| Barney Frank has a new autobiography out. He's long been one of the nation's most quotable politicians. And Washington lives in perpetual longing for intra-party conflict.
So why has a critical revelation from Frank's book, one that implicates the most powerful Democrat in the nation, been entirely expunged from the record? The media has thus far focused on Frank's wrestling with being a closeted gay congressman, or his comment that Joe Biden "can't keep his mouth shut or his hands to himself." But nobody has focused on Frank's allegation that Barack Obama refused to extract foreclosure relief from the nation's largest banks, as a condition for their receipt of hundreds of billions of dollars in bailout money. |
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