Barney would enjoy being in prison.

Hey, Michelle. The laws you blame for the collapse of the markets and the recklessness of the banks were mostly pushed by conservatives. Anybody remember Glass-Steagall?

Hey, they let you out of prison? I would have thought your pedophilia conviction would have kept you behind bars a lot longer.

Barney Frank seems to conveniently forget a lot.  He is amongst the worst of the worst that brought about this economy.  Dodd as well.  I could name them from both sides of the isle but I don’t have the time.  Point is:  both sides have blood on their hands.  But Frank refuses to see that.  How he remains in office is astounding.

“These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis,” said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. “The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.” How’d that work out for you Barney?

Yeah, why did Clinton sign it’s repeal and why did Dems support the repeal? How is it that Clinton’s Sec. of Treasury, Robert Rubin, went on to join Citigroup as Vice Chairman, after the repeal of GS allowed the creation of Citigroup? Why did Clinton put Mondale’s former campaign manager in charge of Fannie Mae and have him reduce capital requirements, produce no money down loans, no credit check loans for low income people?

Why did dems decide everyone deserved a home regardless if they could afford one or not? Why did Barney Frank chastise Repubs for saying Fannie Mae had too many risky loans and fight Repubs move to privatize Fannie Mae so taxpayers would not be holding the bag? Why did Fannie Mae make big contributions to Frank and actual present an award to Barney’s mother that included a cash contribution to her organization?

Why did Maxine Waters say credit checks were unnecessary and only held loans up? Why did Countrywide, the nation’s largest mortgage bank run by a big Dem supporter,  offer  “interest Only” loans and give “sweetheart” loan to dems?

Barney Frank pushed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to take on greater risk. They wanted more loans to people who might not qualify for traditional bank financing. And, as The Wall Street Journal has pointed out, Frank “pressured regulators to ease up on their capital requirements — which now means taxpayers will have to make up that capital shortfall.”Even now, after the government took the companies over (which Frank repeatedly said over the years was not a possibility), Frank opposes limits on the amount of money they can risk on mortgage backed securities — the one reform that might have done the most to prevent the current meltdown and probably would do the most to keep it from happening again.

http://americaswatchtower.com/2008/09/17/barney-frank-and-chuck-schumers-role-the-fannie-mae-failure/

Ha ha we’re nothing like Tea Baggers. They are more than happy to lick corporate balls and be their puppets.

No, child, you can bend over for Barney’s soap.

Gingrich is right. Barney Frank and Chris Dodd aren’t the only ones who should be jailed, either.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs

Fannie and Freddie collapsed on Dodd and Frank’s watch.  Dodd and the other Senate Democrats blocked any reform of Fannie and Freddie when the Republicans controlled the Senate (one member of the minority party must vote for a measure in committee for it to go to the floor.)  The last time the Republicans attempted reform of Fannie and Freddie was 2005, when Obama was on the committee that blocked it (while Dodd was the ranking member.)

Bonnie Frank is the only real teabagger!

NY TImes “So it is with Christopher Dodd and Kent Conrad, who turned up on the “Friends of Angelo” V.I.P. list at Countrywide Financial Corporation.  Countrywide, a home-loan powerhouse, figures prominently in the subprime mortgage crisis, which has put hundreds of thousands of Americans at risk of losing their homes. The revelations about Mr. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, and Mr. Conrad, Democrat of North Dakota, are particularly troubling since the two senators are principals in trying to pass emergency legislation to address the damage from the mortgage crisis” Another story the main stream media didn’t care to pursue.
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Yep.  By the time the Housing Bubble burst, Fannie and Freddie had underwritten 75% of the mortgages in the country.

Does Barney Frank moonlight as Tweety Bird in the cartoon series,
Sylvestor?
“I taught I taw a Putty Cat”.

Such a clever, bigoted, homophobic, comment.  I’ll bet your full of them!

I see you are a bigot, child,. Just don’t bend over.

you jackie are not part of “We”.

Newt is spot on. About time someone starts talking about the corruption done by Barney and Dodd!!

Can you imagine having to sit at the same table with Barney Frank and Tingles
Matthews?
You would need to be wearing Foul Weather Gear!

Never say Barney Frank “shot back last night”; it’s visually disturbing.

Related to the story: Frank should be imprisoned and he’s probably love it.

Due to people like them, the “spit sheild” was invented for buffets.

About time someone starts talking about the corruption by Newt as well.  Too bad no one cares about Newt.  Oops.

Nice way to avoid my point: the repeal of GS was pushed by CONSERVATIVES and signed into law by a centrist Democrat who moved right in his second term. The only people speaking out against this repeal were traditional liberals, to their credit, which they deserve.

Sorry to inconvenience you with facts.

How do you explain all the Democrats taking Wall Street money, with Obama topping the all-time list?

 Your mom bends over for my soap all the time.

Legalization of pedophillia will be next on the liberal agenda; you can count on it.

Stonepark isn’t just a stupid bigot and a homophobe, but proud of it, too!

Nice lie- the vote in the House was  343–86. Don’t let the facts change your talking points and thanks for admitting the Clinton, his Sec of Treasury, Rubin, and his Asst. Sec. of Treasury, Larry Summers ( where have I heard that name before), supported the repeal!

Thanks for adding your lib intelligence to the conversation. We can always depend on such insight from libs.

Pot calling kettle black, the freaking Irony. Wasn’t with the help of freaking Newt that the bankstars got loose. Was he not part of the process that destroy glass steagall act? Another big phony (literally), and am sure they will all happily take in the crap that comes out of his mouth. They call him the intellect of their party anyway, that says it all. 

You’re right. You are nothing like the tea party.

You’re worse than tea partiers because you don’t know how to A) follow laws, B) peacefully protest, or C) have a point.

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-10-01/local/30252222_1_protesters-roadway-walkway

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2048248/Occupy-Wall-Street-Thirty-arrests-Chicago-Washington-D-C-Bill-Clinton-hails-debate.html

http://www.masslive.com/business-news/index.ssf/2011/10/occupy_boston_protesters_undaunted_by_14.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44855382/ns/us_news-life/

http://www.irishexaminer.com/world/50-arrests-as-occupy-wall-street-protest-escalates-170372.html

So you are a homosexual- I thought so.

Now that just doesn’t make any sense.  You sure are infatuated with bending over?!  Right?

Ditto!

Wow! Newt! That’s gonna leave a mark!

You are the one making stupid comments.  How old are you? 9 or 10?

Amazing how myopic some people can be. Intelligence is not isolated to conservative or liberal. 

Amazing how myopic some people can be. Intelligence is not isolated to conservative or liberal. 

You sir are an idiot!

Newt is such a class act-who wouldnt listen to him?

Says the pedophile!

Another idiotic comment.  What about the right wing conservative catholic church?  No pedophilia there, right?  Do your parents know you are on the computer right now?!

and those 57 were NOT conservatives.   they were liberals.  

Great link Lt. That’s a keeper, though I seriously doubt any of these LLLs will take the time, and even if they do, it won’t make a difference, them being stuck on schtoooopid and all. Cheers.

Explain how Newt was responsible for the bank meltdown.

This is going to be funny!

Obviously you can’t read. You didn’t contradict a single thing I said. Nice try, though. You get points for your skills as a very good cut and paster. Your home schooling has served you well!

LOL!

Forget it, the guy’s clueless.

There are at least (3) videos showing Frank being explicitly warned about the 100′s-of-billions Fannie & Freddie would lose if he didn’t raise the mortgage qualifications.
Instead, in yet another misguided vote-getting scheme with taxpayer monies, Frank continued pressuring them to underwrite BAD mortgages – then Wall Street exploited that!

THE HOUSE SHOULD IMMEDIATELY INVESTIGATE BARNEY FRANK!

Let’s call the Wall Street COMMUNIST’s BLUFF! 

Assessing your comment, I realize you don’t know what the glass steagall act is. Go and learn what it is and what it does, before it was removed by the GOP and the Clinton Administration.

I’m hopelessly in love with Newt Gingrich

LOL

Sorry, child- I just showed there was overwhelming support for GS repeal.

You lose- I win!

Barney would love prison…lol

LOL

Hey, child, read my comments above! I know what GS was, you obviously don’t and you did not answer my question- you are running scared!

Idiotic in what way?  Psychiatrists and psychologists say pedophiles are born that way and treatment has no real value.  Therefore, they should have the same rights as gays, using Liberal Logic.

You sure do live up to that moniker of yours, don’t ya?

I think you are embarrassed by your lack of knowledge, am not holding it against you. But it helps your case if you are going to debate, to know what the hell you are talking about. Now go away and learn.

Apparently, you sir, are a pedophile.

Yeah, those crazy gays just can’t have enough violent gang-rape in their lives. Snort. Gays. Funny.

Plenty of Frank and Dodd TV interviews from CNBC, CNN, NBC etc to prove that those senators led efforts to make push banks and mortgage companies to lower standards for home mortgages.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63siCHvuGFg&feature=related

how franks gets away with being a key figure in hiding the frannie mae/mac mortgage meltdown is crazy.  

Ditto with Schumer and Dodd.  

I agree, it is too bad no one cares about Newt!!

Just looks like more finger-pointing.  Each side blames the other and the country drifts closer to the falls each day.

Still can’t answer the question can ya?

I didn’t think so. You are just a gasbag.

Still can’t answer the question can ya?

I didn’t think so. You are just a gasbag.

Newt should continue to ride this point, Greenspan warned of these issues, and McCain sponsored bills to regulate Fannie Mae/mac while Franks/Dood, Schumer pushed for low borrower standards to get houe ownership to the poor.

Plenty of TV interviews to prove it, if the media ever does its job… 

Ahhhh! must have touched a nerve.

Ahhhh! must have touched a nerve.

Dodd & Frank headed the committee to oversee the financial services.  Instead of ensuring good practices, they actively blocked White House and republican efforts to regulate the mortgage industry.  Why?  They wanted poor people to own homes they couldn’t afford.

Check out youtube, Franks, Schumer, Dodd have plenty of TV interviews calling for more houses for poor people.  The only way to do it is to lower standards.

Frank is a spineless sycophant, who never takes responsibility for his actions.
He represents the deceit and disdain of today’s Democratic Party!

Look at the every-speech Lies and Deceit of the party’s President!

And you still can’t answer my question.

I’ll put this down as yet another win.

Actually it was Barney and his lover that were running a brothel that peddled under aged boys. Look it up. You should be careful with such accusations.

He’s not spineless.  He just said he’s going to “scratch Newt’s eyes out!”

Right! So Dodd and Frank were in power before Gingrich and the Dancer.

Don’t ya love how Barney said this in 2003:

“These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis,” said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. “The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.”

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/sam-dealey/2008/09/10/barney-franks-fannie-and-freddie-muddle

And Fanny-Freddy was dominated by what party???

Are there any sites you know of that orchestrate e-mail campaigns – or boycotts - to expose this blatant bias of the “mainstream media”?

Frank can be investigated for fiduciary maleasance, not to mention “vote-buying”, in his role with Fannie & Freddie.

The House should immediately INVESTIGATE BARNEY FRANK!

E-mail your congresman!

Is that how you show your love?

Why isn’t Barney Freak in jail?

you would think since it is a conservative action huh?

but this is one of those conservartive ideas that liberals do not agree with..

but other conservative ideas like health care, cap and trade and dodd frank that was at one time conservative–now seem to be really bad–
i guess if you want to kill a conservative idea–just have a liberal agree with it..
it is a bugs bunny daffy duck routine for sure

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5CUK94MHvk

you just cannot make some people happy..
as far as child abuse–that is the religious right who likes that –from massive child rape in the churchese and from ‘straight’ conservative men to child beatings by the radical right who thinks by beating a child is closer to god…ya–you betcha–what ever happened to ‘the rights of the child’ they always scream about?
more of that selective UNIVERSAL law huh? do as we say-not as we do?
whatever~

I watched the 2005 hearing where a Bush regulator who showed concern about Fannie and Freddie was accused of not wanting black people to own houses. Republicans are cowards when it comes to race. They folded their tents. Barney Frank can’t have it both ways. He speaks with authority on these subjects, yet claims he didn’t see the potential for financial danger. Too many people with too much influence were gaming the system, and it’s up to our elected officials to protect the country, not their re-election coffers.

No, they just used Fannie & Freddie as a taxpayer-endowed slush fund to steward no-qualification mortgages to their voting base, who couldn’t otherwise afford them! – Oh, and initiatet the financial crisis of 2008 in the process.

The House should immediately INVESTIGATE BARNEY FRANK!

E-mail the Congress.

I don’t, so plain folk like us only have twitter and other social media and pressure on political reps, ie, letters, etc. This crap has been going on far too long and I believe this is one reason the reasonable people, what few of them there are, are involved in the occupy demos. The vast majority of Americans know what went on the last general election was a travesty perpetuated by the lackies on the left including the alphabet media. And if the LLLS that post here were to simply acknowledge this one simple fact and see it objectively that they are cheerleading for their elitist plantation owners, maybe this country could begin to rectify things. Maybe.

Those videos only tell one side of the story.

They do not tell the entire story.

That housing bubble will not have happened if Commercial banks were not mixed up with Investment banks, thus if the Glass Steagall was still intact, those gamblers wouldn’t have bet on the market collapsing, while they insured it.

I see you’ve been listening to Rush Limbaugh…

Except for the Republicans did this in 1999 that caused everything to snowball.
The repeal of provisions of the Glass–Steagall Act of 1933 by the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act effectively removed the separation that previously existed between investment banking which issued securities and commercial banks which accepted deposits. The deregulation also removed conflict of interest prohibitions between investment bankers serving as officers of commercial banks. This repeal directly contributed to the severity of the Financial crisis of 2007–2011 by allowing Wall Street investment banking firms to gamble with Their depositors’ money that was held in commercial banks owned or created by the investment firms.

This was all part of the Democratic Party’s Race-Obsessing “repartions”!

These people have the evolutionary development of tribal neanderthals; that’s why they can’t be reasoned with, they must be defeated.

Those darn blacks – destroying this country one mortgage loan at a time.

Excuses, excuses.

Sounds like your time as an altar boy wasn’t up to your standards.

LOL

Now this lib is C&P from Wikipedia and acting as if they are his own thoughts and comments.

The hosing bubble occurred because of the Dems desire to put unqualified people into homes they could not afford! The marketing of CDO’s was separate from the hosing crash and helped crash Wall Street.

The housing market would have crashed irrespective of the marketing of the CDOs because the people could not pay their mortgages!

All signed by BILL CLINTON!

Cain is trying to point that out, and the media is trying to ignore Cain’s message.

Well, he is having an impact thanks to the internet and social media. I think we all learned our lesson the last time around.

What about Franlin Rains cooking the books.

It was signed by Bill Clinton. He is a democrat. But the bill was authored and supported by republicans. From all the things I’ve read on here by you Norbit you understand the fundamental problems that led to the economic crash. What I don’t get is why you still insist on railing against the democrats as the problem and hailing the republicans as the solution. What makes you think a republican president, senate or house is going to do anything other that further deregulation? Which of the republican presidential candidates(excluding Ron Paul) has offered any solution to the still to big to fail banks?

it ain’t rape if it’s consensual, right? Is that what makes them crazy in your mind?

Funny how your mind wanders to thoughts of prison rape

The lighting at the debate really highlighted Newt’s jewels and everyone else’s flaws, too

Stop trying to hit these people with the facts. Their peabrains can’t handle it. They much prefer the Faux News narrative; much easier to understand.

Should you be using the word “logic”?  It’s always interesting when the righty bigot homophobes compare pedophiles to being gay.  It’s always the last argument they use before running inside to momma.  

Newt is such a 90′s throwback

Why do you ask endless rhetorical questions? Why do you ask redundant questions?

Mediaite, your comments section is really gross today.  Traveling south from the articles is like crossing the Mason-Dumbass line.

I have monkey feces in place of where my brains ought to be.

I make up crap that’s overtly racist, idiotic and not worthy of a ten year old and yet it gets applauded by the other low information commenters on this site.

I parrot every simple-minded Faux News talking point I hear and repeat it as if it was fact. I’m the kind of American that makes the rest of the world laugh at us.

Poor thing. The priest wouldn’t touch him.

…and why has no one been prosecuted for any of this?

Sending Barney to prison would be like sending him to a Chippendale for bad-boys club.

It’s amazing how many zombie lies the Right believes in and that their politicians will treat them with contempt for parroting.  The lie that financial crisis was generated any place other than Wall Street and its loss of confidence in CDO’s and other financial instruments has been debunked a million times. 

Fannie and Freddie didn’t make CDO’s and they certainly didn’t offer to insure all of Wall Street like AIG did.

Did Fannie and Freddie Cause the Mortgage Crisis? – Seeking Alpha

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were victims, not culprits – BusinessWeek

http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2010/01/13/live-blogging-the-financial-cirisis-inquiry-hearing/tab/liveblog/

Hell, the Senate had hearings on the subject

The U.S. Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
reported its findings in January 2011. It concluded that “the crisis
was avoidable and was caused by: Widespread failures in financial
regulation, including the Federal Reserve’s failure to stem the tide of
toxic mortgages; Dramatic breakdowns in corporate governance including
too many financial firms acting recklessly and taking on too much risk;
An explosive mix of excessive borrowing and risk by households and Wall
Street that put the financial system on a collision course with crisis;
Key policy makers ill prepared for the crisis, lacking a full
understanding of the financial system they oversaw; and systemic
breaches in accountability and ethics at all levels

http://www.fcic.gov/files/news_pdfs/2011-0127-fcic-releases-report.pdf

Why hasn’t Franklin Raines been prosecuted? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs&feature=player_embedded#!

Don’t miss Maxine Waters at 0:40.

Also, they’re ignorant scum.

Why don’t you start? Let’s have it.

Why do you never answer a direct question, skyfet? It’s because you can’t, right?

You just made my point. Lending should have remained a function of the borrower’s ability to pay back the loan, regardless of race or ethnicity. Democrats didn’t want to help black people, they wanted to line the pockets of their campaign contributors. Who has suffered the most from the housing collapse? Blacks and Hispanics.

Nonsense. Credit default swaps wouldn’t have happened. They didn’t create the bubble, writing shitty mortgages did.

I guessed you missed the part where they bought many of those mortgages for their clients (knowing it will bust), and then had it insured. Which your hero W and your enemy BO paid for with the bailout of AIG.

Simple, I think the effects of the Democrat’s government-dependency, central-control politics is far more pernicious to the country, than the naivety of the GOP’s delusional ”free-market” governance.

Your last sentence makes my point:
The Republicans are too inept to offer solutions; but they’re solutions to a problem the Democrats spawned, and then did everything BUT address when they tried to fix it – employing the same two people (Frank & Dodd) who were a central component to the problem in the first place!

I know you’ll follow that, and it would actually be quite humorous – if it weren’t so tragic!

right.  lol
You don’t like the “facts” do you?  

I’m still trying to get around how a lisping, idiot with no common sense, and dirty dirty hands, got re-elected.  Only in America.

Look at all the Republican morons resisting the truth.

Republicans just figured out, for the very first time, that Republicans were in power at the time, not Democrats.  You just realized, for the very first time, the Barney Frank didn’t even take his chairmanship until 2007, thus had absolutely nothing to do with the banking crisis.  Yes, 2007!

Most people would stop and think for a moment about all of the lies they’ve been fed since Republicans destroyed the economy.  But not you morons.

What a bunch of asshats.

You’re right – I don’t know how we get the cajones to tell them to shut the hell up when all they ever do is play the race card to bully us.  That’s exactly what happened.  How dare we want to deny blacks the opportunity to be home owners.  How dare we question the poor buying homes with not a penny down – in fact a mortgage large enough to furnish the home they couldn’t afford.  But, of course – the republicans don’t care about the poor, only the wealthy, was their song and dance.  Nothing about being fiscally responsible etc.

Of course the media is so freaking helpful…..

It’s a tough nut to crack when the media was/is always willing to spin it to the left.  Fox, bless their hearts, attempts to present it, like it should be – but then of course the talking heads spin that crap about Fox being right – rather than Fox telling the whole story, not just the parts that reflect well for them.
Always amazes me that the nonsense about Fox not being fair and balanced – when in fact they are.
Hell Smith – who does prime time is a strong lefty.  You think he’d spin it right?  Not a freaking chance.
Rivera is a nutso lefty. 

1 – Frank set GOVERNMENT mandates to be met in expanding home ownership to minoritie and the poor

2 – Fannie/Freddie lowered standards to meet those GOVERNMENT mandates, thus insuring payment by the US

3 – Then, Wall Street along with their CDO’s and CDS’s appeared! 

NO ONE WOULD HAVE BOUGHT THESE THINGS IF FANNIE/FREDDIE DIDN’T PUT THE US GOVERNMENT’S IMPRIMATUR ON THEM!

Trying to reason with someone who spews nonsense is difficult.  The blacks didn’t destroy anything – the fools who forced the banks to lend to the blacks did.  You don’t quite get it do you?  Perhaps a short course in economics might help – or perhaps just common sense might let you see things clearly, but somehow I doubt it.

and last but not least – he raises a valid point and you’ve gone into orbit – again.  

I realize it’s tough to ignore facts, but seems to work for you.  You’re so confident in your position that you have to steal someone’s name (but you can’t even spell it right, and then add your tiny brain to it.

Guess what fool, it just proves Norbit’s comment bugged you and you didn’t even have enough sense to rebut like a grown man.  You did have the time to waste in registering and going through the hoops to show that his comment resonated with you. lol

Now, how about getting off the wide load and finding a job.  Any prospects there bro?

The irony meter has just been shattered beyond all recognition…Can we get a construction crew in here? We’re gonna need a new one.

That’s what got O’Reilly so steamed – that the lying dirtbag sat there and denied saying what he said. 

I think that would piss anyone off – not surprised that O’Reilly was ready to rip his head off.  

the videos show the truth – how would you like to spin it?

You are a perfect example. Instead of responding to the truth I just offered, you put your fingers in your ears and made noise. You proved my point. Well done.

There’s no getting through to a left-wing loon, of which you are one.

Dang the truth; dang it all to hell.

You are the same way. You’ve been trained to ignore the facts. Why doesn’t that embarrass you?

funny how  farnsworth brought up the rape – not dem4ever2 and you passed right over that post.
Selective reading is very handy.  Dem’s comment was completely opposite of rape, he was referring to consensual activities – so????

Barney has 9 lives.  He’s managed to survive, stupidity, ignorance, lying, graft, drugs, and I’m sure I’m missing some of the high points in his illustrious career, and he’s still standing.  Hmmm I wonder what he’s got that’s so appealing to his constituents?  

Sounds like you lose, each and every time. 

..

All of you folks are missing the fundamental point and playing right into the hands of those in power. Doesn’t matter whether you claim to be an R or a D, a conservative or progressive, you’re all simply providing fodder for the machine by caaling each other names and engaging in endless finger pointing. This is EXACTLY what the powers that be (I’m a registered D), whether Democrat or Republican, need to continue to fuel their crusade to enrich themselves at our expense.  This bullshit bickering helps to hide the fact that we are all getting screwed because we are all so intent on showing how correct “we” are and how wrong “you” are. You wanna bithch about the ineffectiveness of Washington? Look no further than these comment sections which are oh so boringly, maddeningly predictable. But make no mistake, Washington is not totally ineffective – the folks who run the place do very for themselves. You, we, all allow them to keep doing it.

Isn’t Gingrich asking for Frank to be jailed sort of like “THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK?”  The most criminal activist next to Tom DeLay, Karl Rove, “all those who signed the CONTRACT (with=against) AMERICA” should be imprisoned for LIFE!  

The truth is obama and the democrats had full control for 3 yrs and they got nothing done. The truth is bernake, dodd, frank and reid should be in Levenworth.

I am channeling my inner Huntsman.  MORONS!  You should study history instead of just regurgitating GOP talking points.  When they come for you maybe finally you’ll ‘rethink’…but I dunno…

He might be but he’s right.  as opposed to your problem of being an idiot and wrong.

You’re just repeating nonsense that you’ve been trained to say, even though you have no evidence to back what you’re saying. This is what Republicans do; you just parrot the things you’ve been told to say.

Do you realize that you have the option of thinking for yourself instead of repeating the stupid things you’re told to say?

You’re just repeating nonsense that you’ve been trained to say, even though you have no evidence to back what you’re saying. This is what Republicans do; you just parrot the things you’ve been told to say.

Do you realize that you have the option of thinking for yourself instead of repeating the stupid things you’re told to say?

Amazing how no Liberals claim to be Christian, or for that matter, Catholic.   Maybe you need to look around.  What you find would amaze you.   But no,  Liberals will search the world over for anything obnoxious and claim it to be a Right Wing ideal.   How seriously stupid that is.  The Catholic Church is what it is, like any other entity, and has its problems.   One would hope they would do more to fix them, but it is not a left right thing. 

Gingrich had one of the most remarkable political accomplishments of the century; he told appropriators they no longer could squander taxpayer money, and along with Bill Clinton, balanced the budget four years in a row. That looks pretty good in light of today’s situation. Now just what did Gingrich do to warrant going to jail?

Psychiatrists and Psychologists like scientists make stupid statements daily and later have to retract them.   And that may be liberal logic, but its far from right.  pedophiles ALWAYS hurt children, Gays only themselves.

Yeah, I brought up gang-rape. Credit where credit is due mo’fo’s

Yeah, I brought up gang-rape. Credit where credit is due mo’fo’s

Fannie and Freddie were big Dem contributors. Frank, et al, played the race card to back Republicans down, and Republicans caved. Senate Republicans also tried to implement reform, but they sold out to get extra campaign cash to save themselves in the 2006 elections. The problem is corporate America owns both parties.

No, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd should not be in jail.  Instead, they should be in maximum security prison for screwing the United States of America.  These two are scumbags of the nth degree.

He kept a saintly monkey prisoner in his attic for 3 years

You hit on the weakest part of blogs like these. Both sides repeat talking points. The trick is to focus on things entrenched politicians on both sides never want to talk about.

No, DemsRever said Frank would enjoy prison first, not that it matters. He is still debating the definition of rape. Why?

And yet you choose to ignore the LONG LIST OF FACTS you semi responded to.  You libs have years of stupid deals that hurt America and you choose to seek out the single Conservative idea that didnt work.  That is what we call two faced,  hypocritical and just plain dishonest, which by the way are all attributes you will find on any Liberals Resume.

I listened to pinheaded rhetoric like yours for 40 years now.  You people are still clueless.

kudos there, seeker!

Why don’t you follow your own advice and quit regurgitating Daily Kos blog material?

tell that to the US Senate.

BTW, I am aware that no conservative remembers the world previous to 1/21/09, but do try to remember how W bragged his administration brought us the highest home ownership in American history beofre you scapegoat poor people’s loan for the McMansions popping in housing developments in Vegas and Florida.

That’s not exactly how it worked.  It would be ridiculous to exempt the mismanagement of the GSEs like Fannie and Freddie from the causes, but they were lesser causes, not greater.   The Securities Modernization Act of 2000 was by far the biggest driver in this, because is created a massive profit motive  for the banks to bundle these subprime mortages into huge securites with so many tranches (layers) that even professional money managers couldn’t understand them.  Moody’s and S&P made millions just rubber stamping the whole bundle as AAA worthy investments, so no one bothered to look much deeper.  Worse still, the Securities Modernization Act broke down the walls between Investment banks, commercials banks and insurance companies, allowing the banks to rope hundreds of billions more capital into this all and turn in into a financial hydrogen bomb, that went off in 2008.

In short, the GSEs were involved, but deregulation (driven by both GOP and centrist Dems including Clinton)  was the prime driver behind it.

I just post facts.  That’s why you’re confused.  As a Republican, you’ve been trained to resist facts.

Facts are not rhetoric. You’ve just been trained to think that way because facts do not serve you.

Frank had nothing to do with the financial crisis. That’s a meme that was fed to morons like you to distract from the fact that Republicans destroyed our economy.

You’ve come a long way from the lies. Now try to find the truth.

A lot of your facts have holes in them. The Dodd-Frank bill was passed under a Democrat House and Senate.

Bill Clinton signed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act into law.

Moron, the Dodd-Frank bill was signed in 2010.

http://www.openmarket.org/2011/05/26/barney-frank-used-influence-with-fannie-mae-the-failed-mortgage-giant-bailed-out-by-taxpayers/

Still driving real slow past schools, Roger?  Thought so.

No, I certainly didn’t miss Fannie and Freddie buying trillions worth of those mortgages. Did you?

Feel free to link the videos that tell the other side of the story.

You started this Roger….what’s the matter…someone hit a nerve?

You’d probably bend over….if you were not so fat.  Still going to the prison on weekends to see your son?

Sounds like you’re the one droning on with lefty talking points.  You wouldn’t know the truth if it bit you in the ass.

Are you drivng Roger Fails by the grammer school this afternoon?

He can’t reply now Stonepark….he ran inside to consult with his mommie.

You too are an idiot!

Yeah thats exactly how I would read my comment..I stand by my statement–You are a moron!

You back from the grammer school school run so soon.

Too bad yours didn’t.

Please identify an talking point that I’ve used. But don’t confuse facts with talking points, as you’ve been trained to do.

Look what state elected Barny Frank!  Hell, he’s as safe as if he was snuggled in his boy friend’s arms.

From what I saw today the prisons could get over crowded if this story got out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwHOQkFbaj4

I’d agree, and have posted as much on numerous occassions, that the macro-problem was the transformation of our economic system from an investment economy to a finance/trading economy.

That has nothing to do with the fact that the bulk of these bundled mortgages exploded after Fannie & Freddie started buying them up, putting the US taxpayer’s guarantee on worthless pieces of paper.

This may have been a precursor for the likes of Solyndra! 

I don’t know what the f**k you just said, but Barney Frank and Chris Dodd should go to jail for what they did to the American econnomy!!!!  They FORCED the banks to accept loan applications from people they KNEW could not afford them, or “we will come after you (a quote on YouTube video from Barney Frank).

This was the BEST DEBATE so far.  Everyone around that table came back with Out-Of-the-Park  answers….they told it like it is.  And the American people need to hear that and could have learned a lot if they could have watched it..  But few could find the Bloomberg Network on their cable..

Everybody’s a trained puppet except you, according to you.  I hope it’s warm and cozy in your delusional world.

Name me ONE criminal act by Gingrich.  He happens to be smarter than just about everyone in Washington DC except in his personal life, and he was a fool to allow himself to be forced out of the Speakership.  He should have stood up to the chicken shits and refused to resign, which he would have done if he were a Democrat.  Republicans are too honorable for their own good.  That was his biggest mistake.

Good point. The best was Gingrich and Bachmann going after politicians for their corruption.

Yeah, that’s what I thought you’d say. Nothing.

How many liberal school teachers are groping children as we speak?

Screw Prison!!!
Military Firing Squad….It’s the only way to be sure.

Therein lies my point. I’m not arguing that Frank or Dodd are innocent of any wrong doing in all of this. They’ve backed policy that hasn’t worked. Both of them are deep in pockets of Wall St. But it is a clear fact that the republican party has spent three decades chiseling away at the banking regulations designed to protect us from this exact scenario.
Your against the government taking peoples money and helping those at the bottom. That’s fine, everyone gets to have their own idea of how this country should be run and vote accordingly. But how can you support the other side who are clearly just setting up the system to move the bulk of the money to the top? It’s redistribution of wealth just as much as any social programs are, the money is just moving the other direction. Why is it better to pick that side?

Dodd and Frank have a long and well documented history of making a mess of the financial services oversight.   Frank has so many TV appearances saying that Freddie Mae and Mac are ‘just fine’, and that mortgages standards must be lowered so poor people can buy houses.   His CNBC appearances ALONE prove the case. 

Here’s one from the house floor in 2005.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-YtqVIKTTE&feature=related

Really?  Everyone in Washington KNOWS FOR A FACT that it was Barney Frank and Chris Dodd (especially Frank) who forced banks and lending institutions to take on subprime loans.  Do you know what a subprime loan is?  You’ve got a lot to learn.  Watch all or any one of the videos below.  And believe me, there are more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPSDnGMzIdo&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UZ9l_AxKjA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-YtqVIKTTE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhGCH9T98jI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVIAGWtCD10

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSNm3aDlMeE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr1M1T2Y314&feature=related

That is a problem. I can get intelligence from Libs as much as I try.

Yet they were only responsible for 16% of the bad loans according to an independant study.

Moron, Barney Frank was in the minority party until 2007. Republicans ran the House from 1995 until 2007. He had no power to do anything. You have been tricked.

Please try to understand that you have been systematically trained to be stupid. Please try to think for yourself.

I think in your last sentence you’ve had a break through.  You’ve shown you do have an ability to at least have the ability to reason.  Perhaps that rotor blade didn’t hit your head as hard as I thought. 

Freddy Mac now has an unlimited supply of taxpayer money available to bail it out whenever it needs to.  This one issue is so outrageous I can’t believe it doesn’t get more air time.  It is the most corrupt money-sucking scandal I can think of.  Barney Frank should get more than “a good talking-to,” but the little perv and all his cronies have no accountability.  I’m sick of the government using my tax dollars to buy people houses and get people jobs.  Seems to me all this stimulus money is creating it’s own bubble.  Will our economy ever be able to get over it bursting or will we keep having to feed the machine forever?  

Let’s be honest:  Barney Frank has done more damage to the US economy than any man in history.  It’s not even close.

How many bone-headed moves has he made?  He single-handedly paved the way for the mortgage meltdown by turning the home mortgage into a welfare program for people who could never pay back their loans.  And the Dodd-Frank bill has crippled the recovery at every stage — the equivalent of death by over-regulation for the US banking industry.  And you don’t even need to throw in his advocacy of Obamacare — which has led to the largest health insurance premium increases in US history.  Or all the other job-killing regulatory moves he has led or supported.

Throwing Dodd and Frank in jail wouldn’t even begin to compensate for the damage they’ve done. 

Amen Newt!  I’ve been saying things very similar on this board for the last couple of weeks.  Franks and Dodd, wanting to blame Republicans for the deregulation is like a child blaming her mother for spilling the milk on the floor simply because she gave it to him!

The assertion Frank made is both childish and insulting to those of us who watched his performance way back in 2003.  Along with Meeks and Waters, they all look ridiculous now!

This is just Newt trying to be relevant again.

Barney Frank hits like a girl, a very prissy girl.

I think its pretty interesting that Mediaite mentions this only through the prism of Barney Frank’s response.
 
Its like instead of reporting a crime being committed, you do a news story on the suspect talking about how horrible it is to be accused of a crime.
 
I guess it just goes to show you that there isnt a democrat out there that Tommy Christopher won’t hold water for.

Raines, Jamie Gorelick, Rahm, James Johnson- all of the usual suspects in the Democrat party- profited mightily.

“Even though she had no previous training nor experience in finance, Gorelick was appointed Vice Chairman of Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) from 1997 to 2003. She served alongside former Clinton Administration official Franklin Raines.[7] During that period, Fannie Mae developed a $10 billion accounting scandal.[8]”
“On March 25, 2002, Business Week interviewed Gorelick about the health of Fannie Mae. Gorelick is quoted as saying, “We believe we are managed safely. We are very pleased that Moody’s gave us an A-minus in the area of bank financial strength – without a reference to the government in any way. Fannie Mae is among the handful of top-quality institutions.”[9] One year later, Government Regulators “accused Fannie Mae of improper accounting to the tune of $9 billion in unrecorded losses”.[10]In an additional scandal concerning falsified financial transactions that helped the company meet earnings targets for 1998, a “manipulation” that triggered multimillion-dollar bonuses for top executives,[11] Gorelick received $779,625.”"Investigation by the OFHEO detailed in their official report on the accounting scandal in 2006 on page 66 that from 1998 to 2002 Gorelick received a total of $26,466,834.00 in income.”

Frank was on Hardball and he was hysterically funny about Newt’s commits. 

“Your against the government taking peoples money and helping those at the bottom…”
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Were that only the case!

It’s when that “help” becomes a self-fulfilling source of power for the “helper”, and subjugation for the “helped”.
It’s when that “help” propagates irresponsible child-bearing, and ushers in decades of impoverished dependency for those “helped”.

Speculators on wall street were betting that the housing market would crash because they would get the reward without the risk.  Gingrich, Delay and Armey pushed for all that deregulation in the banking sector which caused the bubble. 

The day you learn anything about the truth will be the dawn of a truly new day

Nothing like a rape joke, eh, “Christian”

So, there’s a problem and yo’re afraid of the solution because of your fear of something that is not real?  Both parties deregulated Wall Street.  Wall Street and the banks, as Dick Durbin noted, own most of Congress, but you still see fake binary good/evil bullshit when you examine the problem?

And, that doesn’t include the incredibly stupid idea that a) banking works best when it is deregulated, or b) that “government was the problem” when the Senate investigation tells us government’s lack of action is what put us all at risk from these asshole bankers

Gingrich is a petulent, pompous, pseudo-intellectual prick. He is simply not that bright, and as out of his depth as his insecure pronouncements of self-described world-historical profundity suggest. He belongs on Dancing With The Stars, not a Republican debate, even of this poor caliber.

IOKIYAD

It’s the lesser of two evils, and the GOP is much more likely to change their approach, than the Democrats are their’s.

I was unaware the hypocritical Randian superman who is Danielson was a Democrat. At least we know what handle Ben Nelson uses when he comments on Mediate

Have you ever heard of a Morgage Backed Scurity? It was not the Dodd / Frank bill that created that monster it was the lords of wall street. The MBS were selling well, offering good returns, even the ratings agencies gave them AAA status.

Wall street could not get enough of them, so lenders, banks and morgage co. Started making riskier and riskeir loans to get more loans to bundle, they had no intention of holding for 30 years, they were going to sell them on to someone else. And make thir money off the fees. They did not care if you pay for it or not.

Was it Fanny or Freddie calling you at home? Filling daytime tv with ads? Sending you 6 letters a week to refinance your home? No it was countrywide, wells Fargo ect……….

Your fox news, right wing, newt talking points are BS.

You left out Special Ed!!

Fact: True Frank, Waters and Dodd should be jailed
for the crime they committed and that’s the fact!!!

Fact: Loser!!

Fact: Frank is a clown that’s why he is funny like Gacy with or without the ‘c’ in his name.

Fact: Worked well didn’t it!

Fact: That makes the progressives today is something for nothing just like Freddy and Fanny loaning to minorities without jobs!

Fact: We all know that libbies will never like or liked having a balanced budget forced on them because they are entitled to others money! Moron.

Fact: System of money for nothing used by Frank and Dodd increased every time a progressives had any power!

All this intelligent talk is sickening.  make a decent statement about the subject or get yourself off the blog. All you people do is call each other names.  Do you have any insight to anything mentioned????

And there again is the proof that people like Barney are dangerous to society and young boys. Want to know why people have a distaste for homosexuals…..Barney and his lover…running a brothel for under aged young boys.  Those boys are probably not of their persuasion but after their done with them…maybe they will be.  Is that enough power to make a homosexual out of a child by this kind of activity???  Any one out there that can answer that?

Ya, I don’t think anyone politacal party is free from causing economic  disasters.  Both are equally to blame.  It’s just that obama is handing out our money like it’s candy…and it’s going to companies that are bankrupt …why does he cater to the rich….because he can.

darn good question….why hasn’t anyone been prosecuted…because most of the skunks are politicians and can buy their way out of anything.

Too bad he won’t pour it on their heads….but , Ooh, my, gosh…that would be torture!!!

Because he (barney) knew the economy was going under.  The way he solved it was to get the government to loan money to those that he knew wouldn’t pay it back or would just plain fudge on their payments.  It shot him in the head however.

True………Obama and his cronnies should be following all of them into prison.

The democrats have added mega dirty tricks to most of the bills they got passed or should I say…the ones they pushed. The Obamacare pkg. has mega tricks in it….it’s just that no one has read it enough to point them out.

Lets settle this! Get videos from the 1990′s of which politicians were DEMANDING that the lone companies and banks stop “Red Lining” and that low income people be given loans by the lenders even if they didn’t qualify and couldn’t afford them! Videos of politicians DEMANDING that unemployment and welfare checks be counted as income to qualify for loans! Videos of politicians saying anyone who wouldn’t support these measures were HEARTLESS CAPITALISTS! Hey, those videos are all of Banny Fwank And Little Chrissy Dodd! NEVER MIND!

Newton is a screw loose of finished bird droppings! Everyone on stage railed against Dodd-Frank! The TEA party led and infused Republican/GOP party are fighting the Sarbanes Oxley act of 2002 and the Frank Dodd Act because these two acts provide guidelines and restrictions put into place resulting from the recession of 2007 and 2008! There were major corporate and accounting scandals like Enron and Worldcom which cost investors billions. The Frank Dodd Act provided a sweeping overhaul of America’s financial regulatory system to consolidate agencies, regulate financial markets, implement consumer protection, provide financial crisis tools for the FDIC and improving accounting processes and tightening credit rating regulations. The Treasonous Economic Anarchist(TEA) party leaders are spearheading the shutting down of as many controls as they can to release the hounds on American free enterprise! Less regulation means more revenue for the top 1% the “Occupy Wall Street” crowd are demonstrating about! And by-the-way, the ”Occupy Wall Street” crowd was barely addressed Tuesday evening!

Well now, that all depends on the girl!

“Female brutality has become a reality – Baby, put down that hammer…”

Ah, how libs like to forget what doesn’t fit their agenda! In the 60′s there was a BIG ruckus in and over the catholic church because homosexuals DEMANDED that they be admitted to the priesthood. A lot like they DEMANDED to be allowed to function as Boy Scout leaders around the same time. Any intelligent person knew what and why they wanted those privileges in both situations. But the left screamed HOMOPHOBIA and got their way. Any honest, opened minded person can see the results of those efforts today. A body rots from within.

Fwank and Dodd are primary, pivotal, criminal figures in the real estate melt down. You can tap dance, sing, obfuscate and lie all you want. If not for liberals like them pushing home ownership for UNQUALIFIED, IRRESPONSIBLE people, the mortgage finance collapse would NEVER have happened. They should be in PRISON not in power.

Fwank and Dodd are primary, pivotal, criminal figures in the real estate melt down. You can tap dance, sing, obfuscate and lie all you want. If not for liberals like them pushing home ownership for UNQUALIFIED, IRRESPONSIBLE people, the mortgage finance collapse would NEVER have happened. They should be in PRISON not in power.

 Pedophile priests are the worst kind of priests and deserve nothing except the death penalty. Like any pedo, they should die.

Pedophile priests are the worst kind of pedos and deserve nothing except the death penalty. Like any pedo, they should die for their crimes (after being fully convicted by a fair trial with due process of law).

Actually, Barney’s crime was that he had sodomic sex with a male prostitute. (He’s still in office.)

 He’s also a criminal. He performed sodomy with a gay male prostitute- which was illegal at the time -and isn’t prosecuted.

Yes, but to a liberal, it’s perfectly fine to MISSILE PWN a guy, yet Dick Cheney was evil for pouring water on terrorists?

Your arguments have all the “Neener-neener,” “I know you are, but what am I?” qualities of a 6th grade debate class. All repetition, no substance.

why is that?