Posted on 11/16/2010 10:08:01 AM PST by BradtotheBone
Failing to report income? Illegally using campaign office/funds? I’m shocked. Shocked I tell ya’. I thought democrats promised transparency and “the most ethical” party in history. Hope and Change = Lies and Corruption.
While I’m rather surprised that a Democrat-led ethics panel found Rangel guilty on at least some of the counts, I have a hunch that they will not take any serious disciplinary action against him.
Wow, they sure got that out of the way of the headlines fast. I’m sure he will be admonished and told never to do it again and that will be that. The only question I have is why is he stupid enough to spend $2million in legal fees when the punishment is a slap on the wrist. Even if were the most harsh sentence of expulsion, big deal, he’s 80 years old and can live out the rest of his days enjoying all of the money he’s stolen over the past 40 years.
They're going say he was a bad boy. (Ooooo. They're going to "deplore" his actions.) No talk of expulsion (ala Packwood). Meanwhile citizens determined to have fraudulently avoided taxes get to cool their heels in the slammer.
ML/NJ
Slap-on-the-wrist time now.
20 terms, its easy to see how this nation is going to hell in a hand basket.
It’s the abject imbeciles that keep electing this crook who are mostly to blame
They’re going say he was a bad boy. (Ooooo. They’re going to “deplore” his actions.) No talk of expulsion (ala Packwood). Meanwhile citizens determined to have fraudulently avoided taxes get to cool their heels in the slammer.
One down, about 254 more to go.
There will be no agreement to expel him which leaves censure which means absolutely nothing.
“The only question I have is why is he stupid enough to spend $2million in legal fees when the punishment is a slap on the wrist.”
Probably because none of that was really his anyway.
Doggone you! I was going to post that!
In Rangel's district the voters are uniformly well below average.
The GOP should delay this until after the new Congress is seated and then demand expulsion.
He’ll get 11 swats on the behind. That’s all. Dems are in charge. They won’t punish to any real degree at all.
“The average American voter is as dumb as a turkey dropping.”
And less useful.
He will say “I am sorry” and that will be the end of it. The left will tout him as a hero.
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