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Barney Frank: Iraq was the biggest spending program ever. (video)

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Frank Takes Down Stimulus Criticism: ‘The Largest Spending Bill In History’ Will Be The Iraq War
Wonk Room — Today, on ABC’s This Week, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) derided the economic recovery package currently before the Senate as “the largest spending bill in history.” Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) fired back that the actual largest spending bill in history “is going to turn out to be the war in Iraq“: FRANK: The largest spending bill in history is going to turn out to be the war in Iraq…And I don’t understand why, from some of my conservative friends, building a road, building a school, helping somebody get health care, that’s — that’s wasteful spending, but that war in Iraq, which is going to ...

Barney Frank: ‘The largest spending bill in history is going to turn out to be the war in Iraq.’
Think Progress — Today on ABC’s This Week, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) criticized the economic recovery package currently before the chamber as “the largest spending bill in history.” Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) shot back that in reality, the largest spending bill in history “is going to turn out to be the war in Iraq.” Watch it: The Wonk Room’s Pat Garofalo notes that while the Iraq was was financed with borrowed money and turned “a budget surplus into a record deficit and debt,” the economic recovery package will “boost consumer demand and put people back to ...

Rep. Barney Frank Goes There. . .
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Prof. Frank takes colleagues to school
Political Animal — PROF. FRANK TAKES COLLEAGUES TO SCHOOL.... When it comes to fighting a war in Iraq, for six years, congressional Republicans said no price was too high, no spending bill was too bloated, and no presidential request was too unreasonable. When it comes to rescuing an economy in crisis, congressional Republicans take a very different tack. To his enormous credit, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) appeared on ABC News' "This Week" yesterday to ask why this is ...