’t even know where to start.

I am happy.

How about I just start out with Barney Frank, aka Bawney Fwank. Philip Klein in the Spectator has a transcription from MSNBC last night, Frank rattling off his feelings post election. Barney Shrugging?:

….But our respect for democratic procedures must rule out any effort to pass a health care bill as if the Massachusetts election had not happened. Going forward, I hope there will be a serious effort to change the Senate rule which means that 59 votes are not enough to pass major legislation, but those are the rules by which the health care bill was considered, and it would be wrong to change them in the middle of the process.

As Clifton says this morning, if Barney Frank is (potentially) throwing in the towel on Obamacare, how in the world can Pelosi scrounge up 218 Dems in the House that are willing to risk their necks? Note: I am reading that she is doing just that, more on that later. Moving on, how about this from Politico:

Republican Scott Brown’s upset win in Massachusetts Tuesday threatened to derail any hopes of passing a health reform bill this year, as the White House and Democratic leaders faced growing resistance from rank-and-file members to pressing ahead with a bill following the Bay State backlash.Democratic leaders insisted they planned to press ahead with health reform, and met late into Tuesday night in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office. But they made no decisions about how to proceed

Senator Bayh (D: Indiana) is admitting what we all have known for a while, that the Democratic party has been hijacked by the far-left in this country and that Obama/Pelosi/Reid are the figureheads of just that. Massachusetts proved that (in the backlash) last night:

“The only we are able to govern successfully in this country,” Bayh warns, “is by liberals and progressives making common cause with independents and moderates. Whenever you have just the furthest left elements of the Dem party attempting to impose their will on the rest of the country — that’s not going to work too well.”

How about this in the Daily Beast, Mort Zuckerman writing something that I could have 10 months ago, that Obama is an ideologue leftist and has misjudged the entire country (in his socialist image), that a health care takeover in the midst of 10% unemployment is lunacy. Too little, too late, Zuck:

He’s misjudged the character of the country in his whole approach. There’s the saying, “It’s the economy, stupid.” He didn’t get it. He was determined somehow or other to adopt a whole new agenda. He didn’t address the main issue.This health-care plan is going to be a fiscal disaster for the country. Most of the country wanted to deal with costs, not expansion of coverage. This is going to raise costs dramatically.

In the campaign, he said he would change politics as usual. He did change them. It’s now worse than it was. I’ve now seen the kind of buying off of politicians that I’ve never seen before. It’s politically corrupt and it’s starting at the top. It’s revolting.

Reader C-Gen in NY also emailed me something particularly sweet. Sweet as in the tasty crocodile tears over at Newsweek today. C-Gen points out that Dems are blaming progressive PJ bloggers for the massive defeat and loss of Ted Kennedy’s seat (and this Newsweek article claims last night had nothing to do with the One)!

Discussion throughout the day at Memeorandum.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention as well that I received a nasty, threatening email from an ACORN activist yesterday concerning the absentee ballot fraud video out of Mass., a person claiming to know ‘Isabel Melendez’ and such. Yes, little old me, who woulda thunk?

 

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Rick Warren’s invitation to the inauguration has offended Barney Frank, and why shouldn’t he be? A man with such an impeccable record of public service and home life surely doesn’t want a man around who serves as a constant reminder of Congressman Frank’s darker life and sins. After all, we should just forget about Frank’s past because of his service to the Democratic party, his love of welfare, and his drive to socialize the country.

I can’t let Frank skate. I am so offended by this Congressional nitwit, who I dub the Peter Puffer, that it’s time to recall who Barney Frank is.

Congressman Frank is a typical Democrat, and that’s why everything gets swept under the rug. He is a career politician who should be a career inmate serving time like Heidi Fleiss. The political moral compass points in the other direction if you are a Democrat. If you are a Republican the political moral compass points true north.

Franks’ former gay lover, Steve Gobie, a male prostitute (escort for the PC), ran a male whore service out of Barney Frank’s home. I never bought into Frank not knowing this was going on in his own home. In fact, I feel he only reported it because it was about to come out in the media. Gobie was a patsy to save Frank’s political career.

In the past couple years, Americans have discovered many gay techniques are used to pick up men and are widely known in the gay community. Senator Larry Craig was arrested in a Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport for looking for gay sex. My point is in bringing up Craig, is the gay world is highly organized for sexual encounters, so I have doubts Frank was ever telling the truth.

Now 18 years later, Americans are paying the price of Barney Frank’s limp, southward pointing moral compass. Franks lack of over site and love of welfare has Americans paying the price of a weak economy and a housing mess that easily should have been prevented. Frank’s on record agreeing the state of housing loans is healthy, and then a few months later after it falls, he quickly blames Bush and the Republicans for the mess.

If Americans used the same moral compass for Democrats as they do the Republicans, perhaps a true leader would have provided over site to fix the problems of the housing market before the bubble popped. Frank fails to provides sensible visions for how the financial system works, and now Americans pay the price.

Every American should be offended by Barney Frank. He is a disgraceful man, who I have no trust in when he opens his mouth. Still the question remains, why is he offended by Rick Warren?

Simple Rick Warren has values, morals, and isn’t afraid to tell Barney Frank the life he lives is wrong. I’ll celebrate the day Barney Frank leaves Congress. Unfortunately, we can’t count on the people of Massachusetts’s 4th Congressional District to remove him.

 

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