Comments on: Matchup: Barney Frank and Sean Bielat on Social Security https://thenewneo.com/2010/10/12/matchup-barney-frank-and-sean-bielat-on-social-security/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:34:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Maggie's Farm https://thenewneo.com/2010/10/12/matchup-barney-frank-and-sean-bielat-on-social-security/#comment-192130 Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:34:55 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/10/12/matchup-barney-frank-and-sean-bielat-on-social-security/#comment-192130 Weds. morning links…

McArdle: Americans like to be lied to.
City Journal on two books about Tea Parties: Two new books show how alienated Americans have become from Washington.
The CBC: Sorry, that’s classified information
Bielat responds to Barney Frank’s query. h/t,…

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2010/10/12/matchup-barney-frank-and-sean-bielat-on-social-security/#comment-192068 Wed, 13 Oct 2010 04:13:38 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/10/12/matchup-barney-frank-and-sean-bielat-on-social-security/#comment-192068 Surellin: you are following the ironclad rule of grammatical and speling corrections, which is that when offering them one has a much-higher-than-average chance of making a grammatical or spelling error oneself.

]]> By: liz https://thenewneo.com/2010/10/12/matchup-barney-frank-and-sean-bielat-on-social-security/#comment-192034 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:15:55 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/10/12/matchup-barney-frank-and-sean-bielat-on-social-security/#comment-192034 I thought that this part was very mean spirited….

“…and I noticed that you talk about certain proposals in some forums but you avoid them altogether in others. I assume that this is because you don’t think some of these ideas are well-suited for all voters.

I have questions about a few of these proposals; and as you are new to Massachusetts, I’d like to provide you with some specific questions so you can research them thoroughly and present them publicly in all your public appearances.”

Gees, I would bet that Frank has tailored speeches to his audiences and doesn’t address all issues at all appearances. Yet, he expects his opponent to do so. In addition, did Frank object to Clinton moving to NY and becoming a senator from that state? Yet, he mocks his opponent as being “new to MA”.

I sure hope Sean wins.

]]> By: effess https://thenewneo.com/2010/10/12/matchup-barney-frank-and-sean-bielat-on-social-security/#comment-192019 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:53:01 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/10/12/matchup-barney-frank-and-sean-bielat-on-social-security/#comment-192019 Bielat’s letter is fantastic. This exchange of letters should be sent to every registered voter in MA’s 4th congressional district. I sent a small check to the Bielat campaign earlier and will send another one toward postage expenses for such an effort.

Bielat’s letter reminds me of my teen years* when Adlai Stevenson said “Let’s talk sense to the American people. There are no gains without pains.”

Bielat is talking sense; Frank nonsense.

*I was a Democrat then.

]]> By: jon baker https://thenewneo.com/2010/10/12/matchup-barney-frank-and-sean-bielat-on-social-security/#comment-191998 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:43:17 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/10/12/matchup-barney-frank-and-sean-bielat-on-social-security/#comment-191998 Keep sending money to people outside your disctrict and the democrats might accuse them of…”getting foreign money from Texas…”

]]> By: Artfldgr https://thenewneo.com/2010/10/12/matchup-barney-frank-and-sean-bielat-on-social-security/#comment-191992 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:21:37 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/10/12/matchup-barney-frank-and-sean-bielat-on-social-security/#comment-191992 Semper Fi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: Curtis https://thenewneo.com/2010/10/12/matchup-barney-frank-and-sean-bielat-on-social-security/#comment-191987 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:48:18 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/10/12/matchup-barney-frank-and-sean-bielat-on-social-security/#comment-191987 Bielat’s letter brings to mind the “Drapier’s Letters,” by Jonathon Swift. Here is a chopped Wiki account:

Drapier’s Letters (1724) was a series of pamphlets against the monopoly granted by the English government to William Wood to provide the Irish with copper coinage. It was widely believed that Wood would need to flood Ireland with debased coinage in order make a profit. . . The government eventually resorted to hiring none other than Sir Isaac Newton to certify the soundness of Wood’s coinage to counter Swift’s accusations.

There will be no Sir Isaac Newton in this modern case because there is no soundness in Frank’s coinage.

]]> By: Assistant Village Idiot https://thenewneo.com/2010/10/12/matchup-barney-frank-and-sean-bielat-on-social-security/#comment-191983 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:35:08 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/10/12/matchup-barney-frank-and-sean-bielat-on-social-security/#comment-191983 Surellin, it is a law of the internet that one always makes a spelling, usage, or grammatical error when correcting such in others.

If I were running against an elitist Democrat, I might try to slip “reign” instead of “rein” into the mix for its subliminal effect.

]]> By: Surellin https://thenewneo.com/2010/10/12/matchup-barney-frank-and-sean-bielat-on-social-security/#comment-191976 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:00:01 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/10/12/matchup-barney-frank-and-sean-bielat-on-social-security/#comment-191976 And then I had to blow the spelling. “Devastating”, of course. Mea maxima culpa.

]]> By: Surellin https://thenewneo.com/2010/10/12/matchup-barney-frank-and-sean-bielat-on-social-security/#comment-191975 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:59:11 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/10/12/matchup-barney-frank-and-sean-bielat-on-social-security/#comment-191975 Awesome letter. Utterly devestating while remaining quite polite. Still, my inner editor notes that the phrase he wanted was “reining in”, not “reigning in”.

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