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Barney Frank wants Cabinet post (HUD Secretary)
The Hill ^
| 9/7/09
Posted on 09/07/2009 4:01:15 PM PDT by earlJam
Barney Frank wants Cabinet post
By Bob Cusack - 09/07/09 05:07 PM ET
Rep. Barney Frank is interested in capping his political career as a member of the president’s Cabinet, according to a new biography of the Financial Services Committee chairman.
Frank (D-Mass.) told author Stuart Weisberg that he would like to be Housing and Urban Development secretary. However, the 69-year-old lawmaker stresses that his departure from Congress is not imminent.
He first wants to pass more legislation on affordable housing, saying, “I want at least two years with President Obama and a solidly Democratic Senate so that we can get the federal government back in the housing business.”
The last time a president appointed an openly gay Cabinet member happened during the Clinton administration.
Weisberg, who used to work for Frank on Capitol Hill, spent five years on his authoritative book, titled Barney Frank, The Story of America’s Only Left-handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman. He interviewed over 150 people, including compiling 30 hours of interviews with Frank.
Frank talks about how he struggled as a gay man growing up in blue-collar Bayonne, N.J. He dated women throughout high school and college, but knew he was gay at 13. Still, he delayed revealing his sexuality until he had established a foothold in the House.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 111th; bankingqueen; barneyfrank; bho44; bhohud; communists; frank; gaystapo; homobama; homosexualagenda; housing; hud; liberalfascism; perverts; socialism; socialistagenda
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posted on
09/07/2009 4:01:15 PM PDT
by
earlJam
To: earlJam
Barney Frank wants Cabinet postAnd what does he intend to do with it?
2
posted on
09/07/2009 4:03:26 PM PDT
by
jla
To: earlJam
I want a pony and some free pie.
3
posted on
09/07/2009 4:04:36 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
To: earlJam
He would enjoy a position on the President’s staff.
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posted on
09/07/2009 4:05:00 PM PDT
by
ConservaTexan
(February 6, 1911)
To: jla
Ew. This is bad on sooo many levels!!!
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posted on
09/07/2009 4:05:08 PM PDT
by
Freedom56v2
("If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait till it is free! "~ PJ O'Rourke)
To: jla
Ew. This is bad on sooo many levels!!!
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posted on
09/07/2009 4:05:11 PM PDT
by
Freedom56v2
("If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait till it is free! "~ PJ O'Rourke)
To: bushwon
Why not? get him out of his senate seat..and the Administration will be out in 2012.
To: earlJam
“Cabinet”? More like “Water Closet”
To: earlJam
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posted on
09/07/2009 4:07:45 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: earlJam
Cabinet post!
How about a prison post.
As principal inmate in San Quentin.
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posted on
09/07/2009 4:07:46 PM PDT
by
roaddog727
(It's the Constitution, Stupid!)
To: earlJam
As “the children” would say, “That is so gay!”
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posted on
09/07/2009 4:08:35 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(ObamaCare! When "natural causes" just isn't good enough!)
To: earlJam
Yeah, the undersecretary for tight ends
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posted on
09/07/2009 4:08:43 PM PDT
by
Hammer Tym
(Skateboarding is a crime)
To: earlJam
WHAT???
Czar isn't an appealing title for the "back door man"?
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posted on
09/07/2009 4:08:45 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: earlJam
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posted on
09/07/2009 4:10:24 PM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: earlJam
Do anything to get him out of Congress!
When was the last time that any HUD Secretary got anything done?
To: RummyChick
Why not? get him out of his senate seat..and the Administration will be out in 2012.
Well, I see what you mean on the political level; tho I hate thot of the guy who was pretty much responsible for the subprime crisis getting rewarded with a HUD cabinet post.
On a visual level, what he would do with a post...well that is gross on a lot of levels.... :(
What I would really like would be to see him lose a re-election bid and be unemployed :)
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posted on
09/07/2009 4:11:15 PM PDT
by
Freedom56v2
("If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait till it is free! "~ PJ O'Rourke)
To: earlJam
His "gayness" won't be a security problem because he's not "blackmailable". One of his former lovers ran a male whore house in Frank's basement ( that he says he didn't know about ) - and it didn't effect his electability. Teddy Kennedy tried to work with the KGB to undermine Ronald Reagan - and the press didn't care enough to report on the KGB documents - Kennedy dismissed it as nothing and the press went along.
So he's a liberal - but he's got a permanent press pass... we know this much - Obama's not going to appoint a conservative...
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posted on
09/07/2009 4:11:21 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(- - - - - - "The Race Card - Only losers play it" - - - - - - - KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle)
To: earlJam
Fine with me, if they lock him in a cabinet!
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posted on
09/07/2009 4:11:35 PM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: earlJam
Barney Frank, Czar of Uranus
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posted on
09/07/2009 4:11:46 PM PDT
by
silent_jonny
(There is no recession in the Kingdom of God)
To: jla
Barney Frank wants Cabinet post
And what does he intend to do with it?
LOL!
The table leg was no longer big enough.
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posted on
09/07/2009 4:11:49 PM PDT
by
counterpunch
(In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
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