Barn decided to hang it up when he learned he would not be getting the valuable Ed Schultz endorsement.

Just to beat the conservatrolls….Yes, Barney Frank is in fact a homosexual. Like Larry Craig.

No great loss to America. One more corrupt Congress-roach incumbent scurries out when the lights are turned on. That leaves about 400 to go.

I live in Mass. Trust me, having a “valuable endorsement” won’t matter here. It’s Brown vs. Warren all over the place here.

Who cares about that? Frank is a wildly corrupt Congress-Crook who has been soaking the people for decades. Good riddance.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Another of example of liberals seeing people as either black, brown, gay, etc. before seeing any other characteristic, then blaming conservatives for their own biases.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsaTElBljOE

Helpful hint: http://tinyurl.com/cj6nodf
 

Why are you guys building a monument to the Hero of Chappaquiddick?

Why are taxpayers putting money in that?

He was just a Senator.

The important thing is that he’s a brothel owner who thinks you’re too stupid to think he knows what a pot plant looks like.

http://tinyurl.com/yb7ktsk

And then there’s the boyfriend who Barney helped to great gobs of taxpayer cash…

http://tinyurl.com/3tlwfwz

Adios, jackass.

Hmm, wonder what other news is about to break about Barney.

If he were to run again, he start his 17th term at 73; seems the main reason, if it were me. We’ll hear soon enough.

Also, I’m pretty sure he’s planning on hanging both of ‘em up.

Barney Frank goes out with a distinguished record of courageous and superb service to his country, and what I think should be a  plaque from the cable news association for the All Time great real-time analysis a political gaffe – on McCain’s balking in September 2008 at his president’s desperate request to authorize saving the economy from going over the cliff, in favor of pushing to hold a candidate conflab with Obama on To TARP or Not to Tarp:

“It’s the longest Hail Mary pass in the history of either football or Marys.”

(I don’t have a clue what he knows about football, but I betcha he’s right up there on Marys.). 

I’m going to miss him; one of best Congressional representatives I’ve even seen since I became an adult, and if I think on it long enough, maybe the best.

You really are a sad little person, aren’t you?

Like him or hate him, he’s a good hearted liberal looking out for the best interest of the average person out there

Adios Pendejo! Cabrón

Probably starting a solar power company before the loot runs out.

11 months with rancid tea partiers isn’t enough?

Not really. Tell me, what exactly has this corrupt, sold out Congress actually done for the actual people? Both sides are only interested in reelection and scamming as much campaign cash as they can.

So, pointing out the truth is sad? Perhaps to the deluded few that actually think Congress is functional.

No, he is not. He is a long time incumbent looking out for his contributors. If he was looking out for the average person, he would never have pushed TARP. He may have at one time been good hearted, but he is now just one more corrupt Congress-critter looking to game the system for his pals.

I think Craig was and possibly still is a classic “closet case” – full of repression, denial, maybe bisexual and feeling guilty as hell. 

Pretty clearly Congressman Frank, if he ever was a closet case, hasn’t been one for almost a quarter century, since he came out publicly as a homosexual in 1987, at a time when it was hardly easy (still isn’t, I’m sure). Plus, there’s never been any signs of Frank being repressed – if anything, he’s been irrepressible – or being in any state of denial, or at all confused about his sexual orientation and gender attraction. So, sure: Frank is just like Craig, except not at all in a whole bunch of ways that matter. Okay: eukaryote, bipedal, hominid – beyond that, not much.  

Frank and his male prostitute boyfriend sold young men from his congressional apartment. He also hired said male prostitute as his personal “aide” & paid him out of his govt. fund. So it only bad when a Republican does that kind of stuff?

Not to his constituents he wasn’t. He was the Lion of the Senate.

What I want to know is, has Sarah Palin called him with condolences? Figures!

The previous Congress under the immediate past (and immediate future) speaker was the most active in terms of passing legislation aimed at ameliorating the condition of the working poor, women and children in the entire history of the US Congress.

The current Congress under Speaker Boehner has the single most ridiculous majority party caucus mess I can think of sing the railway scandals in the late 1800s. 

I liked that earlier Congress and I think I’m going to like the one after this one, too. They’re all made up of humans and not all those humans are corrupt and stupid – tho the ones under Speaker Boehner, himself not excluded, tend to be spectactular in one respect or the other and often both.

(The alternative to voting for Congress is giving up power to a kind or dictator. I continue to prefer working to getting rid of the corrupt to ceding power to neo-fascists, thanks.) 

Longtime Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., will announce his retirement Monday at an afternoon press conference in Newton, Mass.
Read more: 
http://wdcpost.blogspot.com/2011/11/barney-frank-to-announce-retirement.html

Are lions good swimmers? 

You really are a birdbrain, and the entire birdbrain Rrrr mentality on TARP is just nutty. 

Even with yesterday’s breaking news from Bloomberg News on the previously underknown news of December 2008, Americans did not lose a dime on TARP – all the funds lent out were returned in full, with interest. 

I myself feel that President Bush should have worked with Congress to impose terms on the lending of those monies, but in fact the banksters mostly did not want the TARP monies, because they were designed to be used to flush bad derivatives bets out of the system, and several merchant pirate houses, AIG & BoA for two, knew this would simply end up exposing their asset base as a house of cards – and that’s exactly what happened.

I also feel young President Obama should have listened to the advice he got on declaring a bank holiday and threatening to push Congress for nationalization of the banking system if Wall Street didn’t capitulate on the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall and the re-regulation of SEC processes.

But regardless which way one goes, they ALL required TARP, because the system was melting.

Conservatives and Republicans used to say they understood money and Dems did not; you stand as evidence that the opposite is in fact true, especially since the TPers have been holding Boehner and Congress hostage.

Well, you’ve always been a liar, so nothing new today.

You do realize if he was not a public figure he could sue you for defamation; not that you have anything worth seizing for sale. Maybe that skin head snake tatoo all over your face, though it does look like a 3 year old drew while on a cookie high.

And Barney Frank’s announcement has what to do with Larry Craig?

So?  Projecting again.

Not drunk cowardly lions!!

Exactly!  and, that nonsense is way past the sell by date and sticks out like a sore thumb.  They haven’t figured out how blatant their own bias appears when they do it either, a bad habit they can’t kick.

He kept his job because of redistricting and was facing another redistricting, plus he was facing getting credit for causing the housing crisis.

I also want to get rid of the corrupt, and all of them are amazingly corrupt. The immediate past Congress refused to do their job and pass a budget. The current Congress only has interest in those that fund them and has yet to pass even a single appropriations bill. Both are Constitutionally defined duties, yet they are ignoring them.

Both the immediate past and present speakers raised millions and millions from the banks and other special interests while decrying those same special interests.

I look forward to voting for Congress, but not any of those there now. They have failed and failed miserably. Both parties. All they ever care about is raising money and getting reelected.

Here is a great similarity – Pelosi claimed Congress knew nothing about waterboarding until it was proven that she had indeed been briefed on it. Issa claims Congress knew nothing about Fast and Furious until it was proven that he was briefed on it 2 years ago.

They both lied about it to further their political cause. It had nothing to do with governance or their duty under Article 1 and everything to do with playing to their base.

Ummm…the words coup and election in the same sentence tend to make the point that your point is invalid. The properly elected representatives of the people (like them or not) do not represent a coup. Republicans won a lot of seats in the last election because Democrats did a bad job. Now Republicans have done a bad job. And again, it will be up to the people. See how that works?

Dictionary – get one. Use it.

He’s doing it for the party because he knows that if he were to be re-elected he would be in Federal Prison by the end of his next term. Not a bad place for a man like him.

It’s a great day in America!

Wow, that’s hard to swallow, right Barney?

Well, then he would also have to sue the WaPo and other newspapers across the country, perhaps the House members that reprimanded him for his role of using House stationary to write letters of recommendation to his boyfriend’s probation officer.  His boyfriend had felony convictions, btw…possession of cocaine, oral sodomy and PRODUCTION of CHILD PORN.  But, to Barney Frank, he was an ok kind of guy.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/tours/scandal/gobie2.htm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/frenzy/frank.htm

Barney Frank announces that he won’t run for re-election, and the Dow jumps more than 300 points.  You draw the connection.

Bannon and Breitbart have an “earthquake” type announcement coming soon. Hmm…..

An early St. Nick’s present? :)

Happy Hanukkah! Happy Kwanzaa! Merry Christmas to all! :)

It’s sad – of all the Senators who have murdered people, Ted Kennedy was my favorite.  And of all Congressmen who wrongfully used their office to hide and correct the criminal record of their live-in prostitute slave, Barney Frank was my favorite.    Where have all of our heroes gone? 

You’re cute… don’t ever change.

PS… there is this new thing called Google. You should check it out. :)

Good riddance, you fuckingcrook.

Yes, how dare I assume conservatrolls wouldn’t be able to go more than a few comments without mentioning Barney Frank’s sexuality in one way or another. Oh wait, some guy beat me to post, and said “He’s doing it for the party because he knows that if he were to be
re-elected he would be in Federal Prison by the end of his next term.
Not a bad place for a man like him.”

Yes, how dare I think conservatives would be so childish as to reference Frank’s sexuality. Nothing to see here. No racism/sexism/bigotry of any kind. Only the Democrats. No Southern Strategy. Who cares if 2 past RNC chairs have explicitly acknowledged its existence?

How dare you assume that “conservatrolls” won’t be able to do something that you are personally unable to do, despite the fact that they managed it and you did not? I think your idiocy is sufficient explanation.

The good news is that he will live on forever as the favorite bogeyman of all you crazy people.

Bullshit. Billions of TARP dollars are still buried in GM. And they’ve got the hottest new car on the market! Not because lots of people want to buy it, mind you, but because it has a tendency toward spontaneous combustion. http://tinyurl.com/bvqq549

Would you let him watch your kids?

No more fun in it. Insider trading is becoming unpopular!

Sieg Heil Douche bag!

Exactly!

You just want him under you.

Years ago Barney tried to buy the New England Patriots. When asked by a reporter why he was interested in buying the Patriots. Barney responded ” Because I heard that they have two tight ends that suck.”

When you’re on the defensive, your offensive must be tanking.

I generally don’t look to Congress for babysitters, but you are saying that he would cause my children harm because of why?

I am no fan of the guy but to watch you nutsos bend yourselves in knots over the guy is just amazing.

Hell! This just proves that somedays one can get GOOD news instead of bad all the time.

Based on the Penn State disclosures, buffoon-barney has decided to leave congress and become a college football coach.

It is refreshing to see that Barney Frank doesn’t even see his seat as safe anymore after our state’s redistricting which took away his New Bedford/Fall River strongholds and didn’t give him enough support with just Newton and Brookline — where they’re even growing tired of him there despite the massive influence of identity politics in this state.

Hogwash. 2012 would have been a great year for Barney with Obama on the ticket unlike last year. If you teabaggers couldn’t even knock him out last year, you were never EVER going to. You also do realize in a very anti-D year (2010) — MA…still went blue as far as US Reps are concerned. HIS SEAT WAS NEVER IN JEOPARDY.

Most people generally don’t look to *perverts* to watch their kids. That is why you won’t let Barney Frank watch your kids, but you’re such a pathetic partisan hack you can’t even state the obvious truth.

Do you realize that you are defending Barney Frank?

Perhaps because of the following:

“Back in 1985, Frank had engaged the services of a male escort named Stephen Gobie, who had advertised his “hot bottom” in a personal ad. Over the next two years, while Frank was trying to decide whether to come out, he and Gobie carried on a clandestine affair, during which time Frank hired Gobie as a driver despite knowing Gobie was on probation for drug possession and for possession of child pornography. Frank used his House privileges to fix Gobie’s parking tickets. He wrote a memo trying to clear Gobie from probation that was disingenuous at best and an outright deception at worst. Gobie repaid Frank by running a prostitution service out of Frank’s Capitol Hill apartment. When Frank discovered this, he fired Gobie and ended their relationship. Then, in 1989, just two years after Frank’s announcement that he was gay, Gobie told his story to the conservative Washington Times.

There was an immediate public outcry. Frank confirmed the basic details of his relationship with Gobie and the financial and other favors he’d done, but he angrily denied he’d been aware that Gobie had gone into business for himself in Frank’s apartment. Even so, it was an astonishing act of indiscreet self-indulgence, especially for the stiff-necked ethics scold who’d shown no pity for the various Abscam defendants. Even Frank’s closest Massachusetts friends were shaken. And The Boston Globe called for Frank to resign, so as to spare the voters the pain of having to confront his sex life in the voting booth.
Instead, Frank admitted what he’d done, denied what he hadn’t, and took his case to the House ethics committee, which recommended a reprimand by the full House, a lesser penalty than the censure that had been requested in a motion by a notorious back-bench bomb thrower named Newt Gingrich. The punishment was handed down in 1990.”

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2005/10/02/to_be_frank/

I wonder if liberals will give him a 21 rectum salute?

His next job will be at Penn State, Syracuse or Fannie Mae.

Good riddance to the old gaf.

Awesome delivery!!!

Only because his district was laid out to include the bluest of the blue.

So I should not have Gobie watch my kids. Got it. Thanks for the heads up.

 That is a very good reason to be happy he is gone. This other crap isn’t.

 Well, he would need to be married to a lady seeing as that was Jerry Sandusky’s situation.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.  Good!   Hooray!  Now, he will have more time to spend in his other nefarious, perverted activities.

  It was good that God took care of John Murtha and Ted Kennedy–two more criminals. Now, we need these other criminals to resign or not run for re-election: Charlie Rangel, Maxine Waters, Harry Reid, Jesse Jackson, Jr., Nancy Pelosi, Charlie Schumer, et al., and blithering idiots like Hank Johnson of Guam-tipping-over fame.

So you don’t know what’s going on in your significant other’s life? I mean I can understanding hiding Christmas presents and so on, but a prostitution ring and a pot scandal? No.

The good ones always retire when you need them.

http://tinyurl.com/7yxjb55

For some reason Disqus won’t let me respond to you on the last comment WC.

I am just going to chalk your last comment up to your relative youth and lack of experience in the real world.

People constantly find out that their spouse or partner is doing all kinds of thing that they couldn’t imagine. Do you think Mrs. Vitter knew her husband was getting hookers? Mrs. Weiner knew that her husband was tweeting his junk all over?

I am glad Frank is not returning. There are plenty of reason to not like Frank. His sexuality isn’t one of them.

The Obama Pinto.

Barney knows that he can not get reelected so he’s doing the cowardly thing and running away.  When the going gets tough…right?

A well earned retirement. Nothing more and nothing less.
Only the supremely egotistical stay in office until they die. 

You cut to the core of me. You are a wise, wise sage.

You’re getting your ass kicked by everyone on this thread right now.

But hey, that’s what you get for saying something stupid.

Making A Joke About Homosexuals – Very, Very Bad !!

Wishing Death Upon Conservatives – Very, Very Good !!

Only On Planet Publius !!

All I can say is thank God for (not so small) favors.

He was part of the perfect storm that took town the economy.  Good riddance.

So what? Many “long term” Republican reps are also in the reddest of red districts. By the way, MA is dominated by Independents, not Democrats. 

Glad to hear the worthless penis sucker is leaving.  He must know he would be kicked out in 2012, so he wants to go honorably, lol, like this corrupt  faggoty scum could ever be Honorable!