Charles Rangel, chairman of the House tax-writing committee, stared down Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Charlie Rangel & Nancy Pelosi are two good reasons to take back the House.
Who is running the House Republican Campaign Committee this year?
Posted on 09/18/2008 6:51:58 PM PDT by neverdem
THIS was supposed to be the year Democrats could not lose.
But that was before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi - in a standoff with Charlie Rangel, one of her most powerful and scandal-scarred chairmen - blinked.
That was before Rangel launched his "Monument to Me - The Rangel Center at CUNY" - with your money and greedily grabbed four rent-stabilized apartments, using a system designed to help less fortunate New Yorkers from getting squeezed out onto the street.
That was before the most powerful committee chairman in the country got caught hiding from Congress and the public the $75,000 in rental income from his Caribbean slice of beachside paradise.
And, of course, that was before the highest tax-writer in the land got caught cheating on his taxes on that income he now claims he didn't know about.
Try telling people in this economy that you just discovered a loose $75,000 you didn't know you'd made. For most people, that's called the lottery.
Is this "the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history" that Pelosi promised?
Pelosi ordered Rangel to Washington earlier this week, sending out signals that she would lower the boom on him.
At the very least, she would make him step aside until all his ethics inquisitions are finished.
Wrangling Rangel is no small order.
He's immensely popular on the Hill, even among many Republican lawmakers.
He's perhaps Pelosi's highest-profile committee chairman.
And he's one of her very top African-American lieutenants whom she simply cannot cross.
So, she folded like a cheap pantsuit.
And Rangel remains at large and in charge of extracting your hard-earned tax dollars.
After all, snatching $2 million from the Treasury for a temple to himself under the guise of an educational center passes for business as usual here...
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Charlie Rangel & Nancy Pelosi are two good reasons to take back the House.
Who is running the House Republican Campaign Committee this year?
It's not any Republican I knew...
Hey Charlie.......mess with the bull, you get the horns.....Ain’t it funny how all these little ethical “coincidences” keep happenin’ to you?
But since it's Rangel, well...
We all get to watch him livin' large.
Ok, here goes “Nancy lied and the economy died”
I would like to know who is running the campaign also. I would like to see commercials in hard hit blue collar districts that go something like this:
“Hi X. Do you know who I am? A voting constituent and I want to say way to go! I am so glad you could take a six week vacation while my family struggled with record gas prices (or any other issue). A six week vacation and when you returned your leadership determined that the job was too hard so you stopped working. Perhaps we need some one in congress that can make decisions that aren’t above his/her pay grade and make real progress on expanding drilling and refining. You know what X? You lost my families vote. What a way to run!”
Rangle is what Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson aspire to.
He is the ultimate extortonist, a self serving civil servant, a lier, a cheat, an above the law politician who feels he is owed. He should step down NOW! Pelosi will not do a thing because she will come under fire because of his skin color and be labled a racist. Pelosi is what is wrong with congress, they can break the law and still remain in office with NO punishnment. It is time we take the garbage out! IT STINKS!
LOL I love that pic. It should be shown over and over.
Re Photo at Post #2:
Beached whale watch. Call a taxidermist before he begins to stink.
LAA - Lard Ass Alert. Call the SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Congressional Assholes). Have them get a dumptruck with a waste removal permit.
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go thru life!
Charlie Rangel replied “Yes it is”!
EARMARK ASS!
Can I get midwest SUCKERS to pay for my TEMPLE.....YES, I CAN"!!
Can I get 4 RENT-CONTROLLED APARTMENTS....YES, I CAN"!
Can I park my MERCEDES BENZ in the CAPITOL garage when the rules say I can't?.....YES, I CAN"!!
I'm the head cheese opf the Black Caucus, I could KILL someone and be relected with 110% of the vote....YES, I CAN!
"Hey nan' did you see in the paper what's going on back in Washington? The crap is hitting the fan." Nan: " Yeah, if it wasn't for Ol' Charley over there we'd have to be there dealing with it"
Just sayin
Time to clean out the Party of Corruption.
Pray for W, McCuda and Our Troops
Wow. Nancy was going to run things with integrity!
It's the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at CCNY, City College of New York, one of many colleges in the CUNY.
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