Rather rich coming from a Democrat.

(CNSNews.com) – Retiring Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said Democrats in Congress “have become more liberal” since he was elected in 1980.

In an interview with the Harvard Crimson, the daily newspaper of Harvard College, on Thursday, Frank was asked to reflect upon his time in Congress and what has changed the most since he arrived in Washington.

“The parties have gotten more separate,” Frank said. “The Democrats have become more liberal. The Republicans are more uniformly conservative…. Things have changed.

“It was the takeover of the Republican Party by the Tea Party that was the most radical shift,” he continued. “This is the most extreme ideological faction controlling a major political party in American history. That’s the biggest change, and it happened in just the last couple years.”