Posted on 11/09/2006 12:43:12 PM PST by WBL 1952
Charlie Rangel opens his mouth...and mocks the South: (hat tip: reader CRB)
“It’s not just committees — our influence within the House Democratic caucus will grow enormously,” Mr. Rangel said in an interview.
To that end, he sketched out an expansive federal agenda: Teaming up with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on gun control, passing new tax incentives for urban job programs, and redirecting federal money to New York in return for the outsize tax collections that the federal government makes here.
“Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?” Mr. Rangel said.
So Rangel is already talking GUN CONTROL? GO to it Charlie; we will have the House and Senate back in 2008.
Haley Barbour '08!!!
I've driven through there. Very friendly folk. The elitism and snobbery in Rangel's remarks should get a trip to the woodshed in response.
Regards, Ivan
Ughh, I do.
We are gonna wave Rangell around to the voters like a flag. He's good for a million votes
Well, Charlie Rangel isn't in Mississippi, so that's one thing it has going for it.
Of course, the MSM will be all over this.
Charlie will be totally given a pass
Can we say "Who the hell wants to live in Harlem"?
Yes. This will be repeated just like all other Dem statements of arrogance, meaning: "Try to find it anywhere tomorrow."
I would love to see the new chairs of House committees to hold hearings on Live tv. It will be so enlightening to voters across the nation. Intelligence? haha Homeland Security? haha (Alcee Hastings as Intel chair and Bennie Thompson as HS chair) It would be classic entertainment.
Dang, you beat me to it.
Well, at least Harlem doesn't have fire ants.
It's been my dream for some time to move back to the Gulf Coast. Biloxi-Gulfport would be nice.
Let's keep quiet on the whining and let them shoot themselves in their own feet.
[Can they shoot themselves in the foot, without guns? /sarc]
I'll take Mississippi over New York anyday. At least Mississippi doesn't put people like Hillary R. Clinton in the U.S. senate.
President Bush better hold the line on gun rights. He appears ready to sell the country down the river on immigration, so Bush can at least support the second amendment, right?
Note to folks in Mississippi: Rangel's from NYC, BTW. Not Upstate NYS.
I happen to live in Mississippi and you are right, at least Rangel isn't here.
However, there were many republicans on this web site that said the very same thing after Hurricane Katrina, I disagree with both. It's a great place to live.
RE: "who the hell wants to live in Mississippi"
If we ever do decide to throw in the towel being conservatives behind enemy lines, Mississippi is way up there near the top of the list!
It sounds almost as if Charles Rangel is opposed to the progressive income tax. I'm pretty sure that's not true.
I would sure as hell rather live in Mississippi then New York City. Besides, Ole Miss girls are a million times better looking on the outside and inside then the skanks in Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island, the Bronx and Brooklyn. No offense to NY Freepers but the city is mostly a cess pool.
My daughter lives in MS. She just moved there and loves it!
I can't wait to visit her there.
Someone should ask Rangel who the hell would want to live in that slum in NY he represents. Garbage spewing garbage.
It will be so nice when we take it all back in '08.
It's a good time for it....MS is about the last hold that we have on real America....C'mon down!!!!
This is why my husband and I are going out looking to arm ourselves this weekend. (He told a particullarly ugly Dem at work yesterday that he was going to arm himself cause he sure as hell isn't praying to Allah. See why I love him????
What a thing to say. He has no cooth and we should be merciless.
Or not. :-)
Who the hell wants to live in New York? No offense to fellow NY freepers.
Is it on Youtube yet..?
The subtext of his statements are clear: Turn off the money flowing to welfare states like Mississippi and Alabama if they don't go along with the program.
I view Mississippi as the future. Imagine all the long term economic strength. Since the unions won't get a foot hold, it could continue to be solid GOP. How about a GOP version of the Free State Project?
Getting 20 million illegal Mexicans the right to vote in American elections will be their #1 priority to ensure they never loose congress again.
And the saddest part of this mission is that The President will support the dems efforts to grant amnesty, citizenship and voting rights to them.
People who can't stand NYC assholes.
I'd rather live in Missisippi and have a decent peaceful life than live in noisy NYC getting nickeled and dimed to death plus paying the exhorbitant taxes foisted on the populace. This coming from a former NYer now living in Tx.
Been in Mississippi just 3 months ago ....Hattiesburg to Vicksburg.
I envy you.
Oh please, Charlie, make my day. Let's make Born Idiot and Senator Flattop and all of these supposedly "conservative" Democrats that got elected Tuesday have to make a hard decision from day one. Go along with Nancy and Charlie and Schmuckie and the Swimmer and betray the people that elected them? Or buck the leadership?
"Senator Webb, you were elected as a pro-gun Senator with an 'A' rating from the National Rifle Association. Why did you vote for Senator Schumer's bill to further restrict purchases on handguns for law-abiding Americans?"
Oh, and as for living in Mississippi, at least down there they can die from eating trans-fats instead of lead, Chuckie.
HAVING SECOND THOUGHTS YET, SQUISHY MIDDLE?
}:-)4
Snort. Make that an expensive agenda...
...the outsize tax collections...
Gee, no bias there, eh?
Miss. is on Federal life support. The state would sink with money flowing into it from DC
Nathan Bedford Forrest?
Bloody marvelous. They will cut their own throats for us.
Regards, Ivan
I disagree. Most of the Mexicans, even the illegal ones, here in SC are conservative. They understand their work depends on a healthy economy. I'm not sure they are a lock to vote for the demonrats.
Mississippi is one of our most beautiful states. I have driven the Natchez Trace Parkway several times during the fall leaf season. Fabulous! Does anyone outside of Mississippi know that in the fall the leaves turn red and gold there?
Brett Favre should beat the hell out of him on national TV>
Me.
The first thing I noted as well. I had just forwarded a recent GOA report and it looks like gun control will be a major priority for them. Almost feel like I should buy another gun and more ammo.
Ahem. NYC is only one part of NYS, which is made up mostly of red counties, BTW. Upstate's pretty nice. And I'll bet we have a lot in common with the folks in Mississippi :)
Can ANYONE explain to me why Clinton has an office in HARLEM?
"The Northeast is the new South," U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Forest Hills, said last week, arguing that his party, even if Iraq were to fade as an issue, would be able to continue to count on near solid support from the Mason-Dixon Line through New England.
Two big middle fingers for the South. When you're giddy from a win and drunk with power, you tend to reveal yourself. Who'd think they'd start resupplying us with ammo so soon after the election? I, for one, may just take a look at Mississippi. Property must be a steal, post Katrina. I'll take MS govenor Barbour over MD's newly elected O'Malley any day.
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