Seems as if a very sensitive subject has been touched upon.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RWxY-5FS2Bc

Barney Frank gone wild! Dude was pissed!

Good for Frank...I've alway liked him. It must be difficult to not be in charge any your new leaders enforcing the rules.

-spence

what he say? :yak4:

A.) Why don't they speak english?

B.) I feel so much confidence in our government!:doh:

This wasn't about rules. The deviation from parliamentary procedure shown in this video was clearly used to make a point.

I guess its amusing, but those are our tax dollars hard at work.

This is a lot deeper than parliamentry procedure. It hinges on the recent miniumum wage hike. The Republicans are making a statement. Basically saying that the Dems had no problem cutting American Somoa out of the recent minimum wage hike, but they clearly want them included in the harvesting of fetal stem cells. Actually its great theatre. Another funny point is that historically Barney Frank was the KING of talking out of turn and more or less "preaching" in exactly the same way for years. They actually bring it up and all chuckle about it at one point. Frank looks like he is slightly amused too.

Repost from a weblog I read.

The Republican arguing with power-hungry Barney Frank is Patrick McHenry. McHenry rose to offer an amendment that would exempt American Samoa from the stem-cell bill — a clear dig at the fact that Samoa, which is home to StarKist factories that employ nearly 75% of the island’s work force, was conspicuously exempt from the minimum-wage bill that had passed the day before. Why is that important? Because StarKist is a branch of Del Monte Foods Co., which has its headquarters in San Francisco, Nancy Pelosi’s district.

This is a lot deeper than parliamentry procedure. It hinges on the recent miniumum wage hike. The Republicans are making a statement. Basically saying that the Dems had no problem cutting American Somoa out of the recent minimum wage hike, but they clearly want them included in the harvesting of fetal stem cells. Actually its great theatre. Another funny point is that historically Barney Frank was the KING of talking out of turn and more or less "preaching" in exactly the same way for years. They actually bring it up and all chuckle about it at one point. Frank looks like he is slightly amused too.

Repost from a weblog I read.

The Republican arguing with power-hungry Barney Frank is Patrick McHenry. McHenry rose to offer an amendment that would exempt American Samoa from the stem-cell bill — a clear dig at the fact that Samoa, which is home to StarKist factories that employ nearly 75% of the island’s work force, was conspicuously exempt from the minimum-wage bill that had passed the day before. Why is that important? Because StarKist is a branch of Del Monte Foods Co., which has its headquarters in San Francisco, Nancy Pelosi’s district.

Dead spot on. Thank you. And at the same time there is a lot of ongoing speculation that the Pelosi/Del Monte connection is even deeper.

Dead spot on. Thank you. And at the same time there is a lot of ongoing speculation that the Pelosi/Del Monte connection is even deeper.

Different party, new faces....same old game. :doh:

Whats with the way Barney talks ???
Is that a result of consuming all the man yogurt that he has over the years !!! :gf: :gf:
also, does he have any teeth or did he have all of them removed !!!

A speech disorder he was born with.