Franks is right on target. Bless him for being persistent and pointing that out to the empty-headed pretty boy interviewing him. We have to consider the total package.

I watched that discussion. DeMint was embarrassing. All slogans, all the time. Frank was candid and brilliant. The other two guests (the CEOs of Fed Ex and Google) were refreshing. Frank and the CEOs had a great discussion. DeMint and Stephanopoulos got in the way.

I think the networks need to be called out on their obvious pandering to the right. Anyone can see that when you have twice as many Republicans invited to speak, right after the country overwhelmingly rejected the Republicans and their disastrously moronic fiscal policies, this shows plainly that the corporate news is NOT liberal. The graph at Think Progress is bad enough, but factor in the Democrat to Republican party affiliation numbers, and you have the networks basically giving America the finger.

"It seems, as part of the coverage of the stimulus debate, far more Republicans are getting air time than Democrats"

And media refs like Stephanopoulos are skewing the debate in the Republican's favor. The more things change...

As to getting more Democrats on the airways I guess they could simply work harder and win overwhelming majorities in both the house and senate. You know it is possible that if the Democrats were really relevant they would have won big in November.

They do? They did? Never mind.

I am down with the "networks are giving America the finger" theory.

I think the most idiotic thing DeMint said was that the stimulus bill would cost 18 million jobs -- something BS about taking $1 trillion out of the economy. About the only way I can figure out he reached this conclusion was literally to pretend the GDP would be cut by the stimulus amount, and a proportionate number of jobs disappear. And this guy is on the joint economic committee?

Maybe it's an affirmative action program for conservatives.

I don't understand from my conservative friends, building a road, building a school, helping to get health care, that's wasteful spending IF it's in the United States, but if in Iraq, it's a matter of national security.

Remember, Bush sent so many pallet loads of cash to Baghdad that they lost $12 billion. Let's send all the Republicans to Iraq on a cash finding mission.

When you look back over the last few years it's very clear that the Iraq War and the massive Wealthcare bailouts (the so called financial resue of 2008) are both massive scams.

We have been spending way too many bucks for bangs and banks and not enough bang for our bucks when it comes to Main Street.

Wall Street and the Pentagon both have diminished our economical resilience and viability.

Frank is right on.

The clips I have watched of the show have DeMint saying that taking a trillion dollars out of the economy and then the government putting the money back into the economy would not work as well as leaving the money in the economy. I never saw Frank point out that no one is proposing such a plan. The trillion is all borrowed, not from increased taxes. DeMint really did not seem to have any other argument than this.

George Stephanopoulos intervened, hoping to change the subject, saying the war issue is a subject for "a whole other show."(i>

George Steponallofus, what a tool.

We spend 10 billion dollars a day in Iraq and don't even blink. Pallets of U.S. currency are misplaced, and no one is held to account.

But, to even suggest spending a few billion dollars on education or child healthcare is heresy.

I don't blame the repubs who go on the Sunday shoes and bleat about how spending is out of control. I blame the media elites who let it go unchallenged.

George Stephanopoulos intervened, hoping to change the subject, saying the war issue is a subject for "a whole other show."

We can't have viewers find out that the Republicans actually have a history of poor money management, bad predictions and odd priorities, can we.

Judging from the opinions of my circle of friends and acquaintances, Pres. Obama would have strong public support if he used "we can no longer afford the war" as his primary justification for withdrawing.

But as usual, the only soundbite to hit the evening news was DeMint's. Apparently Frank's complete sentences and clear logic took up too much time.

Maybe Jon Stewart can ask the next ABC talking head he has on the show "Just how stupid do you think your viewers are?"

Democrats need to put that clip of Barney Frank telling the truth, that the biggest spending bill of all time was the trillion dollars wasted in Iraq, on a 24/7 rotation on every TV network. Then maybe the country will see the Republican bullshit about "wasteful spending" for what it is -- that any spending is "wasteful" unless it benefits THEM.

I don't know how DeMint and others think tax cuts are the answer, at the rate we are going, when we reach 25% unemployment, one-fourth of the "workforce" will see no benefit...

2010:

"it's the end of Republican's as we know them...
and I feel fine."

America's MSM, bought and paid for.

If the majority party were to convince news outlets to change this, I might recommend putting Frank on TV as much as humanly possible.

I absolutely agree. Franks seems to be the preferred choice of the Democrats as a spokesman and nothing could make the average voter understand the source of the present crisis more clearly than maximum exposure to Franks. I especially like his rant about how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were sound.

News anchors, like Stephanophoulous, who make millions every year neither comprehend nor care about the consequences of the economic collapse to average Americans. Of course they only want to speak with Republicans and steer the debate away from uncomfortable topics like the Iraq war. Stephanophoulous and the media were largely responsible for getting us into Iraq in the first place. Heaven forbid their audience will make the deeper connection that the networks and their anchors are as guilty as the banks and their executives were in wrecking the country.

I don't know how DeMint and others think tax cuts are the answer, at the rate we are going, when we reach 25% unemployment, one-fourth of the "workforce" will see no benefit...

Of course, it's not the lower 25% of the economy that the republicans want to target with their tax cuts.

The Democrats need to just repeat the following in every interview:

"When the GOP was in charge, they didn't have any problem with sending pallet-loads of cash, actual pallets with real dollar bills, straight to Baghdad to be tossed around freely.

Now that we want to send some checks to struggling state governments for hiring Americans, in Iowa and Texas and Ohio and Oregon, NOW they have a problem with spending. What's up with that?

Don't the Republicans want us to win in America, too?"

It's a little painful to see a United States senator fail to realize that a government spending plan is a stimulus plan...

Look, it's pretty simple. stimulus means his rich friends getting money. government spending means anonymous unrich people getting money. one is good, the other is not.

Argghhh!! Clearly, people w/o jobs are rising in the streets demanding more TAX CUTS!

but a Tax Cut Won't Educate Your Child

stephanopoulos is one of rahm emmanuel's BFFs.

this country is past redemption.

Frank is the voice of reason among the shrill, petty noise that is currently on our airwaves. Thank you Senator Frank. Thank you for bringing this to the light. It has needed to be said for such a long time.

Now if we can just get Obama to listen.

Looks like the Dems need to call a queer when they need some balls. Embarrassing to all those breeders, I would think.