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Barney Frank: Michele Bachmann, Tea Party ‘Sometimes Inhabit Cloud Cuckoo Land’

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Democratic Congressman Barney Frank appeared with Lawrence O’Donnell last night and took on the Tea Party and their “misunderstanding of the Constitution.” Frank suggested it was “insane” to even entertain the idea of a government shutdown when the country was engaged in three wars and also had some unflattering words for Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann.

O’Donnell wondered whether Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor truly thought that the House alone could make laws? Frank thought Cantor was probably more intelligent than that, but responded “as with Congresswoman Bachmann and some others – when you’re talking about people who sometimes inhabit cloud cuckoo land and in cloud cuckoo land, yeah that could be the case.” Frank also declared “the Republicans are so frightened by the Tea Party, that their leadership has backed away from an effort to compromise.”

Strangely, O’Donnell asked Frank only one question, before Frank spoke for nearly five minutes uninterrupted. Maybe O’Donnell was catching his breath from skewering Cantor for what he does or doesn’t know about the bill-making process? Yet the extra time gave Frank the opportunity to compare and contrast the different forms of government between England and America, while still having the chance to squeeze in an occasional jab here and there by suggesting “Michele Bachmann thinks half of Massachusetts is in New Hampshire.”

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  • TampopoLoco

    Sometimes? Bitch be crazy!!

  • screwauger

    towels with that Barney? Must be in a manic phase again!

  • VoiceofReason

    Frank thought Cantor was probably more intelligent than that, but responded “as with Congresswoman Bachmann and some others – when you’re talking about people who sometimes inhabit cloud cuckoo land and in cloud cuckoo land, yeah that could be the case.”

    And I know because I got in on the ground floor and own most if not all of the real estate there.

    That’s why the inhabitants made me their King.

    That and my stellar understanding of the Constitution coupled with my uncanny ability to predict financial markets. Especially with respect to Fannie and Freddie…….

  • ChukUShroomer

    He should know…he’s the Mayor there. If anyone is frightened, it’s Bawney Fwank and the rest of Dem idiots who had their butt handed to them (sorry, Barney) in the last election by the Tea Party. Bachmann is getting the Palin treatment from them and the lapdog media types.

    Who’s afraid of what, Bawney?

  • ChukUShroomer

    BTW, Lawrence O’Donnell is a slightly less annoying version of Olbermann. I take that back, they’re the same guy…annoying as heck and partisan to the core.

  • skyfet

    Tell me about it Frank.

  • Barack Must Go

    The Republican controlled House has passed a budget, while the democrat controlled Senate refuses to even bring a proposal to the floor.

    Cantor was busting the democrats chops with his statement, this is the best of the worst B Frank whining about it like a little child. Boy, I’m telling you, nothing gets by those democrats…….pathetic.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    The last thing the Left could handle is a debate on the Constitution… It is an obstacle to them; a list of things that the gov’t can not do to us…

  • Utah Johnny Montana

    You could have passed the budget , as required , last September when you Dems controlled it all .

    Why did you not do that , Barney ?

    You could have prevented a shutdown , Barney .

    You could have nipped it , Barn . Nipped it in the bud .

  • skyfet

    Utah Johnny Montana said:
    You could have passed the budget , as required , last September when you Dems controlled it all .

    Why did you not do that , Barney ?

    You could have prevented a shutdown , Barney .

    You could have nipped it , Barn . Nipped it in the bud .

    Who is stopping ya from shutting down the Govt. Just do it, and see the consequences that comes with it. Just ask Newt and his cohorts.

  • Colorado_Conservative

    Ohh that Barney Frank is such a jokster….he can pull a joke out of thin air almost as fast as he can pull his pants off at an all male slumber party.

    Hey Barney…..You have caused enough damage to this Country….resign immediately you fraud!!!

  • Dave Richards

    Barack Must Go said:
    The Republican controlled House has passed a budget, while the democrat controlled Senate refuses to even bring a proposal to the floor. Cantor was busting the democrats chops with his statement, this is the best of the worst B Frank whining about it like a little child. Boy, I’m telling you, nothing gets by those democrats…….pathetic.

    In fcat the Democrtas had an opportunity to pass the 2010 budget last October but passed it on so they could blame Republicans. They are a bunch of mealy mouth cowards.

  • Dave Richards

    skyfet said:
    Who is stopping ya from shutting down the Govt. Just do it, and see the consequences that comes with it. Just ask Newt and his cohorts.

    There will no consequences. Just as there were none when Clinton shut down the government. A few useless government workers will be laid off without pay and then get their back pay for not working.

  • skyfet

    Dave Richards said:
    There will no consequences. Just as there were none when Clinton shut down the government. A few useless government workers will be laid off without pay and then get their back pay for not working.

    So why are they scared from doing it. They don’t even want to talk about it.

  • newzmaker

    Barney and the rest of those phoney white fauxgressives in Washington, spend half their time boasting about how ‘intelligent’ they believe themselves to be, and the other half of their time, mocking others they ‘perceive’ to be less intelligent. Funny thing is, these white fauxgressives have to depend upon a huge voting bloc of uneducated, undereducated, or illiterate voters, to keep them in office. Since Barney and his less than 19% white progressive colleagues, constantly mock those whom they deem to be less intelligent, I think it’s safe to assume that when these white fauxgressives are behind closed doors, I’m sure they also mock their lesser intelligent majority bloc. Want proof? What was it Biden and Reid said of Obama, during the presidential campaign? Obama was ‘clean, articulate, and spoke with a proper dialect;’ You’d think by now, minorities would have caught on to how these white ‘Einsteins’ have negative stereotypical attitudes, towards people of color. Yet, obviously, they have not.

  • Zakk

    How is this guy still in office?

  • Colorado_Conservative

    Dave Richards said:
    In fcat the Democrtas had an opportunity to pass the 2010 budget last October but passed it on so they could blame Republicans. They are a bunch of mealy mouth cowards.

    The reason the cowardly Democrats didn’t want to pass a budget before the November 2010 “shellacking” was because they thought it would have been much worse.
    And it would have been..they probably would have lost the Senate as well!!

  • hunter10

    jdubbleu said:
    barney doesn’t even know what his ass is for…

    Apparently you don’t know much about Barney. LOL

  • rob2385

    Barney Frank is probably the biggest inspiration to stay in the closet ever.

  • felixw

    Barney Frank has done more economic damage than any single person on the planet. By turning the home mortgage into a welfare entitlement, he set the foundation for the subprime mortgage meltdown, the collapse of banks, and the resulting economic malaise. And his latest piece of legislation — another 3,000 page of regulation dumped on an already intensely regulated industry — is furthering the current recession and hindering any real recovery.

    Anything this man advises should be taken as the exact opposite of what a sensible person should do. I would rather take financial advice from Bernie Madoff, who is a piker at wealth destruction compared to Barney, than follow down the lemming path of Rep. Frank.

  • Yukon Jack

    Barney Frank has unmitigated chutzpah “talking about people who sometimes inhabit cloud cuckoo land and in cloud cuckoo land”.

    Exactly like the pot calling the kettle black.

  • skyfet

    jdubbleu said:
    barney doesn’t even know what his ass is for…

    As expected, here comes the Gay jibe.

  • tatboy

    This guy sure has a lot of _______ to be calling anybody names. His lover stalking his opponents, pot farms, underage gay prostitutes in his house, and lets not forget his classy “victory” speech.

  • rob2385

    skyfet said:
    As expected, here comes the Gay jibe.

    Maybe if he’d actually say or do something worthwhile, people would talk about that instead. Unfortunately he gives us nothing except his spittle-soaked cattiness so it’s kind of hard not to make a mention of it.

  • tatboy

    skyfet said:
    As expected, here comes the Gay jibe.

    His did run an underage gay brothel out of his house. I have no problem with the gay part (as my brother is gay), it’s that whole underage pimping thingy that I have an issue with.

  • jerrybobphil

    Did Fannie & Freddie come up during this interview or just ignored as usually with liberal hosts & Barney Frank

  • RichS

    Dave Richards said:
    There will no consequences. Just as there were none when Clinton shut down the government. A few useless government workers will be laid off without pay and then get their back pay for not working.

    I remember when they made the announcement, “Only essential government workers should report to work today.” I want it to be that way everyday!

  • RichS

    skyfet said:
    As expected, here comes the Gay jibe.

    Yeah, lay off the Barney Frank gay jibes! And don’t go bringing up that he let his boyfriend run a gay escort service out of Barney Frank’s Congressional Offices! Just don’t go there!

  • StandUp

    Tea Party ‘Sometimes Inhabit Cloud Cuckoo Land’

    Isn’t that like criticizing somebody that you saw in the liquor store buying alcohol – while you were there doing the same?
    Reminds me of an old joke – What’s the difference between a Baptist and a Methodist? A Methodist will speak to you when they see you in the liquor store.

  • TangledThorns

    Save it for the Bill Maher show, Frank.

  • notsofast

    barney, did you ever find out how that prostitution ring that operated out of your townhouse did so without your knowledge?

  • Colorado_Conservative

    I would pay to hear Barney say “Suffering Succotash” !

  • notsofast

    What is rougher than a corncob? barney with the hiccups.

  • glenn113

    Nooooooooh….What would ever give you that idea?

  • Probably NOT wrong

    skyfet said:
    As expected, here comes the Gay jibe.

    Barney Frank is “GAY” ????
    Barney FRANK???

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    felixw said:
    Barney Frank has done more economic damage than any single person on the planet.

    Quick. Someone get some Gas-Ex to Phelix. Demonstrably, Raygn, Poppy, W and Big Dick did far more damage, and the legacy of their exporting American manufacturing to China is their lasting legacy to our nation.

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    “Sometimes inhabit”? You’re too much of a gentleman, Representative Frank. They have squatter’s rights by now.

  • notsofast

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    “Sometimes inhabit”? You’re too much of a gentleman, Representative Frank. They have squatter’s rights by now.

    Son, are you kidding me?

    You have a 4 bedroom , 3 bath house built into that cloud!

  • Quite the Pundint

    What a turd burglar.

  • Garth

    jdubbleu said:
    it’s my fault the guy is so mentally defective he confuses his anus for a vagina? if he cant figure simple thing out why would i listen to him on any other subject?

    No more your fault than it is his that you have an extra chromosome or two. Don’t you confuse your anus and your vagina at times? Be honest.

  • TeaPartyPatriot

    The lunatic-left has a number of professional clowns for their “humor” (i.e. degrading, mocking and insulting American values and ideals and the honest, hard-working, responsible people that embrace them). People like stewart, colbert, franken and maher have made their careers out of such gutter humor. The good news is that the rest of the American people have something much, much better for laughs: imam “You Lie!” obozo, crazy pelosi, dingy-harry reid, “bite-me” biden, buffoon-barney frank, alan grayson and the others on the lunatic-left fringe. Actually, I’m going to miss laughing at these ludicrous, bumbling, irresponsible fools after the American people throw them out and take back our country.

    1. the Queen of the House (aka “The Banking Queen”), buffoon barney frank, and 2. his senate co-conspirator, the ultimate “Friend of Mozilo”, Scottish cottage (i.e. palatial estate and mansion) owner, countrywide dodd. One need look no further than the actions and policies of these two reprobates to find the REAL culprits of the current economic catastrophe. In particular, their bullying of Freddie and Fannie to pursue insane sub-prime loans is clearly the root cause of the current economic crisis. (Yes, alan greenspan played a key role – but he was a pawn acting in support of the atrocious policies promoted by these two moronic masterminds of catastrophe.)

    And for those who still admire The Banking Queen, here’s a news items from several months ago that’s still a true gem:

    “Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank caused a scene when he demanded a $1 senior discount on his ferry fare to Fire Island’s popular gay haunt, The Pines, last Friday, 16 Jul 2010 Frank was turned down by ticket clerks at the dock in Sayville because he didn’t have the required Suffolk County Senior Citizens ID. A witness reports, “Frank made such a drama over the senior rate that I contemplated offering him the dollar to cool down the situation.”"

    I bet buffoon baney’s hissy-fit over having to spend $1 of his own money has never, ever occurred when he spends/wastes BILLIONS and BILLIONS of taxpayer money.

  • potvin

    Barney knows that because he’s been there.

  • Rusty Shackelford

    Barney Frank referencing “Cloud Cuckoo Land?” Pot meet kettel.

  • Penguin60

    RichS said:
    Yeah, lay off the Barney Frank gay jibes! And don’t go bringing up that he let his boyfriend run a gay escort service out of Barney Frank’s Congressional Offices! Just don’t go there!

    You bunch of homophobes, knock off the gay jokes. By the way ….here any good Maher descriptions of Palin?

  • OxyCon

    Doesn’t Bawney Fwank have a gay brothel or a pot farm to attend to somewhere?

  • TfT

    Say it ain’t so – a democrat lefty making a derogatory statement about a republican woman on the MSNBC air????

    This happens every day; they are all women haters on msnbc, even the so-called feminists who are NOW members like Norah and Andrea….if you are a woman and you are a conservative, you must be (insert any negative comment you please here becasue the NOW doesn’t give a damn about conservative women).

    National Organization of Woman Progressives (NOWP), rymes with DOPE (becasue they are).

  • http://rtcportraitsandmore.com Tcopper

    Why isn’t the tea party going after big oil and banks who don’t pay taxes? Why are they only going after the weak and the working poor? What they should be doing is closing all the loop-holes that the republicans and democrats have in the tax bill that let the riches people in America get away without paying taxes.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bob-Hubble/100001340708758 caconservative

    Tcopper:

    I believe those tax loop-wholes came from Congress to help stimulate jobs. The richest people in America already pay the bulk of taxes. The weak and the poor don’t pay taxes they just live off of those that do. This government has taxed and regulated tens of thousands of jobs overseas, and adding more taxes will guarantee more of the same. We now have upward of 8-million illegal aliens holding jobs in this country! If you want something to holler about, why aren’t you hollering about that? We have upward of 15-million illegal aliens in this country costing the taxpayers hundreds of Billions of dollars annually! Why aren’t you hollering about that? There a whole lot of things to holler about but, pretending that the rich don’t pay their fair share isn’t one of them.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bob-Hubble/100001340708758 caconservative

    When Barney (Fannie-mea) Frank starts insinuating that someone is in cuckoo-land, maybe he forgot what role he played in the mortgage meltdown….that’s cuckoo-land on a grand scale!

  • andthehorseyourodeinon

    Old bawaney fwanks talking about his home land

  • ganymede

    My my, the homophobics are out in strength today. Yes, things would really be great if we had Bachmann, Palin, Gingrich, Huckabee and all the Bush clones running this country instead of Barney F. and the few Democrats who believe in good, well-regulated government. Yes, shut down the government and let the Koch Brothers and the other kleptomaniacs run the country. Let’s keep drilling and build more nuclear plants and abolish unions and throw the great majority of middle class people under the bus. I don’t know why I even bother to comment on the threads that are motivated by hate and racism. Yes, your language is racist and self-loathing. Thank God, you don’t represent the majority of people anywhere. Even whiney children have more intelligence than the lot of you.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bob-Hubble/100001340708758 caconservative

    ganymede:

    You had me going until I read that bit about Barney and Democrats running a well regulated government.
    Homophobic, suggests a fear of Gays. We don’t fear Barney, we’re disgusted with his type of representation. The fact that he’s a limp-wrist, who indulges in some of the most disgusting sexual behavior imaginable, which may have carried over into his professional life with another Gay person who participated in really sick and depraved sexual behavior with him, which may have contributed to Fannie-Mae’s mortgage scam…..I’m sorry, did I mention reprehensible? Anyway, being Gay is not the issue, is it. THE LACK OF REGULATION…is the issue! Of which, Barney and the Democrats were part of!!

  • X-3

    Sthufferin’ Sthuchotashth Barney, you are the Queen of cuckoo land.

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