Barney Frank: “But I think he was wrong when he said the rigid ideology of the people in power today leads them to the view, my way or…”

“But I think he was wrong when he said the rigid ideology of the people in power today leads them to the view, my way or the highway. I wish that were the case. Mr. Speaker, as you well know from your own committee position, the right wing ideology are on the point of saying, my way instead of the highway. Because so rigid are they in their right-wing ideology that we cannot even get a highway bill passed this year, as we certainly should, in the interest of the transportation needs of this country and the economy. But I want to talk beyond that about the work habits of the President. It is clear that in addition to an excessively rigid ideology we have an administration which is not very competent in a lot of things. I do not think we have seen a more incompetently executed national security policy of a major sort than Iraq in our history. And I wonder why we get such poor execution, even given that I disagree with some of the things they are trying to execute.”