Barney Frank: "Two outrageous lies refuted within a space of a week."

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

ThinkProgress asked Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) to respond to Cantor’s comment and Frank didn’t mince words:

FRANK: Well first of all, I think, let’s give discredit where it is due. For Eric Cantor to phrase it that way, to say he followed the vigilance of President Bush is a degree of key partisanship that exceeded what I even expected from Cantor. That’s just sad. <...>

If Bush had gotten Osama after Clinton had failed do you think Eric Cantor would’ve given Clinton credit and said, “Oh good Bush got Osama bin Laden, he showed the same vigilance as Bill Clinton”? No. Not even close.

“There’s been a striking absence of Republicans willing to repudiate” right-wing attacks on Obama for allegedly not being “interested in protecting America,” Frank noted, adding:

FRANK: Maybe we’ve got two outrageous lies refuted within a space of a week. First, we had the birth nonsense and now the nonsense that the President is not committed to fully defending American security.

more and VIDEO:
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/02/frank-cantor-bin-laden/

[vaberella]

1. This should be played on Tweety or any show on MSNBC. n/t

[Kdillard]

2. Love it.

[DCKit]

3. Being on the wrong side of an argument with Barney sucks.

Regardless, one can't help but notice the Republic's refusal to credit BushCo* with the trajectory of the national debt or unemployment - those belong 100% to President Obama. Quite a contrast.

[TuxedoKat]

5. Yes

I think it was Barney Frank (saw the quote yesterday but now can't find it) who said something like, "Republicans think the world started in January 2009".

[Enrique]

4. a third lie is also being exposed

that the RW does care about national security. Ive been listening to them on the radio, they are BUMMED. You KNOW they're praying for another attack, you can hear it in everything they say, there's no question about it.