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Bank Bailout Boosts Barney's Boston Buddies
Modern Conservative ^ | January 25, 2009 | Sammy Benoit

Posted on 01/26/2009 7:45:41 AM PST by thinkingIsPresuppositional

By Sammy Benoit

Barney Frank is the "Teflon Congressman. He was a leading OPPONENT of regulating of Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac (see video below) and was able to transfer the entire blame on President Bush. He never had to answer why he fought so hard to squash regulation, was it the tons of campaign cash Frank got from Freddie and Fannie OR the fact that Frank's former lover was the former director of housing initiatives for Fannie Mae.

The July 3, 1998, Reliable Source column in The Washington Post reported Frank, who is openly gay, had a relationship with Herb Moses, an executive for the now-government controlled Fannie Mae. The column revealed the two had split up at the time but also said Frank was referring to Moses as his “spouse.” Another Washington Post report said Frank called Moses his “lover” and that the two were “still friends” after the breakup.

Of course no one calls Barney on it even though, according to his words they should:

Frank has argued that family life “should be fair game for campaign discussion,” wrote the Associated Press on Sept. 2. The comment was in reference to GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and her pregnant daughter. “They’re the ones that made an issue of her family,” the Massachusetts Democrat said to the AP.

Well Barney you made an Issue of it too, shouldn't we be finding out if you got your direction from Moses (and I am not talking about the Ten Commandments)

Frank aggressively fought reform efforts by the Bush administration. He told The New York Times on Sept. 11, 2003, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s problems were “exaggerated,” ok so maybe he was a bit off, since the twin headed Fannie/Freddie has sacked the American Public with costs estimated to be in the hundreds of billions

“These two entities – Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – are not facing any kind of financial crisis,” Frank Opined to the Times. “The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.”

The 10/8/03 Washington Post reported that Frank opposed giving the Bush administration the approval rights over banking business activities that “could pose risk to the taxpayers.” He worried the Treasury Department “would sacrifice activities that are good for consumers in the name of lowering the companies’ market risks.”

Frank Got away with ALL of that. No wonder why he acts as if nothing can touch him, or that anyone who disagrees with him is biased, stupid or just wrong.

Now the Powerful Chairman of the House Banking Committee is at it again. As part of the release of the Banking Bailout Dollars, he directed funds to a local Massachusetts bank CITED BY REGULATORS FOR THEIR EXCESSES (they bought the CEO a Porsche). Even worse the Bank has been cited for UNSOUND Business Practices:

Frank, head of the powerful House Financial Services Committee, acknowledged that last fall he inserted into the government’s $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program bill specific language to help OneUnited, New England’s only black-owned bank. He also said he contacted someone at the Treasury Department about OneUnited’s application for emergency TARP funds, though he insisted he never asked Treasury to bend any rules on behalf of OneUnited.

“I believe it would have been a very big mistake to put the only black bank out of business,” Frank said in an interview.

OneUnited was financially reeling from the federal government’s takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, both of which had their shares wiped out by the government action. OneUnited owned substantial shares in the two mortgage giants, Frank said....

..But OneUnited was also facing regulatory scrutiny last fall from other government agencies, which later slapped a cease-and-desist order on OneUnited due to “unsafe and unsound banking practices.”

Regulators also complained of “excessive” executive pay at OneUnited - including a Porsche for use by CEO Kevin Cohee....

Barney Keller, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Republican Party, said he wasn’t surprised by Frank’s action.

“Rep. Frank’s motives on the committee have always been politics first, people second, which is exactly how we got ourselves into this mess in the first place,” Keller said. “I hope he at least gets to test-drive the Porsche.” Source:Barney Frank helped controversial black-owned bank gain money

Barney, taking care of friends is a noble gesture, BUT DO IT WITH YOUR OWN MONEY!!

Being a leading player in the collapse of our banking system has not hurt Frank, neither has his apparent conflict of interests, I doubt very much whether this will hurt him either. And that is a shame, because the man is a menace to the US economy.

Sammy Benoit is editor of the Award Winning Blog, Yidiwthlid



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; bailout; banking; bankingcrisis; barneyfrank; corruption; criminalconspiracy; cultureofcorruption; democratcongress; democrats; democratscandals; economy; fanniemae; financialcrisis; freddimac; greatbankingswindle; homosexualagenda; howtostealanelection; lavendermafia; pelosicongress; pravdamedia

1 posted on 01/26/2009 7:45:41 AM PST by thinkingIsPresuppositional
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To: thinkingIsPresuppositional

You forgot to include the word (or words) “Butt Boys” in the headline.


2 posted on 01/26/2009 7:47:43 AM PST by garyhope (Barack Hussein Obambi, Marxist traitor and the end of America and Western civilization)
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To: thinkingIsPresuppositional
Bank Bailout Boosts Barney's Boston Bunghole Buddies
3 posted on 01/26/2009 7:48:33 AM PST by llevrok (Obama will never be in my spell check dictionary.)
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To: garyhope

I ask: Who hasn’t Barney Frank had a “relationship” with?


4 posted on 01/26/2009 7:51:02 AM PST by matginzac
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To: garyhope; llevrok
LOL - you guys are too fast. Here's my contribution.

Bank Bailout Boosts Barney's Boston Butt Buddies

5 posted on 01/26/2009 7:55:55 AM PST by Enterprise (A Representative Republic - gone now. Foolish people.)
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To: llevrok; freekitty; unkus; IrishMike; SouthTexas; flat; Clintonfatigued

These truths need to be posted weekly on billboards all across the fruited plains.


6 posted on 01/26/2009 7:56:15 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: thinkingIsPresuppositional

‘The column revealed the two had split up at the time but also said Frank was referring to Moses as his “spouse.”’

It’s hard to believe that Moses actually loved that a$$hole! :)


7 posted on 01/26/2009 7:56:16 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing! I'm a doctor, and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: matginzac

I was going to say, chickens, goats, sheep, horses, etc., but good taste almost got the better of me.


8 posted on 01/26/2009 8:03:17 AM PST by garyhope (Barack Hussein Obambi, Marxist traitor and the end of America and Western civilization)
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To: matginzac

A woman.


9 posted on 01/26/2009 8:03:36 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

“It’s hard to believe that Moses actually loved that a$$hole! :)”

EWWWWWW!


10 posted on 01/26/2009 8:04:40 AM PST by Batman11
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To: garyhope

All Bush’s fault.

Vote the bastRATs out!!!
Presstitutes media DIE, DIE, DIE!!


11 posted on 01/26/2009 8:05:30 AM PST by Leo Carpathian (fffffFRrrreeeeepppeeee!)
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To: thinkingIsPresuppositional
It was not as if Barney Frank weren't being held to responsibility for his part in the Freddy Mac/Fannie Mae meltdown, he simply ignored the charges. Since nobody came with a body attachment to haul him away, his chuzpah won the day for him.

We see the same bravado from Governor Blagojevich of Illinois. He won't even appear before the Illinois State Senate to listen to the chages against him.

And you know what? He might even beat the rap by abiding by those tactics. "Why pick on the poor guy? He's not here to defend himself."

There is such a thing as pronouncing sentence in absentia.

12 posted on 01/26/2009 8:06:55 AM PST by alloysteel (The nascent obama regime - the dawn of a new error, compounding all the previous ones.)
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To: Leo Carpathian

A poster on the Boston Herald web-site coined the phrase “Social Justice Mortgages” last week. A classic.


13 posted on 01/26/2009 8:08:17 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: thinkingIsPresuppositional
Frank is a repulsive human being who needs his daily ego fix by calling all others ignorant, all of the time. He preys on the insecure, playing them like a Strad. That's why his district, filled with insecure academics and their opposites, the truly ignorant, fall on their swords and vote over and over for him. He keeps them in their rattled places by reminding them of their stupidity.
14 posted on 01/26/2009 8:08:33 AM PST by Melinda
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To: Leo Carpathian

“All Bush’s fault.”

The universal cry and excuse of the Dim Dhims.


15 posted on 01/26/2009 8:14:33 AM PST by garyhope (Barack Hussein Obambi, Marxist traitor and the end of America and Western civilization)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

LOL, you got that right!


16 posted on 01/26/2009 8:15:33 AM PST by garyhope (Barack Hussein Obambi, Marxist traitor and the end of America and Western civilization)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; justiceseeker93; ..

Prop 8 related.

Pelosi Advocates Greater Government Investment in Banks:
‘Some People Call That Nationalization’
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Posted on 01/26/2009 6:37:54 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2171907/posts

Obama aide won’t rule out more money for bailouts
Reuters | 26 Jan 2009 | Emily Kaiser and Kim Dixon
Posted on 01/26/2009 8:05:15 AM PST by BGHater
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2171966/posts


17 posted on 01/26/2009 10:27:17 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Batman11

For the record, Herb Moses never loved the dude. He used Barney just as he uses people today. Barfie was a means to an end for him. It was prestige and brought prestige.

Too bad though that his association with Barnie hasn’t helped him today as a third-rate loan salesman, part-time escort and porn actor (if you could call it acting). And the company he keeps is highly questionable, including what’s under his roof.

And ever wonder why Barnie and Herb broke up? Inquiring minds want to know. Was it related to the FNMA scandal, conflict of interest or what? Or maybe Herb got all he could stand looking at Barney and went after a younger fella.

Stay tuned for more...

Mr. OCBUD


18 posted on 01/27/2009 8:11:40 PM PST by OCBUD (Let's find out why Barnie and Herb split)
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