Posted on 08/11/2010 11:19:21 AM PDT by GOP_Lady
Former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, the Chicago Democrat who became the leading architect of congressional tax policy in the Reagan era but later went to federal prison for corruption, died Wednesday, a family friend said. He was 82.
Mr. Rostenkowski, who served 18 terms before losing in 1994, died surrounded by family at his home in Lake Benedict, Wis., friend Ellen Tully said. He had been treated for prostate cancer in the 1990s.
As House Ways and Means Committee chairman, Mr. Rostenkowski was known as a consensus builder and a master of legislative tactics. He is credited with leading a 1983 effort to rescue Social Security from insolvency and pushing through a sweeping 1986 overhaul of the nation's tax system.
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Compare and constrast with the Obit for Ted Stevens.
Good idea, but way late. The damage has been done.
Dan Rostenkowski, Democrat, Chicago.
This man was a poor example of a man.
He,He,you said dupek!
“...later went to federal prison for corruption....”
Yup, that sez it all.
This doesn’t seem like a good year to be an elderly politician. So far, this year we’ve lost Ted Kennedy, Robert Byrd, John Murtha, Ted Stevens, and now Dan Rostenkowski.
At least he can now join other distinguished democrats in the nether regions.
Cover his coffin with postage stamps.
Thats for posting this...he was a loveable mobster, wasn’t he?
Body language experts would read that self-embrace as a clear indicator of narcissistic personality disorder.
From CHICAGO. ;-)
rosty is a good democrat
the only good democrats are dead democrats.
And he can still vote.
His congressional district has also blessed us with Blago and Rahm-bo.
Let me guess. Rostenkowski was a pillar of integrity while Stevens was Mr. Bridge to Nowhere.
Finally found something he couldn’t bribe his way out of...
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