Barney Frank does want Kerry's Senate seat.

"A month ago, or a few weeks ago, I said I wasn’t interested... It was kind of like you’re about to graduate, and they said: 'You g...

Barney Frank — giving a commencement speech — makes a "hoodie" joke.

At the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, giving an honorary degree to a black man: “You know, when you get an honorary degree they give...

"The one thing that's being tamped down here is, we're losing characters... The place needs character, and characters."

"When I got here, you had Jim Traficant, you had Barney, and then Dennis came..." says Rep. Steven C. LaTourette (R-Ohio), a nine-...

The era of Barney Frank...

... is over.

"A vote of not much confidence in Nancy Pelosi."

Dana Milbank highlights the negativity: The first rebuke of Pelosi by her colleagues came Tuesday, when Democratic dissidents forced a six-h...

A smiling John McCain crushed under Palin's high-heeled shoe.

Nice illustration by Barry Blitt (the artist who did the famous Michelle-and-Barack New Yorker cover ). The accompanying column , by Frank ...

Bill O'Reilly tries to work his gruesome magic on Barney Frank.

Frank is really good at standing his ground. O'Reilly had to keep ratcheting up, but it didn't work. He even resorted to accusing Fr...

Our leaders "have failed utterly and catastrophically to project any sense of authority."

Says David Brooks. So they not only fail to lead, they fail to look like they are leading. Clowns on all sides. George W. Bush is completel...

"No solution to a problem can be more elegant than the problem itself."

"We are dealing with a very difficult problem. Given the dimensions of the problem, I believe we have done a good job. It includes genu...

Okay. I'm up for it tonight. I'm live-blogging Hillary Night at the Democratic Convention.

6:50 Central Time: My resolve jells. 7:15: I'm watching PBS tonight. C-SPAN last night. PBS has HD + longer coverage than the networks. ...

"Is America ready for a President with a lisp?"

I got to this via James Taranto, who calls this a "homophobic line of attack": It is unimaginable that a mainstream network would...

"Arthur Godfrey once said that 'I'm proud to pay taxes in America, but I could be just as proud for about half the money.'"

Arthur Godfrey ! You're quoting Arthur Godfrey ?! Well, Governor Huckabee wins the prize for least hip candidate in the '08 race. T...

"Window cleaner Ira Clemons put down his squeegee in the lobby of a city mall and stroked his goatee...."

Guess the topic of the MSM news article that begins its third paragraph thusly? It's: Do people want President Bush impeached? The goat...

Why do all those members of Congress agree to go on "The Colbert Report"...

... where they are subjected to all manner of foolery? At a time when surveys show younger voters turning away from the mainstream media in ...

"Let's Get Frank."

Stephen Holden reviews the film "Let's Get Frank," about Rep. Barney Frank. Holden notes: Mr. Frank is no smoothie. His bulli...