Rangel: Tea Party Republicans Negotiating ‘The Same Way They Fought As Confederates’

cbslocal.com ^ | October 15, 2013

[Tailgunner Joe]

WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – In a heated Tuesday interview, Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., talked with CNN host Ashley Banfield about his belief that House Republicans are “embarrassing” the country’s democratic process.

Rangel, who is a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, said that he believes the Tea Party members of the House are “against anything that comes out of these negotiations.”

When asked for his reactions to House Republican leadership’s provisions, Rangel expressed his frustration with the congressional logjam.

“This isn’t a question of the House and Senate differing. This is not even a question of Republicans and Democrats differing. This is all about a handful of people who got elected as Republicans that want to bring down our government,” said Rangel.

“You can see it in the streets, you can see where they’re coming from, and the same way they fought as Confederates they want to bring down the government and reform it.”

CNN host Ashley Banfield interrupted Rangel to confirm if he was likening the Tea Party candidates to Civil War Confederates.

“Well, I can tell you this, if you look at the states that they control, take a look at the Dixiecrats, see how they went over to Republican Party,” Rangel pointed out, although Banfield quickly noted that “Michele Bachmann is not from Dixie.”

“I’m telling you one thing, if the Republicans really want to bring the government back, if the Republicans want to make certain that this country maintains its fiscal integrity, all they have to do is to accept the Senate [deal].”

Banfield stated that Rangel, despite his deep disagreement with some of the conservative House Republicans, should compromise with his “ilk” in an effort to make certain that negotiations re-open the government.

She pointed out a Washington Post poll showing that Republicans have a 74 percent disapproval rating, Democrats with 61 percent and President Obama at a 53 percent approval rating for how they are all handling the federal budget negotiations.

Rangel conceded that he believes both parties of Congress are doing a “terrible” job, but went on to say that regardless of party differences, the “integrity” of the United States should not be held hostage.

“We don’t want this for Obama and we don’t want it for any president,” Rangel insisted. “Republicans or conservatives, to put a gun at the president’s head, saying if you don’t agree with me politically, we’re going to take down the United States of America and those countries that depend on our dollar. That is absolutely ridiculous. It’s not a compromise. It’s a hostage taking.”

[SkyDancer]

The Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery. Slavery was ended when the 13th Amendment was ratified.

[AKinAK]

Just like Rush said on today’s show Rangel. The Confederates were of the democRAT party you idiot!

[mountainlion]

Emancipation Proclamation said that the slaves were free but did not have the authority to free them didn’t it?

[lurk]

Wow, now they’re getting rough, calling people names and all.

[edwinland]

“You can see it in the streets, you can see where they’re coming from, and the same way they fought as Confederates they want to bring down the government and reform it.”

So does that mean the Civil War wasn’t about slavery after all? It was the ‘War for Government Reform’?

[Old Yeller]

Why isn’t Rangel in federal penitentiary for tax evasion?

[elpadre]

is that what they teach in history up north?

[Old Yeller]

LOL!

[smoothsailing]

LOL, I’d say you’ve lived a wonderful life. I mean, who needs French? ;o)

[kcvl]

And crooks and thieves still living large on taxpayer's money!

The panel also ordered Rangel to pay restitution of any unpaid taxes

He apologized for any embarrassment he has caused and stressed that he would like the panel to acknowledge that he never sought any personal gain and is not corrupt. Rangel also lashed out the press.

“What the press has done to me and my family is totally unfair and they will continue to call me a crook and call me corrupt,” he said.

Rangel, the 80-year-old, 20-term House veteran, admitted some fault in his initial statement to the panel, but added: "I had no intent to evade or avoid the law."

[kcvl]

The panel also found Rangel guilty of using an apartment in Harlem zoned for residential use as his campaign office, failing to report more than $600,000 on his financial disclosure report and failing to pay taxes on rental income from a villa he owns in the Dominican Republic.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/129957-gop-lawmaker-tells-rangel-he-has-no-one-to-blame-but-himself#ixzz2hpaggQov

[kcvl]

I don't want to hear any lectures from a crook!

[SkyDancer]

When Union troops entered the South they were freeing slaves on the way according to the EP from Lincoln. In looking at the EP there were no slaves in the North to free, he had really no jurisdiction in the South and he was leery of offending the Border States and push them into the South’s war. The black abolitionist Frederick Douglas spoke out against the legality of the EP as in, what can it really do to end slavery.

[RJS1950]

Take your “illegal secession” BS and fade away. The south lost and it’s about time you neo-confederates learned to live with it; or do you still want to hang on to the democrat party’s confederate heritage?

Are you an American and support the Constitution and the Republic or are you a confederate wannabe in exile.

[savedbygrace]

Read it for yourself:

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/transcript.html

[CodeToad]

“neo-confederates “

Are you a yankee liberal that believes in illegal acts by a president as long as it is your party doing it? Thought so.

[CodeToad]

“Lincoln was the first Republican president who signed the emancipation proclamation which freed the slaves.”

Nope. It took the 13th amendment to do that. The liberal public school system wanted you to believe in the EP freeing slaves.

[ought-six]

“Lincoln was the first Republican president who signed the emancipation proclamation which freed the slaves.”

The Emancipation Proclamtion didn’t free diddly squat. Read the damn thing; it’s only a couple paragraphs long. It freed NOBODY!

Slavery did not end, and the slaves were not actually freed, until the passage of the 13th Amendment, some two years after the EC.

[CodeToad]

Jim Crowe laws were a part of the North as well. Very much so. Even Lincoln didn’t want to allow freed blacks into Illinois.