Posted on 09/04/2009 8:53:38 AM PDT by OK Right
The clock is ticking for House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel and President Barack Obama’s environmental officer, Van Jones. It’s probably only a matter of time before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi yanks Charlie offstage permanently (or as permanently as an exit gets in politics). Then she can toss the hook to Obama and get him to pull Jones off the liberal stage.
Plainly, simply, Obama and Pelosi are in enough of their own – well, muck – right now. They can’t afford to let loose cannons like Rangel and Jones hog the limelight with their massive missteps. Left alone, these two don’t even seem to spot their goofs. In fact, until last night (Sept. 3), when the latter issued an official apology for calling Republicans a**holes at a public meeting and a denial that he was part of a witch hunt charging that President George W. Bush may have known that the September 11 attacks were in the works before they occurred, Green Czar Jones and Rangel didn’t seem to have reverse gears (Jake Tapper, “Controversial Obama Official Denies Being Part of 9/11 ‘Truther’ Movement,” ABC News, September 3, 2009, http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/09/controversial-obama-administration-official-denies-being-part-of-911-truther-movement-apologizes-for.html).
But they certainly carry Race Cards. Rangel and Jones have whipped them out and used them for years. When he learned Barack and Michelle Obama were having a “date night” in New York City, Rangel joked, “Make certain he doesn’t run around East Harlem unidentified” (David Knowles, “NYC Mayor Upset Over Rangel’s Obama Quips,” Politics Daily, June 1, 2009, http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/06/01/new-york-mayor-upset-over-charlie-rangels-obama-quips/). More recently, good ol’ Charlie has done his best to blame the president’s ObamaCare health insurance trouble on racial prejudice. “Some Americans have not gotten over the fact that Obama is president of the United States,” Rangel charged at a health-care information meeting in Washington Heights. “They go to sleep wondering, ‘How did this happen?’” (Carl Campanile, “Charlie ups the race-card ante,” New York Post, September 3, 2009, p. 2). That would have been plenty, but Rangel seemed determined to take his illogic further. “Why do we have to wait for the right to vote? Why can’t we get what God has given us? That is the right to live as human beings and not negotiate with white southerners and not count the votes. Just do the right thing.”
Jones has a criminal record. He is a self-avowed communist and the founding member of STORM, Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement. The group’s goal is to remake America.
If it were just recent missteps, perhaps Rangel and Jones could survive to pester conservatives and their own liberal party another day – but they have a penchant for behaving anything but ethically. Consider Rangel’s tax problems. And consider his memory lapses: Rangel forgot to report a Congressional Federal Credit Union account worth about $250,000. He forgot about a Merrill Lynch account worth $500,000 (“Sorry Charlie,” The Washington Post, September 3, 2009, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/02/AR2009090203082_pf.html). That’s just for starters.
Obama and Pelosi need to decide if they can afford to have cannons that are this loose firing off volleys at a time when their presidency and House Speaker positions are damaged and their approval ratings way down. The president has a long road to travel if he’s going to convince anyone but his czars, a handful of leftwing liberals and MSNBC anchors that America needs single-pay healthcare. Does he want the Rangel/Jones migraine?
Of course not. That’s why he needs to tell Jones to step down and why Pelosi needs to call for Rangel’s resignation. The House Speaker should reverse her decision not to make any decision on Rangel before a House ethics committee investigates his tax problems. Any junior law student can see that the inquiry is already compromised, since Rangel contributed to several of the committee members’ last campaign funds! (“Rangel Pays Ethics Investigators Probing Him,” Corruption Chronicles / Judicial Watch, September 3, 2009, http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2009/sep/rangel-pays-investigators-probing-him)
We need corruptocrats like Rangel and Jones (and Barney Frank and Tim “TurboTax” Geithner and Harry Reid) to go. The alarm clock is blaring – but a part of us suspects that Obama and Pelosi may just hit snooze – AGAIN.
Neither .. the communist takeover is in full swing and anyone that doesn’t foresee violence in our future is brain dead.
Gotta go with neither. Another question would be “what are Pelosi and Obama doing while Van Jones and Charlie Wrangle distract attention away from them?”
They’ll hit Snooze... again.
First they had a Chicago gangster Rostenkowski as chairman, then a black New Yorker inherit the same position???
I think you are right about that. Rangel would not go quietly. His mouth is too big to shut up. Besides, he knows what Nancy "Hairy" Pelosi (pelosi means "hairy" in Italian--I don't even want to try to image what she has that might be hairy) has buried in her back yard.
As for Obama, he picked exactly who he wanted as enviro-dictator.
Clean up needed in the House.
I was wondering if this was only being reported on FNC but it looks like at least ABC has noticed as well.
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