Posted on 07/31/2010 11:37:07 AM PDT by La Enchiladita
It's hard to imagine what could drive public approval of Congress even lower than it has been this year. But a pending public ethics trial of one of the House's most senior Democrats (and possibly a second) and an angry, prolonged tirade on the House floor that has gone around the cable networks and YouTube just may be the answer.
Anyone who has ever spent time talking with voters -- in shopping malls or on soccer fields, at their doorsteps or in focus groups -- has heard the most common complaints about politicians in Washington.
One is an expression of disgust over what people perceive as elected officials' sense of privilege. Many Americans believe that elected officials go to Washington and lose touch with where they came from. Instead of representing the people, the politicians adopt an attitude of entitlement. Instead of protecting the public interest, politicians are seen as being in bed with lobbyists and looking to line their own pockets.
...The ethics charges lodged against former House Ways and Means Committee chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) present major problems for the Democrats. Having run against what they called a culture of corruption by the Republicans in their successful 2006 takeover of the House, Democrats now head toward the final months of the midterm elections with the prospect of a highly publicized trial that alleges corruption on the part of ... Rangel.
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Rangel and Waters...too black to fail?
The C.B.C. is not amused.
Who be the CBC? Oh!! Congressional Black Caucus?
Who be the CBC? Oh!! Congressional Black Caucus?
Yes, the CBC is trying to play the ever present race card.
Maybe the congress should go after a few white liberal criminals. It’s not as if there is a paucity of them. They could start with queer Barney.
Rangle fights the house backs down.
what is he going to get at most? censure?
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