I can't believe Rangel uttered those words! He must be running a fever or something.
He and 'Stretch' Pelosi are the lib-dem shills, in that the backlash is building from America against that POS punk who called W a 'devil', and they're trying to soften the treasonous lib-dems' daily position of calling Bush a liar, drunk, etc etc etc. Deflect the dirty name-calling from the lib-dem garbage, to Chavez.
Some People Just Need Killing™.
Charles Rangel isn't a stupid man. In fact he's quite intelligent. But he's also a mean, vindictive, race-bating, self serving, partisan sob, which far outweighs any positive qualities he may have.
I think Michael's reading Rangel wrong.
Notice no Dem stepped up to defend Bush from Chavez's remarks for at least a day.
They had to put their finger to the wind first (probably internal polling) before stepping in to do damage control and chastise Chavez.
I think Rangel's remarks weren't noble, just smart, from a political standpoint.
The internals must be bad for the Dems. Still, I wish someone had called Savage and told him about Rangel's previous behavior (didn't he support Chavez before today?). It's on 8-11pm here...