We all know how the disastrous stimulus and bailout legislation was passed without any member of Congress having time to read its voluminous verbage. We also know that Henry Waxman (D-CA), Energy & Commerce Chairman and author of the National Energy Tax, didn’t know what was in his own bill when asked about it recently. Now we learn that Barney Frank puts his mouth in gear before reading the Defense of Marriage Act:
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?
I can answer that last question: Lots.
