House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) -- who has a low opinion of the GOP's collective IQ in general -- was particularly unimpressed with intelligence on display at the Capitol Tea Party Thursday.
Frank, speaking at a DC policy conference on Friday, via the AP:
"Some of the people (at the rally) that wanted to engage me in conversation appeared to have been the losers in the 'Are you smarter than Michele Bachmann contest?'."
By The Associated Press (AP) – 17 hours ago
WASHINGTON — Democratic Rep. Barney Frank took a dig Friday at the Republican lawmaker who organized a protest by conservatives against health care legislation.
Frank, a Massachusetts liberal, told an audience: "Some of the people (at the rally) that wanted to engage me in conversation appeared to have been the losers in the 'Are you smarter than Michele Bachmann contest?'."
Rep. Bachmann, R-Minn., had organized Thursday's rally attended by thousands of conservatives critical of the Democrats' health care plan. Her spokeswoman did not respond to requests for comment. Frank, who recently compared arguing with an angry voter to conversing with a dining room table, said this week's protest was like being trapped inside a furniture warehouse.
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You gotta love this guy. Barney Frank is highly intelligent and very freakin funny. What does a dining room table say to a smart man? Nothing.
What does a smart man say to a dining room table? Nothing...for a whole different reason.
Wilka
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All that really means is that he is outnumbered and outgunned in Congress. Send him a thank you note (I did) for being smart, and unshamed of being smart. Of keeping his balance and sense of humor in spite of all the humorless and mean-spirited people he has to work with.
Blessed be, today.
Wilka
I don't raise the voice often, but when I do? Windows shatter, birds fly off, and lightbulbs blink out. I know! I am a f i l i m e n t -buster!
Wow!
Wilka