The Long View

He’s big. He’s obnoxious.  He’s Barney.

No, I’m not talking about the PBS children’s TV icon who sings, “I love you, you love me, we’re just one big family.”

I’m talking about the congressman from Massachusetts, Barney Frank, who, when confronted by a anti-healthcare-reform right-wingnut at a Dartmouth town hall meeting, gave better than he got.

The healthcare denialist characterized Democratic reform plans as “Nazi” health care and held aloft a poster of President Obama’s face featuring a Hitlerian moustache.

In response to her question from the floor, Barney replied that he would answer her question with a question, “On what planet do you spend most of your time?”

He described her characterization as “vile, contemptible nonsense. . . Ma’m trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to have a conversation with a dining room table.”

Straight talk from a gay congressman. Video below.