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Frank: Criticism of Congress is now racist, too
Hot Air » Top Picks — Frank: Criticism of Congress is now racist, too posted at 9:00 pm on October 6, 2008 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | printer-friendly Barney Frank’s latest defense of Congress over the financial meltdown could be predicted based on the success of Barack Obama’s campaign in using the same defense.  According to Rep. Frank, any attempt to pin the blame for the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on the activities of both, as well as Congressional policy that fueled it, is now officially racist .  Frank says conservatives want to blame minorities for the collapse: Frank charged that conservatives aim to shift blame for the market meltdown away from Wall Street and toward minority-lending laws like the federal ...

Has Barney Frank No Shame?
GayPatriot — Instead of admitting his own responsibility in the current financial mess, Barney Frank does what he and Democratic partisans always do when their records are called into question: attack conservatives.  It’s not the same blame he attempted to ladle out when Bill O’Reilly pressed him.  Now the Massachusetts Congressman is accusing conservatives of racism: :U.S. Rep. Barney Frank claims conservatives are trying to partly blame the nation’s economic woes on black people. “This is an effort I believe to appeal to a kind of anger in people,” Frank, a Newton Democrat who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, today told a Boston foreclosure-prevention forum. Frank charged that ...

Democratic Barney Frank Blames Republican Subprime Anger on Racism
PoliGazette — United States Representative Barney Frank (Democrat) blamed criticism of Republicans about subprime lending - the habit of the government to force companies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to hand out mortgages to individuals who would not be able to pay those mortgages back if something happened to the housing market - on racism on Monday. The bizarre notion that the Community Reinvestment Act . . . somehow is the cause of the whole problem, (conservatives) don’t mind that,” the lawmaker said. “They’re aware that the affordable-housing goals of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (and) the Community Reinvestment Act (aim to help) poor people. And let’s be honest, the fact that some poor people are black doesn’t hurt either ...