This past spring, while the House of Representatives debated the Agriculture Appropriations bill, Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank condemned Republican support of the measure’s many amendments by touting Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, and the “wonders of the free market.”

Hugh Hewitt, the Club for Growth, and other conservative bloggers lauded Frank’s speech, and GOPBloggers.org summed it up by writing, “You know the GOP’s fiscal policy is dismal when Barney Frank makes sense.”