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 ...
Doesn’t he get better bribes as committee chair?
Might be the only way of getting rid of him.
“Barney Frank wants Cabaret post.”
Seriously.
“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.
Maybe his internal polling is dismal. Why else would he even voice a wish like that, giving up his precious House seat.
A cabinet position? I thought that Bawny had been out of the closet for years?
“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..
Hes going to cap a career, assumed he was a bottom
Indeed! - lol
“Maybe his internal polling is dismal.”
Oh I dunno, I thought he had a new boyfriend.
How about his departure from life altogether? He should retire...does he think he's immortal?
Makes it look as if Bawney is fisting them both.
Bawney is the sorriest POS in US politics.
Tell him he can SIT on it!
Vewy funny.
Barney’s 69?
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
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.
TRANSLATION: As HUD secretary Barney Frank will be able to destroy the evidence of his malfeasance.
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