Tim wrote an excellent piece for The Daily Caller....

But last Friday residents thousands of miles away in New York witnessed something similar but quite different: an aggravated, disheveled, undocumented senior citizen.
70-year-old Representative Barney Frank, (D-MA) was heading out to New York’s Fire Island. The New York Post reported that the Massachusetts congressman failed to contain his exasperation when a ticket clerk at the local dock rejected his request for a $1 discount ferry fare to the island. Frank did not possess the necessary Suffolk County Senior Citizens ID to take part. Something quite fascinating then unfolded.
The New York Post recounts a witness claiming that, ”Frank made such a drama over the senior rate that I contemplated offering him the dollar to cool down the situation.” One can imagine the horror of a Congressionally-pampered power broker confronted with a simple, everyday incident like this. Barney Frank lost his cool and that says it all.
And so the story unfolds. In many corners of our society a seemingly trivial incident like this from a man of such high authority would bring pause for no concern. Perhaps, instead – a laughing matter, or an excuse to muse over the representative’s strange proclivities, personality and arrogance.
But the story of the $1 discount fare points to much, much, more.
Read the rest here.
3 comments:
Thanks, Hack! I tip my hat to you too...
Hack, haven't been around for a while, but then I suppose you know how that it. You are listed on my TOTUS blog and just added you at my Obama Cartoons blog at http://obamacartoon.blogspot.com I get a good bit of traffic there, if fact more than at TOTUS although Totus is a PR5 site whereas Obama Cartoons is only a PR4 site. I'm trying my best to get it up with google and would appreciate a link back there. Visit it and maybe link if you like.
You got it Ron! Thank you!
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