Posted on 09/18/2008 6:51:58 PM PDT by neverdem
THIS was supposed to be the year Democrats could not lose.
But that was before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi - in a standoff with Charlie Rangel, one of her most powerful and scandal-scarred chairmen - blinked.
That was before Rangel launched his "Monument to Me - The Rangel Center at CUNY" - with your money and greedily grabbed four rent-stabilized apartments, using a system designed to help less fortunate New Yorkers from getting squeezed out onto the street.
That was before the most powerful committee chairman in the country got caught hiding from Congress and the public the $75,000 in rental income from his Caribbean slice of beachside paradise.
And, of course, that was before the highest tax-writer in the land got caught cheating on his taxes on that income he now claims he didn't know about.
Try telling people in this economy that you just discovered a loose $75,000 you didn't know you'd made. For most people, that's called the lottery.
Is this "the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history" that Pelosi promised?
Pelosi ordered Rangel to Washington earlier this week, sending out signals that she would lower the boom on him.
At the very least, she would make him step aside until all his ethics inquisitions are finished.
Wrangling Rangel is no small order.
He's immensely popular on the Hill, even among many Republican lawmakers.
He's perhaps Pelosi's highest-profile committee chairman.
And he's one of her very top African-American lieutenants whom she simply cannot cross.
So, she folded like a cheap pantsuit.
And Rangel remains at large and in charge of extracting your hard-earned tax dollars.
After all, snatching $2 million from the Treasury for a temple to himself under the guise of an educational center passes for business as usual here...
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Newsflash to black liberals you've indirectly called people with my beliefs racist so many times I just don't give a F**K anymore. And if I felt all Blacks were like Rangle, Jefferson, And Obama, yes I should oppose them for good reason. Unfortunately for some liberal folks they could now fling their own poo at me like a monkey and not lower my perception of them any. And if I did complain about the poo flinging I'd still just be labled the same old racist they've always claimed me to be for not supporting their ebonics and gangsta culture. Well I'm sick of having to always clarify my respect for the decent Blacks who don't shame themselves. I think from here on out I'm just going to be a committed racist and make exceptions only for those who deserve it. It will be much easier than trying to pretend That the majority of Black America is on par with people of any other culture. Their culture is broken. How many of us Whites would voluntarily choose to desegregate ourselves by moving our families into a Black ghetto.
I'm sorry, I've got to come out of the closet. I'M A BIG RACIST! I do not think African American culture is as good as any other. I'm pissed off at how the "civil Rights" movement went from demanding equal education to demanding permanent second class victim status. The clown preachers who now run the Black's advancement crusade are making me more certain every day that they're part baboon or monkey or something that does not have the intelligence of a man. I'm not sure how a little extra melanin can make someone act like a monkey, But my life's experience has led me to wondering.
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