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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Time for Mary Schapiro to Resign as SEC Chairman
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 11/28/2011 21:07 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Barney Frank not seeking re-election in 2012
Snip, duplicate.
Posted by: tipper || 11/28/2011 10:25 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bwaney Fwank twowing in the twowl! Maybe he wants to spend more time with Chris Dodd?

What left wing degenerate will Massachusetts voters dig up now to replace him?

If he ever wants to return to Politics he could move to California where he could win easy election to any office. Or, he could be King of the Castro.

We'll probably see in the future the opening of hundreds of Bwaney Fwank Memorial Bath Houses financed by "Fanny May". Hell, maybe the Military will get Special Services to set them up on base.
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 11/28/2011 10:55 Comments || Top||

#2  He was redistricted. Look for Ed Markey to pick up Bawnie's banner, for the Masshole delegation.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 11/28/2011 11:43 Comments || Top||

#3  GolfBravo I suspect Barney will simply move down to K-Street like most of the crooks Congresscritters to be on the direct payroll instead of the retainer.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/28/2011 11:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe he has "health" problems.

Feel good story of the day.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/28/2011 12:01 Comments || Top||

#5  I hear the asshole is planning on having a Press Conference at 1PM (Eastern). I wonder who's he's going to blame....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/28/2011 12:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Good news section today. We should have a dancing lady picture or the opera lady howling.
YIP YIP YAHOO!
Posted by: Dale || 11/28/2011 12:36 Comments || Top||

#7  I pray for a slow painful death.
Posted by: Hellfish || 11/28/2011 13:31 Comments || Top||

#8  Proco2k, why did you modify your post? You were correct the first time.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/28/2011 14:18 Comments || Top||

#9  Look for Ed Markey to pick up Bawnie's banner, for the Masshole delegation.

Republican Sean Bielat was impressive in the 2010 elections while Frank ran as the Not Barney Frank. Hope Bielat runs again and MA voters wizened up.
Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 || 11/28/2011 14:34 Comments || Top||

#10  On an otherwise dreary and down day, good news.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/28/2011 16:01 Comments || Top||

#11  Fwankwy, I won't miss Bawney Fwank.
Posted by: Zorba Creasing4274 || 11/28/2011 16:46 Comments || Top||

#12  Explains the bump up in the stock market today.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/28/2011 19:03 Comments || Top||

#13  Bielat pushed him to the wall last time. He actually had to go out and campaign and spend some serious cash. Rub elbows with the great unwashed and spend his own money? Ewww...didn't sign up for that. With the redistricting, he'd have to go out and do it again, and a lot of the cities and towns he picked up probably weren't too crazy about Barney representing them.
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/28/2011 21:19 Comments || Top||

#14  If Bielat runs again, I'll send him some moolah again....
Posted by: Barbara || 11/28/2011 22:18 Comments || Top||


Rep. Barney Frank (D-Masshole) Won't Run For Re-Election
ht AOSHQ
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) will announced Monday that he is not seeking re-election, CNN reported Monday morning.

Frank, the ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee was the architect with Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) of the sweeping financial reform bill that bears their names.
And will always be remembered for ruining this country to the best of his abilities. FOAD
Posted by: Frank G || 11/28/2011 10:06 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He knows his connections with Fannie and Freddie will be all over the news during the election cycle and even he might have a real fight this go around. The nation is better without him and I simply wish there was a way to bill him for the damage he's done, even if its not complete sacrificing his generous congressional pension would be a start.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/28/2011 10:16 Comments || Top||

#2  ...remember he gets to convert his 'reelection campaign' money to personal use after he leaves Congress. Why blow it on an iffy gamble at the polls?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/28/2011 10:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Posted by: Spot || 11/28/2011 11:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Don't forget his hand (as well as Chris Dodd's) as one of the primary instigators of the housing meltdown of '08.

Personally I think he should be in prison doing hard labor.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/28/2011 12:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Have to repeat this- Yip Yip Yahoo.
O Happy Days! sounds good also.
Posted by: Dale || 11/28/2011 12:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Barney's the 17th Dem to announce he's not running in '12.
Posted by: Fred || 11/28/2011 12:59 Comments || Top||

#7  Why blow it on an iffy gamble at the polls?

I think Barney will be blowing a whole lot of things.
Posted by: Frozen Al || 11/28/2011 13:45 Comments || Top||

#8  even better - Maxine Waters (D-Corrupt Racist Bitch) now becomes the ranking Dem on the Financial Service Committee. The fun just gets better
Posted by: Frank G || 11/28/2011 14:15 Comments || Top||

#9  remember he gets to convert his 'reelection campaign' money to personal use

"You can go to hell, I'm going to Fire Island!"
Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 || 11/28/2011 14:25 Comments || Top||

#10  CrazyFool, while I agree with the sentiment I don't think any politician is going to follow through on that, otherwise we'd already have heard a lot more about his role in the collapse.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/28/2011 14:37 Comments || Top||

#11  Of course it won't happen.

I can dream can't I?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/28/2011 15:00 Comments || Top||

#12  With both of the most destructive democrats gone (dodd and frank) Obama can deflect the mess on them during the election.

I will give barney credit for one thing; he wanted to make housing affordable for everyone. Now that they are practically free in some areas (like Detroit) his work is done.
Posted by: Airandee || 11/28/2011 18:28 Comments || Top||

#13  Harry and Nancy are still there.
Posted by: gorb || 11/28/2011 18:59 Comments || Top||


Newt Gingrich To Obama: Let's Debate, You Can Use Your Teleprompter
"I already said that if he wants to use a teleprompter, then it would be fine with me. It has to be fair. If you [were] to defend ObamaCare, wouldn't you want a teleprompter?" Gingrich asked.

"Now, just for a second I'm going to go in the detour and I'll try to explain why I've been and he'll say yes. There are two reasons. The first, is ego. Can you imagine him looking in the mirror? Graduate from Columbia, Harvard Law, editor of the Law Review journal. [Against] the greatest articulator in a Democratic book?"

"How is he going to say that he's afraid to be on the same podium as a West Georgia College student?"
Posted by: Fred || 11/28/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As I said before, this would be a brilliant stunt. When Bammo declines, as he surely will, stage the debate with just the Teleprompter. Have it spew all of Bammo's tired lines. Newt will knock it out of the park.
Posted by: Iblis || 11/28/2011 1:14 Comments || Top||

#2  ION CHINA DAILY FORUM > PUTIN IN WARNING TO WEST.
Vlad warns the US-West not to interfere in Russian elections [where he is once again a candidate].

[EX-POTUS BILL "WHY-YES-THE-POTUS-ELECTIONS- WERE-STOLEN-FROM-BUSH-AND-DOLE" CLINTON here].

Because nothing proves righteous electoral legitimacy + corruptionism like formal Fed investigations into whether one had sex, or not, wid blue-dressed, "portly pepperpot" WH Babe interns.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/28/2011 1:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Forget Bummer.

Newt vs TOTUS = Newt vs Axlerod

Bring it!
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/28/2011 12:03 Comments || Top||

#4  When Bammo declines, as he surely will, stage the debate with just the Teleprompter.

...with just the Teleprompter and an empty suit.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/28/2011 16:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Newt vs TOTUS = Newt vs Axlerod

Axelrod summarizes the faxes he gets from Soros.
Posted by: Cincinnatus Chili || 11/28/2011 16:05 Comments || Top||

#6  What an art form it must be to stand up in front of the American people and pretend that your utterances were composed in your own head.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/28/2011 17:15 Comments || Top||

#7  Pharaoh POTUS den say to dat pesky plague Newt,

"So let it be written. So let it be be done..." (via teleprompter with max echo, reverb and compressed audio techniques.
Posted by: Lionel Hatrack3498 || 11/28/2011 21:58 Comments || Top||

#8  Teleprompter, empty suit and vacant slogans blaming Bush, then end it with Obama playing golf. That would make a great campaign commercial.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/28/2011 22:39 Comments || Top||

#9  Obama is a personality cult, not a presidency. TV commercials ain't gonna do it.
Posted by: badanov || 11/28/2011 22:58 Comments || Top||


Schumer: Democrats will pay for payroll tax-cut with millionaire's tax
[The Hill] Democrats in the Senate will push a plan this week to extend an expiring payroll tax cut, making up the lost revenue by imposing a surtax on Americans earning more than one million dollar, Sen. Chuck Schumer
Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower.
said on Sunday.

"The first thing we're going to do when we get back this week is put the payroll tax holiday on the floor in the Senate," said Schumer (N.Y.), the number three Democrat in the Senate on NBC's Meet the Press.

Republicans have expressed a willingness to extend the tax cut put in place under President B.O., but want other parts of the budget cut to offset the cost -- not a new tax imposed on the people they argue create the most jobs.

But forcing Republicans to vote against lower taxes for middle-class Americans in order to protect the tax rates for wealthier Americans allows Democrats to draw a clear line in the sand that they believe they can use to frame the argument against Republicans in 2012.

"If it doesn't pass once, we're going to put it on the floor again and again," Schumer said.
Posted by: Fred || 11/28/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Anything but cut government. Anything.
Posted by: gorb || 11/28/2011 1:44 Comments || Top||

#2  You are such infantile little rubes. And what the HELL is wrong with New York? Electing this pathetic dung assed creature to represent you to GOD and the World? Sad.
Posted by: newc || 11/28/2011 7:46 Comments || Top||

#3  "millionaire" tax = small to medium business tax. Won't bother the really big guys with their accountants and tax shelters, not one bit. But it will screw the people who create real jobs for working class.
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/28/2011 11:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Of course, the additional funds collected from the millionaires will go into the general fund, not into the Social Security quote lockbox unquote.

"pay for". English is such a flexible language.

SS is in trouble - so what do they do, they decrease the revenues. Idiots.

And the average Joe will hardly notice the change in his take-home, so it's not much of a stimulus. Just the usual pander for votes. The people paying SS are the ones with jobs, by the way, not the ones who can't make ends meet because no one will hire them.
Posted by: KBK || 11/28/2011 14:52 Comments || Top||

#5  By rough count I'd say we've spent that hypothetical surtax on at least twenty different things.
Posted by: Matt || 11/28/2011 16:23 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2011-11-28
  Enraged Pakistanis burn Obama effigy, slam US
Sun 2011-11-27
  US told to vacate Shamsi base
Sat 2011-11-26
  Pakistan stops NATO supplies after raid kills up to 28
Fri 2011-11-25
  47 Syrians Dead, Including 29 Civilians, as Homs Clashes Rage
Thu 2011-11-24
  Police continue attacks on protesters, Tahrir chants for field marshal to go
Wed 2011-11-23
  Yemen's president signs power transfer deal
Tue 2011-11-22
  Yemen Opposition: Saleh Agrees to Sign Peace Plan. Really.
Mon 2011-11-21
  Colombia Farc rebel radio station 'shut down' by army
Sun 2011-11-20
  Libya: 'the executioner' Abdullah al-Senussi captured
Sat 2011-11-19
  Saif al-Islam Gaddafi captured in Libya
Fri 2011-11-18
  Sufi Mohammad's sons acquitted by Swat ATC
Thu 2011-11-17
  Saleh again refuses to sign power transfer
Wed 2011-11-16
  Missile raid targeted top Shabaab leaders
Tue 2011-11-15
  Suspected suicide bomber killed near Afghan loya jirga site
Mon 2011-11-14
  Syria Calls for Urgent Arab Summit


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