Rangel is not just your garden variety bribe-taking, multi-millionaire, tax evader, mega-crooked democrat party thief. He is just plain evil.
Posted on 09/13/2009 10:08:57 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
REP. Charles Rangel (D-NY), chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, is becoming a metaphor for almost all the sins of our age. Let us count the ways. How about corruption? Currently, Rangel is under investigation by two House subcommittees for illegally holding four rent-stabilized apartments in New York and not disclosing more than $75,000 in income from a rental villa he owns. He also took free Caribbean trips paid for by corporate cronies and used his congressional letterhead to press for money for the City College of New York's new educational center, which bears his name. Rangel also acknowledged that he improperly listed his assets, as required by law, and failed to report additional checking accounts valued between $250,000 and $500,000 — princely sums acquired on a congressional salary. Try also hypocrisy. Rangel is the head of the Ways and Means Committee that writes the nation's income tax policy. The politician, who for generations has urged higher taxes, has chronically schemed to avoid paying them. Don't dare try that if you are a waitress or schoolteacher. In this regard, Rangel is similar to other Obama cabinet nominees and secretaries like Tom Daschle and Timothy Geithner — advocates of higher taxes, and bigger government — who themselves were in violation of the federal tax code. In this weird new moral landscape, good public intentions apparently offset private lapses.
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MSM correction:
Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, author and racist.
Rangel should be behind bars, along with many of his Congressional colleagues.
Charlie Rangel, a Dan Rostenkowski for the 21st Century?
Rangel is not just your garden variety bribe-taking, multi-millionaire, tax evader, mega-crooked democrat party thief. He is just plain evil.
I think he’s WORSE than Rosti.....he’s dealing in more than postage stamps...
Old Charlie Rangel ignores financial disclosure requirements and evades paying taxes, yet he is still a committee chairman.
Democrats ARE the party of corruption.
So, why exactly is he a racist? What in his piece makes you say this? He is being critical of Rangel, but I don’t see why criticism=racism. Is all criticism racist if a white man writes about a black man? What if a black man writes about a white man?
If this piece was exactly the same, but named a white congressman, would it be racist?
Please stop throwing the race card around on a whim.
I think that was sarcasm...maybe your post is also...hard to tell these days.
The lefts proclamation whenever they run out of road during a race.
“not disclosing more than $75,000 in income from a rental villa he owns”?
This is crappola.
He made near $3500.00 a week or more for this place and did it for years.
Man at the front desk who was asked when this story broke said it was one of the most sought after rentals there and was rented “all the time”.
But then he is a Democrat so it doesn’t really matter now does it?
In the article, Hanson illustrates how the Left’s first argument against the Right is: That’s racist!
You might notice that my addition to Hanson’s mini-bio was under the rubric: “MSM correction.” (MSM = mainstream media or, to clarify further, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, NYT, WashPost and on and on.)
I was simply and sarcastically doing their job for them.
American government is an ongoing criminal enterprise.
THANK YOU for saying what we have all been thinking. This is a DISGRACE!
I PRAY you are joking! VDH is NO racist.
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I know. I'll repost my #12 post to action_guy:
In the article, Hanson illustrates how the Left’s first argument against the Right is: That’s racist!
You might notice that my addition to Hanson’s mini-bio was under the rubric: “MSM correction.” (MSM = mainstream media or, to clarify further, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, NYT, WashPost and on and on.)
I was simply and sarcastically doing their job for them.
I believe my sarcasm to too thickly veiled!
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