Dim Bulb: Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.

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WHAT: “The military budget is not on the table. The military is at the table, and it is eating everybody else’s lunch,” Frank said recently, repeating the Democrats’ myth that defense consumes more of the federal budget than anything else. WHY IT’S DIM: “Defense” is not spelled “A-T-M,” congressman.

CURE: If the Pentagon hired a Frank buddy, would he defend it as fiercely as he defended Fannie Mae?

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