The Czar thinks we can safely say that Rep. Barney Frank is among the more legally challenged of politicians (a) still in office and (b) not behind bars.

Now, a 2007 story has come to light in which Barney Frank was present, but not charged, when his partner was arrested for marijuana posession. Which means that Frank was aware of his partner’s criminal activities but did nothing about it. And why should he? Nothing seems to tarnish this one-man mafia in the eyes of his dysfunctionally gulligble constituents.

What catches our eye this beatiful morning is the comment “Frank is the author of a medical marijuana bill that would outlaw the prosecution of persons who use marijuana for medicinal purposes.”

Evidently he knows as much about medicine and drug enforcement as he knows about finance, banking, and lending…which is of course nothing.

In between the Freddie and Fannie mess (in which he steered money to help out a lover) and now free pot legislation (as a result of a boy toy being pinched), the Czar begins to wonder: is he interested in his consitutents, or just the ones he sleeps with?

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.