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Rangel Charged with Ethics Violations (UPDATED)
« on: February 25, 2010, 09:55:07 PM »
Rep. Charles Rangel, the most powerful tax-writing lawmaker in Congress and a 40-year veteran of Capitol Hill, acknowledged Thursday that an ethics panel has accused him of accepting corporate money for Caribbean trips in violation of House rules.

The panel exonerated five other members of the Congressional Black Caucus who also were on the 2007 and 2008 trips to Antigua and St. Martin but told them they will have to pay for the trips.

The ethics panel also ended another widespread investigation Thursday, saying if found no violations of House rules by six lawmakers who steered government money and projects and contracts to favored companies that had donated to their re-election campaigns.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_ethics_rangel



Hi,

Just caught this on Yahoo.  God I hope this is the beginning of the end for this pompous idiot!

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Re: Rangel Charged with Ethics Violations (UPDATED)
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2010, 10:05:15 PM »
Notice that they only got Rangel , and he'll get a slap on the wrist.  All will be forgotten soon.
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Re: Rangel Charged with Ethics Violations (UPDATED)
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2010, 10:08:59 PM »
Rangel will be dead of a heart attack or old age before the Democrats in the House stick him with anything.

They should bury his ass upside-down.
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Re: Rangel Charged with Ethics Violations (UPDATED)
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2010, 10:14:45 PM »
Why is it if a Republican does something they are tarred and feathered but if a Dimrat does the same they are allowed a get out of jail free card?
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Re: Rangel Charged with Ethics Violations (UPDATED)
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2010, 01:24:28 AM »
Quote from: littlelamb on February 25, 2010, 10:14:45 PM
Why is it if a Republican does something they are tarred and feathered but if a Dimrat does the same they are allowed a get out of jail free card?

Because unlike DemonRats, we actually try to stick to our ethics!
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Re: Rangel Charged with Ethics Violations (UPDATED)
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2010, 06:12:31 AM »
Quote from: AllosaursRus on February 26, 2010, 01:24:28 AM
Because unlike DemonRats, we actually try to stick to our HAVE ethics!
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Re: Rangel Charged with Ethics Violations (UPDATED)
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2010, 09:07:51 AM »
No way in hell is Rangel going to be held accountable for his actions. His 15th District in Harlem and a chunk of western Brooklyn is just about as moonbat as you can get.

 
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Re: Rangel Charged with Ethics Violations (UPDATED)
« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2010, 12:05:43 PM »
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WASHINGTON – Democrat Charles Rangel says he will not step down as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee even though the ethics committee found that he violated House rules by accepting corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean.
Rangel said Friday that the ethics report "exonerates" him because it says there is no evidence that he knew the trips were sponsored by corporations. The report said his staff knew who paid for the trips.
Rangel of New York said he truly doesn't understand why the committee admonished him.
AP update via Yahoo

It's not his fault that the people he hired knowingly violated rules.  Can any DimRat take responsibility for their actions?  That is a rhetorical question.  :-)
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Re: Rangel Charged with Ethics Violations (UPDATED)
« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2010, 01:51:11 PM »
That stinkin' criminal will have to be cuffed and frog marched off to the pokey before he relinquishes his power on the House Ways and Means! Un-****ing-believable the extent these guys will go to hold on to their power. They sure as hell don't work "for the people"!

George W would shoot him himself! Benedict don't have nothing on the current crop of traitors to the Constitution we have in Washington!
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Re: Rangel Charged with Ethics Violations (UPDATED)
« Reply #9 on: February 26, 2010, 02:20:36 PM »
Quote from: AllosaursRus on February 26, 2010, 01:51:11 PM
That stinkin' criminal will have to be cuffed and frog marched off to the pokey before he relinquishes his power on the House Ways and Means! Un-*******-believable the extent these guys will go to hold on to their power. They sure as hell don't work "for the people"!

George W would shoot him himself! Benedict don't have nothing on the current crop of traitors to the Constitution we have in Washington!

Hi,

Honestly the ethics violations are the tip of the iceburg.  We are in a huge recession because of Mr. Rangel demanding banks make loans to people who cannot pay them back.  When the congressional oversight folks tried to warn him and his committee he shot the messenger down.  As a result millions are out of work because of him pushing some stupid social agenda and getting paid off to do it.

I just hope someday historians find the courage to tell the truth about what caused our now greater depression. 

My wife said today now that Kennedy is gone Rangel should be the new poster boy for term limits.....

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Re: Rangel Charged with Ethics Violations (UPDATED)
« Reply #10 on: February 26, 2010, 02:24:06 PM »
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My wife said today now that Kennedy is gone Rangel should be the new poster boy for term limits.....

I think he should be the poster boy for the FBI's "Top Ten Most Wanted"!
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Re: Rangel Charged with Ethics Violations (UPDATED)
« Reply #11 on: July 22, 2010, 04:47:07 PM »
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38367462/ns/politics-capitol_hill/

Rangel charged with multiple ethics violations
New York Dem gave up Ways and Means gavel in February.

Rep. Charles Rangel took leave from his chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee in March due to ethics woes.

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.
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Re: Rangel Charged with Ethics Violations (UPDATED)
« Reply #12 on: July 22, 2010, 05:12:17 PM »
Nothing will come of this.
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Re: Rangel Charged with Ethics Violations (UPDATED)
« Reply #13 on: July 22, 2010, 06:04:08 PM »
It only took how many years?  Damn, they must have enough irrefutable shit on him to go straight to jail and not collect $200, for the Dems on the committee to be forced to come out with that.
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Re: Rangel Charged with Ethics Violations (UPDATED)
« Reply #14 on: July 22, 2010, 06:10:47 PM »
It's about damn time.
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Re: Rangel Charged with Ethics Violations (UPDATED)
« Reply #15 on: July 22, 2010, 08:07:47 PM »
Update: Drudge says he's going to face trial.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38367462/ns/politics-capitol_hill/
interesting video at top too.

I think politics are forcing the dem's hand here. They may have no choice.
On the flip side I doubt it will help them. more likely they will stretch this past the election and then drop charges or slap his hand.
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Re: Rangel Charged with Ethics Violations (UPDATED)
« Reply #16 on: July 22, 2010, 08:24:58 PM »
Quote from: Mr Mannn on July 22, 2010, 08:07:47 PM
Update: Drudge says he's going to face trial.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38367462/ns/politics-capitol_hill/
interesting video at top too.

I think politics are forcing the dem's hand here. They may have no choice.
On the flip side I doubt it will help them. more likely they will stretch this past the election and then drop charges or slap his hand.
Hang that racist gravel-voiced criminal bastard....ain't gonna happen though. Congress rarely hangs one of their own.
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Re: Rangel Charged with Ethics Violations (UPDATED)
« Reply #17 on: July 22, 2010, 09:43:28 PM »
Color me shocked.
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Re: Rangel Charged with Ethics Violations (UPDATED)
« Reply #18 on: July 22, 2010, 10:04:57 PM »
Time to break out a classic --


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Re: Rangel Charged with Ethics Violations (UPDATED)
« Reply #19 on: July 23, 2010, 07:38:09 AM »
Maybe that 11% approval rating forced their hand. They'll play it out until they can just forget it.
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Re: Rangel Charged with Ethics Violations (UPDATED)
« Reply #20 on: July 23, 2010, 08:41:11 AM »
miskie--only problem is, that's Conyers.

"Most ethical Congress ever."  "Draining the swamp."  Why do I keep hearing those phrases going on and on in my head?
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Re: Rangel Charged with Ethics Violations (UPDATED)
« Reply #21 on: July 23, 2010, 08:45:43 AM »
What a bunch of racists! /Julian Bond mode
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Re: Rangel Charged with Ethics Violations (UPDATED)
« Reply #22 on: July 24, 2010, 05:32:39 AM »
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EXCLUSIVE: House Democrat calls on Rep. Rangel to resign
By Shane D'Aprile    - 07/23/10 09:00 PM ET
In a major development, Rep. Betty Sutton (D-Ohio) on Friday night called on beleaguered Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) to resign.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/110691-exclusive-house-democrat-calls-on-rangel-to-resign
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Re: Rangel Charged with Ethics Violations (UPDATED)
« Reply #23 on: July 24, 2010, 06:47:59 AM »
The rats are scared, and turning on each other.
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Re: Rangel Charged with Ethics Violations (UPDATED)
« Reply #24 on: July 24, 2010, 07:09:03 AM »
Quote from: Mr Mannn on July 24, 2010, 06:47:59 AM
The rats are scared, and turning on each other.

Naw. She just got the short straw. Someone had to do it to just make it look good.
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