[Happy Rain]

Chuckie gots the OJ faith—thinks his race is gonna save his crooked arse.

It just might.

[kbennkc]

He's been probed for his corporate solicitations on behalf a center named after him at CCNY; having four rent-controlled apartments; failure to report $60,000 of income on required financial-disclosure reports; and skirting of income taxes on his villa in the Dominican Republic.

This can't be right. That's all they got on Charlie?

The first two are unconstitutional. Shaking down corporations heaven help the republic that's a new one? The third is now disclosed and amended, no actual tax evasion, no harm.

The rental income on his Villa ? Obviously malpractice on his accountant's part. Who has net income on such rentals after deducting the interest, expenses, damage, repairs, catastrophic losses, and charitable deductions for use by homeless native girls? Charlie ain't going no where. He will be getting more apologies than Mrs. Sherrod.

You got to get up earlier than that if you want to take down a Second Division guy.

[wmileo]

"I want what's the fair and right thing to do, and I have confidence in my lawyers and the lawyers of the Ethics Committee," Rangel said. "It's lawyer to lawyer," a Rangel aide confirmed. "

Whenever it is Congressional House Lawyer to Rangel Lawyer, that is when we can all smell the rotten fish.

Rangel always uses his Korean War Record as cover for his shenanigans. He is a human calamity.

At least Congressman(and Vietnam War hero) Duke Cunningham made no excuses for his behavior and went to jail like a man after his conviction!

[verga]

I hope the Fat arrogant B@$t@rd fights this tooth and nail, and he takes down the wicked witch of the west with him when all the facts come out.
Not the the Lame stream media will carry any of it.
Charlie Gibson didn’t “know” about ACORN, Bob Schieffer didn’t “know” about the new Black Panthers, and they did their best to keep it from the public.

[Ann Archy]

SETTLE????? He should be in PRISON like any regular person would be!!

[LibertyRocks]

I have a feeling Rangel will get an offer of a VERY sweet deal to just “go away” as quickly as possible. As a citizen, I would like to see this man tried for his criminal actions immediately.

As a Independent Conservative - and thinking about the impact of this scandal during an election season - I hope the man fights tooth and nail and that ALL the dirt on him has to be put into the media by the Dems to try to save face in this election year.

It would be a HUGE benefit for our side, IMHO, if Rangel’s ego prevents him from doing the “smart thing” — for himself AND the Dems. And hopefully he will push back hard enough that they have no choice but to arrest him just to get him to shut up.

FReeper kbennkc, said above, “That’s all they got on him?”

I don’t think I agree with that assessment. I’m sure they have PLENTY more evidence against him — we just haven’t heard about it... I believe that, depending upon how he reacts to Pelosi and gang’s pleas, we MIGHT see some more of the evidence against him. I’m just not looking forward to the fake “we’re stamping out corruption” speeches from the Dems if they have to take this to the media.

From the sounds of it — Rangel is a very strong-minded individual, and either he honestly doesn’t think he did anything wrong, or thinks he will somehow come out of this smelling like a rose (I wonder if he’ll use the race card - and when?). I think his ego is getting in the way of him correctly assessing the situation.

These people in Congress on “his” side of the aisle would have NO PROBLEM eating on of their own — as long as they see a positive coming out of it. With the election though they’d better move fast on this if the Dems want to get ANY traction for forcing him to resign. Otherwise, if this gets dragged out the scandal WILL be a very bad thing for the Dems.

All JMHO.

[TexasM1A]

Shouldn’t the headline be “Rangel IS a sleaze queen”...

[marstegreg]

The liberal media is going to have a hard time spinning this one!