Summer of Corruption: Rangel to face ethics charges
I’m not going to get my hopes up given the Democrat foxes guarding the henHouse, but it looks like Charlie Rangel may finally get his comeuppance.
Via the Washington Post:
The House ethics committee is preparing to conduct what to amounts to a trial for former House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.).
The committee has concluded that Rangel violated House ethics rules and will release a public statement of violation next week.
It has been eight years since the U.S. House of Representatives conducted a similar review — that of former Rep. Jim Trafficant, who was later expelled. The decision on Rangel is based on an 18-month investigation into Rangel’s conduct as a member of Congress and how he may have used his House position to influence his private business.
Over/under on who’ll play the race card first?
Flashback October 2009: Maxine Waters: “Many members” are as sleazy as my friend Charlie Rangel; Update: House Dems move to quash Remove Rangel resolution, 243-156
Will Rangel tell his House colleagues conducting the trial to “mind their own goddamned business?”
Flashback: Tax cheat Rangel caught on tape: “Why don’t you mind your goddamned business?”
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Most ethical, honest congress EVAH!
Thanks, Nancy piglousy.
OK, Maxine, how about getting rid of all of them, R and D?
Rangel will breeze through any investigation with his eyes closed. Won’t even breathe deeply.
Kabuki theater. Not a damned thing will happen, sadly.
I suppose they’re softening up the wet noodle now.
Dodd and Frank to appear as character witnesses.
I pray for all past and current corruption to be exposed, prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced.
And I pray for future corruption to be prevented.
Technology is making it easier to:
(repurposing the words from the musical “Hair”)
As Michelle often says, sunshine is the best disinfectant.
Will the sun shine on Rangel’s ethics violations? Perhaps. If Dem Representatives are nervous about their re-election chances, they may actually favor a real investigation of Rangel. They want to appear ethical themselves. But, of course, if the Rangel investigation would lead to themselves, then they will do everything they can to make this go away with as little attention as possible…
Oh, HELL no…
Maxine would be out the door on roll-skates…!!!!
Watch the GOP cave……..
I’d submit that most of Congress could be brought up on charges…
So when is his trial?
how about if the conservatives retake the house and one of the 1st orders of business is Rangel’s trial..find the bum guilty then move on to Dodd and Franks. That would show they mean business…I want to see ever crooked politician pay for their crimes against America and her citizens.
Ya’ll are RACISTS , Charlie couldn’t possibly have done anything wrong.
Who is to blame this time BOOSH, BREITBART, RUSH, BECK………..
The headline would be more appropriately, “Rangel to Face Ethics Whitewash”
This must be racism.
Tiredofit’s comment is the reason for Flyover’s comment.
It’s like a disease. Send an honest dedicated public servant to DC for a couple years and you soon have a corrupt member of the beltway. They can’t help it. . . .but we can if we would just get away from the “All congressmen need to be replaced. . . except mine since he brings home the pork” syndrome.
All he has to do his spread the wealth of his illegal profiteering. A little redistribution makes Democrats very happy. Show me the money!
Isn’t it odd that this breaks just in time to preempt any news about, for example, Reid’s decision to drop Cap and Trade in favor of something smaller and the soon-to-explode unemployment rate as Census workers are laid off?
Are the Dems above cannibalism as their poll numbers crash ahead of an election?
I smell smokescreen.
The 18 months it took gave them time to cover everything up.This will be a handslap.
At age 80, it is long past time for Rep. Rangel to retire. And according to the FEC.gov website 4 Democrats have filed financial reports to run for Rangel’s seat in NY’s 15th District so Rangel’s retirement has probably been planned for a long time.
It is time to replace Rangel with a Republican!
Check out the Republican candidate, Michel Faulkner at:
http://www.faulknerforcongress.com/
Michel Faulkner is a Pastor and a former Football Player for the NY Jets.
You can see videos of Michel Faulkner at:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Faulker4NYDistrict15
What do you New Yorkers think of Michel Faulkner?
The most open and most ethical Congress EVAH in history!
You know who’s really burned up over all of this? Duke Cunningham. He got caught so he resigned. Then got 7 years for what he did. I’ve seen child molesters get less time.
What will Rangel do? Same as “Cold Cash” Jefferson. Fight tooth and nail to the last dollar they can squeeze out of the taxpayers.
To get the House ethics committee do something takes a lot of wrong-doing. The committee just looks the other way for the average indescretion.
Term Limits.
Could somebody please remind me of his party affiliation?
He couldn’t have been a Democrat could he?
The ultimate dilemma. The committee members do need to be viewed as ethical, but not at the expense of their own political careers. If they get too aggressive they may be viewed as unfair; and if Jesse and the NAACP get wind of that, they’ll be labeled racist. If they’re not aggressive enough, that could be campaign fodder for any opponent.
If the investigation leads back to the committee members, they’ll have to be pretty good at hushing up the evidence. Just more campaign fodder. But if a cover-up is done and discovered, that could be a career ender too.
It is interesting that most of the primary elections have already taken place. The committee members are probably the candidate for their specific party. Did they really need this much time to gather evidence? Or was it just to wait to make sure the primaries were over so they’d be the ones on the ballot?
Once again.
Term Limits.
No. He was volunteered to switch parties the day before he was expelled.
A democrat leader was heard to say, “See? Republicans have no ethics. No more questions, please. I have to hurry to get to my private 737 so I can attend the global warming conference in Baltimore.”
/sarc
Charlie won’t even get a slap on the wrist. He’ll get a new chairmanship and a chance to tell everyone to mind their GD business again!
*Over time, they all get dirty to some degree, so they’ll map it out in the back room, then give us the usual Kabuki; That’s why their approval is at 11%, but in reality, less than 0.
*Term limits and the FairTax would solve a lot of these problems; But for right now, let’s throw about 90% of the incumbents out!
Give Charlie a break. He’s honest 85% of the time. Kind of like McCain is conservative 85% of the time. Man, that 15% sure matters don’t it?
Saw this on another forum:
Kind of makes the obviousness of all the corruption present more of a “well, duh” moment.
Yes, they would.
Unfortunately, the socialists are bitter clingers to their class warfare based income tax. It’s not about collecting money. The FairTax is designed to collect the same amount that is collected now. So their opposition must lie elsewere. And there is only one very major difference between the socialist income tax and the FairTax — enforcement.
As Thomas Jefferson wrote, “He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.”
With a socialist income tax, you are forced to to have a large bureaucracy to enforce the law and collect the taxes. With the freedom of the FairTax, it truly is voluntary; if you don’t buy a new item, you don’t pay any tax. Enforcement by having the federal Gestapo kick down doors, use fear and intimidation, and generally violate the bill of rights every day, is what socialists crave.
It’s like any addiction; you have to take away what the addict craves. In this instance, take away the income tax and socialism will wither and die and we will all reap the benefits of it’s long overdue death.
Well Phil its like this….. McCain, Palin, et. all will not abandon our troops in the field in a war.
Name one Democrat who won’t.
If you want to troops to die for nothing AGAIN at the hands of Democrats in the name of doctrinal purity, knock yourself out.
Not going to happen on my watch.
There is no argument, the Democrats have completely disgraced our Nation’s Capital.
Flyoverman: it’s 2010. You are trying to rationalize a RINO 2012. Why don’t we take care of 2010 first. And besides, why have troops fighting undeclared wars on the other side of the world when we neither of your two RINO’s will protect our own borders.
On August 24, when you see McCain’s name on the ballot, vote for the other Republican while you can still vote for a Republican who is not McCain. Come November, you may lose that seat to a Democrat.
Faced with between two Democrats, I would vote for the one who is not McCain. If Arizonans are serious about securing the border, they have nothing to lose by voting against McCain. Don’t let the Dems do the job for you.
Look at it another way. You know how just you can’t understand why South Carolina Republicans keep re-electing Lindsey Graham? Same thing except in Arizona’s case, you are the unfathomably idiotic Republicans. Snap out of it! It’s not a dream!
If you AZ Republicans don’t do it yourselves, don’t go whining about your new Democrat senator. Do the right thing while you still can.
If Rangel is really in trouble, he did something to cheese off Pelosi.
If he is still a team player, nothing will come of this.
“doctrinal purity”
Another RINO argument. You guys were using that argument against conservatives as well as calling us anti-amnesty people bigots in the 2008 election. Good luck with that. Hayworth is strong on defense too but you are too much of a “purist” to vote for anyone who is not McCain. It’s like you guys are brainwashed or on drugs or something.
Only semi-OT
Government Motors pays 25% premium for subprime car loan lender.
Or, your tax dollars, and the tax dollars of children not yet born, gone to help Obama’s FolksWagon sell cars to people who can’t afford them.
By nationalizing a car loan bank
Hey, it may not last, but McCain is a border security anti-amnesty conservative.
At least until the primary, anyway.
Anyhoo, the supporters of squishy centrist Republicans like McCain and Graham and the 100% no forgiveness one single bad vote is unforgiveable and everyone is a RINO turncoat, maybe you guys can start your own blog.
Vote and donate conservative in the primaries, donate conservative in the general election, and unless a third party candidate has a real chance to win and it isn’t a wasted vote, vote the stupid party over the evil party.
My common sense rules to live by.
Because Obama and Pelosi are evil and malicious, and even absolute RINO squishes like Scott Brown are better than an automatic yes vote like Coakley would have been.
Of course, RINO is one thing, Democrat mole like Olympia Snowe, totally different. There is a difference.
When Mary Landrieu has a more conservative voting record than a “Republican”, ie, Olympia Snowe, she isn’t a Republican to start with.
On July 22nd, 2010 at 9:33 pm, TooMuchTime said:
In the current system, Illegal Aliens benefit from not paying taxes.
In the Fair Tax system, Illegal Aliens would not only pay taxes, but they would have the penalty of not getting a “prebate” check.
Of course the Democrat[ic Soclialist Communist]s don’t want the Fair Tax! They are quite happy with the current Unfair Tax.
If you want to protect your broder, pick up a weapon, walk your post, and stop whining. But then your from CA….
The ARNG Infantry Bde from our state deploying to harms way next month and those already there are more important then your border.
I frankly support people who want to fight. You obviously can’t pack the gear.
There is a House Ethics Committee? Really? That’s an oxymoron. And the judgement passed by the clowns who sit on this committee will be opaque, irrelevant, thoroughly partisan, and erroneous.
Fair tax , Call it what it is , A NATIONAL SALES TAX !
The truly sad thing is to Rangel’s constituents being a scofflaw is a feature, not a bug.
On July 23rd, 2010 at 12:38 am, Reg.conservative said:
Do the CAPITAL LETTERS and exclamation point express anger?
If so, why the anger?
Anyone unfamiliar with the Fair Tax can learn more about it here.
I would much prefer to pay the same amount of taxes via a sales tax then via spending many hours (and much additional $ to an acccountant) filing out a 1040 and Schedule C.
And how much privacy do we give up in the current system by having to tell the government so much about our personal finances?
The Government has a need and Constitutional authority to collect taxes. But it wasn’t until the (questionably ratified) 16th Amendment that the Government gained the ability to tax us in unfair “Progressive” manner. And it wasn’t until LBJ’s Unconstitutional IRS Amendment that the IRS gained the ability to threaten churches financially if they supported the “wrong” candidates. Obama, Clinton, and other Democrats can speak from a church pulpit during a campaign without repercussions, but if Mike Huckabee, an ordained pastor, had spoken from a church pulpit during the campaign, there would have been threats to cut that church’s tax-exempt status.
Our current “Progressive” tax system is a Socialistic failure. And now, with Obamacare, the IRS will grow even larger and have more power over you.
Repealing the 16th Amendment, abolishing the IRS, and instituting the Fair Tax is the way to go.
Yes, there is a House Ethics Commitee. Laughable. They will go through the motions of a trial and give the verdict, already decided today, “not guilty”. The congress had to do something. Big waste of time.
Hey Black Community, you want respect? Then renounce this cretin and his ilk with all due umbrage! Until then, you get nothing! Good day sir!
And now, with Obamacare, the IRS will grow even larger and have more power over you.
I expect the punishment, if one is even exacted on Rangel, to be in line with what Sandy Berger got for stealing classified documents. Which was pretty much not even a slap on the wrist.
Not to worry, Charlie will put some money into the “ethics committee” campaign coffers and everything will be alright again. The real question I have is, how can you have an ethics committee in a place where there is no ethics.
Is this a gear up to the November elections? I mean, the Dems policing their own to show how honest and upright they are? It’s all a show. PT Barnum would be so proud. The Greatest Show on Earth!!!
Rangel is 80 years old. He is a sleazebag, but I don’t care what happens to him. He will be answering to a higher power in a few years. This is another one of those diversions that the dems are using at an increasing pace. With elections coming, they want the media to be consumed by a trial so that they ignore the horror show going on in DC. They are desparate. Yawn. Now, back to the economy and Obama’s plan to destroy this country. We cannot allow them to continually do this to us.
Will you contort any subject to harp on your favorite one? Please stay on topic.
Salt….Pasadena Phil is starting to become so annoying on this subject that I am starting to skip his posts. That’s too bad because he sometimes has good, insightful things to say. He is quickly sabotaging his agenda and making himself irrelavent to these threads.
Exactly. Let’s watch behind the curtain because the circus performances that the media put out there are not what we should be focused on. Rangel is not going to get what he deserves. It’s all smoke and mirrors with the Obowmao adminstration.
find him guilty, drag his scaly a$$ out back and shot the un_American bastard.
The only resolution that would be justice for this criminal, would be the Ron Brown solution, except that everyone else on the flight miraculously gets rescued.
Think Bermuda Triangle….that way, he might still qualify for a memorial wing on some uber-liberal N.Y. college campus, or maybe have a street named after him, preferably one that leads to a garbage dump, which would be most appropriate, IMHO.
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It’s telling to see how rich so many of our Senators, Congressmen (and women), and political types have become as they “represent” us and sell us out for their economic gains.
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How did Bill and Hillary Clinton become rich–more than $113 million net worth–in government service? It must have been really good financial management in action!
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Charlie Rangel would look great in an orange jumpsuit as he goes to his new apartment (aka cell) next to Cold Cash Jefferson (D) and Duke Cunningham (R).
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Vote out these corrupt politicians in the next elections.
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John Bibb
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I’m not arguing your point, because it’s completely valid…but he did speak from the pulpit at my wife’s church while campaigning, and there were no repercussions for the church.
That’s actually encouraging. I think a lot of churches and pastors censor themselves, based on the threat of losing their tax-exempt status. But I also think that threat is unconstitutional under the First Amendment, and LBJ’s amendment would lose in a strict-constructionist court decision.
People should go back and review what political speech was shared in churches back when this country was founded.
For example: Patrick Henry’s famous “Give me Liberty, or give me Death!”
Isn’t Fortney Stark #2 on the committee?
A corrupt lib being replaced by a hard core Marxist…