http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2010/10/21/is_barney_frank/page/full/
Sowell
Is Barney Frank?
No one contributed more to the policies behind the housing boom and bust, which led to the economic disaster we are now in, than Congressman Barney Frank.
His powerful position on the House of Representatives' Committee on Financial Services gave him leverage to force through legislation and policies which pressured banks and other lenders to grant mortgage loans to people who would not qualify under the standards which had long prevailed
