Barney Frank will be a guest on Rachel's tv show tonight

[eleny]

They always have a nice long chat.

Just a heads up.

[FLAprogressive]

1. barney needs to work to regain our trust

after he whored himself out for wall street I lost a lot of trust in him....

[eleny]

2. He's been a good chairman so far

Watching him today he was fair but tough as nails.

[FLAprogressive]

3. why wasn't he tough on the bailout then? Where were the strings?

[eleny]

4. I have no idea and am hoping you can educate me

Seriously.

[spotbird]

15. In what respect?

He tells us to trust our rapists. He should just make it official, the botox has spread to his brain.

[AyanRand Is Dead]

18. He supported the bailout, He's a failure.

[GoesTo11]

5. Would it hurt him to have a session with a speech therapist?

He would really make a much better impression on middle America if he would just talk in a less annoying way.

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. All Righty then!

He could go on American idol or Dances with Stars

[spotbird]

7. Barney sold his soul

Soundbites notwithstanding.

[spotbird]

10. His interview is way worse

then I could believe. He is not separate, except as the talking points direct, from those who he pretends to regulate.

Disgorgement Barney? Start at home.

[eleny]

14. .

[spotbird]

17. Yeah

Barney represents the problem. There is no longer a two party system.

[eleny]

8. For those without cable - He told Rachel...

He felt that today the committee got a moratorium on foreclosures.

By this summer they will have regulations in place comparable to what FDR did in the new Deal.

[spotbird]

12. Isn't it nice when the powerful

make agreements absent law? We all benefit when that happens.

Shit. There really is no hope.

[Ichingcarpenter]

9. He said that new rules as compared to the new deal are coming up

Hopefully The Glass-Steagall Act?


In 1933, in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash and during a nationwide commercial bank failure and the Great Depression, two members of Congress put their names on what is known today as the Glass-Steagall Act (GSA). This act separated investment and commercial banking activities. At the time, "improper banking activity", or what was considered overzealous commercial bank involvement in stock market investment, was deemed the main culprit of the financial crash.

[Ichingcarpenter]

11. Jeffery Sachs was on MJ and schooled the crew there this morning

Jeffrey David Sachs (born November 5, 1954, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American economist and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also the Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs and a Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia's School of Public Health. Additionally, he is Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, and the founder and co-President of the Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty and hunger. From 2002 to 2006, he was the Director of the United Nations Millennium Project and today remains a leading advocate for the Millennium Development Goals, eight internationally endorsed objectives to reduce extreme poverty, hunger, and disease by the year 2015.

Originally one of the youngest economics professors in the history of Harvard University, Sachs became renowned for his work on the challenges of economic development, environmental sustainability, poverty alleviation, debt cancellation, and globalization. He has authored numerous books and articles on these subjects, including The End of Poverty and Common Wealth, both New York Times bestsellers. He has been named one of Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World" several times.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs

[eleny]

13. This segment with Rachel will have the wingers bouncing off walls tomorrow

It'll be a spectacle in the days ahead.

[spotbird]

16. Who gives a flying fuck?

The Democrats, particularly Frank, stand for absolutely nothing. Worse than nothing, since they didn't care about their supposed consanguinity.

They are so insulated from the real world by now that they have no idea that the people they surround themselves with have nothing in common with the truth.