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Rangel Censured by House for Ethics Violations
FoxNews.com ^ | December 02, 2010 | Chad Pergram/AP

Posted on 12/02/2010 4:13:49 PM PST by ColdOne

The House on Thursday formally censured Rep. Charlie Rangel for financial misconduct despite pleas from the New York Democratic lawmaker and some of his colleagues for a less punishing reprimand.

The House voted to censure Rangel 333-79.

Rangel, who became the 23rd House member to be censured, appeared at the front of the chamber while Speaker Nancy Pelosi read the resolution.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: censureandmoveon; corruption; crook; cultureofcorruption; democratcorruption; democratscandals; pelosicongress
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To: SecondAmendment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_Waters

Maxines ethics hearing has been indefinitely postponed. ( IMHO she has consented now to let Obama radical community workers do their dirty work in Watts, to set up disorder and mayhem race riots when Obama loses in 2012, or in the run up to 2012). The deal has been cut.Part of that was to allow Pelosi to continue as minority whip.Maxine is the deputy whip.


61 posted on 12/03/2010 5:30:40 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/brack_obama_ipthe_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: ColdOne

I dunno. Censure-ship is un-American. ,p>
:-)


62 posted on 12/03/2010 5:42:48 AM PST by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: SkyPilot

There cannot be a different standard for MINORITIES than non-minorities.

This is simply “affirmative action” for crimes as opposed to employment. First the bar is lowered for “minorities” in academia and in the employment world.

Then non-minorities are automatically held to a “higher standard.” The bar is lowered in criminal cases and the book is thrown at non-minorities for the same crime.

The same is true for qualifying to get any type of gov’t assistance. There’s an unspoken “lower standard” that needs to be met by minorities to get on such programs. A non-minority with the same household size, same income level, same family situation will NOT get on such programs as easily as a minority family will; saw it happening ALL the time when I worked for subsidized housing.


63 posted on 12/03/2010 6:09:31 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Percentage of Income in CS is inversely proportionate to Mother's parenting of children)
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To: ColdOne
Being a prominent black liberal still keeps you out of a deserved prison sentence; but it now no longer protects you from being told “shame shame!”

That's race relations progress.

64 posted on 12/03/2010 8:28:50 AM PST by Happy Rain ("GO GAMECOCKS--THE REAL USC!!!")
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To: ColdOne

So now it is time for the CRIMINAL charges to be prosecuted, right? Right?

Strip his pension. Kick him out the door.


65 posted on 12/03/2010 9:02:41 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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To: TribalPrincess2U
And Wesley Snipes goes to jail.

This is just another slap in the faces of all of us who try to do right.

Obviously, there's one law for us, another law for them.

The sad thing is how few people notice.

66 posted on 12/03/2010 9:13:10 AM PST by Jeff Winston
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To: ColdOne

Naughty, naughty Charlie!


67 posted on 12/03/2010 12:05:53 PM PST by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: Bullish

“Now I don’t feel like I should have to pay MY taxes.”

If WE don’t, WE’LL end up in a prison cell with a 300 lb guy named Bubba.


68 posted on 12/03/2010 12:10:09 PM PST by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: Candor7

NEXT!

69 posted on 12/03/2010 12:10:43 PM PST by They'reGone2000 (They'reGone2010)
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To: Roscoe Karns

Birds of a feather...


70 posted on 12/03/2010 12:47:04 PM PST by ShandaLear (Where on Earth is Barack Obama?)
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To: ColdOne

This goes to prove that congress is not part of the “little people” .. if anyone of us failed to pay taxes where would we be?
Right next to wesley snipes by now that is where.


71 posted on 12/04/2010 12:17:09 PM PST by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
That’s very disrespectful! Cab Calloway was just about the coolest cat to ever hit this rock!

I'll second that! One of a kind, for sure.

72 posted on 12/04/2010 3:42:56 PM PST by calcowgirl (“Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat’s dream. If you control carbon, you control life” —Lindzen)
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To: calcowgirl

I have two Zoot Suits because of Cab! The hippest men’s clothing ever!


73 posted on 12/04/2010 4:20:02 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
I have two Zoot Suits because of Cab! The hippest men’s clothing ever!

LOL. It takes a certain [something] to make those work.

I saw CC in concert the year before he died. He still had it.

74 posted on 12/04/2010 4:34:06 PM PST by calcowgirl (“Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat’s dream. If you control carbon, you control life” —Lindzen)
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To: calcowgirl

I have a banana yellow suit, and a silver Lamé suit. Reet pleats, and pegged to the max. Four foot chains, and skinny, skinny belts. The Lamé suit probably wouldn’t make it through the airport radiation machine!


75 posted on 12/04/2010 4:40:51 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: DBrow

And “Censure” means exactly what?

A statement of “Tsk, tsk, you naughty boy”?

Jail time of what?

Fines of what?

Actual teeth?

Rangel gets fired from Congress?

Anything meaningful, such as would have happened to ordinary serfs?


76 posted on 12/04/2010 7:58:07 PM PST by OldArmy52 (Obama & the "Dem Party" have proved America is ready for Fascism/Socialism.)
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To: Hoodat

His trial?

After the investigation of Obaba’s legality to be President.

And after Pelosi’s firing for incompetence for her statement: “we have to pass the bill to find out what is in it.”

After Obaba’s Treasury Secretary is prosecuted for tax cheating.

After Obaba’s Surgeon General is sent to a fat farm.

After pigs fly.


77 posted on 12/04/2010 8:02:55 PM PST by OldArmy52 (Obama & the "Dem Party" have proved America is ready for Fascism/Socialism.)
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