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...Democrats struck a slightly more dignified tone. "There's a terrible crisis affecting the American economy. We have come together on a bill to alleviate the crisis," House Banking Committee chairman Barney Frank told reporters in a press conference around the corner. "And because somebody hurt [the Republicans'] feelings, they decide to punish the country. I mean, I would not have imputed that degree of pettiness and hypersensitivity...
...dozen of their members switched their votes because they were offended by the partisanship of a speech she gave on the House floor. Democrats scoffed at that excuse. "Think of this: Somebody hurt my feelings, so I am going to punish the country," said House Banking Committee chairman Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat who had been one of the chief negotiators of the plan...
...those with the expertise to address the problems at hand. As Senator Barack Obama has constantly reminded the world, McCain has said that economics “is not something I’ve understood as well as I should.” Senator Chris Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank ’62 are the chairs of the finance committees in their respective legislative chambers. They, along with President Bush’s economic team, have the know-how and can-do attitudes to engineer a substantive bailout bill—without McCain’s help. Perhaps...
...Frank, Barney •McCain mocked...
Obscene Directed by Neil Ortenberg and Daniel O'Connor; not rated; in limited release For publishing many of the past century's landmark works, including Howl, Naked Lunch, Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tropic of Cancer, Barney Rosset's Grove Press earned the U.S. government's highest tribute: prosecution for obscenity. This zippy documentary distills all the zest and pain of Rosset's career. Like the man and his imprint, it's sensational...