Barney Frank: GOP Colleagues Winced At 'Mighty Mouse' McCain

One would think that some of John McCain's Republican colleagues might actually want to help him become president of these United States, but no: given the opportunity to ensure that the presidential candidate might be able to make a substantive contribution to bailout measure negotiations, McCain's friends in the Republican Party put their noses to the grindstone and worked out a deal without any Maverick input. Clearly Republican leaders are totally in the tank for Obama.

How painful was the thought of working alongside McCain? Over at Politico, they report that Barney Frank minced few words, saying: "Nobody mentioned him. The man's irrelevant to the whole process. No Republican mentioned his name. I'm the only one who raised his name. They winced when I did." Frank also compared McCain to a cartoon superhero:

"He's been irrelevant to the process. He remains to be," said Frank. "I was afraid that his dropping in here, like Andy Kaufman's Mighty Mouse -- 'here I am to save the day' -- I thought that would slow things down. I didn't see any sign of our Republican colleagues paying any attention to him whatsoever."

[WATCH ANDY KAUFMAN SAVE THE U.S. ECONOMY.]

Comments

[walkthewalk]

Don't think for a minute that the fact that McCain had nothing to do with a possible agreement on a bailout bill won't stop him from taking complete credit for one. The man is so powerful that all he had to do was say he was coming to Washington and it propelled Congress to work in a bipartisan way. If you believe that I've got a Bridge to Nowhere I'd like to sell you.

[AliMac02]

Wow.

Dare I say, dare I dream, that some of those wincing Republicans secretly hope, in their heart of hearts, that they get to work with Obama over the next 4 years. Then they might actually be able to accomplish some things.

[snowdog]

Unfortunately, I think they realize the country is wrecked, and they would rather have a Democrat have to deal with the whole sordid mess.

[Xenopus]

Good, I am glad Senator Franks came out and said what everyone is thinking. What a self-centered scam McCain tried to pull. He wanted the attention on himself more than on the economic crisis. He knew if he said he wouldn't debate that the cable news would talk of little else. He did more to harm things than help in anyway. He didn't want attention on Rick Davis and his connection to Freddie and Fannie. And besides he lied, his ads ran yesterday and he himself spent the day in New York doing interviews, not in Washington D.C.

When is the Keating 5 going to be discussed? If you can use a 40 year old POW incident to save your butt everytime something goes wrong, then a 20 year old crime against America should also be discussed.

[Cakey4814]

What a hilarious piece..tha­nks Huffingon Post!!

[KISHAGREEN]

That's right...mo­ck McCain relentlessly. That is what the Republicans would be doing if it were Obama.

[munjuni]

The republicans Senators are not Morons. They know Johnah McPalin will lose the election. They want to be on the side of Obama so they can air ads during their re-election campaign bragging how they reached accross the isle to help Americans.

[milo h minderbinder]

Mock relentlessly? Sure, he has definitely been asking for it with his erratic decisions the past few days.

[Fitzy]

Barbara Boxer (D) from CA was just on MSNBC talking about Mc's role in deregulation, starting with Keating Five. I LOVE it!

[wizardofoz]

FITZY barbara dont mess around she will tell you,also it is TRUE.







go OBAMA /BIDEN 08

[Rockwell]

Always like Barney's snarky truth-saying. ; )

[ldaniel65]

OUCH!! Irrelevant

[johnu1974]

thats an insult to mighty mouse, and i'm not even a fan!

[CaptainAsshole]

ever see the mighty mouse episode when he was getting his butt kicked, reached into his pocket and pulled out and snorted purple powder that looked like purple cocaine. Mighty Mouse was pulled from syndication for that. Might Mouse is a whifhead

[rdub252]

That is the FUNNIEST thing i have seen during the entire campaign season...H­A HA HA HA...MCCAI­N is a CLOWN...i'­m ashamed that he is my Senator!!!

[HoneyBrown]

I love the way Barney Frank talks. He makes me laugh even when he's being serious. Reminds me of Elmer Fudd...

Andy Kaufmann's "Mighty Mouse" was sheer brilliance. I loved his lil pelvic thrusting and wide eyed innocense. Man on the Moon s ucked tho...

[nellie]

Lemmy

"Barney Frank is a disgrace."

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Barney Frank does more to benefit this country—and YOU—in ten minutes of an average day than you will probably do in a lifetime.

[Budokan]

It was clearly a political stunt on McCain's behalf that backfired and made him look like a knee-jerk reactionary rather than a calm and collected figure.

[TuffCookie]

OUCH!! bwahahahahhaha

[robXdion]

Exactamondo!!