It's hard to fathom how Barney Frank went from criticizing the DOMA brief -- after being silent for five days -- only to say he finally read it and and now supports it.
Comments Americablog:
Well, it seems a trip to the Oval Office is all openly gay congressman Barney Frank needs to stab his community in the back. After criticizing the DOJ's anti-gay DOMA brief this morning, Frank did a 180 this evening and lauded the brief, which invoked incest and pedophilia. Frank now thinks the brief is just super.
Frank claims that he gave a newspaper reporter his negative opinion of the brief without actually having read it.
Did you catch that? Barney Frank, our senior gay elected representative, and a lawyer himself, claims that he was giving legal opinions on a legal brief that he hadn't even read. At least Joe and I, who are also lawyers, read the brief before commenting on it. How many other issues has Barney opined on about which he's been knowingly willfully ignorant? (Of course, I don't believe Frank for a minute - he read the brief, but the president got him to recant.
I'll certainly have a lot to discuss with Barney when he comes on the show next week.
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