Even I support it.

YEAH!

Barney Frank is a crackpot who doesn't know what century he is living in, he wants to take us back to when there were no roads and sewer systems!

Sincerely

The Left

Holy Fucking Shit.

To all the America haters who didn't want this to happen, said it was a waste of time or said it wouldn't work, go fuck yourselves.

The headline should that Frank thinks it will pass, not that he supports Ron Paul, IMHO.

Frank just wagging his butt, that's all...

The headline says, "Barney Frank Supports Ron Paul Fed Audit Bill"

Supports the Bill, dummy. Not the guy.

Are you questioning My authority?!

Are you questioning My authority?!
#6 | Posted by GOD

You don't exist. You are a figment of humanity's collective imagination. You were created in the image of humanity.

Are you questioning My authority?!
#6 | Posted by GOD

wait...I hear some flutes, lutes & whirlpools...Barney's callin' from the bathroom...

later:>)

Hey!!!

Good for Frank! This bill may just be going places.

The headline should that Frank thinks it will pass, not that he supports Ron Paul, IMHO.

#4 | Posted by IraqiBukkake at 2009-08-28 04:13 PM

If you Rethugs had some balls you would have run Ron Paul for President.

Actually, Barney Frank was misquoted, as explained by Ron Paul.

Frank wants to do for the Fed what he did to Fannie/Freddie.
Ron Paul wanted an actual audit. This is an end-run. It is a GM take-over.

To bad the Fed Audit bill is a nuetered piece of fell good only legislation now. Which is why NOW Frank wants to be seen as supporting it.

Just make sure no one from Wall Street is on the auditing team. Otherwise, it will be like having Republocrats giving us their 9-11 Report. A coverup for a failed Government.

But if it is another coverup, it will be of white collar crime. The greatest crime in the history of mankind. Made possible through an elaborate charade, orchestrated by monied interests with the full support of the Republican Party, phoney Think Tanks, including many economists in the Academic Community. They understand who butters their bread and lie in order to stay on that gravy train.

Ah, another bullshit commission that will find that no assassination attempts have been authorized or taken place. Ooops, wrong decade. My bad.

If an audit were done properly, it would reveal to the public that we are insolvent and heavily dependent on foriegn capital to operate our weapons of mass destruction.

Wall Street didn't just screw Middle America, which wouldn't matter. They also fucked Saudi Arabia, Japan, France England, China, Germany...Switzerland and everyone in between. For this they would be sued by people who can afford to be in Court for along time. That process would have completely discredited the US Financial System and eventually bankrupted Goldman-Sachs, Merrill-Lynch, Morgan-Stanley, and Smith-Barney. So Bernanke and Paulson schemed to stick it to the american taxpayer instead, concocting a storyline of honor and vital function these institutions of fraud perform. Taking papaerwork to a new level they rely on hi-speed computers and top secreet software to lie cheat and steal. Even when they are caught redhanded such as partnering with Bernie Madoff in PRIMEX trading, they are so well connected in Treasury and the Fed that they get away with fines less than 10% of what they stole.

Sometimes a politician will 'sign on' to a popular piece of legislation to look good for the constituents because he/she knows the bill will not go through, but still get credit for 'trying'

Spud supports Frank's support of Ron Paul's attempts to finally move the Federal Fridge and clean up behind it.

Yes, it's bound to be a big mess but ya can't keep putting it off ferever.

This audit is over-due like a Visa bill from the sixties.

That aint the question.

Better questions are...

Will an audit actually take place?

and...

Will it be white wash fake audit or a real one?

Spud aint gonna hold his breath waiting fer this audit to occur but would be pleasantly suprised if it did.

Go Ron Paul!

Get 'er done!

Be Well.

Ron Paul has some interesting ideas, but do we really think he had a chance on a national level? I mean, please. Never mind his more wingnut aspects and the quotes that would come out showing (purportedly) racism (the one about black men and sneakers comes to mind) and sexism and homophobia; just listen to his voice. McCain was hardly inspiring, but Ron Paul is downright whiny. With a good editor, he would have been a great candidate before the age of radio.

(Please note: I think he's an interesting guy and very important to Congress. In this way, he's like Dennis Kucinich. Yeah, as liberal as I am, and as much as DK brings some cool ideas to the table, I would NOT want him as president. Let's leave pols like this to their roles as voices/idea men; they shake up debates and campaigns, but neither should or could get elected to the presidency. In my ever so humble. And the Republicans would never run Ron Paul because they know this--and because he is NOT a party player. Ditto DK.)

"This audit is over-due like a Visa bill from the sixties.

That aint the question.

Better questions are...

Will an audit actually take place?"

It should, but it won't.

Both sides of the aisle are beholden to and infested with fed influence.

If an audit does take place, it should be conducted by a Swiss firm or some other totally independent body.

Both sides of the aisle are beholden to and infested with fed influence.

~Babu

Quick, somebody take a picture.

Spud is agree with Big Baboo, here.

That don't happen all that often.

Is Kodak moment.

If an audit does take place, it should be conducted by a Swiss firm or some other totally independent body.

Agree that the audit needs the credibility that could only come from an independent source.

Not entirely sure the Swiss would make the top of Spud's list.

Their alleged neutrality has been suspect fer a good many years now.

How about a group of independant forensic accountants assembled from all over the US required to show their werk double checked by an international group of same.

Won't happen most likely.

Just putting it out there.

Wishes, horses, all that.

Be Well.

This is a good idea. Partisan horse shit has nothing to do with the fact that it is a good idea.

Its funny thought that it takes Ron Paul to do what the Dem's should have figured out on their own.

who knows!

If this passes, the sky's the limit
Flat tax,
return to the gold standard!

Look out world the RON PAUL Dirigible will be unstoppable!

Every single representative opposed to the audit should be removed from office and investigated.

"How about a group of independant forensic accountants assembled from all over the US required to show their werk double checked by an international group of same."

I'd use international experts for both.

"How about a group of independant forensic accountants assembled from all over the US required to show their werk double checked by an international group of same."

I'd use international experts for both.
#25 | Posted by babuenthal at 2009-08-29 07:29 PM

Complete agreement.

^.^

Yay! Barney Frank supports an audit of the federal government, but he certainly wouldn't support an audit of his own finances ... sound a bit hypocritical there?

^.^

Ron Paul has some interesting ideas, but do we really think he had a chance on a national level? I mean, please. Never mind his more wingnut aspects and the quotes that would come out showing (purportedly) racism (the one about black men and sneakers comes to mind) and sexism and homophobia; just listen to his voice. McCain was hardly inspiring, but Ron Paul is downright whiny. With a good editor, he would have been a great candidate before the age of radio.

Ron Paul's a nice enough guy, but you're never going to convince enough people (mostly conservatives) that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were illegal, as Paul seemed to want to do ... and yes, he did all of this while sounding like a whining drowned rat, which is never good for display at a GOP presidential debate...

Quite frankly, bring back Perot. He was a lot less sane, and a lot more entertaining than Ron Paul.

Paul has no chance. he's half fascist.

Paul has no chance. he's half fascist.
#29 | Posted by ichiro at 2009-08-29 10:45 PM

Libertarians who do not support free education are indeed fascistic capitalist whores who retard societal growth in favor of an antiquated class system.

Sorry Paul.

"Representative Frank, there is something on your chin...."

Foriegn money was in on the creation of the Fed and is the final resting place of our stolen bailout money.

Forensic accountants working for economists and comptrollers of proven integrity would be required. Names like David Walker Comptroller eneral of the GAO, who resigned tens years into his fifteen year term because no one in Washington would listen to his concerns. Michael Hudson and Paul Craig Roberts are honest brilliant economists that speak truth to power.

After 9-11 only Richard Clarke spoke honestly by saying "your Government failed you". The White House resisted any investigation until widows forced the investigation. So the Panel was then stacked with Republican hacks that censored and watered down the findings. No one representing the Feds ownership should be permitted to participate.

Good. I supported this proposal for an audit from the get-go. What is the possible downside to knowing how our money is being spent?

People like Barney Frank should not be allowed to be a part of the audit. Putting his grubby hands on this project exponentially increases the odds that the audit will be a sham. He is part of the problem in the financial sector of our government. Anyone excited about his "support" for this initiative needs to realize that he is probably getting involved so he can cover the fed's ass.

To worry about Frank while the likes of Greenspan (the master architect), Bernanke, Geithner, Paulson, Rubin, Summers are still free men is theater of the absurd. These millionaires and billionaires think americans make too much money. Yet they are just fronts for the the real criminals, running Wall Street and Hedge Funds around the world. These organized criminals have pillaed and plundered the S&L industry, South America, Russia... and now the States, always focusing on Energy, Water, Minerals, Food and War.

Gee God I would've never thought you were a disingenuous fella:

With "This will probably pass in October", Frank is referring not to HR 1207, but to his own financial regulation bill, which might or might not include some aspects of Ron Paul's HR 1207. The preceding sentence, "That will be part of the overall federal regulation that we are redacting," is for some reason missing from the widely distributed transcript, and has therefore been completely ignored by bloggers and commentators.

In recent weeks Ron Paul repeatedly warned against just this sort of thing happening: that HR 1207 might become part of a more comprehensive financial regulation bill and be watered down so that it appeases the angry masses without instituting any real changes. It would be an irony of history if that happened if HR 1207 were watered down and integrated into an unconstitutional bill that Ron Paul would have to vote against.

Is Ron Paul the illegitimate son of Ross Perot?

If so, RUN RON RUN!!

LMFAO

It would be an irony of history if that happened if HR 1207 were watered down and integrated into an unconstitutional bill that Ron Paul would have to vote against.

#36 | Posted by Gimme_a_Scotch at 2009-08-30 09:51 PM

Should have guessed something like this would happen.

Ron Paul's a nice enough guy, but you're never going to convince enough people (mostly conservatives) that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were illegal, as Paul seemed to want to do ... and yes, he did all of this while sounding like a whining drowned rat, which is never good for display at a GOP presidential debate...

Quite frankly, bring back Perot. He was a lot less sane, and a lot more entertaining than Ron Paul.

#28 | Posted by lunahq7

ff

always focusing on Energy, Water, Minerals, Food and War.
#35 | Posted by nutcase