Rangel Is Guilty But He Won’t Go
Nov 16, 2010 Political
Charlie Rangel was found guilty of 11 ethics violations a day after he begged for more time because he did not have a lawyer and needed time to prepare. Rangel had two years to prepare and he had lawyers until a month ago. He claims they stopped representing him because he could no longer afford to pay them and he did not have time to set up a legal defense fund (he could have sold his Dominican villa).
Once again, he had two years. He knew he would have legal bills so he should have taken care of this long ago.
Rangel is a huckster. He likes to skirt the rules and he thinks he can get away with things because he is important and the rules just don’t apply to him.
The people on the ethics panel have had about enough of Rangel and his request was denied so he stormed out of the hearing. He was found guilty and is acting like there was some miscarriage of justice because he was not present (he walked out) and he had no lawyer.
Rangel could be expelled from Congress, and he should be, but he won’t. He will likely get a slap on the wrist, some letter of reprimand and no leadership assignments. So he will be able to continue skirting the laws and doing as he pleases while drawing a huge salary from taxpayer money.
Imagine how Rangel or any other member of Congress would react to a business leader who pulled the same stunts as Rangel. They would be calling for the person’s head on a platter. Congress gets high and mighty when some business person, like say a Wall Street executive, does something wrong and works hard to make sure that person pays for his sins.
If only Congress had the same intensity and moral compass when its own members commit the sins…
Sources:
New York Post
The Hill
Cave Canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
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Tags: charlie rangel, criminal, ethics violations, liar, rules, thief
Obama Is The Commander In Thief
Jul 1, 2010 Political
Barack Obama tried to hide his agenda for wealth redistribution until he slipped up and told Joe the Plumber that he [Obama] wanted to spread the wealth around. Since he took office he has done nothing to help the economy and has quadrupled the national debt. The 600 billion dollar debt Bush left was bad enough but Obama is up to 1.4 TRILLION and he has not completed two years.
Obama is busy spending money we do not have to reward his supporters as was the case with the Stimulus and he is busy working on taking wealth from those who produce and giving it to those who do not. He is doing this with the takeover of health care, the banks, the car companies and with a cap and tax scheme.
[note]Obama said jobs (a three letter word for Joe BiteMe) were his number one priority. Private companies added 13,000 new jobs in June. How is that for Stimulating the Economy?[/note]
Obama is piling up huge amounts of debt that we will not be able to pay. He has burdened generations of unborn children by saddling them with debt.
The national debt of the US is at its highest level since WW II and will be 62% of our economy by the end of the year:
The federal debt will represent 62% of the nation’s economy by the end of this year, the highest percentage since just after World War II, according to a long-term budget outlook released today by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. USA Today
Barack Obama has his heart set on taking wealth and spreading it around to “level the playing field” and he does not care how he goes about this theft.
Additionally, he has stolen the future of millions of unborn Americans by amassing debt we cannot possibly pay off.
Barack Obama is the Commander in Thief…
Never surrender, never submit.
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Tags: debt, Obama, redistribute, spread the wealth, thief, wealth, world war II