Barney Frank Joining The Tea Party?

By admin | August 19, 2010

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Last month I pointed out on this post how Barney Frank was all of the sudden changing his tune on the housing crisis and where it came from, well it turns out that he is really in a lot of trouble where it comes to running against his opponent Sean Bielat, which explains his sudden Tea Party conversion. Also, he has had quite a few flip flops on the housing issue, which you can see here:

If you’re as sick of politicians like Barney Frank simply saying whatever is convenient for them to get elected, and not standing by any kind of real leadership or principles than visit Sean Bielat for Congress and give him some support in making sure that Mr. Frank doesn’t get to create another crisis for our country.

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I find it interesting that all the sudden even Barney Frank has come to the realization that the housing bubble and its eventual collapse had much more to do with government regulations, which forced lenders to give loans to less and less qualified borrowers, than any evil, greedy bankers did. This sounds a lot like what many in the Tea Party have been saying for quite some time, and which I discussed here.

Now we have this video of him discussing how he’s been all for shutting down both Freddy Mac and Fannie May for quite a long time, and he was against all this unqualified borrowing that the government was pushing.

Of course where it comes to politics and many politicians, there are facts and then there’s the truth.

Fact is, here is a great video of him giving a speech on the house floor in 2005, espousing how he has been leading the push to create the very programs he is now trying to convince everyone that he had pushed against. As a bonus in the video Representative Frank specifically talks about how these programs will NOT lead to a housing bubble or a crash.

Could he have been any more wrong?

I think the most interesting question is why has he suddenly become a convert to free market ideas and the principles of personal financial responsibility?

To be honest I think this Tea Party conversion of Barney Frank has much more to do with political reality than a true ideological shift. He can understand polls as well as anyone, and knows that in this political season trying to defend big government and big government programs is going to be nothing but a dead end for himself and his party.

So, feel assured that the ideological winds have not shifted in the Washington elite, it’s just that they have realized that they are not blowing in their favor, and to survive they will need to bend for a bit.

It really comes down to whether the voters will display the same short term memory that they have displayed in past elections, letting the current message cloud them from seeing the actual voting record? Or, will they pay attention long enough in this election cycle to make those that facilitated and created our current economic crisis pay for the shortsighted programs that brought us here?

As a Tea Party activist all we can do is keep up the pressure. Keep letting people know who has brought us here on both sides of the isle, and make sure that the voters know that those politicians need to be held accountable. This includes Barney Frank, even with his recent conversion to sanity and a small bit of Tea Party ideology.

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