If you ever get a chance to ask Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) about "Dodd-Frank," the finance "reform" bill he co-authored with former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), watch out: he gets awfully snippy.
Actually, if you watch the following interview (as we have over and over and over), he's pretty much always snippy.
CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo got to see for herself Rep. Frank's, um, "pleasant" disposition during a Thursday interview while the two discussed former Citi chair Sandy Weill's call to break up the banks, the U.S.' impending "fiscal cliff," and "Dodd-Frank.
The entire segment is definitely worth a watch [but it gets really interesting at the 09:00 mark]: