As the administration gears up to curb Wall St.'s risk appetite and focus on short-term gains, Barney Frank spent part of the 4th of July weekend at the World Series of Poker. Before issuing the traditional "shuffle up and deal" command to the nearly 1700 players at the no-limit Texas hold 'em event, Barney pleaded with those in attendance to reach out to their local legislators in support of a bill he thinks he can get passed which would legalize and regulate Internet gambling. And this time, Mark Haines was not there to cut him off.
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Posted by guest , Jul 06, 2009 1:07PM
frank has a good pokerface - you never know what you're looking at, except for that it's ugly. fuck, even if he read his cards out loud do you you probably still wouldn't have understood a thing..
Posted by merkin capital partners , Jul 06, 2009 1:09PM
Cries of "caught one on the river" led to wistful memories of the night Barney got VD during a dinner cruise on the Charles.
Posted by guest , Jul 06, 2009 1:12PM
I can't bear the sight of this fat ass posing on TV as our savior when he shielded FNM and FRE from reform and insisted they were not in trouble, all the while dating someone working for FNM. That's what I call 'taking one for the team!' Why do you think they call it Fannie Mae.
Posted by guest , Jul 06, 2009 1:12PM
@1, you can't understand him because he keeps licking the knob of that mic
Posted by guest , Jul 06, 2009 1:18PM
I heard Barney has a hard time ditching queen tre (aka the San Fran bus boy)
Posted by Tax Chick , Jul 06, 2009 1:25PM
I just wish they would find him floating face down in tranny attire already.
Posted by guest , Jul 06, 2009 1:37PM
anyone find the head of the senate finance committee at the World Series of Poker concerning?
Posted by guest , Jul 06, 2009 1:47PM
Tax Chick: news flash: gay and transvestite are very different. Most transvestites (basically, folks that get off on dressing like their opposite gender), are in fact heterosexual. So take your ignorant comments elsewhere.
Posted by guest , Jul 06, 2009 1:52PM
First liquor, then poker.
Posted by guest , Jul 06, 2009 1:57PM
I sure wish that Frank boy did the command call in the inverted L position.
Posted by Tax Chick , Jul 06, 2009 2:09PM
@8 thanks for the news flash. I am aware of the difference. My comment was directed at wishing B. Frank would be found in attire that would be shocking. Finding him gay and floating in a pool makes no sense. Finding him floating with his gay lover only confirms he is gay - a known fact. Finding him in tranny attire would be newsworthy and amusing given his size and ugliness. Note that I did not make a broad sweeping comment about gays and/or transvestites.
p.s. hiding behind "guest" makes your condescending and judgemental comments meaningless.
Posted by guest , Jul 06, 2009 2:19PM
11 Actually the fact that you deemed them condescending and judgemental tells me that they had their intended purpose: namely to make you feel like the jerk you are.
Posted by merkin capital partners , Jul 06, 2009 2:45PM
@11 you lost when you apologized. Embrace xenophobia, i did long ago.
Posted by Tax Chick , Jul 06, 2009 2:52PM
@Merkin - Where is the apology?
@12 - calling someone's comments is judgemental. And I don't feel like a jerk. To feel like a jerk implies a wrong doing. I don't. I think it would be damn amusing for B. Frank to be found floating in the Charles River dressed like Dr. Frank-N-Furter from the Rocky Horror Picture Show. The media would have a field day.
Lighten up and stop taking yourself so seriously, we don't.
Posted by 1212Madoff , Jul 06, 2009 3:05PM
@8, fu*& you, I love men and I love wearing the missus's pantsuits-
BernieM