Yes...saying things like that to YOUR constituents is awesome...how professional of Barney...:roll: I guess it was fine when people compared Bush to Nazis though...:roll:
If there's 3 people I could punch in the face in Congress, it would be Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, and Chris Dodd. Three of the most corrupt politicians in Washington.
SpartanMSU
For one, we don't know if that lady was a constiuent or not. These people so far have proven to not be who they say they are. The one lady that didn't know if her family had a net income of over $250,000, the one that said she never got involved in politics before health care, ran a conservative political forum and has been a conservative activist for years. Frankly, I think many of these people are simply civilian carpetbaggers who are going to democratic strongholds and trying to generate unrest by using unsubstantiated buzz words like, "Nazi," and, "death panel."
Second, these people need to be put in their place. There are legitimate concerns that can be raised over the legislation, but they should be raised in a more formal matter than this. What these people are doing is undermining intelligent discussion. They have no organized opinion other than opposing health care, although for what reason no one, sometimes not even they themselves, seems to know. They go to these places and try to shout down anyone who disagrees with them, they take up all of the time that was allotted for discussion of the actual bill and specific policies, they use sensationalism based in absolutely no fact at all, it's just one giant detraction from the actual issue. They don't want a discussion, they don't want their concerns to be addressed in a civil manner, they just want to sit there and interrupt the proceedings. They SHOULD be called out on that. When what they say is being played out on a national stage, and when their claims are patently untrue, and when they will accept no compromise other than complete derailment of health care reform, then they absolutely should be called out on that. Was anything Frank said untrue? Is comparing health care reform to Nazi Germany not one of the most ludacris claims ever? Had he tried to argue with her, would she have accepted anything he had to say, or would it be like arguing with a table? Did she go there to argue, or to simplyhave her misguided opinion heard? Well good, she had her opinion heard, and then Frank let her and everyone else know what his opinion is. But I guess turnabout isn't fairplay, huh? The fact is that if we are going to hold our representatives to such standards of not saying anything that even approaches insulting, and I still don't think what Frank said is any more insulting than what was deserved, but if we're going to hold them to those standards then we should at least have the decency to hold ourselves to similar standards of not speaking with the express purpose of trying to anger and undermine those representatives, which is exactly what she was doing. But again, I wouldn't expect dissent from such behavior and opinions from someone who levels accusations of corruption at politicians with no factual basis simply because they have a different political alignment than him.
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