Posted on 10/06/2009 10:57:33 AM PDT by jazusamo
President Obama and Congress have lost touch with American voters about their top concerns and must rid themselves of controversy and secondary issues to improve the economy and the war effort in Afghanistan, says Rep. Mike Pence, Indiana Republican.
"We can have these debates about a national energy tax and a government takeover of health care," he told The Washington Times' "American's Morning News" radio show on Tuesday. "But back home in Indiana, folks are saying the focus in Washington, D.C., should be on jobs --- not more government, more spending, more bailouts and more borrowing."
He even suggested Mr. Obama imitate Bill Clinton who as president vowed "to focus like a laser beam" on fixing the economy.
Mr. Pence also said a major part of fixing the economy falls upon the House Ways and Means Committee, which cannot do its job as long as Rep. Chuck Rangel, New York Democrat, remains the chairman.
Mr. Rangel faces a House Ethics Committee investigation into whether he failed to report million of dollars in extra income and business transactions.
In addition, the committee is deciding between two bills on rum taxes. And the winner or loser, Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands, are major Rangel campaign contributors, as reported Tuesday in The Washington Times.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
If I were a betting man, I would bet that Mike Pence would resign, before Charlie Rangel does.
I’m thinking I might like him to run for prez. in 2012. He’d be one heck of a Speaker, also.
Yep, it’s my view that Charlie will either be carried out of the House on a gurney or marched out in hand cuffs.
He’s a good man and has a future as a Conservative.
I wonder how many Congress people have decided to speak out after watching “We The People” become a force to be reckoned with.
Bachmann was already speaking out. Pence, DeMint, and others seem to be finding their voices because they see the surge of support that they didn’t recognize prior to the TEA Party marches. Even [former RINO] Joe Wilson has found his Conservative voice.
We ARE making a difference.
I believe you're right. More are coming around and Mike Pence was starting to speak his mind before the TEA Parties, he's been all over Fat Jack Murtha on earmarks and Murtha hasn't appreciated it one bit. lol
TALLYING UP THE COUNTER-ATTACK
>> Obama and the Dems are sucking up valium and vodka as we type.
>> ObamaCare's DOA.
>> The public option parachute failed to open.
>> Van Jones kicked out w/ his dog-eared copy of Das Kapital.
>> Cap and trade is where?
>> ACORN pimps out.
>> Second trillion dollar stimulus is a no-show.
>> Obama's numbers sinking faster than Michael Moore in a vat of Jello.
>> Arts propagandist kicked out.
>> Danish anyone?
Thanks, 9/12 marchers. LOL.
(1) Took a "homestead" tax deduction meant for year-round DC residents - though he legally resides in New York.
(2) Rangel paid no taxes on his luxe property in the Caribbean;
(3) Has four rent-stabilized apartments (one is a campaign office);
(4) Improperly stored his car in a House parking garage;
(5) The NY Times reported oil-drilling businessman Eugene Isenberg made a $1 million pledge toward building The Rangel School for Public Service at City College of New York. Rangel later preserved a controversial offshore tax loophole that saved millions for Isenberg's company. The Isenberg-Nabors deal is, potentially, far more serious: It reeks of a quid pro quo between Rangel's official duties and fund-raising for his personal project. The Times reported that Rangel held meetings the same day, at the same hotel, with Isenberg to discuss the CCNY project and then with Nabors' chief lobbyist on the tax loophole.
(6) Took free trips sponsored by corporate lobbyists.
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Rangel's multiple ties with tax-exempt foundations smell to high heaven. Rangel’s pricey real estate deals are entwined with his financial connections to several tax-exempt entities.
The IRS says the biggest potential for IRS fraud are tax-exempt non-profits doing deals with other tax-exempt non-profits----all posing as do-gooder "foundations" and “charities.” The NY Post reports at least three tax-exempt entities connected to Rangel‘s finances:
(1) The Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service (Rangel co-opted $2 million via Capitol Hill allocations, plus another $700,000 from Dept of HUD),
(2) The NY Carib News Foundation (organized financing for Rangel’s island-hopping luxe Caribbean trips),
(3) The Ann S. Kheel Charitable Trust---supposedly aids "disadvantaged neighborhoods" gave $440,000 to The Charles B. Rangel Center (the largest single donation in the charity's 4-year history). Theodore Kheel, Esq, VP of Grupo Punta Cana Operating Company, (mortgage holder on Rangel’s luxury villa), donated $17,000 to Rangel's congressional campaigns and $52,000 to a Rangel-run political action committee since 1990, federal filings show. (Ann Kheel is his late wife).
(4) The "tax-exempt Carib News Foundation" subsidized Rangel’s trips to luxury island resorts---perfect places to hide money from the taxman. The published list of known money-laundering havens includes Panama, the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, the Cook Islands, Dominica, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Panama, the Philippines, St. Kitts, Israel, and the Grenadines. Suspected tax havens include Cyprus, Gibraltar, Monaco, and Antigua.
QUESTION The owners extended the villa loan, due 1988. Interest was waived for Rangel. Can you say quid pro quo? Rangel eventually paid it off in 2003. How much of Rangel's loan payoff was hidden behind (A) Congressional earmarks? Or (B) from federal funds Rangel got for his "non-profit," then illegally converted for his own use?
The IRS has targeted tax-exempt non-profits as rife with fraud. There are zillions of ways n/p can siphon off tax-exempt money, and illegally convert it for personal and political uses. Donations from one tax-exempt non-profit to another non-profit are THE biggest scams.
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Let's find out why this is not being highly publicized.
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Rangel resign >>>? WHAT ! ‘The SOB is a freakin thief , slime ball. Why is it HE gets to resign and move to the tropics when any one of us would be doing hard time in jail for 1/10 of what he’s done?
ARREST THE BASTARD ! resign my ass!
Ditto!
Pense
Pense gave a h*ll of a good speach at the 9/12 march.
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