Highlights of a brilliant career

Barney announces retirement.

Thank God, aside from HIV/AIDS this was the only other way to get rid of him.

Rumored to have said this after the announcement... "My work is done here. There is nothing left for me to fuck up."

Sloppy Pride

1972: Frank is elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the Back Bay. His 1976 slogan: "Neatness isn't Everything." Frumpiness intact, he's elected to Congress in 1980.

So What?

1987: Frank becomes the first congressman to voluntarily come out as gay. "If you are asking the direct question, 'Are you gay?' the answer is 'Yes. So what?' Frank told reporters. "I don't think most people care as long as it doesn't interfere and you do your job."

Reality: 
Even though he is a total fuck up the people of Massachusetts support him... because he is gay.

Some Mistakes

1990: Frank is reprimanded in Congress for his involvement with male prostitute Stephen Gobie, who ran an escort ring out of Frank's Washington, D.C., apartment. Politicians have resigned for less. Frank denies knowledge of what Gobie was up to. "I made some mistakes," Frank said. "I think that members here will agree that I have a reputation for honesty — not always tact or tolerance — but honesty.

  Was Anthony Weiner any worse then Barney Frank?

Barney vs. Newt

1995: Frank's star rises as a liberal counterpoint to GOP Speaker Newt Gingrich. Today, they're still sparring, as Newt calls for Frank's imprisonment over the Fannie Mae disaster, and Frank retorts: "When you think you are the intellectual leader of the free world, and you find yourself struggling to pass Michelle Bachmann in a poll in Iowa, it is unsettling, I understand."

There for Bill

1998: Frank is one of Bill Clinton's most ardent defenders during the GOP-led Lewinsky affair impeachment, which he dismisses as "a horse they can't figure out how to kill. Now, instead of killing it, they're painting stripes on it and calling it a zebra."

D'Oh!

2003: Frank advocates for mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, opposing a Bush proposal to move their oversight to the Treasury Department. This is his masterpiece, the Mona Lisa of incompetence, if you will.  Famous last words: 

 "These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis."

 In the very least this is the pinnacle of incompetence; if not downright criminal. Wesley Snipes is doing 3 years for a hell of a lot less. If Snipes is doing time shouldn't Barney? Shouldn't Rangel?

 Frank, a homosexual, incompetent asshole, skates after screwing taxpayers out of hundreds of billions of (still on going) dollars! 

Astoundingly... after all this he is reelected! So it begs the question. Is it really Frank's fault? 

Yes and no.

  Could he have done it without the support of the (imbeciles) in Massachusetts who have continued to endorse him for almost 40 years years?

Massachusetts the state they gave us Ted Kennedy (only a Democrat could drive off the road drunk, kill someone, and still remain a senator for over 40 years)

John (Mr Flip Flop Kerry)...He wants us to pay more taxes but does not want to  to pay more taxes on his (7mil)

 yacht.

Then we have Barney but we already know about him... I mean those of us who are not insane.

What pot?

2007: Frank is present when Maine cops bust his boyfriend, Jim Ready, for growing weed.

Irrelevant!

2010: Frank faces his most serious challenge in years from Republican Sean Bielat. Frank boyfriend Jim Ready heckles the Republican in an exchange caught on camera by the Herald. After Frank wins, he crows about the Herald’s “complete political irrelevance.”

Uh oh ...

2011: Frank is hit with accusations of recommending a former lover for a job in the 1990s at Fannie Mae, and accepting hefty donations from an online gambling firm.

Highlights of a brilliant career