July 22, 2010
— DrewM Most ethical Congress ever!
A House investigative committee on Thursday charged New York Rep. Charles Rangel with multiple ethics violations, a blow to the former Ways and Means chairman and an election-year headache for Democrats.The committee did not immediately specify the charges against the Democrat, who has served in the House for some 40 years and is fourth in House seniority. The announcement by a four-member panel of the House ethics committee sends the case to a House trial, where a separate eight-member panel of Republicans and Democrats will decide whether the violations can be proved by clear and convincing evidence.
The timing of the announcement ensures that it will stretch into the fall campaign, and Republicans are certain to make it an issue as they try to capture majority control of the House. Speaker Nancy Pelosi had once promised to "drain the swamp" of ethical misdeeds by lawmakers in arguing that Democrats should be in charge.
There is a conservative Republican running in the district but it's what? 105% or so Democratic?
I doubt the charges will hurt Rangel in the general election, he'll use it to rally the troops against those SOBs in DC trying to destroy him.
In an interesting twist Rangel does face a primary challenge this September from Adam Clayton Powell IV. Powell's father, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., was the man Rangel unseated to win the seat about 100 years ago. The elder Powell was a longtime member of Congress whom the Democrats refused to seat after the '66 elections because of corruption charges. Powell then won the special election to fill the vacancy and sat in the House until Rangel beat him the 1970 primary.
So, we've seen this movie before.
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Posted by: sven10077 at July 22, 2010 01:13 PM (kq1lG)
2 HtP,
I'd give mattera an assist but yeah Bright-Bart! is their new boogeyman.....
conservartism would be better served by an army of diggers but I am thrilled we have the ones we do.
Posted by: sven10077 at July 22, 2010 01:14 PM (kq1lG)
Posted by: lorien1973 at July 22, 2010 01:14 PM (IhQuA)
Well, they haven't convicted him yet or kicked his wrinkled old ass out.
Gotta leave some room for the next step.
Posted by: DrewM. at July 22, 2010 01:15 PM (X/Lqh)
Posted by: dfbaskwill at July 22, 2010 01:16 PM (ndlFj)
Posted by: . at July 22, 2010 01:17 PM (p302b)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkMolLriAkQ
Posted by: Dave at July 22, 2010 01:17 PM (WuQPu)
Posted by: denny crane at July 22, 2010 01:18 PM (I+7Zv)
Oh come on. Just because they've had 137+% turnout before is only a sign of enthusiasm
Posted by: Beto at July 22, 2010 01:19 PM (H+LJc)
Posted by: . at July 22, 2010 01:20 PM (p302b)
Posted by: The MFM at July 22, 2010 01:20 PM (YVZlY)
I suspect the "ethics" committee's investigation will last until Charlie takes the Exalted Cyclops Byrd exit from Congress.
Posted by: MrScribbler at July 22, 2010 01:22 PM (Ulu3i)
Posted by: Beto at July 22, 2010 01:23 PM (H+LJc)
Guilt or innocence is not important, it's the seriousness of the charges.....
/now where have I heard that????
Posted by: maddogg at July 22, 2010 01:23 PM (OlN4e)
Posted by: The MFM at July 22, 2010 01:23 PM (YVZlY)
Posted by: . at July 22, 2010 01:23 PM (p302b)
Posted by: denny crane at July 22, 2010 01:24 PM (I+7Zv)
Posted by: Methos at July 22, 2010 01:25 PM (qs3lE)
Posted by: FreakyBoy at July 22, 2010 01:26 PM (uKraB)
Posted by: . at July 22, 2010 01:26 PM (p302b)
Anybody remember the Eddie Murphy skit where he's watching TV news and hears about some crime and says. "Please don't let him be black, please don't let him be black...."
Rangle, Holder, Van Jones, McKinney, Sharpton, Jackson, Jackson Jr., et al really do a disservice to "their kind" a la Shirley.
Posted by: dagny at July 22, 2010 01:26 PM (eIn6+)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 22, 2010 01:29 PM (9Cooa)
Posted by: Charlie Rangel at July 22, 2010 01:30 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Gazzer at July 22, 2010 01:30 PM (7m1az)
Posted by: PAgirlinNC at July 22, 2010 01:32 PM (RMm1N)
There's something charmingly anachronistic about a guy who really doesn't get what the big deal is about some corruption here and there. He's been a Congressman forever and he's owed a little.
He's so unapologetic and seemingly confused by the fuss, it's hysterical.
This is a guy who has lived and been in a job too long and the world changed while he didn't. Sure there's still lots of corruption but there are now ways to be subtler about it but there's nothing subtle about Charlie Rangel.
Don't get me wrong...he's a disgrace and belongs in jail. And that's the way this kind of story has to end. He'll never be defeated at the ballot box and he'll never retire. Guys like him have to be marched out in cuffs or carried out on a stretcher.
Posted by: DrewM. at July 22, 2010 01:32 PM (X/Lqh)
My expectation is that this will be a whitewash.
Posted by: Vic at July 22, 2010 01:34 PM (/jbAw)
Posted by: t-bird at July 22, 2010 01:35 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Gazzer at July 22, 2010 05:30 PM (7m1az)
I think because Powell IV's mother was Jr's 2nd or third wife and Jr. either had another son or grandson named Powell III by the time IV was born.
Something like that.
Posted by: DrewM. at July 22, 2010 01:36 PM (X/Lqh)
The Gulf's prayers have been answered. Barry and clan are going to be vacationing there beginning August 14.
Wonder if these mutts have ever heard of a "staycation" like so many people are having to do?
Posted by: a goat at July 22, 2010 01:36 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: WalrusRex at July 22, 2010 01:36 PM (xxgag)
Wow, that must be Sheets Byrd posting from the Great Beyond...hey Sheets, how is hell?
Posted by: Mallamutt at July 22, 2010 05:28 PM (OWjjx)
Walll, so fer, it's damn hot. Hadn't had much chance to look around, cain't seem to get offa tha Big Guy's barbed dong. Imma hopin' to git a chance to look 'round in a couple 'o' thousand yers, tho. Ah'll letcha kno......
Posted by: The Honerable (and real hot) Senator Byrd at July 22, 2010 01:37 PM (OlN4e)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 22, 2010 01:37 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: t-bird at July 22, 2010 01:38 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Truman North at July 22, 2010 01:39 PM (e8YaH)
Didn't he just have a vacation? Can he not wait a full month between vacations?
Posted by: Methos at July 22, 2010 01:39 PM (qs3lE)
I think because Powell IV's mother was Jr's 2nd or third wife and Jr. either had another son or grandson named Powell III by the time IV was born.
I was told there'd be no math.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 22, 2010 01:40 PM (0QJjg)
Posted by: Al at July 22, 2010 01:43 PM (7cXE7)
Posted by: maddogg at July 22, 2010 01:44 PM (OlN4e)
I think because Powell IV's mother was Jr's 2nd or third wife and Jr. either had another son or grandson named Powell III by the time IV was born.
Shades of George Foreman.
Posted by: Gazzer at July 22, 2010 01:44 PM (7m1az)
Understood completely. I have a soft spot for the inept Chicago machine pols of the 1970s and 1980s. Jane Byrne moving into Cabrini-Greene to prove it wasn't out of control and setting off the fire alarm by accident - good times.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 22, 2010 01:45 PM (p05LM)
21 The House investigative committee is just trying to smear him because he's black.
All the House Ethics Committee members are white. It's a lynching. I demand an apology and stfu money reparation for the discrimination on the white mans' plantation.
Posted by: Jesse Jackson at July 22, 2010 01:45 PM (KOwDx)
Posted by: gator at July 22, 2010 01:45 PM (aOKEC)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 22, 2010 01:45 PM (5jbD3)
43 The dems internal numbers must be worse than we think... they are starting to eat their own....
dont' let the bastards lull you into complacency they do this, very well
Posted by: pitchforksandpowder at July 22, 2010 01:47 PM (6erHm)
We're all better-off when he vacations.
(Look for "Potus has ordered"...)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at July 22, 2010 01:48 PM (LUaw0)
Posted by: Ken Royall at July 22, 2010 01:48 PM (9zzk+)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at July 22, 2010 01:50 PM (LUaw0)
Posted by: maddogg at July 22, 2010 01:51 PM (OlN4e)
I want to watch Rangel's show on Spike. I'm not talking the cable TV channel. I'm talking sodium thiopental.
Posted by: MikeO at July 22, 2010 01:51 PM (lBmZl)
Posted by: Rangel Constituent at July 22, 2010 01:52 PM (HtIec)
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at July 22, 2010 01:52 PM (r1h5M)
It's called "lack of class".
And I don't for one moment believe the dead and injured in Afghanistan and Iraq take up much time in his heart and mind. Narcissists just aren't capable.
Sorry for the O/T.
And Rangel is an ass and needs to go to prison.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 22, 2010 01:52 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: maddogg at July 22, 2010 01:54 PM (OlN4e)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 22, 2010 01:54 PM (5jbD3)
Be a damned shame if all the white folk in Rangel's district voted for the first time along strict racial lines, like all the black folk have been doing for the last 40 years.
I denounce myself.
Posted by: Sharkman at July 22, 2010 01:56 PM (Zj8fM)
Posted by: PAgirlinNC at July 22, 2010 01:56 PM (RMm1N)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 22, 2010 01:56 PM (5jbD3)
Charlie Rangle could rape Mother Theresa and still get re-elected in his district.
What did she do to provoke him? It is clearly not his fault, but the fault of a racist criminal justice system and the white man who has always tried to protect the white woman from what they considered the savage black man.
Bitch had it coming.
Posted by: Black Scholars Everywhere at July 22, 2010 01:58 PM (aOKEC)
Charlie Rangle could rape Mother Theresa and still get re-elected in his district.
What did she do to provoke him? It is clearly not his fault, but the fault of a racist criminal justice system and the white man who has always tried to protect the white woman from what they considered the savage black man.
Bitch had it coming.
Posted by: Black Scholars Everywhere at July 22, 2010 05:58 PM (aOKEC)
Was he in a pack?
Posted by: Mel Gibson at July 22, 2010 02:00 PM (xxgag)
Deep in the bowels of Donk (DOdd-fraNK Financial abomination bill, whose 2315 pages nobody has read in their entirety), in Title XII: IMPROVING ACCESS TO MAINSTREAM FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, section 1205 is a provision titled "Low-cost alternatives to payday loans" in which the government outlines its plans for establishing what is essentially a payday loan advance business. Does this mean the government is going into the business of direct lending and bypassing the stingy banks completely? As payday loans tend to be the most usurious of all short-term credit instruments for the lower classes, will the government's intervention into this most recent arena result in the obliteration of the existing business model for payday lenders? But far more importantly, will the government use this platform as a means to provide cash to virtually anyone in exchange for shoddy collateral and mere promises to repay the loan? And nowhere in the text is it said the loans are even collateralized with something like a deferred paycheck
Boned we are.
Free money, get your free money here.
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at July 22, 2010 02:04 PM (JSghx)
Posted by: Retread at July 22, 2010 02:04 PM (x3dVY)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 22, 2010 02:06 PM (5jbD3)
But you'll blow me first!
Posted by: Iblis at July 22, 2010 02:08 PM (9221z)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at July 22, 2010 02:09 PM (LUaw0)
"Oh, you must be jesting, Dick. Economics dull? The glamour, the romance of commerce... Hmm. It's the very lifeblood of our country's society."
-- Bruce Wayne
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 22, 2010 02:11 PM (0QJjg)
Posted by: Barbarian at July 22, 2010 02:12 PM (EL+OC)
What "white"people?
Nevergiveup at July 22, 2010 05:56 PM (5jbD3).
Very good point. Rangel would probably still win.
Posted by: Sharkman at July 22, 2010 02:15 PM (Zj8fM)
33 FreakyBoy at July 22, 2010 05:26 PM (uKraB)
I think that's what the deal is. Rangel and the Dems. would rather get it over and done with before they lose the house. This way they can give him a half-assed slap on the wrist and sweep it under the rug. If the Repubs. are in charge maybe they'd make a big show and stick it to him and maybe even drag some other crooks into it.
Posted by: Pocono Joe at July 22, 2010 02:15 PM (ViymI)
O/T
Alvin Greene, Senatorial candidate from South Carolina, was discharged from the Air Force for “not able to adapt to any changes to daily routine.”
If Alvin doesn't win the Senate seat, he most assuredly has a position waiting in the USDA as a loan processor in Georgia. Obama will personally apologize to Alvin for those racists whities in the Air Force.
Posted by: Fish at July 22, 2010 02:16 PM (v1gw3)
Posted by: dfbaskwill at July 22, 2010 02:18 PM (ndlFj)
Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at July 22, 2010 02:19 PM (hilxX)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 22, 2010 02:20 PM (UOM48)
There is no reason for the Ethics Panel to be comprised of anyone other than citizens without political connections. These dirt bags work for us and we should have the ability to review their scumbaggery without the cover up that happens when their buds vouch for their character and deny citizens the right to redress.
Posted by: Fish at July 22, 2010 02:20 PM (v1gw3)
(as in Punch & Judy)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at July 22, 2010 02:21 PM (LUaw0)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 22, 2010 02:22 PM (9Cooa)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 22, 2010 02:23 PM (5jbD3)
Today, the Washington based PC Police ordered Superman to wear a apron to cover up his protruding manhood, a personal affront to most liberal men who were only born with wee-wee's versus the much maligned conservative cock.
Posted by: Fish at July 22, 2010 02:25 PM (v1gw3)
only born with wee-wee's versus the much maligned revered conservative cock.
And then you will blow me.
Posted by: Melvin Gibson at July 22, 2010 02:31 PM (Zi+FQ)
You just KNOW it was Fox he was expecting to hear. It broke his heart that it was NBC. I'm kinda shocked myself.
Maybe the tide is turning a little. Hope I can find the whole thing.
Posted by: Jay in Ames at July 22, 2010 02:46 PM (LJaVO)
Yes Drew, we have seen this movie before: it was called
Charley's Rangels -- Corrupt House Ways and Means chairman hires a bevy of delectable accountants to find ways to hide unreported income from House Ethics investigators
Posted by: Call me Lennie at July 22, 2010 02:58 PM (r/5/5)
Posted by: denny crane summarized at July 22, 2010 03:04 PM (f7A+e)
Couldn't be worse.
Agreed.
Christ, Norm MACDONALD would be better than Michael Steele.
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at July 22, 2010 03:15 PM (U7TcP)
Posted by: Gazzer at July 22, 2010 03:31 PM (7m1az)
Rangel is a tool and now he's going to serve his purpose.
Posted by: jmflynny at July 22, 2010 03:53 PM (NHK5s)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 22, 2010 05:20 PM (9Cooa)
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Posted by: sven10077 at July 22, 2010 01:12 PM (kq1lG)