Posted on 08/11/2010 3:08:01 AM PDT by Scanian
Sorry, Charlie -- your excuses just don't cut it.
Though we will say this much: Charlie Rangel's defiant and self-pitying speech on the floor of the House yesterday, in which he sought to defend himself against ethics charges and vowed to fight on, was sure something to behold.
All that was missing was a violin.
Not that anyone should shed any tears for the ethics-beset dean of New York's congressional delegation, of course.
Fact is, little of what Rangel claimed yesterday holds up. Starting, for example, with his whine that the House ethics committee took too long -- more than two years -- to conclude its probe.
Yes, two years is a long time. But it only took that long because new charges kept emerging.
Ultimately, the panel accused Rangel of 13 violations -- most first brought to light in The Post. These relate to his:
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I wonder if he feels a chill twisting in the wind like that.
The two years kept his pig mouth in the trough for that much longer and he should be grateful...
I am praying that the old criminal hangs on until after November.
Maxine and Charlie must be reading from the same playbook.
Two years, and if not for the NYP the Democrats would never have even INVESTIGATED Rangle, much less brought charges.
Whining on the very day that Senator Ted Stevens died in a plane crash.
Falsely accused and flasely convicted just days before election day. He was defeated for his seat in 2008.
All the charges were thrown out due to prosecutorial misconduct. Too late for Stevens to regain his senate seat.
No tears for Charlie, he is truly guilty. No witch hunt here. No kangaroo court like the one convened in D.C. to keep Ted Stevens out of the senate, giving the left their senate majority.
The ethics committee tried for two years to figure out a way NOT to bring charges against Charlie, but as the proof’s snowballed they had no choice and even after all that they tried to give Charlie a break by proposing they reprimand him. A break he himself was too stupid to take.
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