barney frank

Via the terrific Interfluidity, this very important post. First, let's look at "vanilla products," in this case for financial services: Read below the fold...

Last Tuesday night I emailed Barney Frank(my rep.) after becoming incensed with his recent comments claiming advocating for Medicare for All, which he’s “always supported” was “suicide”. I told Mr. Read below the fold...

Useless:

Frank Says Congress to Release $350 Billion in Deal For Homeowner Relief
Dec. 20 (Bloomberg) -- [House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank said in a telephone interview yesterday that] said legislation is being drafted that will set the conditions on spending the cash after Paulson used almost half the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program to boost bank capital. Paulson resisted calls to support foreclosure relief.

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ScienceBlogger Mike the Mad Biologist is all over the story of how Sheila Bair, head of the FDIC, has been dissed and mistreated by the folks in charge: Read below the fold...

Sentiment tested on single-payer health care

Is health care a human right that should be provided through a Medicare-type program for people of all ages?

Many local voters will have the opportunity to weigh in Tuesday on a non-binding referendum that will be on the ballot in a number of Massachusetts communities, including nearly all towns on the Cape and Martha's Vineyard.

Known as Question 4 in most towns — or questions 5 and 6 in some Vineyard towns and Orleans — the ballot item is backed by the groups Mass Care and Cape Care, which have called for a single-payer health insurance program in Massachusetts and Barnstable County.

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C'mon, Andy. Don't you think Barney Frank deserves a little more from you than a snarky putdown?

Here's the context. Sullivan is responding to Frank's article in HuffPo. I quote the text [DCOW] of Sullivan's riposte in its entirety:

My friend Congressman Frank doesn't want to say "goodbye to all that." Presumably, that's why he's backing Clinton.

[Rimshot. Laughter. Try the veal!]

Andy, I'd say this post isn't up to your usual fine standard.

One, it's not on point. Your post misrepresents the serious point Frank is making. Here's what Frank, well-known hater of ponies, wrote in HuffPo:

[FRANK] I agree that it would have been better not to have had to fight over some of the issues that occupied us in the nineties. But there would have been only one way to avoid them — and that would have been to give up. More importantly, the only way I can think of to avoid “refighting the same fights we had in the 1990’s”, to quote Senator Obama, is to let our opponents win these fights without a struggle.

How can we say "goodbye" to the 90s when they won't go away? That's the point at issue, Andy, and "presumably" obfuscates it. No, not "presumably." Nothing "presumably" about it.

Two, it's insulting to Frank. Andy, it's not like Frank's fighting our (and your) battles out of whimsy, or because he's been eating radishes, or out of personal pique. It's because the battles still need to be fought.

Andy, I'm sure if you'd taken a moment to think before pressing Submit, you would have remembered this speech from Frank on the House floor. Here's the video: Read below the fold...

Barney Frank is a divisive hater of ponies and all their works:

I think it is important to express my discomfort with a major theme of Senator Obama's campaign. I am referring to his denigration of "the Washington battles of the 1990's" and, usually implicitly but sometimes explicitly, of those who fought them.

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Just when I despair of the Democrats...

Massive parliamentary geekery, with a standing ovation at the end. And in the middle? Read below the fold...

Gah. Forgive the ubersnarky title, but I'm a little annoyed at the following:

H.R.1227

Title: To assist in the provision of affordable housing to low-income families affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Sponsor: Rep Waters, Maxine [CA-35] (introduced 2/28/2007)
Cosponsors (1)
Related Bills: H.RES.254

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