-Caveat Lector- WIRE: June 4, 5:02 p.m. ET Rep. Barney Frank calls Republican extremists ``nuts'' NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rep. Barney Frank, no stranger to sexual scandal himself, believes the Republican party is controlled by hypocritical right-wing extremists who were bad losers after failing to force President Clinton out over the Monica Lewinsky affair. ``In this (impeachment process), the Americans saw who really controls the Republican Party,'' he said in an interview in the latest edition of Playboy magazine that hits the newsstands on Monday, June 7. ``They saw that the right wing controls the party and they saw that the right wing is nuts,'' said Frank, a Democrat of Massachusetts, who is the second-ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee. Asked if the Republicans were out of touch in bringing impeachment hearings against Clinton over sexual relations with a White House intern, Frank said: ``They were so out of touch that it was astonishing. ``They acted stupidly throughout the impeachment and afterward. The Republicans were the worst losers imaginable, snarling and unhappy.'' Frank, who is openly homosexual, also called Republican leaders hypocrites for pushing through a Defense of Marriage Act, which essentially bars same-sex marriage. ``They're saying that my ability to marry another man somehow jeopardizes heterosexual marriage,'' he told Playboy. ''Then they go out and cheat on their wives. That doesn't jeopardize heterosexual marriage? It's nonsense.'' Frank, who survived a sex scandal 10 years ago when it was revealed that one of his staffers was involved in homosexual prostitution, said he still felt a certain amount of homophobia from the Republicans. Even though House majority leader Dick Armey had apologized for once inadvertently calling him ``Barney Fag.'' ``Armey said he didn't mean to say it. I accept that, but he was thinking it.'' He said after Armey said it was just a mispronunciation, Frank's mother said: ``In the 59 years since I married your father, no one has ever called me Elsie Fag!'' http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/Reuters19990604_2326.html Bard Visit me at: The Center for Exposing Corruption in the Federal Government http://www.xld.com/public/center/center.htm Federal Government defined: ....a benefit/subsidy protection racket! DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
