Comments on: Barney Frank On Bailouts, Welfare

Tells 60 Minutes An Auto Industry Bailout Would Help People, Not Companies

[timothyone-2009]

The right would love to have a clear-minded and brilliant man like Barney fighting for their side, but they are forced to continue in their public attacks on the man by the the nut-case religious loonies in their party who hate ***. Barney Frank is a great American who will be remembered as such, long after 99.999% of today''s Rethug party is forgotten or despised as traitors.

[timothyone-2009]

The right would love to have a clear-minded and brilliant man like Barney fighting for their side, but they are forced to continue in their public attacks on the man by the the nut-case religious loonies in their party who hate ***. Barney Frank is a great American who will be remembered as such, long after 99.999% of today''s Rethug party is forgotten or despised as traitors.

[likeitis5050]

Do you even know when this crisis started and who the real principals are, that have been dealing with this crisis and curtailed it to where it''''s at today ??? I certainly understand when you''''d blame people like Barney with him being committe chair right now but there''''s so much any of the Dems there now, could do to reverse the many years of Repug abuse and incompetence. Cheers!


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Posted by parrot2Ok

Reset your time table to 2006-2008 and then answer your own questions. Many of the warnings hit Congress AFTER they had majority control when something still could have been done....and Frank argued them (Republicans) down and accused them of being racists and mean-hearted people who didn''t want to see blacks or hispanics in their own homes...look it up. Frank is party to the biggest scheme to bilk taxpayers in the history of our government, and he still gets to strut and puff up on cue. Nice spin though...but typical...just decoration.

[likeitis5050]

The right would love to have a clear-minded and brilliant man like Barney fighting for their side, but they are forced to continue in their public attacks on the man by the the nut-case religious loonies in their party who hate ***. Barney Frank is a great American who will be remembered as such, long after 99.999% of today''''s Rethug party is forgotten or despised as traitors.


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Posted by timothyone

Interesting. Many people had no idea until just now...nor do they know this ''criminal'' was having a hot and heavy affair with a high profile man in the housing sector...would you consider that unethical regardless the s.e.xual orientation of a public servant with so much to answer for in the downfall of the economy? How about if a Republican/neocon was caught in such an unethical ''position''....laudy laudy...the gloves would be off. Blood...I tell...blood would have to be spilled to quiet the liberals. Funny how tainted one''s views can be if they live exclusively on one side or the other...never daring to venture closer to the middle for a genuine look at reality. Frank has no business still working in the capacity he''s in for Americans. Period. He''s guilty in so many areas but worse than anything...he unrepentant and arrogant. Arrogance is intolerable when your hands are as dirty as his are right now.

Re; O''Reilly/Frank confrontation.
You left out the reason for the confrontation, that Frank had issued a statement when he took over the committee, that Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac were solvent and people should have nothing to worry about. O''Reilly asked for a clarification or an apology for the statement and Frank refused. Keep stories in context.

[dennis1946]

I wish your reporter was sensitive enough to the real world to have followed up properly on this statement by Congressman Frank:

"What about someone who''s been working hard, 40 hours a week, maybe with some overtime, and goin'' to work every day. And then his neighbor loses his job. The neighbor starts getting unemployment insurance. The neighbor who lost his job is getting money for nothing, from the government. There''s some unfairness there."

People on unemployment are not getting "money for nothing." That''s why they call it insurance.

But of course the 60 Minutes'' reporter is a liberal like Frank wgi thinks the government gives the people things. So she would never think to question his ignorance.

[sicofgov]

Barney franks and Dodd are the reason we are going into a depression. You should do a story on how much they have taken from wall street, to look the other way and change regulation to do what they wanted.
You make me sick to think that franks is anything other than a piece of HUMAN WASTE

[timothyone-2009]

The right would love to have a clear-minded and brilliant man like Barney fighting for their side, but they are forced to continue in their public attacks on the man by the the nut-case religious loonies in their party who hate ***. Barney Frank is a great American who will be remembered as such, long after 99.999% of today''s Rethug party is forgotten or despised as traitors.

[sicofgov]

Barney franks and Dodd are the reason we are going into a depression. You should do a story on how much they have taken from wall street, to look the other way and change regulation to do what they wanted.
You make me sick to think that franks is anything other than a piece of HUMAN WASTE

[chitownfire1]

Get Bill O''''Reilly to tear this **** apart.


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Posted by TheMajority1

Bill OReilly the COMEDIAN??? NO, Mr. Franks is a serious man and these are serious times. What good would be served by having silly comedians like OReilly or Hannity interview our nations leaders during a crisis.

Let Mr OReilly tell his ridiculous jokes every night like the ridiculous comedian that he is....and let real jounralists do the interviews.....

[ronffg]

Just how far was Mr. Frank''s and Mr. Dodd''s head stuck in the sand while CRA and the subsequent mortgage industry run amuck conspired to cause our current economic crisis? It certainly seems strange that Mr. Frank is so outraged by these conditions when he was the one charged with overseeing any problems and issues. He is, after all, chairman of the house BANKING AND FINANCE COMMITTEE.

[mtyshawl]

Lesley Stahl I guess agrees with AIG executives getting tax payer Retention bonuses. Even though they were told to keep it a secret. "The bonuses equal one year''s salary, and employees were ordered to keep them secret", Bloomberg said.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/economy-watch/2008/12/report_aig_to_pay_more_retenti.html

[termedout]

Lesley Stahl was lucky that her interview was edited by CBS because even more of her bias would have been exposed. Sorry to say but Mr. Frank''s intellect was an overmatch for your reporter.

[fwrightson]

I''ve been watching 60 minutes since its origin (I also find it interesting that none of my three kids in their 30s ever watch it) and I''ve never seen such a protective, non-journalistic puff piece in my life (well, I''m sure that the networks have produced worse but my memory has let them slip by). What a waste of public air time. It''s no wonder that the major networks are losing audience. Leslie''s ''pouting'' when ''Blarney'' chastised her only shows her lack of true journalistic reporting. Where is the hard drill down on important questions that taxpayers need to know. Blarney is the guy who pushed for more opportunities for more American''s to share the ''American Dream''(i.e., give mortgages to people who can''t afford them) by forcing Freddy Mac and Fanny Mae to lower their qualifying standards (who cares if they don''t have a job, give them the mortgage). Blarney is the guy who failed provide any oversight. Now, he wants to give away our taxpayer money to bailout those homebuyers who had no economic qualifications to justify the mortgages in the first place. Where were those questions Leslie? Too busy to tie his shoes? Give me a break! He has the approval of even the hardline Republicans? Give me a break! (and where did you pull that one from?) Boy, talk about shoving untrue propaganda down the throats of the viewing public. Blarney Frank may be a Harvard grad, he may be very bright but he is nothing but a bully in the strongest sense. And he certainly bullied over you Leslie.

[hitoyou11]

Between Frank and Pelosi the dolloer should be worth ZERO, and all of the U.S. will be BROKE.

[jsd330]

Harvard educated, just goes to show you what kind of education you get from an ivy league school. I''m sure most of those bank and auto ceo''s graduated from Harvard or yale. The take care of the good old boys club.

[cpelzar--2008]

I watched this puff piece last night. If this is what CBS thinks is journalism, they are dead. This was a publicity piece to improve Barney''s reputation.

Maybe CBS is looking for a bailout?

[wacojoe]

Stalh repeated the obviously correct charge that Frank was central to the calamitous government policy of forcing NINJA loans on mortgagers. 60 Minutes left it as a mere charge without quoting the myriad of data to support that charge, and didn''t even go so far as to allow Frank to tell his lies about his abject involvement in promoting the disaster.

Rampant Sub-Primes = depression
Frank & Democrats = Rampant Sub-Primes

The formula for the trigger of the crisis is easy to see. Now these television nitwits promote the cause of the problem as the solution.

[cbs_tom]

"God is on the side of Obama and Franks and the common man. The Republican Party is the political organization of evil, greed and warmongering:.
Posted by Ace_Face1 at 11:19 AM : Dec 15, 2008
I would doubt that God is on either Republican or Democrat side. I think we should instead be on His side.

[wlmrtpatriot]

Ha Ha, some of these posts are really funny.