Posted on 04/14/2005 11:10:06 AM PDT by srm913
Rangel: Bush 'Impeachable' for Social Security 'Fraud'
Top House Democrat Charlie Rangel said this week that President Bush had committed an "impeachable offense" by trying to destroy the Social Security retirement system, calling Bush's reform plan "a fraud."
In comments to the New York Sun, Rangel blasted the president for trying to "dismantle" Social Security, saying it would hurt black Americans disproportionately.
After calling the White House proposal fraudulent, Rangel said Bush's attempt to reform Social Security was an "impeachable offense."
For black Americans, the congressman added, the struggle against the proposed changes was "not only a civil-rights fight, but a fight for America."
Rangel called on African-Americans to continue their "missionary" work against the Social Security proposals and likened the effort to marching with Martin Luther King Jr. from Selma to Montgomery.
Before raising the spectre of impeachment, the top Democrat told a Town Hall meeting in Harlem that the Bush Social Security plan was both "vicious and mean."
"We have to get rid of the bums that are trying to take [Social Security] away from us," Rangel complained, saying he was referring to "people who sleep with Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, and the rest of them."
If having a brain was an impeachable offense, Charlie would still be safe.
You're in the House, Charlie. You can file the impeachment motions any time you like, so what are you waiting for?
People like Rangel are why I hope, some day, that science can make stupidity painful.
It's fun watching the Demorats crack up!
Hey Charlie, what's your party's propsed alternative to the Republican plan??? Nothing? That's what I thought.
It already is painful.
To us.
Imagine listening to the audio book of a James Michener book read by Charlie Rangel? Around hour 37 you'd be perforating your own ear drums.
Dittoes. And prayers for his constituents (that they seek help).
charlie reminds me of some of the guys on the streets.
magical thinking.
They really are going insane.
Can we impeach the real fraud here, Roosevelt, for foisting the Ponzi scheme on us in the first place?
Uh, yeah, sure. Politicians from both parties have spent every red cent of the Social Security surplus. Bush is willing to admit that the trust fund is worthless. Rangel says otherwise. But Bush is the one committting fraud.
This is a joke, right???
Ah, but lets remember that Charlie Rangel is the representative that presented a bill to bring back the draft, and when the REP. majority leader called for it to be voted on, Rangel voted AGAINST IT!!!
All Rangel is, is a buffoon like Sharpton, McKinney, Hinchey, Kucinich and other representatives that like to make their money off of the public dole, so they play to their constituency just as often as they can, to keep the $$$$ rolling in....
The same news media who jumped all over DeLay for his "get rid of the judges" comment will give Rangel a pass on this.
Rangel is one of the increasing number of Democrats that is just plain vile.
What's it say about the New Yorkers who keep reelecting this guy?
***People like Rangel are why I hope, some day, that science can make stupidity painful.***
I dunno, reading that article was painful for ME! Though I kinda enjoyed the humor inherent in the stupidity.
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