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Showing Original Post only (View all)Barney Frank calls out Dennis Hastert & GOP hypocrisy with a perfect statement [View all]
Barney Frank:"There is a hypocrisy issue," Barney Frank said. "Dennis Hastert was a member of the House who voted for the Defense of Marriage act. He subsequently as Speaker twice put before the House of Representatives the constitutional amendment that would have cancelled retroactively all the same sex marriages that had taken place legally. ... The rank hypocrisy of this man using his power to persecute other people for doing what he was doing. Secondly, and it is relevant to note that in terms of the hypocrisy area, you mentioned Gingrich had to quit. It turns out Gingrich was at the time having an affair with the woman he is now married who was an employee of the House Agriculture Committee. And then Livingston who was supposed to replace him had to quit because he was having an affair not just with a woman but with a lobbyist who was lobbying him. So then in an effort to get somebody [who was clean], they get Hastert. The point is that all this was happening while they were impeaching Bill Clinton for having oral sex. So I think that it now looks like if you take Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, Dennis Hastert, and Robert Livingston the the Republican Speakers or would be speakers, Clinton is a choir boy."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/30/1389022/-Barney-Frank-calls-out-Dennis-Hastert-GOP-hypocrisy-with-a-perfect-statement
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Barney Frank calls out Dennis Hastert & GOP hypocrisy with a perfect statement [View all]
kpete
May 2015
OP
Probably the first and last time for Bill Clinton being called a "choir boy."
Gidney N Cloyd
May 2015
#1
Not to mention, it goes a bit too far -- all of these were worse, both in what they
karynnj
May 2015
#4
A student? When did they release that information because the last time I heard was only that it
cstanleytech
May 2015
#45
The point is the massive hypocrisy...preaching and legislating restrictive Holy Morals to others - while Willy goes free.
Fred Sanders
May 2015
#7
Feel free. Actually it's "repenters" ... the Jimmy Swaggert type ...but it infers "repeaters". LOL
libdem4life
May 2015
#22
I think they phrase it "Not perfect, just forgiven" or something like that....
peacebird
May 2015
#43
I've lived with it since birth...trust me there are Many Versions to this delicate question. But
libdem4life
May 2015
#49
Several of those traits especially lack of empathy, personal insight and concern for
appalachiablue
May 2015
#47
When a mind ceases to inquire, but repeats the closed loop tape, mental, psychological and all are
libdem4life
May 2015
#50
Bless Barney Frank for telling it like it is. It's the flaming reeking hypocrisy. nt
Hekate
May 2015
#41
Hypocrisy on a scale that monumental scale needs to be identified in public. Good for Barney. n/t
pa28
May 2015
#55
Barney had his OWN problems in office, child prostitution being run out of his apartment
TheNutcracker
May 2015
#56