At least he is frank about the agenda

[SteamWake]

Barney Being "Frank" about the agenda.


Frank: "We Are Trying On Every Front To Increase The Role Of Government"


http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/10/26/frank_we_are_trying_on_every_front_to_increase_the _role_of_government.html

[AVGWarhawk]

Barney Frank...my hero... :shifty: Self-indulgent wind bag.

[SteamWake]

Add Grayson to that list


Rather than apologizing for calling a female official at the Federal Reserve a "K Street whore," Florida Rep. Alan Grayson defended his remarks Tuesday and referred critics to read the "secondary dictionary definition" of the word "whore," Politico.com reported.


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/27/report-rep-grayson-calls-bernanke-aide-k-street-whore/?test=latestnews

[AVGWarhawk]

Another piece of work. I do not think what Gayson said will sit well. Ther will be more on this I'm sure.

[mookiemookie]

We need more Graysons. As for his comments, the woman was the head of Enron's lobbying arm. Probably not the most tactful way of putting it, but if the shoe fits...

[AVGWarhawk]

We need more Graysons. As for his comments, the woman was the head of Enron's lobbying arm. Probably not the most tactful way of putting it, but if the shoe fits...


Still, does it give this man the right to call her a whore? I'm thinking no. Do we need more men calling women whores because of something they did?

[August]

We need more Graysons. As for his comments, the woman was the head of Enron's lobbying arm. Probably not the most tactful way of putting it, but if the shoe fits...

Even your own people say "this guy's one fry short of a Happy Meal" and you think we need more of them?

[mookiemookie]

Still, does it give this man the right to call her a whore? I'm thinking no. Do we need more men calling women whores because of something they did?

3. A person considered as having compromised principles for personal gain.http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/whore

Like I said, sounds about right. In my eyes, as long as he keeps cutting through the BS and being as principled as he is, I don't really care if he hurts the feelings of some lobbyist scumbag.

Even your own people say "this guy's one fry short of a Happy Meal" and you think we need more of them?

The Democratic party has sold itself out and shown themselves to be spineless cowards. I don't identify with them at all, so no, they're not "my own people". I'd respect them a heck of a lot more if there were more Graysons and Frankens and fewer Reids and Baucuses

[SteamWake]

Still, does it give this man the right to call her a whore? I'm thinking no. Do we need more men calling women whores because of something they did?

Ive said alot worse about Pelosi.

But then again I wasent on national radio :03:

But were getting away from the Anchor topic which was Mr. Fwanks comments.

Sorry about that.

[AVGWarhawk]

Sure, I have said plenty worse about Pelosi but on on the national new level for all to see and hear. Mookie thinks that is fine for one to do. :doh:

[mookiemookie]

Sure, I have said plenty worse about Pelosi but on on the national new level for all to see and hear. Mookie thinks that is fine for one to do. :doh:

Corporate lobbyists are whores. They're parasites feasting on the body of our republic. P*ss on them.

[August]

Corporate lobbyists are whores. They're parasites feasting on the body of our republic. P*ss on them.

But she's not a corporate lobbyist any longer, she's a government official. Are you forever defined by any job you have held in the past?

[Aramike]

Corporate lobbyists are whores. They're parasites feasting on the body of our republic. P*ss on them.I agree.

However, I'd like to add special interest lobbyists to that list as well.

[SteamWake]

But she's not a corporate lobbyist any longer, she's a government official. Are you forever defined by any job you have held in the past?

Dont cloud the already derailed debate with facts. :O:

[August]

Dont cloud the already derailed debate with facts. :O:

:salute: :DL

[mookiemookie]

:salute: :DL

Before you start all the high fives, answer me this: by your logic, Van Jones is A-OK then right? I mean he's not a member of a communist group now, right?

[CaptainHaplo]

Mookie - I am suprised you can't see the difference.

The term - regardless of one of its "literary" meanings, when spoken by a man regarding a woman, society defines it as a specific, sexual slur.

This is no different than if a white man were to call a black man "******" - society defines that as a specific racial slur. Never mind the fact that the same black man may be called by the same term among friends of his own race, and lets not forget that it has more than one meaning - on of wich is the literary meaning simply of "negro", which denoting his color, and in a literary sense is purely a NEUTRAL statement.

Does that make it right? No - it doesn't. You know it as well as I do. Were I to give a speech and say "Mr. Van Jones, a ******,....", people would be screaming left and right I was racist, and yet your position would require you to defend me for it, IF I claimed I meant it merely in the "literary" sense - unless of course you want to go ahead and admit that to not do so would be a double standard.

As an elected official, society expects a certain level of couth and decorum. Mr. Drayson violated that, and thus the citizenry has a right to take issue with it.

[August]

Before you start all the high fives, answer me this: by your logic, Van Jones is A-OK then right? I mean he's not a member of a communist group now, right?

If you're asking me if there is a difference between a job and a membership in a political organization then i'd say yes there is. The only way your comparison would be valid is if you could show that Van Jones was only a commie for the money...

[AVGWarhawk]

As an elected official, society expects a certain level of couth and decorum. Mr. Drayson violated that, and thus the citizenry has a right to take issue with it.

That is it in a nutshell Mookie.