Called Out

Barney Frank ridicules 'outlandish' Newt Gingrich - Alexander Burns - POLITICO.com: Rep. Barney Frank — who Newt Gingrich said last night should be jailed in connection with the financial meltdown — fires back in a statement from his House office:

As to the facts, the Republicans — part of the time under Newt Gingrich — ran Congress from 1995 until 2006, the period during which the financial crisis began and then rose to disastrous proportions. Chris Dodd and I were in the minority during that time, and in fact, no remedial action was taken by Congress until we became chairmen of our respective committees in 2007 and 2008.
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Apparently, Newt Gingrich — who considers himself one of the intellectual leaders of the free world — is so embarrassed by the fact that he is running behind Michele Bachmann in Republican polls that it has increased his already well-developed propensity to utter outlandish things.