Barney Frank, one arrogant SOB
The excellent financial blog Crossing Wall Street nails it,
Barney Frank was just on CNBC. I’ve started a game of watching at what point Frank goes into his overly dramatic routine that he’s being interrupted and not allowed to answer the question. He does this all the time.
Fortunately, this time he was up against Mark Haines who doesn’t put up with his nonsense. I hope CNBC posts the video. I don’t think Congressman Frank understands that he’s not the chairman everywhere in the world. It’s pretty sad: You put a gavel in some people’s hands and it goes to their heads.
Haines asked a perfectly reasonable question. In Frank’s response, he asked Haines a question to which the anchor responded. This set Frank off. Instead of engaging in the back and forth of a conversation, Frank wastes even more time with his “I can’t answer routine.”
Congressman Frank is bully pure and simple and today he was put in his place.
June 11, 2009 11:04 am 
I give up. We are financially doomed. Every day I read about another program that the government wants to control. Yesterday I read about compensation intervention, new tobacco interference, interference into payments for online poker winnings, primarily from tarp banks citi and wfc, and that the coal companies have increased scrutiny in mountain top mining permits, partially overturning a law in place since 1982. The message is let’s destroy business, push healthy business out of the US, tax the bejeesus out of what is left. Then tax the hell out of anyone that continues to make money, tax health insurance benefits on people that have jobs, reduce the mortgage interest and charity write-offs, tax coal burning electricity generation increasing our monthly bills…and hand all of the money to the parasites in our society at the expense of massive deficits and likely out of control interest rates that will stick a fork in what is left of the US housing market. On top of all of this, let’s push unions on every business preventing flexibility, investment and dynamism in American business.
All of this is being pushed by people with no business experience and no concept of capitalism. Pelosi, Waxman, geithner, obama. Just yesterday, Charlie rangold said definitively that the republicans will have no say in the upcoming healthcare bill that will involve 17% of the US economy.
I give up.
Barney Frank wants to set the pay limits on ALL executives? This Congress and White House are turning America into a Communist State. They do not have the power they are exercising. The constitution does not allow such abuse of power. Barney Frank, Barack Obama and the rest of the radical liberal Democrats should be impeached.
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You can also deduct the amount you spend on tax preparing, so that’s another perk.