{"id":6688,"date":"2010-08-21T14:03:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T18:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6688"},"modified":"2010-08-21T14:03:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T18:03:58","slug":"is-congressman-barney-frank-trying-moving-to-the-right-of-his-likely-republican-challenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6688\/is-congressman-barney-frank-trying-moving-to-the-right-of-his-likely-republican-challenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Congressman Barney Frank Trying Moving to the Right of His Likely Republican Challenger?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know it\u2019s shaping up to be a bad year for Democrats when the congressman most associated with pressuring banks to accelerate the growth in subprime mortgages says he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/political_commentary\/commentary_by_lawrence_kudlow\/barney_frank_comes_home_to_the_facts\" target=\"_blank\">hopes government mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are dead within a year<\/a>.\u00a0 House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) told CNBC host Lawrence Kudlow that he no longer supports \u201cpushing lower-income people into housing they couldn\u2019t afford\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So what could be motivating Frank\u2019s flip-flop?\u00a0 Kudlow thinks it could be the rare example of a politician admitting his mistake.\u00a0 I\u2019m betting it has more to do with the rise of Sean Bielat as a serious contender to challenge Frank in the upcoming general election.<\/p>\n<p>The same week Frank offered his mea culpa to Kudlow, Frank\u2019s campaign staff circulated information that Bielat was formerly a registered Democrat before switching to the Republican Party.\u00a0 The implication is that Bielat can\u2019t be trusted because he switched parties.<\/p>\n<p>But in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seanbielat.org\/blog\/2010-08-20\/yes-i-was-registered-democrat  \" target=\"_blank\">an impressively worded explanation<\/a>, Bielat manages to highlight his resume as a former House page, Marine and Harvard graduate, and why at each step along the way he was more and more conflicted with the Democrats\u2019 liberal agenda.\u00a0 There\u2019s even a polite reminder that Ronald Reagan was once a Democrat until its leftward tilt helped him discover his inner conservative.<\/p>\n<p>Frank is obviously concerned about Bielat\u2019s appeal this year because of his line of attack on Bielat: Don\u2019t vote for Sean; he used to be a Democrat.\u00a0 Too bad for Barney, though, because he still is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know it\u2019s shaping up to be a bad year for Democrats when the congressman most associated with pressuring banks to accelerate the growth in subprime mortgages says he hopes government mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are dead within a year.\u00a0 House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) told CNBC host Lawrence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[782,164,84,1174,1175,159,1739],"class_list":["post-6688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2010-midterm-elections","tag-barney-frank","tag-congress","tag-fannie-mae","tag-freddie-mac","tag-massachusetts","tag-sean-bielat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6690,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6688\/revisions\/6690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}