He is politically bulletproof in his district. He would need to be convicted of a felony or die in office to be rid of him.
Absolutely. The traditional way to express this is to say that politician could only be undone if found "With a live boy in his bed, or a dead girl".
In Barney's case, the live boy is seen as a plus, and the dead girl is quite unlikely. He's in the long haul.
“He is politically bulletproof in his district. He would need to be convicted of a felony or die in office to be rid of him.”
Blarney is like Nancy Pelosigalore. There is nothing, they can do or say, that would keep them from being re elected by the mentally ill voters in their districts.
It might be possible to separate Barney Frank from his Congressional office in the same way they separate the men from the boys in Provincetown: with a crowbar.
Like Baghdad Jim mcdermitt.