We knew that: Barney Frank admits to helping gay lover land job at Fannie Mae ’91

Barney Frank isn't just any run of the mill Democrat hypocrite. This the the alpha hypocrite. From the memory hole: Barney Frank 2003: "Fannie, Freddie not in crisis." Barney Frank 2010: I never said that and YouTube doesn't exist. Barney Frank was by the way having a gay affair with a Fannie Mae executive while he and the Democrats attacked the regulator of the giant GSEs when they were trying to regulate them, squelched all 17 warnings coming from Bush. The rest, as they say, is history. An amoral one at that. Speaking of, more on that Fannie Mae/gay lover angle from The Boston Herald: Barney Frank knocked on his Fannie

U.S. Rep. Barney Frank admitted he helped his ex-lover land a lucrative post with Fannie Mae in the early 1990s while the Newton Democrat was on a committee that regulated the lending giant — but he called questions of a potential ethical conflict “nonsense.”

Imagine that...

“If it is (a conflict of interest), then much of Washington is involved (in conflicts),” Frank told the Herald last night. “It is a common thing in Washington for members of Congress to have spouses work for the federal government. There is no rule against it at all.”

...Asked if he should have disclosed his efforts to help Moses land the job at Fannie Mae, Frank said: “It was widely known. It was out there in the public. It’s nonsense.”

The GOP wasted no time, nor should they have:

“Just when you think you’ve heard the worst, Democrats in Massachusetts take shameless politics to a new low,” said Tory Mazzola, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee. “The fact that Barney Frank didn’t see this as a conflict of interest is alarming by itself, but it’s so deceitful that it really shows voters that he’s not looking out for them in Washington.”

Recently there was this case of projection involving Frank: Barney Frank Calls Republicans Morally Stupid Bigots. Frank himself was at the top of the list of those that caused the mortgage meltdown:

Barney Frank - always looking out for his own Fannie.

UPDATE: Via Instapundit:

NOW IT’S BARNEY FRANK’S MOM who — well, whose group — turns out to have gotten Fannie Mae money.

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