Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) castigated critics Friday evening, noting that the only reason he missed a vote on an ACORN defunding measure was because he'd attended a Medal of Honor ceremony.Frank had faced attacks for missing a procedural vote in the House this year to strip the community organizing group ACORN of federal funding.
Conservatives have targeted Frank and a handful of other Democratic committee chairmen for being allegedly light on the group.
But Frank said that he was at the White House for a posthumous Medal of Honor ceremony. "I find it deeply disturbing that the people who loudly criticized me in print did not even call my office to ask me about the situation," Frank said.
He followed up with a characteristically sharp jab. "I would like to offer them the courtesy which they refused to offer me -- I will ask their opinion," he said. 'What do they think I should have done -- attend the Medal of Honor ceremony, or a vote?"