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...comes the hard part, especially for liberals: Should Frank resign...
WHAT is unfair, however, is that Frank's sexual preference has been used against him. The Associated Press, in a story about Frank, included in its second paragraph that a poll revealed that 46 percent of Americans thought Frank should resign. Several paragraphs later, the story explained that 45 percent of those surveyed thought that no gay should serve in Congress...
...other words, the clamor for Frank to resign involves a tremendous amount of homophobia. If the poll cited is correct, virtually nobody cares about the allegations at all. And most unfortunately, the Associated Press did not care to make this distinction...
...Boston Globe called on Frank to resign on Sunday, saying that his presence in Congress will hurt liberal causes. But even the Globe's political reporting cannot predict the future...
...done what he should have done," Brown said. "The ethics committee ought to go forward. Pressure is building to resign. But we ought to let the quasi-judicial process go forward...