The delusional Barney Frank

Does he really think Olympia Snowe will support a health care bill? Even Harry Reid has written her off.

Then, per Salon, he doesn't want to pass the Senate bill straight up, and try to get more later via reconciliation is that the public will think that's "tricky".

Barney, what we have here is a failure to communicate — a failure to communicate Senate GOP obstructionism. And, there's the rub.

Of course, Frank, especially on financial issues, isn't so liberal as he would like to appear to be, and hasn't been for more than a decade, when he tried to both have his cake and eat it on gutting Glass-Steagall via Gramm-Leach-Bliley.

Talking Points Memo says Frank has now softened his stance, but I wouldn't hold my breath.