Frank not swayed by Obama’s ‘calculation’

PHILADELPHIA—In becoming the first current member of Congress to break with President Obama and endorse Joe Sestak’s Senate bid against Arlen Specter Monday, Barney Frank made an argument that Sestak’s campaign can only hope will be echoed by others.

And with the White House, Gov. Ed Rendell and much of the party establishment backing Specter, Frank’s argument echoed points Sestak himself has made.

“I understand the political calculations of the President…

December 7, 2009 at 1:41 pm | Comments (3)

Frank endorses Sestak as ‘one of the most valuable members of Congress’

PHILADELPHIA—Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mas.) formally endorsed Joe Sestak’s Senate bid Monday morning, becoming the first member of Congress to break with the White House and party leaders in Sestak’s primary challenge to Senator Arlen Specter.

“I regard Joe as one of the most valuable members of Congress,” Frank said during an appearance with Sestak at a downtown law office here. “His military background is of great importance because getting our military policy [and] spending right…

December 7, 2009 at 1:35 pm | Comments (7)

Specter should take a cue from Barney Frank

The next time Senator Arlen Specter finds himself in the midst of a screaming mob at yet another testy, health care reform town hall meeting, maybe he should try some of the tactics employed Wednesday by outspoken Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA).

Confronted by a woman holding a poster of President Obama sporting a Hitler-style mustache and calling the proposed health care reforms Nazi policy, Frank responded the way all thinking, reasonable…

August 19, 2009 at 7:16 pm | Comments (10)