Formerly gay House member Barney Frank got into a snit yesterday over President Obama's use of a signing statement to ignore Congress' legislative directions regarding the IMF. Barney even threatened to cut off the administration's money:
“I was asked by the administration and worked hard to get that money for the IMF with some reasonable conditions,” Frank said during yesterday’s debate. “The notion that the administration can take the money and pick and choose what it wants to do with the conditions is unacceptable.”Contrast that with Barney Frank giving the Obama administration cover for its anti-gay DOMA brief, the one that compared gay marriage to incest and pedophilia. Maybe we should rename ourselves IMF-Americans, then perhaps Barney would defend us too.
“So let me say, as chairman of the committee that authorizes these and as someone who works closely with the appropriators in doing it, if the administration does not withdraw this claim that they can ignore conditions we put on it, then they will have nothing to ignore because there won’t be any conditions and there won’t be any money,” Frank said. “And that’s right there in the Constitution.”
