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He can bring home the bacon.
Da DA da da.
Fry it up in a pan.
Da DA da da.
Cause he’s a congressman —
Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank has earned the distinction of "Porker of the Year" from the group Citizens Against Government Waste.
With 49 percent of the votes, Frank beat out Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Calif. Rep. Maxine Waters, who came in 2nd and 3rd, and the write-in vote, President Barack Obama.
The group likes to make a splash with crazy stunts like live pigs at a press conference (Oh, that reminds me: If you see Barney Frank, tell him a man in a pink pig suit would like to speak with him) but they take their message about government waste pretty seriously.
Frank earned the distinction for his role as House financial-services committee chairman during the worst financial crisis in decades. The group says he took no responsibility for the crisis despite making bone-headed comments like, "Let’s roll the dice on subsidized housing" in a 2003 New York Times article, then suggesting earlier this year that it was time to scrap Fannie Mae [ FNM 0.5265 
+0.0 (+0.00%) ] and Freddie Mac [ FRE 2.82 +0.07 (+2.55%) ] and "leave it to the government."
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