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Barney Frank Twofer: AZ Support And Bias Against Djou-ish People

Posted on | May 26, 2010 | 8 Comments

by Smitty (via Lucianne)

Barney Frank, in an overt display of pre-djou-dice, put on the following display:

Frank walked the hallway of the Speaker’s Lobby off the House floor calling on the media to “do your job” and review Djou’s papers.
It was a small bit of payback for the enormous amount of attention some conservatives (and the media) paid to the is-the-president-really-from-America controversy.
But, unlike the commander-in-chief, as Frank knows, being born outside the U.S. does not preclude you from becoming a member of Congress.

At least Frank supports an SB1070-style credential review, even if it means singling people out, possibly because of their heritage.

Category: Democrats

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8 Responses to “Barney Frank Twofer: AZ Support And Bias Against Djou-ish People”

  1. LibertarianAdvocate
    May 26th, 2010 @ 2:35 pm

    Hey Barney: Those who live in Glass Houses ought not throw stones:

    Two Barneys in One!

    * “We have, I think, an excessive degree of concern right now about homeownership and its role in the economy. Obviously, speculation is never a good thing. But those who argue that housing prices are now at the point of a bubble seem to me to be missing a very important point. Unlike previous examples we have had, where substantial excessive inflation of prices later caused some problems, we are talking here about an entity–homeownership, homes–where there is not the degree of leverage that we’ve seen elsewhere. This is not the dot-com situation. We had problems with people having invested in business plans for which there was no reality, people building fiberoptic cable for which there was no need. Homes that are occupied may see an ebb and flow in the price at a certain percentage level, but you’re not going to see the collapse that you see when people talk about a bubble. And so those of us on our committee in particular will continue to push for homeownership.“–Rep. Barney Frank,June 27, 2005

    * “One of my biggest differences with the Bush administration, and even with the Clinton administration, was that they overdid that. I have always been critical of this effort to equate a decent home with homeownership. I think we should have been doing more to provide rental housing. My efforts have been to try and get affordable rental housing. I was very much in disagreement with this push into home ownership, and I think the federal government should not be artificially doing that.”–Rep. Barney Frank, “Power Lunch,” CNBC, May 21, 2010

  2. LibertarianAdvocate
    May 26th, 2010 @ 9:35 am

    Hey Barney: Those who live in Glass Houses ought not throw stones:

    Two Barneys in One!

    * “We have, I think, an excessive degree of concern right now about homeownership and its role in the economy. Obviously, speculation is never a good thing. But those who argue that housing prices are now at the point of a bubble seem to me to be missing a very important point. Unlike previous examples we have had, where substantial excessive inflation of prices later caused some problems, we are talking here about an entity–homeownership, homes–where there is not the degree of leverage that we’ve seen elsewhere. This is not the dot-com situation. We had problems with people having invested in business plans for which there was no reality, people building fiberoptic cable for which there was no need. Homes that are occupied may see an ebb and flow in the price at a certain percentage level, but you’re not going to see the collapse that you see when people talk about a bubble. And so those of us on our committee in particular will continue to push for homeownership.“–Rep. Barney Frank,June 27, 2005

    * “One of my biggest differences with the Bush administration, and even with the Clinton administration, was that they overdid that. I have always been critical of this effort to equate a decent home with homeownership. I think we should have been doing more to provide rental housing. My efforts have been to try and get affordable rental housing. I was very much in disagreement with this push into home ownership, and I think the federal government should not be artificially doing that.”–Rep. Barney Frank, “Power Lunch,” CNBC, May 21, 2010

  3. Roxeanne de Luca
    May 26th, 2010 @ 3:47 pm

    But, unlike the commander-in-chief, as Frank knows, being born outside the U.S. does not preclude you from becoming a member of Congress.

    You need to be a citizen, but you don’t need to be a natural-born citizen; the constitutional requirement is citizenship for the past seven years (as well as being at least 25 years old and living in the state at election day).

  4. Roxeanne de Luca
    May 26th, 2010 @ 10:47 am

    But, unlike the commander-in-chief, as Frank knows, being born outside the U.S. does not preclude you from becoming a member of Congress.

    You need to be a citizen, but you don’t need to be a natural-born citizen; the constitutional requirement is citizenship for the past seven years (as well as being at least 25 years old and living in the state at election day).

  5. SDN
    May 27th, 2010 @ 2:55 am

    Djou ought to hold a press conference consisting of one line: “I’ll show mine (holding up a long-form certificate) if Obama will show his.”

  6. SDN
    May 26th, 2010 @ 9:55 pm

    Djou ought to hold a press conference consisting of one line: “I’ll show mine (holding up a long-form certificate) if Obama will show his.”

  7. Aleister
    May 27th, 2010 @ 8:31 am

    Smitty,

    You rock.

    Barney Frank is beyond parody, isn’t he?

    Aleister

  8. Aleister
    May 27th, 2010 @ 3:31 am

    Smitty,

    You rock.

    Barney Frank is beyond parody, isn’t he?

    Aleister