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RUSH: Yesterday on the Center for American Progress Action Fund website, ThinkProgress.org, a reporter was interviewing Representative Barney Frank (Democrat-Massachusetts). The question: “President Bush regularly said that getting Osama was not a top priority, and yet today, you had Eric Cantor who said, quote, ‘I commend President Obama who has followed the vigilance of President Bush in bringing Osama Bin Laden to justice,\u2019 and I\u2019m wondering if you think President Bush deserves any credit here, Congressman Frank?”<\/p>\n

BARNEY FRANK: For Eric Cantor to phrase it that way, to say he “followed the vigilance of President Bush” is a degree of cheap partisan that exceeds even when I expected from Cantor. Frankly, my one serious criticism of President Obama is that he\u2019s shown too much continuity with President Bush. I wish he was a little less, uh, connected to President Bush with regard to the tax cuts and with regard to I\u2019waq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, folks, isn\u2019t that amazing. Look at all the Bush policies that President Obama is keeping in place. Virtually all the military policies. The Bush tax cuts are in place. Barney Frank is not happy about it. So we move on to CNBC Squawk Box. The cohost is Joe Kernen. He said, “Congressman, we love your feistiness. Just gonna try and get you going here, see if I can do it. Looking at the Wall Street Journal today, they\u2019re talking about this is also a moment to salute George W. Bush. I saw that yesterday Eric Cantor tried to make the same claim, and you said that he didn\u2019t even expect from Eric Cantor to be that deeply partisan, to actually thank George W. Bush. Don\u2019t you think it\u2019s partisan to not say that Bush had anything to do with this, Congressman?”<\/p>\n

BARNEY FRANK: I am struck by your intro into this that you\u2019re gonna try to get me, eh, eh, eh to — to be, ehhh, feisty.<\/p>\n

KERNEN: Oh, come on! You love this.<\/p>\n

BARNEY FRANK: No. I\u2019m sorry. Please don\u2019t interrupt.<\/p>\n

KERNEN: All right.<\/p>\n

BARNEY FRANK: I\u2019m sorry. Look, you know, I — I gotta be honest with you. I — I — I\u2019m asked to come on your show. I\u2019m glad to have a thoughtful, serious conversation.<\/p>\n

KERNEN: Okay.<\/p>\n

BARNEY FRANK: But when you tell me, “Oh, no,” your purpose is to needle me, to trying to get me to get upset, that\u2019s really not worth getting up early for, to be honest with you. <\/p>\n

KERNEN: Oh, come now. <\/p>\n

BARNEY FRANK: Now can I get to the substance?<\/p>\n

KERNEN: All right. Yes.<\/p>\n

BARNEY FRANK: I said, and I mean it, that if this had happened under Bush, the Repub\u2019wicans would not have said Bush and Clinton, because the effort to kill Osama Bin Laden started under Bill C\u2019winton, who began this effort and tried to kill him and — and almost was able to do it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, let\u2019s not forget, Congressman Frank, that Bill Clinton was offered Osama Bin Laden twice, head on a silver platter. Sudan offered us Bin Laden, and Clinton said (impression), “Ah, we don\u2019t have the legal procedures in place. I — I don\u2019t want any part of the guy.” It was a law enforcement issue back then and they had no mechanism to accept Bin Laden. But here comes the revisionism now. So Clinton was the first guy that wanted to wipe out Bin Laden. (Frank impression) “We know that P\u2019wesident Bush would not have th\u2019said this at all.” Kernen wasn\u2019t finished. “Could you at least concede then that a lot of the structure that Bush put in place is an enemy combatant, a lot of the things that are just driving the left crazy are now being adopted by the Obama administration and had something to do with his final triumph. How about that?”<\/p>\n

BARNEY FRANK: I would, first of all, reject the kind of rhetoric you engage in, “drive the left crazy.” I don\u2019t think legitimate c\u2019witicism about whether we ought to say in this country or not is — is, ehhh, craziness. You say would I “concede” that some of this was from Bush. I don\u2019t concede it because I never denied it. I didn\u2019t say that the Bush administration had nothing to do with it — and, yes, I do think that in some deg\u2019wee President Obama should — should, uhh, make more changes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. The left not happy, hasn\u2019t gone far enough. Close Gitmo! Follow through here. Shut down West Point and get us out of Afghanistan and Libya. Get us out of these places.” That\u2019s why the left is unhappy. So Kernen finally says, “Look, I hope you\u2019ll come back, as I want to talk to you about Massachusetts state legislature. Public unions, too. I\u2019d love to get your opinion on some of that, but I wouldn\u2019t want you to get too mad at me if I were to ask you about that.” <\/p>\n

BARNEY FRANK: Excuse me. I\u2019m sorry, but I really do take exception to that. I only get mad at you when you prefaced your question by saying, “Let me see if I can get you to be, ehh, too feisty, et cetera. I\u2019m always g\u2019wad — <\/p>\n

KERNEN: I like you to be feisty!<\/p>\n

BARNEY FRANK: — to come on and have a thoughtful conversation.<\/p>\n

KERNEN: We got… Like I said, we have Howard Dean coming up. Watch him.<\/p>\n

BARNEY FRANK: No, no.<\/p>\n

KERNEN: He\u2019s gonna… He might even — <\/p>\n

BARNEY FRANK: No, no.<\/p>\n

KERNEN: — do that yell when he comes on.<\/p>\n

BARNEY FRANK: P\u2019wease. You want to back off it, okay, but you said, you know, you were trying to sort of pick a fight, or trying to say something — <\/p>\n

KERNEN: Oh, I\u2019m not.<\/p>\n

BARNEY FRANK: — that would be — <\/p>\n

KERNEN: It\u2019s cable!<\/p>\n

BARNEY FRANK: — controversial.<\/p>\n

KERNEN: Congressman Frank, it\u2019s cable. Come on. <\/p>\n

BARNEY FRANK: Well, I\u2019m sorry. I\u2019m sorry. Please don\u2019t denigrate your medium.<\/p>\n

KERNEN: It\u2019s not C-SPAN.<\/p>\n

BARNEY FRANK: Even a cable sh… Well, then — then that\u2019s unfortunate for cable. If you\u2019re telling me that serious, thoughtful conversation without a lot of fireworks isn\u2019t appropriate for cable, then I\u2019m disappointed.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s Barney Frank with the standard turn on CNBC. (laughing) “It\u2019s cable! Come on, it\u2019s cable!” That\u2019s right. Well, it\u2019s Joe Kernen. What Kernen was saying is, “You know the game here. It\u2019s cable. You act feisty, I ask you crazy questions to get you all worked up and you answer \u2019em.” By the way, Barney Frank… Just so you know, Barney Frank cosponsored the American Anti-Torture Act, which would outlaw waterboarding, outlaw renditions and every other enhanced interrogation technique. Barney Frank cosponsored the American Anti-Torture Act, which is what I mean. These people owe us an apology. If Barney Frank had had his way none of what happened on Sunday would have happened.<\/p>\n

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