Frankly It's Frank.

Well, Barney Frank is retiring from Congress at the end of next year. For those who haven't heard of him, he has two doctoral degrees from Harvard and nearly has a third. He's a very outspoken Representative from Massachusetts by way of Bayonne, New Jersey and sounds like he never left there. They say he has a real sense of humor. A quote I just read tells how whenever someone complains to him about the lazy good for nothing politicians, his reply is that "the public is no bargain either". Amen brother, Amen. Rep. Frank is on the committee that overseas the banking industry, but could easily head almost any committee in Congress and would almost instantly be the best informed member of that committee. He's not typical of congressional members these days. He actually knows what he's talking about because he's studied the subject before he speaks. As opposed to speaking about a subject in spite of the fact that they haven't studied it. That's part of the problem in Washington. On the one hand you have the folks that will vote any way they think they have to, for their own personal gain and then there's the folks who speak without knowing whereof they speak. Unfortunately it's usually the same people in both categories. Mr Frank doesn't seem to fit either category. Nor is he likely to miss the chance to tell it like it is. Ya know, it's true that politicians are no bargain, but then he's right, the public is no bargain either. Elsewise, they wouldn't have voted the bums into office in the first place. Residents of the fourth legislative district of Massachusetts excepted.