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Charlie Rangel: The Tea Party “Cult” is Suffering from an “Illness”
Townhall.com ^ | December 31, 2013 | Michael Schaus

Posted on 01/01/2014 8:43:01 AM PST by Kaslin

Representative Charlie Rangel (D-NY) recently expressed his puzzlement over the conservative wing of the Republican Party. In between incoherent ramblings and fragmented sentences, the congressman explained that the tea party is a “cult” group that suffers from an apparent “illness”.

“Politics is (sic) changing for me at this late age, to have to deal with a cult-type of group of people,” said the man who recently allocated millions of taxpayer dollars to a New York library named in his honor. (Maybe he’s speaking out of jealousy?)

“When a handful of people [I assume he is referring to the tea party coalition in the House of Representatives] can control a larger number of people, to repeal a law that has been passed by the House, the Senate, and declared constitutional by the courts - and they campaign on the issue that it should be repealed- this is past Civics 101. This is illness,” said the Congressman who has inexplicably remained in office since 1971. (Whoa…Talk about mental illness!)

Watch the video of the congressman taking a stab at coherent political dialogue:

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.townhall.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; US: New York
KEYWORDS: charlesrangel; civility; cult; newyork; obamacare; smear; taxcheat; taxevasion; teaparty
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To: Kaslin

Is tax evasion an illness Charlie?


41 posted on 01/01/2014 9:32:04 AM PST by struggle
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To: Sirius Lee
... a law that has been passed by the House, the Senate

With not a single Republican vote & by Harry Reid's trickery to get it through the Senate ... AFTER Massachusetts of all places elected Scott Brown to be the 'vote against'.

.. and declared constitutional by the courts

A court that was going to vote against until Roberts had to contort the law like a pretzel and rewrite it to declare it somehow 'constitutional' ....

... and they campaign on the issue that it should be repealed

Because the majority of Americans don't want this law and it is HURTING people badly and some people, who HAD insurance and were paying for it themselves (without government interference) as of 12/31/2013, will die for lack of it after 01/01/2014 ....

Hey Charlie ..... to quote a comment I saw elsewhere that I think is excellent:

"Let me ask you Obama trolls several questions. First what sort of government does that sort of thing to its own people? Second, what is your own moral responsibility to these people, who after all are your fellow Americans? Finally, do you even care or do you think anything justifies your desire to "transform" America?

If Obama (and YOU, Charlie) had a shred of decency, he'd resign for what he did to these people. Instead, though he'll blame the insurance companies. Or Bush. Or global warming. But he will never take responsibiity for this absolute outrage--which is only going to get worse".

42 posted on 01/01/2014 9:34:56 AM PST by MissMagnolia (You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
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To: TonyM

The same kind of idiots who repeatedly vote for Sheila Jackson Lee, Maxine Waters, John Conyers, Eddie Bernice Johnson, etc. I believe that most voters in those districts do not care how stupid or corrupt their representative is as long as they are the correct skin color and are seen as sticking it to “the man”.


43 posted on 01/01/2014 9:37:43 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: Kaslin

Same illness with which the founding fathers suffered.


44 posted on 01/01/2014 9:39:28 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: Kaslin

Since when is being responsible a “sickness?”


45 posted on 01/01/2014 9:42:24 AM PST by Right Wing Assault
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To: fhayek
Has Mr. Rangel ever heard of Prohibition? Women's Suffrage? Slavery? Segregation?

Or even the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act Of 1988, which was quickly repealed when those who were supposed to benefit from it got the bills for it. When old geezers are chasing Congressman Rostenkowski down the street, you know it isn't popular.

46 posted on 01/01/2014 9:44:52 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Everyone get online for Obamacare on 10/1. Overload the system and crash it hard!)
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To: darkangel82
"When a handful of people can control a larger number of people..."

That would NEVER apply to the 92% of black people who are trained to vote democrat by 4 or 5 "black leaders."

47 posted on 01/01/2014 9:45:43 AM PST by Right Wing Assault
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To: Kaslin

Charlie Rangel: The Tea Party “Cult” is Suffering from an “Illness”

Says a mentally deranged man so filled with hate and criminal tendancies......


48 posted on 01/01/2014 9:45:46 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to od about their hsign up for the American Revolution 2014 and the Crusades 2014?)
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To: Right Wing Assault
Since when is being responsible a “sickness?”

You must be suffering from debtophobia. Since it is a phobia you are therefore insane and the 'Rats and RINOs can dismiss your ranting about $17 trillion of debt.

49 posted on 01/01/2014 9:46:33 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Everyone get online for Obamacare on 10/1. Overload the system and crash it hard!)
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To: Kaslin

Charlie Rangel: The Tea Party “Cult” is Suffering from an “Illness”

Yeah Obamacystitist.
The symptoms
loss of freedom
loss of decency in society
loss of leadership in Government
Loss of the American Dream
CAUSE: Obama and the Democrat Political Party.........


50 posted on 01/01/2014 9:49:36 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to od about their hsign up for the American Revolution 2014 and the Crusades 2014?)
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To: Kaslin

Guess one of my new years wish didn’t come true.... he’s still kicking.


51 posted on 01/01/2014 9:59:54 AM PST by maddog55
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To: darkangel82

Liberals have a paranoid fear of the teaparty because it represents tradional America they are trying to tear down.


52 posted on 01/01/2014 10:00:23 AM PST by ully2
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To: ully2

Exactly.


53 posted on 01/01/2014 10:01:26 AM PST by darkangel82
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To: Kaslin

Is the “Tea Party Cult” less virtuous than the Race Hustler Cult?


54 posted on 01/01/2014 10:02:33 AM PST by G Larry
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To: Kaslin

Chattel Slavery was once “the law of the land” and affirmed by the Supreme Court, does he think it’s repeal was wrong?


55 posted on 01/01/2014 10:05:12 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (A courageous man finds a way, an ordinary man finds an excuse.)
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To: Kaslin

Charlie Rangel, named and had action taken against for NYC corruption activities; a member in good standing of The Democratic Socialist Party of America; and a decorated veteran of the Korean War, Purple Heart and Bronze Star, has become a traitor to the Oath that he took once he entered military service.

How does an American decorated Korean War veteran, killing Communists, become a Communist-butt-kisser?


56 posted on 01/01/2014 10:20:53 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: TonyM
What kind of idiots vote for this mental midget to represent them?

The voters with the same IQ as those who reelect Reps like Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Hank Thompson..... See a pattern here?

57 posted on 01/01/2014 10:52:43 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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To: Kaslin

They gotta continue demonizing those they hate so that when the arrests and genocide begins, the rest of society will believe that the ‘Tea Party cult’ had it coming and deserve it’.

How do you think a civilized people stuck in misery applauded the wholesale slaughter of their Jewish countrymen some 70 plus years ago?

By having themselves indoctrinated with the kind of hate targeted towards those the regime wants the populace to loathe and fear that is now a daily feature of the Left.

Satan is not original. He sticks to what works as history teaches.


58 posted on 01/01/2014 11:23:21 AM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Right Wing Assault
Since when is being responsible a “sickness?”

When you want to create a public justification for what this regime intends to do to us next.

59 posted on 01/01/2014 11:24:59 AM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Kaslin

so charlie, americans aren’t taxed enough already? you guys exemptyour staffs from ‘obamacare fees and taxes but us peons aren’t taxed enough already?


60 posted on 01/01/2014 11:39:44 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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