Yesterday, at Congressman Barney Frank's town hall meeting on health care reform, a woman holding a picture of President Obama with a Hitler-like mustache stood up and after branding various health care reform proposals as "Nazi policy," asked Rep. Frank why he continued to support them. Bless him, Rep. Frank replied:
“When you ask me that question, I’m going to revert to my ethnic heritage and answer your question with a question: On what planet do you spend most of your time? ... You stand there with a picture of the president defaced to look like Hitler and compare the effort to increase health care to the Nazis. My answer, as I said before, it is a tribute to the First Amendment that this vile, contemptible nonsense is so freely propagated. Ma’am, trying to have a conversation with you is like trying to talk to a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it. ... This notion that something in this bill would require people who are elderly or sick to be denied medical care and killed is the single stupidest argument I have heard in all my years of public office. There is nothing remotely relevant to it.”
Guts! Spine! Courage! This is why Wilsonville Pundit's first PUNDIT'S PICK Award goes to Congressman Barney Frank! You can thank Congressman Frank for being one of the few democratic leaders to actually have a back bone by clicking here. You can also take a peek at the video from the meeting below:
“When you ask me that question, I’m going to revert to my ethnic heritage and answer your question with a question: On what planet do you spend most of your time? ... You stand there with a picture of the president defaced to look like Hitler and compare the effort to increase health care to the Nazis. My answer, as I said before, it is a tribute to the First Amendment that this vile, contemptible nonsense is so freely propagated. Ma’am, trying to have a conversation with you is like trying to talk to a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it. ... This notion that something in this bill would require people who are elderly or sick to be denied medical care and killed is the single stupidest argument I have heard in all my years of public office. There is nothing remotely relevant to it.”
Guts! Spine! Courage! This is why Wilsonville Pundit's first PUNDIT'S PICK Award goes to Congressman Barney Frank! You can thank Congressman Frank for being one of the few democratic leaders to actually have a back bone by clicking here. You can also take a peek at the video from the meeting below:
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