Posted on 07/22/2010 8:11:40 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
The ethics committee gavel is finally sounding with some authority for Representative Charles Rangel, the New York Democrat who has been under investigation for multiple allegations of misusing his office. After a closed investigation of nearly two years, a bipartisan subcommittee has properly concluded that there are grounds for charging the congressman with as yet unspecified violations.
The decision triggers a rarely seen process leading to an expected trial of Mr. Rangel before a special eight-member panel of House members. The precise charges are to be disclosed on Thursday, but Mr. Rangel is firmly maintaining his innocence of any ethics violations despite a string of grave missteps that cost him the gavel of the Ways and Means Committee.
It has been no cause for celebration to see Mr. Rangel in decline as allegations have surfaced on a series of serious misdeeds. Most recently, he was admonished by the ethics committee for leading fellow lawmakers on a Caribbean junket financed by private corporations in violation of the ethics rules. His constituents deserved better, but his deeds betrayed a sense of entitlement on his part that helped lead him to this dark point.
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Under the bus? I don’t think so. I think they know they’re going to lose in November, so they’re going to slap him on the wrist now to save him from a greater penalty later.
Charlie’s not under the bus. This is all for show. There will be no conviction and thereforre no penalty. He’ll probably be deemed a hero for having withstood the racist right-wing allegations made against him.
Now the Marxist Rats pretend to be honest and insert a strongly worded reprimand (for getting caught) in the Congressional Record.
How will Charlie survive after this devastating punishment?
Oh, but you urinalists have celebrated with glee, every time a Republican was forced from office.
OK. I'll firmly maintain my belief in the Tooth Fairy.
“Charlie’s under the bus.”
I wouldn’t count on it. Charlie is hardly different from the rest of his colleagues in congress. He probably has enough on the committee he will face to trump them all. So, I can see him rolling “the bus” over, tires up.
Slap on the wrist, kiss kiss. Catch ya in the halls Charlie. Just try to be more discreet in the future, Okay, thanks for playing Charlie.
“How will Charlie survive after this devastating punishment?”
With a vacation to his Dominican Republic villa, of course.
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