Commentary

Maxine Waters Is Worse than Barney Frank

By Ashton Ellis
Tuesday, November 29 2011

“It’s hard to think of anyone more polarizing than Barney Frank, but Maxine Waters manages to do it,” Mark Calabria, the lead banking expert at the Cato Institute, told MarketWatch.com after Frank’s surprise retirement from Congress shifted focus to his likely replacement as the most powerful Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee. In the case of both Frank and Waters, ‘polarizing’ is code for crass, corrupt and inappropriately controversial. Consider Frank’s tenure. In the late 1980s Frank was reprimanded by the House, 408-18…

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