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AP-5:30pm New York Rep. Charles Rangel, a longtime power in the U.S. House, violated its rules with financial misconduct, brought it discredit and will be punished, fellow lawmakers sitting as jurors ruled on Tuesday.
Protesting the enduring stain on his four-decade congressional career, the 80-year-old Democrat said he was treated unfairly for "good faith mistakes." His statement reflected the bitterness of an eight-month career slide, starting with an unrelated ethics ruling that forced him from his coveted chairmanship of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.
Rangel guilty: House ethics panel rules misconduct - Yahoo! News
As any one who knows me knows, I hate corruption with a passion. Rangel is guilty on 11 or 13 counts. He should lose his job over it, but probably won't. He is an embarrassment to Congress, to his district, and to his party.
Rangel guilty: House ethics panel rules misconduct - Yahoo! News
As any one who knows me knows, I hate corruption with a passion. Rangel is guilty on 11 or 13 counts. He should lose his job over it, but probably won't. He is an embarrassment to Congress, to his district, and to his party.
Rangel guilty: House ethics panel rules misconduct - Yahoo! News
As any one who knows me knows, I hate corruption with a passion. Rangel is guilty on 11 or 13 counts. He should lose his job over it, but probably won't. He is an embarrassment to Congress, to his district, and to his party.
The bad news is that he is definitely going to be reelected. Hyperpartisans in both parties don't give a damn about anything except the D or R that is after a scumbag's name. That applies to David Vitter, as well as Charles Rangel. This, of course, is part and parcel of the poison that infests our political system. My only question is this: When are people going to stop drinking the Kool-Aid? Until they do, and begin using the ballot box to throw these bums out, our political system will continue to be one huge cluster**** of dishonesty.
Rangel guilty: House ethics panel rules misconduct - Yahoo! News
As any one who knows me knows, I hate corruption with a passion. Rangel is guilty on 11 or 13 counts. He should lose his job over it, but probably won't. He is an embarrassment to Congress, to his district, and to his party.
What really bugs me about this, is 1) He doesn't have the integrity to step down now that he's officially been deemed a crook, 2) the ethics panel isn't going to level any kind of just punishment for this, 3) I highly doubt the democrats will band together to force him to resign, since they just don't have any kind of track record for doing so. (William Jefferson, Jack Murtha, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, etc...) and 4) democratic voters will with out any doubt what so ever, re-elect the guy just like they have with all the other corrupt democrats from the past.
Larry Craig crucified for attempting to have gay sex, forced to step down
Rangel convicted on 11 of 13 counts...anyone want to bet he walks?
I agree and it was a Nancy Pelosi's House that did this to Rangel. Those damn liberals.
What bothers me is that he was reelected. The poeple should have ahndled this but didn't. Our problem with the voters is not a partisan thing. Both sides have made some fairly poor choices over the years.
Rangel is a chair of the committee which writes tax law. Then he is convicted of violations having to do with the very law he played a major role in writing. He should resign. If he fails to do that, he should be expelled. His voters re-elected him and he has that to ease his soul in the last years ahead of him. But he should be gone and be gone before the new congress starts in January.
Rangel is a chair of the committee which writes tax law. Then he is convicted of violations having to do with the very law he played a major role in writing. He should resign. If he fails to do that, he should be expelled. His voters re-elected him and he has that to ease his soul in the last years ahead of him. But he should be gone and be gone before the new congress starts in January.
i thought he gave up that chair.
i thought he gave up that chair.
I enjoy watching people who will take every opportunity to make something nonpartisan into something partisan. Corruption is not a party thing, both parties have corrupt people, and it is not a reflection on either party, no matter how much some people will try and make it such.
funny that when a republican is found to be corrupt or suspected homo (larry craig) they are quickly drummed out of office. the democrats....not so much. that is where the partisan bit comes in. how the two parties deal with transgressors.
come on Dems, restore my faith and get rid of Rangel in short order.
funny that when a republican is found to be corrupt or suspected homo (larry craig) they are quickly drummed out of office. the democrats....not so much. that is where the partisan bit comes in. how the two parties deal with transgressors.
come on Dems, restore my faith and get rid of Rangel in short order.
You will be quick to notice that it is not always the case that corrupt republicans are "drummed out of office", and that I and the democratic party have zero control over the voters in Rangel's district. You will also notice that the panel that convicted him was half democrat, and still found him guilty.
Nice try though.
What bothers me is that he was reelected. The poeple should have ahndled this but didn't. Our problem with the voters is not a partisan thing. Both sides have made some fairly poor choices over the years.
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