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Started by garbon, November 28, 2011, 01:36:30 PM

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garbon

November 28, 2011, 01:36:30 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/rep-barney-frank-announced-retirement-181445416.html

QuoteDemocratic Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts says he does not intend to seek re-election in 2012.

Frank spoke Monday at a news conference in his hometown of Newton.

Frank said he originally intended to run for one more term, but that his decision was partially due to the fact that the state's new redistricting map will include many people he has never represented before.

Frank said he has had a "busy and stressful" four years dealing with financial reform after the recession.

He says he plans to write and stay involved in public policy decisions.

The 71-year-old Frank, and a lifelong liberal, won a House seat in 1980 was one of the first lawmakers to announce that he is gay.

Today is a good day.
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MadImmortalMan

#1
November 28, 2011, 01:57:47 PM
His committee replacement will be Maxine Waters.

Not a good day.  :cry:
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
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MadImmortalMan

#2
November 28, 2011, 02:00:40 PM
Oh, the stock market apparently agrees with me. Buckle up.
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

Habbaku

#3
November 28, 2011, 02:22:29 PM
:yeah:
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

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Admiral Yi

#4
November 28, 2011, 04:06:49 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on November 28, 2011, 01:57:47 PM
His committee replacement will be Maxine Waters.

Not a good day.  :cry:

I thought the line on Maxine was corrupt, not stupid.

dps

#5
November 28, 2011, 04:54:57 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 28, 2011, 04:06:49 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on November 28, 2011, 01:57:47 PM
His committee replacement will be Maxine Waters.

Not a good day.  :cry:

I thought the line on Maxine was corrupt, not stupid.


I thought that it was both.

FunkMonk

#6
November 28, 2011, 07:09:03 PM
Who was it here who was a big fan of this guy? Was it Count? Or am I getting my ex-posters here mixed up?
Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

Ideologue

#7
November 28, 2011, 07:19:58 PM
He seems pretty great to me.
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Darth Wagtaros

#8
November 28, 2011, 07:25:13 PM
Count.
PDH!

Ideologue

#9
November 28, 2011, 07:36:16 PM
I miss Count.

Iirc, Feingold was the one he wanted to fuck, though, attributing to him superhuman abilities possessed only by a Roosevelt, or an Edwards.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Darth Wagtaros

#10
November 28, 2011, 07:41:58 PM
Count was cool despite his love for the Red Sox.  Shame he lost his shit and quit.
PDH!

MadImmortalMan

#11
November 28, 2011, 07:43:23 PM
Lost his shit? I thought he just stopped posting much and faded off. He was busy with school, IIRC.
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

Ideologue

#12
November 28, 2011, 07:44:12 PM
He didn't go to law school, did he?
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Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Eddie Teach

#13
November 28, 2011, 07:48:25 PM
Nah, seminary.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

FunkMonk

#14
November 28, 2011, 07:49:17 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on November 28, 2011, 07:36:16 PM
I miss Count.

Iirc, Feingold was the one he wanted to fuck, though, attributing to him superhuman abilities possessed only by a Roosevelt, or an Edwards.

Yeah, you're right. Got Feingold mixed up with Frank.

I got the Count part right.  :bowler:
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