Track-A-’Crat: The Roll Call of Democratic Delinquency

The Right-wing took control of government and ruined it, and gave it  a bad reputation… We are trying on every front to increase the role of government.

So speaks Barney Frank, the man who selected TARP recipients on the basis of their skin color (let me denounce myself as racist) and who hired a male prostitute/pimp – with whom he’d had sexual relations, of course – as his Congressional aide (let me denounce myself as homophobic).

I hate to break this to you, Barney, but government has never been popular (with the exception, of course, of its being very popular with those whom it pays to be kept in its deathly embrace).

With good reason.  Government is a necessary evil, something that people tolerate out of the realization that the alternative – anarchy – is even worse.  Problem is, anarchy is looking better and better by the minute.  Though it will be a shattering blow to many if the government is no longer there to steal huge chunks of what they have earned, I’m sure that those of us who don’t rely on government for fulfillment will find a way to deal with the loss.

This is the friendly face of totalitarianism, and never has it been more acceptable to a greater number of people than it is today.  They believe with absolute faith that government is or can be fair, benevolent and efficient, all the things that it is not, and willingly surrender whatever is asked of them.  We are enslaving ourselves to the state, and the Left-leaning masses welcome it.

Government does not improve our lives.  We improve our own lives.  The role of the state should be only to ensure that we enjoy the freedom required to do so.

The Workers’ Soviet has bowed to “populist” (i.e. Democratic manufactured) pressure over private sector remuneration and passed a bill restricting Wall Street pay.

Rep. Melvin Watt (D-NC) was the first to launch the left-wing anti-logic case for the bill, stating that,

“This is not the government taking over the corporate sector.”

Which, of course, is precisely what the bill heralds.

Welcome to the beginning of the end of private property, without which there is no liberty.  When you do not own what you have earned through your physical/intellectual work, you are no longer a free being – you are a vassal to the state (which, if you’re good, may regurgitate a small portion of your property back to you.  At some point or other.).

Oxygen thief Barney Frank, who sponsored the bill, stated that the “extra regulation is necessary to ensure bankers and traders aren’t rewarded only if they take big risks.”

Does it really need to be spelled out?

Apparently so.

Risk is good.  If the risk is successful, then abundant rewards are yours, good sir.  If it’s not successful, why then you’re SOL and another inefficiency (you/your company) is removed from the free market through the unjustly maligned process of creative destruction.

At least, that’s the way things used to work before both political parties started to wisely endorse idiotic behavior through bank/homeowner bailouts.

The price of letting those institutions that should have failed do so would, almost without doubt, have been less than the price of “rescuing” them.

And the cost, as we will find out soon enough, would certainly have been less.

And there I was, thinking that the most shocking thing Barney Frank was capable of (aside from allowing a rent boy to live in his DC residence, then employing said rent boy as a Congressional aide) was calling Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia a “homophobe“.

In the surprise of the century, Rep. Frank told Code Pink apparatchiks to zip it during a committee meeting today.

Careful there, Barney.  Don’t want to upset the base.

If you’ve stuck around to read this far, congratulations!  And for your reward, here’s the explain-all twist: Rep. Frank only told them to shut it because they were interrupting his meeting.

Barney Frank is a one-man assault on all the senses.  Simultaneously.

I think it must be the shock and awe strategy.  That through a combined physical, mental and verbal barrage, most people simply submit to Barney’s hectoring or, at least, are distracted enough not to pay full attention to what he says.

Such as this.

Barney, the horse has well and truly bolted, and – no matter how loudly you wail about it now – your role in this mess is clear.

Chairman.

William Gladstone, British Prime Minister four times, rescued and rehabilitated London prostitutes, even as Prime Minister.  Honestly.

Which is not quite what Barney Frank did.

If nothing else, his capacity for political survival is remarkable.

Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA).

Sage of Fannie and Freddie (and recipient of mucho deniro from their successful lobbying efforts to defraud the public and enrich themselves).

Boy, am I glad that this intellectual powerhouse is Chairman of the Financial Services Committee.

Say, Barney, why did you single out OneUnited Bank, in your home state of Massachusetts, for TARP funds again?

Oh, right.  I should’ve guessed that that would play a role in your no doubt impartial decision.

It doesn’t matter how the bank is run, just who runs it.