The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.

You play into their hand when you let them provoke you into overdoing it. Frank never again dated a woman. In 2006 a Fannie Mae representative stated in SEC filings that they "did not participate in large amounts of these non-traditional mortgages in 2004 and 2005.

Born and raised in Bayonne New Jersey Frank graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He was elected to the U. Frank did not seek re-election in 2012 and retired from Congress at the end of his term in January 2013.