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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


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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To: The Good Doctor

Doesn’t he get better bribes as committee chair?


61 posted on 09/07/2009 5:33:08 PM PDT by nufsed (Release the birth certificate, passport, and school records.)
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To: earlJam

Might be the only way of getting rid of him.


62 posted on 09/07/2009 5:46:37 PM PDT by dr_who
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To: jla
I have to slow down on the reading. I thought the headlines was:

“Barney Frank wants Cabaret post.”

Seriously.

63 posted on 09/07/2009 5:54:57 PM PDT by 21twelve (Drive Reality out with a pitchfork if you want , it always comes back.)
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To: earlJam
The chickens have come home to roost -


64 posted on 09/07/2009 5:56:57 PM PDT by Upstate NY Guy
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To: earlJam

“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.”

That is just so fundamentally wrong. It’s disgusting.


65 posted on 09/07/2009 6:14:15 PM PDT by upchuck (New sign on my truck: Are you a "Hope and Change" regretter?)
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To: earlJam

Maybe his internal polling is dismal. Why else would he even voice a wish like that, giving up his precious House seat.


66 posted on 09/07/2009 6:16:30 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (I was raised to see through the Kennedy B.S.)
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To: earlJam

A cabinet position? I thought that Bawny had been out of the closet for years?


67 posted on 09/07/2009 6:24:45 PM PDT by festusbanjo (Ted Kennedy is a shovel ready project!)
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To: earlJam

“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.”...................... You got 15 months of Democratic Senate, and why would anyone give the you the position after you screwed up the works with the last one. Your term limits will hopefully end the 15th month but your hair brained constituents probably vote you back..


68 posted on 09/07/2009 6:35:44 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (DON'T BLAME ME I VOTED FOR "PALIN"!)
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To: jla

Hes going to cap a career, assumed he was a bottom


69 posted on 09/07/2009 6:43:30 PM PDT by reefdiver (So how's that HOPE & CHANGE working out for ya ?)
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To: Upstate NY Guy

Indeed! - lol


70 posted on 09/07/2009 6:59:14 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Fudd Fan

“Maybe his internal polling is dismal.”

Oh I dunno, I thought he had a new boyfriend.


71 posted on 09/07/2009 7:28:35 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: earlJam
Secretary of Cold with permanent duty at McMurdo Bay Antarctica.
72 posted on 09/07/2009 7:42:04 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: earlJam
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.

How about his departure from life altogether? He should retire...does he think he's immortal?

73 posted on 09/07/2009 7:44:44 PM PDT by pray4liberty
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To: earlJam
Aha! Bawney wants to be the Wrecked'em Czar of America.He must ne concerned about his re-erection.
74 posted on 09/07/2009 8:21:34 PM PDT by Candor7 (The weapons of choice against fascism are ridicule ,derision ,truth. (member NRA)
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To: IbJensen
Why do each of them have such waleyes?THe one one the left is cross eyed.

Makes it look as if Bawney is fisting them both.

Bawney is the sorriest POS in US politics.

75 posted on 09/07/2009 8:27:27 PM PDT by Candor7 (The weapons of choice against fascism are ridicule ,derision ,truth. (member NRA)
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To: earlJam

Tell him he can SIT on it!


76 posted on 09/07/2009 8:39:59 PM PDT by Just Lori (For the first time in my adult life, I am really afraid for my country.)
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To: festusbanjo

Vewy funny.


77 posted on 09/07/2009 8:42:44 PM PDT by Just Lori (For the first time in my adult life, I am really afraid for my country.)
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To: earlJam

Barney’s 69?

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww


78 posted on 09/07/2009 9:37:51 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: earlJam
"Barney Frank wants Cabinet position."

All he's worthy of is taking one of his, ahem, "sexual persuasion's" positions in his own home with an underage page next to the kitchen cabinets.

79 posted on 09/08/2009 5:01:12 AM PDT by tom h
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To: earlJam; All

TRANSLATION: As HUD secretary Barney Frank will be able to destroy the evidence of his malfeasance.


80 posted on 09/08/2009 6:45:45 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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