Rangel tangle
How about a Culture of Corruption break?
Here’s the latest on Charlie Rangel’s troubles.
Money quote: “I personally feel I have done nothing morally wrong.”
You’ll also love his “cultural barriers” defense.
Following the law does seem to be an alien concept to many entrenched Beltway officeholders.
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Meaning: “F the taxman!”
Yet he’ll still be reelected.
Where’s that wahhhhambulance?
News flash to rangel, you have no morals.
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…and you won’t feel like wearing a monitoring device around your ankle but that’s doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have to face the music, Chuckie.
I pledge to spend the next half an hour trying to believe Rangel. I would afford him more time, but I am still trying my darndest to believe what US magazine had to say in defense of their Palin smear.
Do you want to bet anything happens to him?
We still have William “The Refrigerator” Jefferson, Dem, Louisiana, still running around as if nothing happened.
And let’s watch all those morons who stood by and watched Fannie and Freddie tank. It’s time to implement pay for performance in the house and senate. We’d see the fatcats go the way of the dinos and commonfolk become millionaires. There’s no question about Rangel’s guilt in all of this. Think he’ll resign or just keep writing tax code for the rest of us rabble?
He is so crooked his conscience is seared. Rangel and all the politicians with their fingers in the Fannie/Freddie debacle need to be tried, convicted and sent to prison. When the dust settles, those quasi govt entities should be euthanized. Give the markets a five year notice then pull the plug. These guys make Enron’s Lay and Fastow look like teenage peeping toms by comparison. This is criminality on a colossal scale.
Serial killers don’t feel morally wrong either when they murder.
One has to have a conscience in order to feel morally wrong.
I guess he won’t be playing Boz in the next Charlie’s Angel’s film.
It’s Killin em and
I Love it!!!
McCain/Palin 08′
He can borrow the money from William Jefferson.
Everyone knows Chowie Wangle is a piece of crap. He will be re-elected.
Nor do sociopaths. He’s in good company.
This is amazing. He is the chairman of the ways and means committee! That committee basically writes the tax code! How dare he claim “language and cultural barriers” kept him from paying? He wrote the laws!
He got caught and his excuse? “The dog ate my homework.”
Incredible!
I wonder if he thinks taxes are just for the little people?
This is why you don’t give the State the power to confiscate money in the name of “good causes” like poverty prevention etc.
Because you leave the door wide-open for blood-sucking parasites to jump into the mix.
Yes, he’s a leftist.
My quote: What you have done is ethically wrong.
As long as typical morons like nyk are his main supporters, the rest of us are to shut up or be labeled a racist!
If he doesn’t speak Spanish, this is probably a good defense.
Remember Steve Martin’s “How to make a million dollars and pay no taxes”?
“Two words. I forgot.”
In other words, socialism should be outlawed. I agree.
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
“I personally feel I have done nothing morally wrong.”
“No controlling legal authority”
Freakin Democrats
…the
most open and honest[insert more appropriate description here] Congress in history…He also claims that since his wife did his taxes, so it’s not his fault. HEY CHUCK, did you read the sentence below the signature line that says “under penalty of perjury I swear this tax form is true.”
As chairman of the House ways & means committee, don’t you write the tax code?
You guys are going after just because he’s black.
/sarc
Of course. Among Democrats, being a criminal is a resume enhancement.
Worked for Cold Cash Jefferson.
I wonder if I could not pay my taxes and use the language/cultural barrier excuse. Oh right, I’m just an average, taxpaying citizen. A congressman with lipstick….
Since when have Democrat Party politicians ever worried about their own morals? Is Rangel trying to spin this as a personal and private issue, versus a legal one? Please! Your hypocracy can only go so far…sorry, Charlie…that tuna will not swim! (You can wrap it in a newspaper called ‘outrage,’ but in 8 days it will still stink!) Kudos to Obama for that type of analogy.
“I personally feel I have done nothing morally wrong” Wow! Isn’t that basically what Bill Clinton said. What you feel and what you believe may not always match. If a regular citizen did this, the IRS would descend upon the criminal without mercy. Hey Nancy–whatcha think?
Charlie thinks he’s above the law AND has no conscience. Not a good combination for someone we ‘trust’ to legislate!!
The guy is a sleazy carrer politician (oops, that’s redundant). Most all of them enrich themsleves at the taxpayer trough or at the taxpayer’s expense. Term limits is sorely needed to combat corruption.
This is the reason that the liberals do not support the FairTax. They know they can escape any enforcement but love to use the IRS as a hammer on the citizens.
They love to have the IRS audit political enemies. Nixon did it, and when Hillary was a lawyer on the Watergate commission, she found that deplorable. Remember the Barrett Report? The democrats had an additional 100+ pages redacted. I would like to see those pages; they are not related to national security. The “leaks” say they are related to Hillary having the IRS audit Bill’s enemies.
That’s not unheard of.
Too bad this won’t get more coverage because of the manufactured outrage over lipstick.
How is going after Charlie going to help Michelle Obama’s Children? :p
Taxes are only for us “little people,” not the powerful liberal demon-craps in Congress. Typical liberal behavior…”do as we say, not as we do.”
You can bet Rangel will be re-elected, just like William Jefferson, D-LA, Crackhead Marion Berry, and I also predict a future election win for Kwame Kilpatrick, just a little over 5 years from now.
He’s a black radical left winger. Of course, he’s above the rest of us, and so, can do whatever he wants and know he will get away with it. If he was a conservative, the press would be insisting on the 7 deaths of a traitor.
Notice the use of the word ‘feel’ and not the word ‘believe’.
‘Believe’ means he is ‘AMORAL’ (the end result justifies the means).
‘Feel’ means he is ‘IMMORAL’ (do as I say, not as I do).
An IMMORAL person willingly violates the MORAL CODE while BELIEVING in the basic truth of the MORAL CODE but, requiring strict adherence for everyone else.
Charlie, I do believe you FEEL you did nothinhg morally wrong. I do BELIEVE that you BELIEVE others should go to prison for tax evasion.
So the guy who’s head of the committee which is supposed to know what the tax codes are didn’t know he needed to pay tax on his rental income. That’s RICH!!!
My exact sentiments when I read his comment. Fits in damn good with several of the elected scumbags we have in Congress. Sadly, they not only come from both sides of the aisle, they are protected by the other members. What ever happened to castigating those who do wrong?
He would have been fine if he’d hidden everything in the freezer.
Ol’ Chuckles can sell off a few of those $3,000 suits he wears and pay the fine.
Parasite on his own people, and they LOVE him.
It just makes me sick how this man can say with a straight face, “I personally feel I’ve done nothing wrong,” but then the Democrats are so stupid and niave they ACTUALLY believe they’ve broken no laws. This makes the morons who keep electing them even more stupid.
How many Democrats from the past four or five years are either serving prison time, or have stepped out of the public eye? How many Republicans?
So Charlie, how many houses do you “own”? [Should read] Do you pay taxes on?
oh yeah, the chirman of the committee which rights the tax code doesn’t know the first line of the code. just like the senators didn’t know they were getting a sweetheart deal from countrywide, but they were standing in line to refinance with them. culture of corruption as well as state of insanity if they think we’re buying this stuff. and btw, is it coincidence or incompetence that when these dems took both houses of congress, our economy tanked. my guess, looking at what they spent the last two years dealing with (investigations of republicans) that it’s incompetence.
Hmmm. Dodd as Banking chairman, Rangel, Ways and Means.
I am sensing a trend here…
Add to the fact that they both claim ignorance or didn’t feel that they were doing wrong just compounds the crime.
Punish them all, whatever party!
-letget
News flash to letget. He knows, and doesn’t care. It’s how he (and many others in congress) gets ahead.