Posted on 07/24/2010 7:07:53 AM PDT by chickadee
There can be little doubt that Rangel—who has served a mind-boggling, and, for those concerned with standards of official conduct, depressing, 20 terms—is not going to be able to run for a 21st term. His career is now over. I predict that he will resign by, or on, Thursday of next week, the day on which the House Ethics Committee lays formal charges against him, charges which—if he contests them—will go to public trial. (The charges are, by now, so well known that they scarcely bear repeating: undeclared taxes on income from a beachfront villa in the Dominican Republic; the securing of four luxury apartments at a heftily subsidized rent; and the granting of lucrative favors to a donor.
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This will put the Obama admin in another racial stew. Another African American under the bus. Wowser.
He has the voice of a child molester
He’s a TAX CHEAT who WRITES TAX LAWS for US to follow to the letter!! Typical Democrat.
**He has the voice of a child molester**
Well spotted.
Rangel is so smarmy, so sleazy . . . most interviewers were hard pressed to keep a straight face when talking with him.
The man is 80 years old. Democrats can afford to toss him under the bus so that they can seem non-partisan. He’ll be OK. They’ll find him guilty, but they won’t fine him. (Just my prediction.)
Charlie is just taking it to The Man.
If I was on FOX or talk radio, I would be playing that clip all day long...."It's so unlike NBC to ask questions like these", or something very close to that!!
run for a 21st term.....
We need term limits. Do your time, then go home. Give someone else a chance. 21st term....disgusting.
"That protective smokescreen of “racism” was good to men like Rangel, allowing them to go about their merry ways blithely, and untroubled. It is harder to strike pouting, Manichaean postures now, when a black man holds the highest office in the land. There can be no cheap and easy shaming of critics, no slick refuge in a narrative of racial oppression."
**Charlie is just taking it to The Man.**
After 20 terms in Congress, Rangel is The Man.
Absolutely - the Founders never imagined that people would make a lifelong career out of getting and staying elected. I think no more than 8 years, then go home and get a job. Those people who say, “Why should we be deprived of a good legislator just because of term limits?” don’t have sufficient faith in the American people to believe there’s another person out there capable of being just as good as the one who’s going home.
My $.02
Colonel, USAFR
That’s the ironic part, along with bringing disrespect to her highness, Nazi (no oil for YOU!) Pelosi and her most ethical Congress ever.
Then there is the Dingell Family Plantation:
"On February 20, 2010, Dingell announced that he would seek a 29th term in the November 2010 election"
Dingell's dad started the Plantation in 1933. "His father, John D. Dingell, Sr. (1894–1955), represented Michigan's 15th district from 1933 to 1955."
Rangel is a traitor to this nation. He should be treated as such. He is the reason the Hughes Amendment is now law and because of that, our national security has been compromised.
If the Hughes Amendment were repealed today, it would take decades to undo the damage and regain the technological edge on small arms development.
The man should be tried for treason and put away for the rest of his dispicable, miserable life.
This I doubt. It’s not like he’s not going to be replaced by someone just like him...Adam Clayton Powell IV I think.
If Charlie was playing for the Democratic Party it would all be glossed over. But Charlie is playing for him self and has been. Now even the Democrats do not want him.
“If I was on FOX or talk radio, I would be playing that clip all day long....”
Do you have a link?
Whatever punishment that is handed out to Rangle, should be handed out to all citizens. If he is let off, the same should go for everyone else in the country.
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