policies. he s supporting actual republican s actual policies, and the republicans are voting no, against their own ideas, just to stick it to him. while health reform still simmers in the background, the next item on the president s agenda is, of course, financial reform. thanks to sam stein at huffington post, we ve got the republican strategy memo for trying to defeat that. included in the words that work section of the memo, quote, we don t need another federal government agency. frank luntz, the republican strategist, notes, the single best way to kill any legislation is to link it to the big bank bailout. thus, republicans should rename wall street reform the big bank bailout bill. joining us now is democratic congressman barney frank of massachusetts. he, of course, is chairman of the house financial services committee. mr. chairman, great to see you. thanks for coming in. thanks, rachel. great to have you in town. you have seen the frank luntz memo, the republican bluep
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we left on a nice note. i was tired of the campaign and i was basically worn out, i was working 16-hour days. i did everything we set out to do. i left her with a strategy memo. the strategy memo was to stay in iowa and win iowa. that s the ticket out. now, obviously since then she s been in arizona, she s been in california, she s been in other places and she basically needs to be focused in iowa. that s all i have said. i have i obviously criticized her i was asked by chris matthews on a show, did she make a mistake when she attacked the governor of texas on the hiv thing? i basically said, it was a mistake. it was a mistake not attacking, but the next day basically saying it caused retardation when she didn t have any facts. the hpv virus he wanted to have mandated. i have great affection for