Politico's David Rogers recapped the Supplemental vote in the House and quoted an anoymous Massachusetts Democrat dissing progressives:

The dynamics were striking in the Massachusetts delegation, where House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank — a nay vote in May — took a strong stand in favor of the IMF money and two other Democrats also shifted to support the president on this round.

“Off the record, it’s what we call the responsible left,” said one Massachusetts lawmaker. Frank himself was scathing toward both sides, who had often mimicked one another’s arguments that the IMF money constituted a European bank bailout.

“The left and the right live in parallel universes,” Frank told POLITICO. “The right listens to talk radio, the left’s on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. ... I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.”

So who dissed us? Here are the votes of Massachusetts Democrats:

So among the six who voted "responsibly" yesterday with Barney Frank, three flip-flopped from May 14 - Frank, Ed Markey, and Richard Neal. To paraphrase another famous Massachusetts Democrat, they were "against the war before they were for it."

Ed Markey would have a hard time dissing progressives over Iraq, since he cast a disastrous vote for the invasion of Iraq on October 10, 2002 and obviously regrets his vote (or damn well should). That leaves Richard Neal and Barney Frank.

Neal is a quiet Member who is rarely quoted in the news. Barney Frank, on the other hand, is the single most voluble Member of Congress. Obviously during Frank's otherwise on-the-record interview with Rogers, Frank simply said "now this is off the record" and then "anonymously" dissed progressives.

So Barney Frank, I'm calling you out. Are you "responsible" enough to admit that you dissed progressives?

And if so, would you like to debate whether wasting another $85 billion on the disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan-Pakistan is the "responsible" progressive position?