Barney says GOP critics have “psychological disorder”
Is there no end to Barney Frank’s insults?
Can’t a man as intelligent as he express in disagreement in the form of counterarguments? Will the media continue to let this unhappy man get away with his mean-spirited remarks?
When Texas Republican Congressman John Culberson today “blasted Democrats for passing the stimulus, which permitted AIG to lavish billions on executives after the de facto federal takeover,” the Massachusetts Democrat fired back, saying Republican criticism was part “of a psychological disorder I am not equipped to diagnose.”
This from a man who grandstanded about AIG bonuses even after he had voted to allow them, a man who refuses to acknowledge his own role in the financial meltdown, errors of judgment he made about the financial soundness of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Can you imagine how the media would react if a senior Republican so smeared his partisan adversaries? They went after Tom DeLay for much less.
Barney Frank owes Representative Culberson and GOP critics the same kind of apology then-House Majority Leader Dick Armey offered him in 1995.
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Barney is old enough to remember a time when homosexuality was considered a psychological disorder.
Comment by Ignatius — April 1, 2009 @ 8:16 pm - April 1, 2009
I think you are presuming his intelligence. I was raised in Massachusetts. Left when I was 17 for college and, when I looked back and saw the politics, opted to never live there again.
Do you know that his home district is the home to NAMBLA? I’m thankful that my nephew, who was raised in his district, came out naturally, with boyfriends of the same age.
His judgment should always be doubted if not directly questioned. If, after what he is responsible for, he blames anyone, he needs someone who IS equipped to diagnose his absurd ego.
Comment by El Cid — April 1, 2009 @ 8:19 pm - April 1, 2009
Just waiting for jimmy, gillie, torrentprime, or some other little letter person to come in with their standard, Chris Crocker “Leave Barney Frank alone” shtick.
Comment by V the K — April 1, 2009 @ 8:29 pm - April 1, 2009
Talk about projection… Geez.
Comment by SoCalRobert — April 1, 2009 @ 9:05 pm - April 1, 2009
Ah, that’s the way for Barney to win friends and influence people: categorize political opponents as mentally ill. How charmingly Stalinist.
Barney thinks he’s riding high right now, but, if he keeps pissing people off, he’s sure to end up as a “political Mussolini”: strung upside by his heels from the railing of the House visitor’s gallery.
Comment by MarkJ — April 1, 2009 @ 9:20 pm - April 1, 2009
Apologize? We really need to get over these illusions. Apologies are not conceivable; remarks like this are both a glimpse into how they really think, and a hint of things to come.
Comment by rrpjr — April 1, 2009 @ 9:31 pm - April 1, 2009
Ditto to all that you say, GayPatriotWest.
Barney Frank is the Robespierre of our time. All that he needs is a few tumbrels and he’d have had the AIG execs hauled off to the guillotine with his army of sans culottes in tow.
Comment by Tom the Redhunter — April 1, 2009 @ 10:45 pm - April 1, 2009
The only people who are mentally ill are those of us who continue to live in this political cesspool called Massachusetts.
At least the sports are worth watching. Go Bruins!
Comment by Julie the Jarhead — April 2, 2009 @ 7:42 am - April 2, 2009
When I was a kid, we had a Bantam rooster that ran around sticking his face into everything and raising a full time ruckus. He could crow louder and kick more dust than any chicken in the place. And his best talent was to fly up into a tree and crap on targets below.
One day, we found him drowned in the rain barrel. Over the years, my family has had countless hours of mirth imagining how the farm yard rebels got him up there and held his head under water.
Comment by heliotrope — April 2, 2009 @ 9:47 am - April 2, 2009
If Bawney Fwank thinks that GOP critics have a “psychological disorder,” then we are fully justified in stating that liberalism is a mental disorder.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — April 2, 2009 @ 11:35 am - April 2, 2009
“Can’t a man as intelligent as he…”
You just lost me, Dan.
So instead of a comment, I’m going to take this moment to post my favorite description of Barney Frank. It’s from Camille Paglia in 2000 and regards congressional discussions to end “Don’t Ask; Don’t Tell”:
“When the nation’s security is at stake, I will side with the considered judgment of the Joint Chiefs of Staff rather than with the adenoidal mewlings of stridently gay congressman Barney Frank, who on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ last Sunday looked and sounded like he’s still at the lollipop and baby-rattle stage. (Imagine Frank in a foxhole! Russian strategists must be having quite a horse laugh at Frank’s prominence as a military ‘expert.’)”
“…lollipop and baby rattle stage.” Classic!
Comment by Draybee — April 2, 2009 @ 7:39 pm - April 2, 2009
Guys,
I think you should review the behavior of John Culberson prior to rushing to his defense. John Culberson is not your run-of-the-mill anti-Gay Republican, he is easily the most anti-Gay Congressman or Senator in the entire US Congress that has any significant Gay constituency. He is on a par with Jesse Helms in the 1980s and Rick Santorum. I’m not kidding.
Culberson, who represents a moderate to centrist district (albeit with ‘legacy Republican voting’ that has been draining away recently). Wants to remove ALL funding for HIV/AIDS services that targets the Gay community (He only supports taxpayer HIV payola sent to his political supporters on the religious right that teaches abstinence until marriage only – which of course means excluding the 99.9999% of Gay people who are not lifelong celebates from any funding). When called out on it by some of his constituents, he opined that money used for HIV/AIDS treatment/prevention for Gays should be all used for immigrant bashing. That was two years ago.
Culberson is such a bad fit for his district, that he underperforms the top of his ticket in every election. Republicans walk away from him in disgust. He still wins reelection, barely, due to legacy Republicanism from an electorate that is far less hostile towards Gays as he is. He certainly is racing to redistricting as he will be booted out of his district by 2012 unless major redistricting occurs.
He hangs out with Micheal Savage and opposes every single bill that might conceivably help his Gay constituents.
As a 8 year resident of Houston, I believe him to be motivated by extreme bias against Gay people. To an extent not matched by any other member of the House or the Senate. I challenge you to find one single Gay Republican in Houston (of which there are more than a few) who have anything nice to say about him on Gay issues. Or about him as a person.
You purport to be a Gay Republican website. Defending Culberson might be a bit across the line. I understand that you are Republicans, but exactly how is this a Gay Republican issue? It sounds to me that you appear to be attacking a Gay Congressman while cheering on an extremely anti-Gay one. On a subject that doesn’t have anything to do with Gay rights.
Comment by Tom in Lazybrook — April 4, 2009 @ 10:28 am - April 4, 2009