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Barney Frank

It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.

Barney Frank

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Barney Frank is saying that the Republican Party is now strongly influenced by strict religious conservatives. He also suggests that even elite education from schools like Harvard and Yale does not change some people's deeply held political beliefs.

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