Is Barney Frank clearing his conscience?

[Drumcollie]

Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said he advised President Obama against taking up health care reform following a special election in 2010 that changed Democrats' fortunes in the Senate, saying that he should have instead turned his focus to financial reform.

Frank referenced former President Bill Clinton and his failed health care plan from the 1990s. “Obama made the same mistake Clinton made,” Frank said in a wide-ranging interview with New York magazine. “When you try to extend health care to people who don’t have it, people who have it and are on the whole satisfied with it get nervous.”

The outgoing representative from Massachusetts added that after Republican Scott Brown won former Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s seat, breaking Democrats’ filibuster-proof majority, Obama should have backed down: “I think we paid a terrible price for health care. I would not have pushed it as hard. As a matter of fact, after Scott Brown won, I suggested going back. I would have started with financial reform but certainly not health care," Frank said.

He said that if the president had followed his advice, “you could have gotten some pieces of it.”

Obama making same mistakes as Clinton? Why is B.F. telling us this?

 

[GordonGecko]

Sorry, but an OLD rightwing talking point...is a defunct one.

Update-

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/...sting-my-words-health-care.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

 

[Drumcollie]

Sorry, but an OLD rightwing talking point...is a defunct one.

Update-

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/...sting-my-words-health-care.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

UMMMM nope!

No, I have no issue with the subject matter or the bill itself,” Frank said. “I was just commenting on the politics. And I was saying it was a mistake to have done it first.” He was arguing that Democrats should have prioritized financial reform, Frank insisted — which was more popular, and for which which Frank was the point person — before moving on to health care

I was just repeating what Frank said...but go ahead I am sure it's your job to spin this in favor of Obama

 

[Saladin2]

Didn't lots of these Right Wing A$$holes blame Barney Frank for the financial meltdown.?...Fvckin morons

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

Obama making same mistakes as Clinton? Why is B.F. telling us this?

As the cons showed us in 1994 and 2010, they love to use health care as a political football whether health care reform fails, or passes.

So, might as well pass it.

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

Sorry, but an OLD rightwing talking point...is a defunct one.

Update-

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/...sting-my-words-health-care.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

Imagine that! Republicans lying about what someone said!

Shocking!

 

[GordonGecko]

UMMMM nope!



I was just repeating what Frank said...but go ahead I am sure it's your job to spin this in favor of Obama

FRANK is saying the NRCC is twisting his words...or do we not pay attention to what he says.

You must pick ONE.