Posted on 08/02/2006 9:35:37 AM PDT by presidio9
Rep. Charles Rangel, a powerful senior Democrat in Congress and the dean of New York's congressional delegation, said Wednesday that he'll quit Congress if the Democrats don't retake control of the House this year.
"I'm a poker player and I've had good hands all night long. This is all in," Rangel said in an interview. "I would not put everything on the table if I thought for one minute we would lose."
Rangel, the ranking Democrat on the House Ways & Means Committee, is 76 years old and has spent 35 years in Congress. The Democrats need to gain 15 seats in the 2006 midterm election _ a victory that would return Rangel to the chairmanship of the powerful committee.
"Hell, if we don't take back the House, then the Democrats would go down in history, saying that there's no group in the world that can grab defeat from the jaws of victory," Rangel said. "It just seems like America is so frustrated and fed up like I am and if she's not then I may have to say maybe it's me."
The congressman, known for a wicked wit and cheshire cat smile, said the U.S. war in Iraq has soured him on the Republican leadership and voters who keep electing them.
Since the war began three years ago, Rangel has called for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to resign or be fired, and engaged in an acid-tongued war of words with Vice President Dick Cheney.
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If the Democrats do win, he said, "It would be great to see the face of Vice President Cheney when he finds out. I'd like to be in the room when they told him. I think that would give me an additional 30 years of life."
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Another Reason to Vote Republican!
A powerful motivation for the Republican base, if ever there was one.
WOOOOOO HOOOOO YIPPPEEEE I CAN'T WAIT!!!
Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, we in the GOP need you to keep sending voters our way.
I'm sending money ASAP to some (R)s. Oh, too see Charlie's face when the democrats lose.
I need no more incentive to vote for Republicans than knowing Charlie Rangel will retire ... I just wonder if he will move to France?
"76 years old and has spent 35 years in Congress"
There is just something so wrong about this.
GEt him to put it writing. Of course we've heard this crap before. Seems like Alec Baldwin was going to leave the country if Bush won, and I see where the low life is still here and for all I know unemployed...
If this is not our clarion call to vote, I don't know what is.
Bump for replay after the election.
WARNING: This is an Alec Baldwin promise.
And if we are REALLY LUCKY he will take some of his scummy ilk with him. Put your wishing hats on!!!
He's bluffing.
I hope somebody's got it on video, because there's no way the Charlie will do it.
Promises, promises, promises. Yeah I heard Alec Baldwin was going to move to France if Bush got elected. Why can't Dem's keep their promises???
I want the video of the VP handing Rangels his walking papers....... ;)
WARNING: This is an Alec Baldwin promise.
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Yeah, you are probably right -- this maggot could not get a REAL job, if he had to.
Rangel sounds like a bitter man, and that is sad. This is not a condition known only in the Democratic Party. Politics can do that to someone if you don't watch out. I myself was bitter for awhile when Clinton was President.
Don't get too excited. The Libs never keep their promises. If they did, half of them would be living outside the country after the last Presidential election. Libs are big on talk and small on action.
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