Barney Frank blasts Bachmann on Tea Party anti-gay slurs

Hmm bigotry, homophobia…quite a political strategy for a diverse multiracial world. Go team!!

The comments made by some of the “tea party patriots” tell me more about THEM than about the targets of those comments. It simply shows the level of ignorance (a sad lack of knowledge) in America. This health care reform bill may not be perfect or even the best possible outcome in 2010, but it does show that Americans do care about human rights. I, like most folks I know, believe that health care is a human right. Just like education. I wonder what some of the “tea party patriots” would think if they had to write a check each morning at the start of their kids school day. (Actually, they may think that would be fine. Education does not seem like a priority for this bunch. I would give you a million dollars for every college degree held by one of them, if I could! Actually, Make that an associate’s degree.)

Funny how there are so many very small (and pointless) articles this morning about these racist “tea party” attendees. I watched hours of coverage and heard none of these slurs….except from the dems saying it happened (they don’t ever lie, do they?). And who exactly took role call and determined everyone protesting was a tea party activist?? From what I saw there were Democrats, Republicans, independents and a variety of other intelligent individuals amassed to protest this unconstitutional “legislation”. Perhaps one should report on WHY thousands of Americans from all political arenas came together to demand that the government not pass this bill.

The Tea Bagger’s Conundrum: It’s not racist or homophobic or sexist if they hate everyone (who isn’t a straight white male) equally. I’m wondering when these people will start suggesting that the superior race is blonde hair and blue eyed….they don’t seem too far off at this point.

The Tea Party people are showing their true colors-racist, homophobic people who would rather see our country ripped to shreds than pay their fair share of taxes.

Although I do not live within Rep. Bachmann’s district, I will definitely be deeply involved in the effort to oust her this fall. All of us are entitled to our opinions and beliefs, but Ms. Bachmann’s actions — on the census and the irrational promotion of the fear mongering Tea Party — that’s she’s not worthy of the office she holds.

[...] This weekend Barney Frank (D-Mass.), the openly gay chair of the House Financial Services Committee, came under heavy attack by screaming Tea Partiers. “Faggot!” they shouted. “Homo Communist!… go homo to Massachusetts.” Sound familiar? [...]

Frank has had too much pole down his throat and it must have cut the blood supply to his brain. What a clown.

Jimmy, Thanks for proving Rep. Frank’s point…

Hey Jimmy, why don’t you go beat off to some Nazi propoganda and stop being such a right wing tool.

The only clown in that exchange is Bachmann. She is giving Minnesota a reputation for ignorance and stupidity unrivaled by anyone short of Jimmy. Two twits supporting each other in hatred and phlegm.

So if you are against Socialism (Governmant take over of means of production), you are a bigot, homophobe, Tea Bagger, fear mongerer, masterbating Nazi, hater?

Who exactly is Pre-Judging?

@Nate: Nazis are socialists. Like Frank.

[...] Barney Frank blasts Bachmann on Tea Party anti-gay slurs Minnesota Independent – Mar 22nd – 09:02 [...]

It’s unfortunate that it is believed that the Tea Party is a legitimate movement. There were more votes in favor of the bill last night than the number of people that showed up to the Tea Bag convention. These agitators have not offered one worthwhile solution of any kind. Fact: the Tea Party will have to realize America is going to move forward with or without them. They can spit and sneer and foam at the mouth all they want….no one is really listening to them. I’m in Michele Bachmann’s district and would like to thank her for keeping the seat warm for our upcoming Representative -Tarryl Clark.

I’m a 55 yr old woman born in Cincinnati, Ohio. I’m ashamed to be from Ohio thanks to Orange Boehner and that notjob in my hometown Cincy, Jean Schmidt. She’s a wack job just like this DISGRACEFUL wingnut Bachmann (and a long list of other nutjobs on the right).

Thanks to the Republican party and 8 yrs of Bush, I’m completely ashamed to be an American. Bush INTENTIONALLY lied us into a war with Cheney’s urging. It was an illegal war that killed over 4,000 Americans and approx 600,000 innocent Iraqis.

No wonder the world hates us, thinks we are fringe idiots.

When a party has something to hide and nothing to offer, all they can do is lie and spin, and that’s what the Republican party is all about these days. It’s a disgrace their behavior, all of them. Party of “no”.

Are cons aware that Fox News (the fake news channel) went to court and fought for the right to intentionally lie on air… and won ?

Fox, Limbaugh, right wing radio, Rove, etc,right wing fringe nuts in congress, they are DESTROYING this country.

BTW, for those who don’t know, the Tea Party from day 1 was financed and backed by the Republican machine. Sadly those people are too ignorant to know that. They are not their own entity. Dumbed down Americans brainwashed zombies following like puppets to the spin and bullsh’t.

Cons, whiners, Tea Partiers, they have NO IDEA what’s even in the bill. They don’t read it, they get their fake-info from Fox who tries to scare them into hating Dems and believing everything Fox/Republicans say.

We are pretty close to being destroyed as a nation by the dumbed down who follow the right wing spin machine.

The Republicans in office have always put party before country.

BTW, I’m not a Dem. Never have been. I’m an independent who voted for Nixon and Reagan (whom wasn’t as great a president as the myth that remains of him).

The reason I posted here is because I think the mass majority have never read ANY of the bill and have no idea what’s in it. Most also don’t know how to really find the info.

I have a few links I’ll share that you can skim over to see what this bill entails.

This is a summary of the bill and the timeline:

http://docs.house.gov/energycommerce/TIMELINE.pdf

Summary of key details:

http://docs.house.gov/energycommerce/SUMMARY.pdf

Immediate benefits:

http://docs.house.gov/energycommerce/IMMEDIATE_PROVISIONS.pdf

Cost of INACTION:

http://docs.house.gov/energycommerce/COSTOFINACTION.pdf

Why we need reform:

http://docs.house.gov/energycommerce/HCBYTHENUMBERS.pdf

Hope that helps some of you glance over what is actually involved with this bill.

BTW, 147 Republican ammendments were included in this bill. They were NOT shut out as they claim. From the day Obama took ofc (and NO I didn’t support him, I supported Hillary), the Republicans intended to be obstructionist. They had the intent to stop this president and this congress from accomplishing anything, no matter what, as long as they were in office. Again, for Republicans, it’s party power before country and its people.

One more thing I must add. Come on Minnesota! Michelle is a real dingbat, a real fringe nutjob dangerous disgraceful-to-women dingbat. GET RID OF HER!

President Obama probably needs to ramp up our EDUCATIONAL programs before the HEALTHCARE! I wasn’t aware of all the ignorant, uneducated, bigoted, raciest people in this nation. Let them shine … like the Reverend Phelps…the more they open their foul mouths, the more they radiate the true hateful, angry, souls they really are! WHAT ONE SOWS, SO SHALL THEY REAP!

Being a Minnesotan, I have always scratched my head in disbelief that Michele Bachmann got elected the first time around, let alone for a second term.
Luantic fringe.

Oops. sorry about the typos.

Way to prove Frank’s point, Jimmy! And no, Frank isn’t a socialist. Try attaching inaccurate labels elsewhere. Must be hard for you these days, eh? Seeing healthcare for all and seeing gays getting more rights everyday? Next thing you know, women will be earning equal $$ for equal work! Times are soooo tough for the little baby reactionary!

Well, I think it’s nice that all the seriously crazy people have their own party now. It will be interesting to see who they crown as official Mad Hatter. I’m waiting with bated breath for the moment when they reach tha critical point; when they become so bloated and glutted with their own fear, hatred and loathing that their heads all explode simultaneously.

It’s almost amusing to watch interviews with them as they’re utterly incapable of iterating anything but the mindless gibberish they’ve been spoon-fed, and when asked to elaborate, can only regurgitate what they’ve heard on Fox un-News.

It would, perhaps, be more amusing if not for the sad fact that the level of ignorance displayed is a commentary on the abysmal lack of educational basics in this country. These are not people who are capable of intelligent, cogent, reasoned thought.

My mother used to say, “It’s useless to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent”. The teabaggers are a perfect illustration of her point.

Frank is a socialist. Barry is a Marxist.

Only a psycho Marxist would be unhappy about healthcare for all. I’m unhappy about the destruction of healthcare. As Barry says, the sick will just take a pain pill and die.

As usual the conservatives will have to clean up the mess left my braindead hatemongering leftists.

I too live in Bachman’s district–northern metro burbs. Mind you, the geography of the district shows clear gerrymandering, however, I can’t find one neighbor or anyone who lives in her district that likes her or admits to voting for her. It’s mind-boggling that Ms. Bachman is as popular as she is. Family and friends from other parts of the country are constantly emailing about her bizarre behavior….it is truly embarrassing.

Um BARNEY FRANK IS A LYING TEABAGGING HIMSELF. SAW THE VIDEO THERE WAS NO INCIDENT.

2010 elections is coming.

Can’t wait til the Dem. are ousted in Office

Jimmy, keep talking. Every time you open your mouth you demonstrate just how stupid and ignorant you are.

Eddie, if you have specific questions please post them. I’m in a generous mood; today your education is free.

With videos everywhere these days, not a single Youtube video of this? Not a single picture nor video of the event.

Saying that all tea partiers are “racist” and “homophobic” just because a couple of them are idiots and use slurs… well… that’s just ridiculous. A few loudmouths now define the movement?

Two can play that game. I might as well start calling all liberals “corrupt,” “sex addicts,” and “Chicago thugs” due to ACORN, Charlie Rangel’s bribes, William Jefferson down in Louisiana, Elliot Spitzer’s womanizing, and Rahm Emanuel calling Dems “retarded.”

Then we can all sit back and point fingers and not get anything accomplished.

For those unsure, Tarryl Clark, the woman in the ‘moneybomb’ ads you are probably seeing as you read the comments, is the person taking on Bachmann (her DFL endorsement is likely this weekend). If you want to get rid of Bachmann, consider a donation to Clark’s campaign. For those more fervent, give money and then come out to the endorsing convention this Saturday and offer to volunteer. I am sure Clark’s website has all the info you’ll need. Peace.

“Saying that all tea partiers are “racist” and “homophobic” just because a couple of them are idiots and use slurs… well… that’s just ridiculous. A few loudmouths now define the movement?”

Absolutely. Especially when the one of the head cheerleaders is an elected memeber of Congress. Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann is a very vocally acclaimed champion of the Tea Baggers, both self professed on her own part as well as by the common, ordinary everyday nut cases that subscribe to their rabid right wing ideology and who, in Pavlovian fashion, rally to her school bell calls to action. Her history of anti-gay, homophobic words and deeds is quite well established: e.g. when serving in the Minnesota legislature she was caught hiding behind bushes at the State Capitol spying on a gay rally; and when attending a community forum in 2005, to discuss a bill that she was sponsering to ban same sex marriage, she accused two individuals that she presumed to be lesbians of holding her hostage in a rest room. Want to read some more of her wacko:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-04/rep-michele-bachmannrsquos-wackiest-moments/p/

As an elected representative to the United States Congress it is reasonable hold Michelle to a higher standard of conduct – one that does not include fear mongering, and out right, bold faced lying as part of a mondus operandi. Unfortunately Michelle has little, actually no, compunction as to what she will say or do in pursuit of her smarmy, sexist and racist agenda.

Two hopes: 1) that the voters of her district finally wake up after four years of her inanity and send her packing in the next election, or 2) if Minnesota loses a congressional seat as a result of the census count, that it be her seat that gets redistricted out of existence. How ironic would that be since Michelle has publicly exhorted the population not to cooperate with the census. Why? Because in Michelle’s paranoid, always a conspiracy mentality, the census data could be used to put any or all of us in internmnent camps just like was done with Japanese Americans in WWII.

Wow! Now I ask you how just how idiotic is she? I mean with her mindset wouldn’t it be a truly good thing if they used that census data to round up all the homosexuals and other minorities that she’s so terrified of (e.g. non-Christians, Blacks, Latinos Martians, et al) and locked them up in gulags somewhere?

PS: Commentator BJ. Good on you. Your observations and comments are spot on.

Why do you hate strong women?

Rep. Bachmann is going to kick ass on any tool the Democrats offer up; done deal. And when she returns to Washington as a member of the majority, I hope she personally oversees the moving of Madame Frank’s office into the basement.

The force tells me another made up, baseless charge by the dependent slugs running for cover. Leftist’s wet dreams – better get used to Congresswoman Bachmann for a long time deviants, dopers, and slackers.

I just wonder what you libs are going to do when 50MM people in America tell you to kiss our collective ass when Bongo tries to implement his health care plan? You can’t handle the thugs in society now? What are you worthless tits going to do when about half the American taxpayers tell you to shove it?

You wanted a war. You got one…

The only thing “strong” about Bachmann is the smell.

Jimmy: “Nazis are socialists. Like Frank.”

Aside from your abysmal ignorance about history (yes, the Nazis called their party “socialist” but they in fact were anti-leftist fascists), I have to say it takes a certain pus-brained gall to call a gay Jew a Nazi – when the Nazis killed both Jews and gays (as well as liberal leftists). Congrats on your chutzpah, dude.

Uh…Every cell phone has a video camera.

Let’s see the proof, Barney.

Oh, but Barney Frank would never tell a lie. He’s a congressman.

LMAO!!!

MArk–what news do you watch? Because the teabaggers hurling racial slurs were on several news sites. Just because you say you didn’t see it happen, doesn’t make your statement “There was no incident”, true, dufus. Don’t just get your news from FOX–check all the news sites out.

Bachman gives me the shivers. The hysterical rhetoric of Hitler and Joe McCarthy come to mind when I listen to her. Just as they played on the dissatisfaction of people and appealed to their anger and frustration, Bachman does the same. Without her semi-hysterical speeches she has nothing to offer. Unfortunately, the tyranny of the weak is sometimes attractive to those who find themselves on the losing end of life.

The same people who try and make an issue out of a few plants in a Tea Party crowd are the same people who every day call them “tea baggers” – a sexually charged, largely homosexual term.

Can we say “hypocrite?” I knew we could.

Show me the proof. I have not seen nor heard any video of such bigoted activities. I believe this is all made up by the liberals who are running scared. Out of the thousands of people there, where so many have a video capabilities with their cell phones, nothing backing these claims have been documented. I look forward to saying goodbye and good riddance to the democrats in November.

As the Republican party tries to figure out if it wants to be fiscally conservative, socially repressive, or obtusely fanatical (Tea Parties) the Democrats are working to get things done.

Opposing everything Democrats do is not a means to achieving American prosperity.

DRW, your census point is well taken. It will be interesting to see how many folks in her district “lose” their census forms due to the aspersions cast upon the process by Ms. Bachmann, and how many decline because they secretly feel that losing a congressional seat might be the best way to get rid of Michelle. The district she represents is, well, a really weird shape (see link: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/MN06_109.png
) apparently the result–or better put the lack of result–of the last redistricting effort, which ended up being done in the courts (darn activist judges!). It was probably fairly homogenous in the political sense 10 years ago, however as exurban areas have become suburban, and suburban transitioned to urban, many portions of that district now reflect a different polictical position–I know that’s the case in my area. The western sections of the NW blob are probably still reliably conservative, however these are likely to be absorped elsewhere in redistricting. With 13 seats in play nationwide it’s a wait and see situation…but Michelle did herself no favor in stirring up census suspicion with the crowd that ‘doesn’t trust government’. Sorry to ramble folks.

To “Aunt Acid” – you are what makes this country a worse place to be. Stupid, bitchy, and full of yourself.

Obama is in. Get over it already.

Jimmy, please review our comment policy if you’d like to keep posting.

So you’ve been deleting my posts? I guessed you had a bug in the web server. So I read your policy. Thanks for the headsup!

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Wake up people! Nazi = Bolshevik = Obama.

The right wing is about personal liberty and capitalism. Free enterprise has brought about all of the innovations giving us the highest standard of living ever. If we kill American capitalism, we will suffer the same fate as the Soviets.

So why is OK for Rep Frank to call members of the Tea Party movement “Tea Baggers”. Here’s the definition of a tea bagger “a man who inserts his scrotum and testicles into another person’s mouth”. Is it proper for a man from the House of Representatives to use these words? If he can use the word “tea bagger”, is it OK for me to use the word “fag” in connection with Rep Frank? Many on this site seem to think it is acceptable and even funny to use the words. How about the word “nig***s”? Can I it use that in relation to the Congressional Black Caucus? You do not use the word to describe the Tea Party Movements actions. You use “Tea Bagger” as a way to denigrate them. If you think it is acceptable, come on and defend it?

Yes, I have, since this morning. Should’ve mentioned it earlier.

I forgot to add that Rep. “Baghdad Jim McDermott” used the derogatory term “Tea Bagger” on the House Floor. I’m going to write my Congressman to request that Rep McDermott apologize to the Tea Party Movement for his insulting and incivil comments. I thought the House was suppose to be a place honor and serious debate. It is not for the likes of Rep McDermott to air his small minded and petty insults.

My teenagers are better whiners than these teabaggers.

If you’re going to try changing the subject, try something of substance, not phony outrage. I don’t think that’s been attempted yet.

Dave – If you’re such a tough guy, why can’t you defend your use of “tea bagger”? The subject is very relevant to the article. Use of the word “fag” and “tea bagger” are equally disgusting and are meant to denigrate the person. If you label someone or some idea, the label must properly describe the person or idea and must conform to societies mores. Use of the word “fag” or “nig***” should never be used because they violate both. Use of “Tea bagger” does not accurately describe the members of the Tea Pary Movement and therefore should not be used in civil discourse. If you have to use insults to support your arguments, you’ve lost the discussion.

Chuck, the rules of political correctnessd don’t apply to leftists. Whether hanging Palin in effigy, jokes about raping her daughter, or applying crude epithets to Tea Partiers, few lefties even feign outrage at such imflammatory behavior.

Hypocrisy, cheating, and lying are the hallmarks of leftist strategy. They can’t win their arguments with facts and reason, so what’s a red to do. Make up allegations and apply namecalling liberally. (Pun intended.)

[...] Barney Frank blasts Bachmann on Tea Party anti-gay slurs – Minnesota IndependentHouse Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank On two days over the weekend, Tea Party Patriots hurled anti-gay epithets at Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., the openly gay chair of the House Financial Services Committee. The insults came as several black members of Congress had racial slurs [...]

I seem to remember that tea baggers chose to call themselves that, first. I have heard or read it so often, I honestly forgot the other meaning.

At least it’s not as bad as “santorum”.

Instead of tea bagger, I suggest “propaganda victim” for the senior citizens complaining about socialist government programs, “racists” for the birthers.

Jimmy writes: “The right wing is about personal liberty and capitalism.”

Baloney.

I am a gay American and I can neither marry the person I love nor serve my country in the military unless I lie about my identity. So much for liberty, Mr. Right Wing.

People like you get all smug like you have a corner on patriotism, but when it’s put to the actual test the world sees you’re all talk and no walk.

Sarah Palin isn’t fit to do Barney Frank’s laundry..with her tongue.