Ron Paul Co-Authors Column With Barney Frank

So you know what THAT means, right?

Correct: Andrew Sullivan will have to write four thousand blog posts demanding to know who Rand Paul's real father is.

Jokes aside, this is pretty good: "Why We Must Reduce Military Spending."

Frank Follow-Up

Here's an interesting follow-up on how that Barney Frank clip that I and everyone else posted earlier this week went viral.

(h/t: Nieman Journalism Lab) ← definitely check this for some other interesting links

Frank Talk!

Just in case you've been nowhere on the Internet for the past couple of days, here are 77 seconds of the great man from Massachusetts:

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I'm sure Malkin and the rest of the perpetually outraged are howling about Frank's "arrogance" or whatever, but three cheers for Barney, I say. There comes a point where you stop wasting time politely engaging wingnuts like this woman, and you just treat them with all the respect they deserve (none).

(h/t: every libtard on the planet)

Making Sense, Once Again

Barney Frank is dope. But you already knew that.

And I have to say, if you have Barney Frank, Ron Paul, and Dana Rohrabacher agreeing upon something, the time for debate is over.

The news, the interview (recommended), the hat tip.

Takes One to Know One, I Guess

From his home state paper, no less:

One week after calling him "the clown from Minnesota," Sen. Jim Inhofe shared a hug Tuesday with Al Franken, the newly minted senator from the North Star State.

That didn't stop Inhofe from saying Franken "kind of looked like a clown."

Below, the Senator best known for asserting that people concerned about global warming are Nazis:

Image from Hebiclens / WMxdesign, whom you may remember from a previous post.

(h/t: Sara K. Smith/Wonkette)

P.S. And speaking of clowns, let it never be said that Bill O'Reilly has reached the ultimate limit in self-pity. He will always find a new low. Having to have a shill on to comfort him about Barney Frank's mean ol' body language? Kee-rist.

LGM Nuggets, Plus Frank Talk

• Robert Farley's one-sentence book review.

• Paul Campos passes along an email that illustrates why snorts of derision are always appropriate whenever the well-connected talk about their love for the "meritocracy."

• Scott Lemieux on that recent SCOTUS strip-search decision (yeah, that one).

• I'll just steal this one, since they stole it from Ezra, who stole it from PK, who stole it from Ali Frick, who also has the audio. What I mean to say is, here is the great Barney Frank:

These arguments will come from the very people who denied that the economic recovery plan created any jobs. We have a very odd economic philosophy in Washington: It’s called weaponized Keynesianism. It is the view that the government does not create jobs when it funds the building of bridges or important research or retrains workers, but when it builds airplanes that are never going to be used in combat, that is of course economic salvation.

And here is the whole audio clip. Looks like a truncated/blank video, but do not adjust your sets at home! He's answering a question about the F-22 Raptor boondoggle fighter plane, but it applies much more generally. This is about the most straightforward three minutes and forty seconds on the ownership of our political process by the military-industrial complex you'll ever hear, let alone from a member of Congress.

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Barney: No Annoying Purple Dinosaur He

The New Yorker has a profile of Barney Frank up. I've just started reading it, and couldn't resist passing this along:

Not long ago, Paul Begala, the political strategist, was speaking at a fund-raiser for a gay-rights group and said, “When I told my father, back in Texas, that I was speaking to an L.G.B.T. group, he said that sounded like a sandwich.” From the audience, Frank called out, “Sometimes it is!”

Thanks to Instaputz, who grabbed the line right before.

Barney!

No, not that annoying purple creature.

Here is a four-minute video clip of Barney Frank speaking against banning Internet gambling.

I don't gamble, so I don't have a much of a dog in this fight, but boy, the gentleman from Massachusetts sure does a nice job reminding us of core principles.