Barney Frank (D-MA), annually voted one of the 2 or 3 smartest men in Congress in thepoll of Capitol Hill aides, was on FIRE on Bill Maher's TV show the other day. Bill asked his guests what's up with all these gay Republican officials being dragged out of their closets. He aimed his barb particularly at Idaho right-wing extremist and arch-homophobe Larry Craig, a Bush rubber stamp senator who was recently outed . Barney kind of passed on that one-- although with great aplomb-- and then went on to the heart of the problem. "The right to privacy should not be a right to hypocrisy and people who want to demonize other people shouldn't then be able to go home and close the door and do it themselves." But he was just getting warmed up. Watch the video

Labels: gay Republicans, Idaho, Larry Craig