If things keep going in this direction, pretty soon it will be racist to criticize the Chicago Cubs - calling ballplayers who quit in the middle of the playoffs "losers" is just the same as using the "N" word to describe them.At least in Barney Frank's universe: Rep. Barney Frank said Monday that Republican criticism of Democrats over the nation's housing crisis is a veiled attack on the poor that's racially motivated. The Massachusetts Democrat, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said the GOP is appealing to its base by blaming the country's mortgage foreclosure problem on efforts to expand affordable housing through the Community Reinvestment Act. He said that blame is misplaced, because those loans are issued by regulated institutions, while far more foreclosures were triggered by high-cost loans made by unregulated entities. "They get to take things out on poor people," Frank said at a mortgage foreclosure symposium in...(Read Full Post)