Mr. Fusion says:

#136, 137, and 138,

You effen losers have yet to post anything substantive. You girls keep saying “It’s Frank’s fault” but have yet to say what he did.

I’ll repeat, as late as August 2008, the Administration was saying “all is well”, publicly and privately.

pedro says:

#141 ConFused. You’re the one mistaken here, by trying unsuccessfully to take any blame away from him. He’s as guilty as all the Demagogues & Repugblicans involved.

And worse, he comes all sanctimoniously to admonish a relief to a mess he contributed to create.

Keep with your tune thoug, it’s funny to watch a mad liberal-at-large trying to twist reality.

Mister Mustard says:

#143 – ‘dro

>>You’re the one mistaken here, by trying
>>unsuccessfully to take any blame away from
>>him.

As soon as you and your wingnut pajama pals successfully assign some blame, we’ll determine whether or not we want to try and take it away.

So far, the only thing that can be conclusively determined about Barney Frank is that he was instrumental in preventing the attempted takeover of the mortgage industry by Dumbya and his cabal of deregulation-crazed predators.

Was there anything else?

Rick Cain says:

The mortgage crisis began in 2006, one year before the Democrats took power in january of 2007.
Barney frank in 2007 immediately began regulating the mortgage industry and howls of disapproval came from the GOP.

You come to your own conclusions.

bobbo says:

#130–Gary==a fair cop. I said my router wasn’t working. I’ve read too many articles that Barney worked hard his entire tenure thru bedmates and contributors to get house loans to poor people. He has ample opportunity to “speak out” about any coming disaster but how could he when he was the Champion of Excess.

So, who had “power” is a Congressional game of musical chairs netting out at “no one” is responsible. I take the other approach. Everyone in Congress IS responsible–that means everyone. Even people who aren’t senior ranking member of the party in power.

The reason our country is going down the shit hole is everyone here who can’t see the simple truth that everyone in Congress is responsible. Thats what they are elected to do/be.

When the electorate doesn’t understand basic relationships/obligations you get what we have today. A continuously corrupt congress shifting the wealth of our nation to a very few rich and avoiding responsibility for same even though the truth is discernible unless one exercises effort to avoid it.

Mister Mustard says:

#150 – Paddy-RAMBO

>>Even the lowest ranking member of the
>>minority could have screamed bloody murder
>>to the news media…

Screamed bloody murder about what? “Things seem OK now in 2002, but maybe the people testifying in front of us are liars, and at some point in the future the capitalist predators will fuck things up with their derivatives and CDOs and credit default swaps and leverage, and create a mess like you wouldn’t believe”??

Mr. Fusion says:

#149, bobbo, AKA Cow-Paddy,

I said my router wasn’t working.

Then how did you get on-line to post at all? A router is a gateway device between a modem and several computers. No router, the computer and modem don’t connect.

I’ve read too many articles that Barney worked hard his entire tenure thru bedmates and contributors to get house loans to poor people. He has ample opportunity to “speak out” about any coming disaster but how could he when he was the Champion of Excess.

Go back and read how Bush and his cronies continued to tell Congress, and the American people, how the economy was sound. Now tell us how someone can react when all indications are that everything is fine?

So, who had “power” is a Congressional game of musical chairs netting out at “no one” is responsible. I take the other approach. Everyone in Congress IS responsible–that means everyone. Even people who aren’t senior ranking member of the party in power.

Very good approach. Only you have only mentioned Frank and even accused him of fomenting the problem when he wasn’t even in charge. You have yet to mention ONE fucking Member of Congress that shares the blame with Frank. Your now omnibus accusation is too little and too late. Shit, you even accused him of running the committee long before he even became the ranking member.

The reason our country is going down the shit hole is everyone here who can’t see the simple truth that everyone in Congress is responsible. Thats what they are elected to do/be.

WHAT ?!?!?! The President refuses to share information with Congress. The President and his cronies lied to Congress. The Financial Industry got drunk buying shit. The regulators went out of their way to allow all this to happen. And you only blame Congress?

When the electorate doesn’t understand basic relationships/obligations you get what we have today.

True. A humiliated President and Administration that is the worst in history. The most dysfunctional regulators imaginable. Political Assistants who put Party and religion before the good of the country. A President who put friends in power. A long list of felony charges just waiting to be pardoned. And a Republican party in tatters.

The electorate understands. It is you and people like you that don’t understand.

Old saying on this blog. When you are in a hole, you can stop digging.

Mister Mustard says:

#154 – Mr. Fusion

I can see Paddy-RAMBO’s snappy reply now:

“LOL”

bobbo says:

My DLink $31 EBR-2310 wired router often will not connect to many websites. Most of the time, like now, I am connected directly to the modem, but there are two other users in the house. We use the limited service of the router when multiple people want to get on. It never works well–the $12 cheapo before this one worked perfectly before it totally broke. I’ve adjusted every setting I can find to no avail.

Mister Mustard says:

#157 – Bobbo

I can see it now: All the Bobbos, sitting around in a little circle, tethered to their defective router by 3-foot ethernet cables. All cursing their non-god in unison for their inability to connect to myriad websites.

And what are you doing with a wired router anyway, ya cheapskate? 802.11 b/g are cheap these days. In fact, mine was free from the ISP.