That Barney Frank...He's a Funny Guy

I was up early this morning doing some work and C-SPAN was running yesterday's House Financial Services Committee hearings with the boys from the Big Three. One of the members, Rep. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, kicked off an exchange that made me chuckle.

She was prefacing her question with a statement about how attached we are to our vehicles and how her family had nicknames for their cars (mine did, too, I guess...we had the White Elephant and the Brown Bomber). One of her family's cars growing up, belonging to her father was "the chick magnet."

Remembering about Chairman Frank's orientation, she offered a joking apology to which he replied, "It's not something I would ever want to drive."