“Any movement in which the intellectual leader is Michele Bachmann is... going to be problematic"

[babylonsister]

Ain't that the truth! :D


Rep. Frank wants GOP to distance itself from Tea Party protests after gay slurs
By Molly K. Hooper - 03/20/10 08:52 PM ET


Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), called a "Homo Communist" on Saturday by protesters opposed to President Barack Obama's health plan, says his GOP colleagues need to do more to "differentiate themselves" from the hateful speech spewed in the healthcare debate's final hours.

Frank, an openly gay lawmaker, had to call the Captiol Police “to move away” five or six protesters who were banging on his office door and shouting through the mail slot.

While making the trek across the street from his office to the Capitol, Frank was called a “Homo Communist” and told to “go homo to Massachusetts” by several protesters, according to witnesses and confirmed by Frank.

Lawmakers at work on Capitol Hill for a rare Saturday session endured thousands of energized protesters gathered to show their opposition to the president’s sweeping healthcare reform bill, headed for passage on Sunday.

Frank, a longtime advocate for lesbian and gay rights, called it “unfortunate” that people protesting in the Tea Party event took to spewing “bigoted, abusive, personal things” at him and some African-American members.

“If this was a movement that I was part of, I’d be doing more than I think the Republicans are, to differentiate myself,” Frank said in an interview with The Hill that afternoon.

Then the Financial Services Committee Chairman took a shot at a GOP member of his Financial Services Committee panel, Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.).

“Any movement in which the intellectual leader is Michele Bachmann is obviously going to be problematic,” Frank said.

Bachmann's office did not comment for this story.


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[Solly Mack]

1. teehee

[RKP5637]

2. Excellent!!! n/t

[tanyev]

3. I'm sure Ms. Bachmann's taxpayer funded health insurance has good coverage for

mental health care. Pity she doesn't take advantage of it.

[hobbit709]

4. Now THERE is an oxymoron

Bachman and intellectual.
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[malaise]

5. Barney Frank always says it best

:rofl:

[wellstone dem]

6. And to back up words with action, please donate to

www.tarrylclark.com

She is running against Michele Bachmann. She is assistant majority leader of the Minnesota Senate and has won election and reelection in a conservative part of the district. She is a smart politician and would not have run without having done the political calculations to be sure she could win.

[Swede]

7. Bazinga!

[democracy1st]

8. K & R

[AlinPA]

9. The republican leadership's followers shouting slurs through a mail slot in a congressman's door!

They have gone completely berserk.

[eppur_se_muova]

10. "Energized" protestors? What, we're dealing with fuzzy pink bunnies here?

I'd say "public nuisances" trending towards "public menaces" would be closer to the truth.

Find these people a Free Speech Zone in the Nevada salt flats.

[blondeatlast]

11. "...problematic." I love, love, love a deft touch with language.

Kudos to Rep. Frank.