Could the Republican Wave Sweep Barney Frank out of Office?

Who could forget this classic confrontation between Bill O’Reily and Barney “I didn’t know male hookers were operating out of my apartment” Frank?



Or what about when Barney Frank insulted a woman at a town hall meeting



I guess she forgot only Dems can call Conservatives Nazis.

A 35 yr old ex Marine named Sean Bielat is taking on one of the most entrenched Democrats in congress.

But, the Wall Street Journal thinks this bright eyed David has a shot of knocking off Goliath once again and set Massachesetts free.

The Wall Streeet Journal reports that as a native of Rochester, N.Y., Mr. Bielat caught the "political bug" as a teenager, when he did a stint as a House page.

After earning a master's in public policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, he went to work as a consultant at McKinsey & Co. and an executive for iRobot Corp., a defense contractor based in Bedford, Mass. He's also a new father; his wife gave birth to their son, Theodore, over the summer.

Before Harvard, Mr. Bielat served four years as an officer in the Marines. He's still a major in the reserves, but he left active duty in 2002 and hasn't served in combat. I ask if that is a source of regret, and he says yes: "I disagreed with us going into Iraq, but all my Marines were there, all my friends were there. I wanted to be there. Instead I was sitting at Harvard, watching it on TV."

Mr. Bielat's varied résumé is quite a contrast with that of Mr. Frank, who is twice the challenger's age yet has spent more than half his adult life in Congress. "

Of his 45 years of work experience, 44 have been either in political office or working for somebody in political office," Mr. Bielat says of the incumbent. "The other one was teaching at the Harvard Kennedy School." (No, Mr. Bielat did not have the congressman as a professor.)

Can he win? In a district that gave 63% of its vote to Barack Obama, Mr. Frank has to be reckoned the heavy favorite. But Mr. Bielat's quest does not look quite as quixotic as it did last October, when he quit his job at iRobot to pursue it.

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Frank needs to put out to pasture.

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Can Somebody Spare $1 for Barney Frank for a Ferry Ride to Fire Island?

My co-warrior against the insanity of the Left, Tim Daniels of Left Coast Rebel fame, is really hot this week. This is his second Op Ed in the Daily Caller in week.

This time Tim takes aim at Barney Frank the second most obnoxious Democrat congressman next to Charlie Rangel.


Barney Frank’s one dollar fare
conundrum and the ruling class

By Tim Daniels


From California to New York state, Arizona’s illegal immigration law has been making headlines. In what is perhaps a last ditch effort, the state chose to enforce border security and stop criminality that comes with undocumented immigrants.

But last Friday residents thousands of miles away in New York witnessed something similar but quite different: an aggravated, disheveled, undocumented senior citizen.

70-year-old Representative Barney Frank, (D-MA) was heading out to New York’s Fire Island. The New York Post reported that the Massachusetts congressman failed to contain his exasperation when a ticket clerk at the local dock rejected his request for a $1 discount ferry
fare to the island. Frank did not possess the necessary Suffolk County Senior Citizens ID to take part. Something quite fascinating then unfolded.

The New York Post recounts a witness claiming that, “Frank made such a drama over the senior rate that I contemplated offering him the dollar to cool down the situation.”

One can imagine the horror of a Congressionally-pampered power broker confronted with a simple, everyday incident like this. Barney Frank lost his cool and that says it all.

And so the story unfolds. In many corners of our society a seemingly trivial incident like this from a man of such high authority would bring pause for no concern. Perhaps, instead – a laughing matter, or an excuse to muse over the representative’s strange proclivities, personality and arrogance.

But the story of the $1 discount fare points to much, much, more.

As Angelo M. Codevilla described in his stunning essay, America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution, Barney Frank’s actions are emblematic of the ruling class mentality. Frank would not have objected more if the Sayville, New York dock clerk had shorted him $5 or even five cents. Either would have signaled a failure to recognize the ongressman’s ruling class authority and the power that thus brings over the public at large. It is through this prism of elitist thought that the ruling class and thus those like Frank, gaze upon the masses.

The ruling class disease of entrenched hubris and elitism has echoed the halls of the United States Congress for far too long and is the cause for many of the ills that we face now as a nation. In fact, it is a valid explanation for many aspects of the so-called ‘progressive’ agenda that simply do not make sense to many citizens.

Power begets corruption, corruption begets more lust for power, and powerful congressmen berate trivial, everyday life issues.
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Obama’s Phony Financial Reform Law Doesn’t Solve Real Problem

Next week you will hear President Obama and the Democrats tout the passing of the most sweeping financial reforms since the Great Depression.

It’s all a crock!

This 2,000 page bill does nothing to address the root cause of our most recent financial meltdown.



This whole bill is another “dance” to fool the public written by corrupt Chris Dodd who got sweetheart loans from Countrywide before they went belly up, and Barney Frank, who once said that Fannie Mae was financially stable.

What this bill really is is another expansion of the Federal government creating thousands of more government workers that will suck the taxpayers dry.

It won’t prevent another financial crisis because Fannie and Freddie are still in business, if you can call what they do business, billions of dollars in the red and will eventually need to be bailed out once again by guess who.

Obama and the Dems disparately needed a talking point for the upcoming mid-terms, and they got one.

But, for the rest of us, we’ll take it where Barney Frank likes it.

If you get my drift!

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Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae Still Hanging Over Heads

Here’s another situation where the GOP is still acting like scared little girls afraid to take on the Democrats over an issue of vital importance to the nation.

When will they step up and do something about Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae?

Liberals will have no problem trying to exploit the Gulf oil spill for their own political agenda.

But, when it comes to the Republicans, I hear nothing but crickets in the wind.




This is the giant gorilla in the room and the GOP allows the Dems to skate.
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Saturday Night Live Spoofs Scott Brown

SNL saw the writing on the wall and was the first entertainment show to take pot shots at President Obama when no one else had the nerve. This is significant considering the show is part of the NBC universe where stations like MSNBC continue to sing Obama’s praises.

This Scott Brown sketch makes the statement that Scott Brown’s arrival to Washington changes ObamaWorld in a huge way.

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Scott Brown thought the piece was funny.

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