Why is this guy...

[Zeb_Carter]

Not in jail like you or I would be if we did what he did????

Charles Rangel (D) Tax Cheat

And why haven't any of the usuals posted their outrage at his lying, cheating ways. If he was a (R) they would be!

 

[Handley_Page]

Not in jail like you or I would be if we did what he did????

Charles Rangel (D) Tax Cheat

And why haven't any of the usuals posted their outrage at his lying, cheating ways. If he was a (R) they would be!

Should he not go to trial first ?
(Forgive me if this is contrary to custom & precedent)

 

[Stella_Omega]

Many of us are more worried about the kinds of lying and cheating that result in soldier's deaths, or deaths by neglect, or the ruination of irreplaceable resources.

All you care about is money.

 

[rgraham666]

Never heard of him before. Why should I give two hoots in Niffelheim about someone I know nothing about.

Zeb? I'm worried about you. Your anger, no, fury, is starting to show pathological signs.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Should he not go to trial first ?
(Forgive me if this is contrary to custom & precedent)

Certainly, but several of his colleges asked him to step down while he is under investigation and he refused. He's been caught ignoring the laws he creates, his committee creates and the dems in the house have already tried to whitewash what he's done. Just wondering why the "impartial" house ethics committee is "extending" their investigation? What happened...did they realize that the public probably won't put up with a cover up?

 

[Stella_Omega]

Why not? The public has been perfectly happy with the hundreds of Republican cover-ups, as far as they know.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Never heard of him before. Why should I give two hoots in Niffelheim about someone I know nothing about.

Zeb? I'm worried about you. Your anger, no, fury, is starting to show pathological signs.

Let's see...if you really knew anything about how laws come into being in the US you would know who he is.

The house creates and proposes the laws we live by. Those laws come from different committees in the house. Rangels committee is the most powerful committee in the country, The House Ways and Means Committee. They propose all the changes to tax law. Rangel is the committe chairman and he's a crook.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Why not? The public has been perfectly happy with the hundreds of Republican cover-ups, as far as they know.

And really happy with all those democratic cover-ups that are never report by the press.

 

[Stella_Omega]

And really happy with all those democratic cover-ups that are never report by the press.

wierd isn't it?

How is it that republican wrongdoing is so easy to find, and faux new has to manufacture D's to replace R's in order to come up with anything at all?

 

[Boxlicker101]

He was probably not arrested for the same reason the Secty of the Treasury is not in jail. His position has kept him from facing the music, such as being arrested, charged and convicted. Members of Congress or the cabinet tend to get treated more lightly than others. This applies to Dems and Reps. They both get away with a lot, but there is more stink raised when it is a Rep.

 

[DeeZire]

Here Zeb. I C&P'd this quote from the comments section of the link you provided.

Great !
when are they going to investigate Sen John Ensign
It looks like bribery and extortion laws were broken
Ensign bribed his girl's husband to keep quiet

When for Sen David Vitter ?
He was a regular customer of the DC Madame
He had diapers put on his sorry a$$ by ho's

How about those invesitgations ?

Oh ! and Rep Eric Cantor ?
His wife's bank got a lot of stimulus funds
Then they hired her
Interesting

did they ever invvestigate ex-Sen Norm Coleman ?
He was getting 'free clothes' and 'free rent' from the special interests....

I share your desire to see the evil-doers punished, but I'm afraid I'm going to be disappointed with the way GWB and his band of thugs succeed in riding off into the sunset unscathed, after running our great country into the ground. Have I missed your rants against their misdeeds, or have you given them a free pass?

(Nevermind. As long as you remain on ignore, I won't see your answer anyway.)

ETA: I find it ironic that Zeb's link was to MSNBC, the supposed left wing propaganda outlet. Why would a left wing propaganda outlet be doing a negative story on a left wing politician? I'm so confused!

 

[Handley_Page]

Certainly, but several of his colleges asked him to step down while he is under investigation and he refused. He's been caught ignoring the laws he creates, his committee creates and the dems in the house have already tried to whitewash what he's done. Just wondering why the "impartial" house ethics committee is "extending" their investigation? What happened...did they realize that the public probably won't put up with a cover up?

We've lately had a shake-up of our Parliament in the wake of the "expenses" scandals.
It strikes me that the political persuasion of the perp is immaterial.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Zeb, I'm tired of your threads. Not one of them has been about love, or sex, or anything except whining about the evil democrats and extolling the merits of cupidity.

That's not why I come to a pron writer's forum.

I'm putting you on ignore.

 

[Boota]

Why would anyone push for an investigation? It will only draw attention to the criminal activities of themselves and others. Too many representatives, party irrelevent, with dirty hands and skeletons in the closet. It's like the GOP leaders in the Clinton Impeachment hearings. There was so much worse dirt that came up on the most vocal Republicans. Mistresses, bastard kids, abortions (by people supposedly against it), leaving the wife on the deathbed. Makes an extra marital blow job look downright Rockwellian. Same situation here. There is either not enough to make it stick, or too much dirt threatening to bury everyone.

 

[trysail]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113580765

Ethics committee expands Rangel investigation
by The Associated Press

WASHINGTON October 8, 2009, 11:22 pm ET

The House ethics committee on Thursday expanded its investigation of Rep. Charles Rangel to include his belated financial disclosure of hundreds of thousands of dollars in previously unreported assets and income.

The expansion only increases the political burden that the Ways and Means Committee chairman from Harlem places on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who refuses to make him step down from his post.

Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer have said they would take no action while the ethics investigation of the New York Democrat is under way, but the inquiry has dragged on for a year and expanded several times while it pushes closer to the 2010 election year.

Republicans have forced House votes three times, the latest this week, on removing Rangel from his tax-writing position. While Democrats easily defeated each attempt, the issue has allowed Republicans to ridicule Pelosi's refrain that Democrats would drain the swamp of ethical misconduct that previously plagued Republicans.

The committee said it would now investigate whether Rangel broke House rules "with respect to all financial disclosure statements and all amendments filed in calendar year 2009" as required under the Ethics In Government Act.

The law requires annual financial reports filed by all members of Congress showing ranges of assets and income.

Rangel's revisions showed assets and income from 2002 through 2006 that should have been reported in those earlier years.

The committee also gave an accounting of its work so far.

The House investigators have authorized nearly 150 subpoenas, interviewed some 34 witnesses and reviewed more than 12,000 pages of documents.

The committee has been concentrating on alleged financial improprieties and fundraising irregularities.

Among the most serious of Rangel's problems: the House's tax-writing chairman failed to pay all of his taxes, allowing Republicans to level charges that a tax scofflaw is writing tax legislation.

The unreported assets included a federal credit union account worth between $250,000 and $500,000; a Merrill Lynch account valued between $250,000 and $500,000; tens of thousands of dollars in municipal bonds and $30,000 to $100,000 in rent from a multifamily brownstone building in New York.

The ethics committee of five Democrats and five Republicans is also investigating whether Rangel and four other members of the Congressional Black Caucus violated gift rules and other standards of conduct with trips to the Caribbean in 2007 and 2008.

It's looking at contributions of money or monetary pledges to the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at the City College of New York and his use of official House stationery to solicit potential donors.

Other questions involve Rangel's acceptance and use of rent-stabilized apartments in New York from a Manhattan developer, and whether he received a sweetheart deal to finance his ownership interest in the Dominican resort.

 

[Liar]

Zeb, I'm tired of your threads. Not one of them has been about love, or sex, or anything except whining about the evil democrats and extolling the merits of cupidity.

Cupidity. I fucking hate that word. Sounds like it should be about pink fluffy love, but is instead about stinkin oozy greed.

 

[JamesSD]

Politicians have a long history of not stepping down until they have no options left.

Spitzer did step down.
Sarah Palin stepped down once it became clear her ethics investigation would go very poorly for her.

However:
David Vitter is running for re-election. His comments regarding ACORN were especially ironic given how much the man knows about prostitutes.
David "Duke" Cunningham kept getting re-elected even though everyone knew he was corrupt.
Ted Stevens
Mark Sanford refuses to step down despite his party's wishes.

Rangel is being investigated by due process.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Politicians have a long history of not stepping down until they have no options left.

Spitzer did step down.
Sarah Palin stepped down once it became clear her ethics investigation would go very poorly for her.

However:
David Vitter is running for re-election. His comments regarding ACORN were especially ironic given how much the man knows about prostitutes.
David "Duke" Cunningham kept getting re-elected even though everyone knew he was corrupt.
Ted Stevens
Mark Sanford refuses to step down despite his party's wishes.

Rangel is being investigated by due process.

True. Unfortunately the electoral process in this country is more a popularity contest than a serious examination of the issues and backgrounds of the personalities. (I recall reading an interview of a woman who voted for John Kennedy who said, "I liked his hair." )

 

[Huckleman2000]

True. Unfortunately the electoral process in this country is more a popularity contest than a serious examination of the issues and backgrounds of the personalities. (I recall reading an interview of a woman who voted for John Kennedy who said, "I liked his hair." )

Says the Hilary supporter who rails against Obama's every move while claiming it's not about racism.

 

[DesertPirate]

Never heard of him before. Why should I give two hoots in Niffelheim about someone I know nothing about.

Zeb? I'm worried about you. Your anger, no, fury, is starting to show pathological signs.

He is chairman of the House Ways and Means committe. Big time budget boss.

What was that Pelosi said about cleaning up corruption?

 

[rgraham666]

Your fury is starting to worry me as well, DP.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I just read a fascinating new biography of Hitler. Its fascinating because it exposes government for what it is. Like...if Hitler disliked you the Gestapo would fabricate a screwing you couldnt escape regardless of how innocent you were. The Nazis knew how to make shit stick.

So you never know what is going on. One story I read says Obama wants Rangel gone so Paterson can have the job when he's defeated for governor.

 

[trysail]

Ethics Panel To Cite Rangel For Caribbean Trips
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124094127

February 25, 2010

Rep. Charles Rangel, the most powerful tax-writing lawmaker in Congress and a 34-year veteran of Capitol Hill, knowingly accepted Caribbean trips from a corporation in violation of House rules, the House Ethics Committee ruled Thursday, The Associated Press has learned.

At least four other members of the Congressional Black Caucus who were also on the 2007 and 2008 trips were exonerated by the panel, according to a congressional source familiar with the findings.

The finding is certain to jeopardize Rangel's chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee.

Rengel's ethics troubles also present an election-year dilemma for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who led a Democratic takeover of the House in 2006 on a campaign promise to end a "culture of corruption" in the GOP-led Congress.

The 79-year-old Rangel (D-NY) has been in the House 30 years. It was unclear whether the findings would affect whether he seeks re-election.

The committee found that the financing of the Caribbean trips was improper for all the lawmakers involved but that only Rangel was aware that a corporation that routinely lobbied Congress picked up the tab, said the congressional official who was not authorized to speak on the record.

The committee decided against issuing formal charges against Rangel that could lead to punishment such as a censure.

The ethics committee will issue its findings in a report scheduled to be made public Friday.

Additional ethics investigations of Rangel's finances and fundraising are still under way, but they are not connected to the ruling on the Caribbean travel.

Rangel had no immediate comment.

 

[Dragonlipz]

Why isn't Dick Cheney being tried as a war criminal? Or Henry Kissinger? Or Richard Nixon? Why ask why?

 

[Dragonlipz]

Zeb, I'm tired of your threads. Not one of them has been about love, or sex, or anything except whining about the evil democrats and extolling the merits of cupidity.

That's not why I come to a pron writer's forum.

I'm putting you on ignore.

Stella,
Don't be so harsh on the boy.....he is what he is....try to enjoy his Zebness.....