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Audacity of Truth
"Diplomacy":
"People are saying what in the world is going on with North Carolina, we look like Mississippi." - NC Gov. Bev Perdue (D) on the passage of Amendment One, 5-11-12
Rep. Barney Frank: Give me my d*mn senior discount!
Looks like someone threw a little tantrum recently … over $1:
Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank caused a scene when he demanded a $1 senior discount on his ferry fare to Fire Island’s popular gay haunt, The Pines, last Friday. Frank was turned down by ticket clerks at the dock in Sayville because he didn’t have the required Suffolk County Senior Citizens ID. A witness reports, “Frank made such a drama over the senior rate that I contemplated offering him the dollar to cool down the situation.” Frank made news last year when he was spotted looking uncomfortable around a bevy of topless, well-built men at the Pines Annual Ascension Beach Party. Frank’s spokesperson confirmed to Page Six that his partner, James Ready, asked the ticket office for a regular ticket for himself and a senior ticket for Frank, “but was turned down because Frank didn’t have a resident ID.”
Hilarious.
Doug Powers spots the irony from miles away:
Fast and loose with bushels of our money, tight-fisted with one dollar of his own.
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That’s okay, Barney — just pay yourself back out of Fannie & Freddie’s petty cash.
Heh.
Kinda reminds me of how Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) got all puffy a few months ago over the issue of airlines charging fees for carry-on luggage. He was OUTRAGED over the fact that some airlines charge between $25 and $45 for your carry-on – outraged to the point that he threatened to propose legislation banning such fees. Because, you know, he was concerned for ‘the little guy.’
But apparently not concerned enough to vote against the trillion-dollar ObamaCare “reform” bill, which will soak the rich and poor alike.
Oh well. As they say, appearances and symbolism in politics are everything …
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Likewise, John Kerry is noted for his “Do you know who I am?” fits when he thinks he’s getting shorted on the kowtowing.
Lord, how I hate these aristocratic brahmins. Didn’t we fight a war two and a quarter centuries ago about that? No royalty, no aristocracy?
Barney must have been a hell of a negotiator with all the male hustlers when he was still “single.”
yeah we fought a war againist this two and a half centuries ago and it looks like we’re going to have to fight another one to get rid of the new nobility(the AMERICAN POLITICAN).
Ya know, if one were so inclined one could write an entire book yearly of the incidents of politicians assuming roles of royalty in order to be served like royalty.
It’s all part of the arrogancia mindset.
It is usually the Democrat political elitist aristocracy who create these scenes over not having the red carpet unfurled at their pedicured toes, the ones who are getting filthy rich passing legislation that benefits themselves, overlooking harmful programs and policies that harm American taxpayers for the lobbyists’ panderings they receive. Gone are the days they consider themselves servants to the people and the interest of the nation as a sovereign land. And yet, the Dem Kool Aid gulpers see them as watching out for them. It is maddening and would be funny if it weren’t so damned depressing.
Barney to ticket taker: “The buck stops here! I’d sell my Fannie to Freddie for a dollar and I may need this buck to do just that”!
Give Barney his buck….wow these senior gay guys can get feisty! Must have been a quiet ride on the ferry over to Fire Island.
I think it’s time to retire the seniors from the house and senate and let them enjoy their platinum parachutes compliments of the U. S Taxpayer…sigh
:d Nothing as amusing as a male gay guy throwing a hissy fit. They can out shriek any ole hag out there.
Sounds like those democraps from MA don’t like to pay the taxes and fees and ‘sacrifices’ they expect the ‘little people’ to patriotically pay. Dem hypocrisy is a never ending weed.
The fairy refusing to mount a ferry over a buck to go see the fairies? Hard to believe.