Posted on 08/11/2010 1:03:44 PM PDT by xzins
“And America is a better place with his passing.”
Should be interesting to see the comparison of memorials and remembrances between Stevens and Rosty, especially in the press and official Washington.
He was just keeping that prison seat warm for you, Charlie.
Hope that the Chicago funeral doesn’t interfere with any of Obama’s many vacations.
rose to be chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and went to prison in disgrace... died at his summer home in Powers Lake, Wis... represented his Chicago 5th Congressional District in Congress for 36 years, rising to head the powerful tax-writing Ways and Means Committee that rewrote the 1986 U.S. tax code. The son of 32nd Ward Democratic Alderman... first elected to the House of Representatives in 1958... indicted on 17 counts ranging from mail and wire fraud to obstruction of justice, including hiring ghost payrollers and maintaining political slush funds... pleaded guilty to two counts of mail fraud for misusing taxpayer funds by lying about minor expense account rule violations governing postage stamps and office chairs... once known as Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley's man in Washington, he was defeated in his re-election effort by Republican Michael Patrick Flanagan... and was pardoned by President Bill Clinton in 2000.I just edited out "a political neophyte who served one term in the House," because it made it appear that MPF was the one who was pardoned. And that's exactly what the "news" source intended everyone to think. This obit is a see-sawing mess, and whomever wrote it doesn't belong in journalism. Thanks xzins.
The good die young, not at the age of 82, but RIP, Rosty.
I once heard him referred to as
Rosty, the NO Man
Some obvious political reference to some of his Congressional votes, I suppose.
Kind of ironic that they both chaired the same committee.
Well said, TOL.
Rosty, the pol only IL could love! But Bob Dole often said nice things about him too. I don’t know if Rosty responded in kind.
CONGRESS.SYS Corrupted: Re-boot November 2010? YES NO
CONGRESS Version 11.2010 available soon.
R.I.P.
Having said that, Rosty (as W&M Chairman) & Tip O’ Neill played a huge role in escalating the federal deficit in the 1980s. Instead of cutting spending to accompany the Reagan tax cuts, they ramped it up.
Reaganomics is often unfairly blamed for the deficits; in reality, it was the Donkey-dominated House that should bear much of the blame (just like the Newt-led House of the 90s should be credited with the magical “Clinton surplus”).
Liars and thieves are what they are. Deceit is what they’re all about. I don’t see how one can conclude that Rostenkowski was a patriot. And even if he may have been, I don’t see that it mitigates the man’s being a lying thief of tax payer money.
When he was in Congress he sure never tired telling the American people how hard liberal congress creatures work and how pressure laden were their decisions. Great Caesar’s Ghost! What a windbag he was!
When I hear “Rosty” Rostenkowski’s name, I think of the Senior Citizens crowding around his car and protesting, back in the 90s. Rush had a field day with that one!
Is my memory wrong, or did the Rosty/O’Neil cabal persecute the Iran Contra defendants for misuse of government funds....while, it turns out, they were skimming from the till for personal enhancements?
Correct. Lucky for the U.S., Lee Hamilton botched the Iran-Contra hearings as chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee, and the Dems never made a case for the Gov’t that the public could understand.
These names and times are a real blast from the past...oldies but goodies for those who liked Reagan, Ollie North, Cap Weinberger, etc. North blew them away like they were so much chaff.
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