The Pursuit of Control

It isn’t often that Barney Frank tells the truth as plainly as he did on The Ed Show yesterday, though he never fails to surround himself with lies, and this quote is no different:

The right wing took control of government and ruined it, they gave it a bad reputation. Now that we are trying on every front to increase the role of government in the regulatory area, we run into this public opinion that says ‘hey those are the guys that screwed up Katrina…’

So in Frank’s attempt to explain why more and more people don’t want the federal government taking over our private businesses, running the healthcare industry and meddling in our lives far more than they should, he blames the public’s skepticism on how Katrina was handled? Maybe someone should tell Barney that it has very little to do with Katrina and everything to do with out of control spending, bloated government budgets, the utter failure of every government entitlement program and the simple fact that no one trusts Congress to do anything in the interest of the people anymore.

You have to at least respect that Frank told us the truth about the government’s power grab, just like he told us his opinion on single payer, which is more than you can say for the President. Wait, the president wants single payer too?!