[highlander_UW]

Rangel: 'I have no real chance of fighting back'

You've stalled, lied and dodged for years. If you've finally run out of ways to dance away from responsibility for your crimes it's still years late.

[justiceseeker93]

If Rangel wants to get out of the House Ethics Committee charges, all he needs to do is resign from the House, so that the committee will no longer have jurisdiction over him.

In the meanwhile, he's merely playing games over the issue of legal representation in an attempt to garner sympathy from the public. Rangel undoubtedly knows that the procedural rules for the committee are determined by the committee itself.

The constitutional guarantee of legal representation applies to criminal defendants in criminal courts only. In other proceedings, the right to counsel may or may not be granted depending upon the specific rules of the authority presiding over the proceeding and/or the applicable law.

[dools0007world]

That’s because the arrogant demigod is guilty, guilty and guilty.

[Monorprise]

I agree we should help Rangel delay until next year when the new republican majority takes office, then we can insure not only a conviction but an expulsion.

I honestly think that is why liberals won’t give their friend Rangel more time, they don’t want a Republican controlled House to decide his fate.

lol

[Tzimisce]

Poor Chuckie. He’s got such a raw deal.

/sarc

[stboz]

Go to jail, Charlie. Go directly to jail. Do not pass “Go.” Do not collect $2,000,000.

[Kozak]

[stevem]

My defense is that I did it.

[Non-Sequitur]

Rangel: 'I have no real chance of fighting back'

And no need to. Absent a criminal conviction on his tax evasion charges, the worst the ethics panel will do is slap his wrist a little.

[theDentist]

“I see no evidence of corruption. It’s hard to answer the question of personal financial benefit. I think the short answer is probably no. Do I believe that based on the record that Congressman Rangel took steps to benefit himself based on his position in Congress? No. I believe that the congressman, quite frankly, was overzealous in many of the things he did. And sloppy in his personal finances.”- Mr Chisam, Ethics Committee Atty.

I often wondered if it were possible to bribe an attorney on the Ethics Committee. Now I just wonder how much was paid.

[Redleg Duke]

Play the victim card, Charlie.