Hmmm, do you think a Republican could get away with calling Dem views “retarded”?

Via HuffPo:

In a Thursday appearance on CNN, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said conservative opposition “retarded” the economy.

“The American economy today, of all the economies in the advanced nations in the world. . . we’re doing the best and we’re doing the best because we’re mixing policies. Now, we’ve been retarded by conservative opposition,” he said.

He explained that while about 4 million private sector jobs have been created since late 2009, the country has “lost over 600,000 jobs from state and local government: teachers, firefighters, police officers because the right-wing has sort of cut back on that.”