Barney Frank, an ultra-liberal former Massachusetts Democratic Congressman, and Rep. Steve King, a right-wing flamethrower from Iowa, were the first two national figures to politicize Monday's Boston massacre. King said in an interview with the conservative National Review magazine that the Senate's immigration reform bill should stop dead in its tracks, reacting to early reports that a Saudi suspect in the U.S. on a student visa had been detained for questioning. Frank said Tuesday on MSNBC, as reported by Mediaite, that the bombing attacks at the Boston Marathon showed that Republicans' calls for tax cuts could hinder the federal government's responses to terror attacks and other tragedies that local governments aren't equipped to handle on their own. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO Frank complained that conservatives 'criticize government, belittle public employees [and] talk about their pensions' without noting the work government can't do unless taxes are