From the NY Post:A day after suffering the humiliation of having the House ethics committee recommend he get a formal censure, Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel isn't getting any lifelines from the White House or from powerful Democratic allies.
With a House floor vote set to come up after Thanksgiving on censure, Vice President Joe Biden said the decision was "hard to argue against."
Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-Queens) said committee Democrats might have gone for censure -- the strongest punishment short of outright expulsion -- because "they want to avoid a floor fight" with Republicans, who could have tried to force the graver punishment if the committee had gone for a wrist slap or reprimand.
Rangel had been hoping for a lesser punishment, but instead he got hit with a report calling for censure and ordering him to pay back taxes after being found guilty of 11 charges.
Rangel's Harlem political allies seemed resigned that the punishment of censure would stick but insisted that the stinging rebuke would not damage the congressman's standing among his uptown constituents.
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Time's up Charlie. You will leave this earth a disgraced man. What a creep.
And what a bunch of fools his "constituents" are for supporting him.
insisted that the stinging rebuke would not damage the congressman's standing among his uptown constituents.
Damage?
Quite the contrary - it will only strengthen his standing among his people uptown!
The inevitable scripted press conference on the steps of the U.S. Capital with a bunch of carefully selected black politicians (Jackson, Sharpton, et. al.) standing behind Rangel crying "RACISM!" should be happening in about 5...4...3.....2....
"Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-Queens) said committee Democrats might have gone for censure -- the strongest punishment short of outright expulsion -- because "they want to avoid a floor fight" with Republicans, who could have tried to force the graver punishment if the committee had gone for a wrist slap or reprimand."
Bwahahahahahahahahaha! Thanks. I needed a good laugh today!
Censure is meaningless for guys like Rangel. He'll laugh it off and continue to plunder us taxpayers until he dies...while serving in office because the voters will not have the courage to vote him out.
'And what a bunch of fools his "constituents" are for supporting him.'
Let's see who they eventually replace him with. My guess it will be someone even worse.
I do not understand how a man after all these years in office can commit the crimes he commited and still be allowed to serve.
Alfredo
I do not understand how a man after all these years in office can commit the crimes he commited and still be allowed to serve.
Alfredo
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His uptown constituents are idiots or have been bought a bag of groceries or voted "early and often"!
His long time loyalist are of the old school and his distinguished "rat pack" were all cronies of hands in your pocket politics at the expense of the constituents" they were Patterson (the inept accidental Governor) Percy Sutton - the guy who stole big $$ from the legendary Apollo Theater and the incredibly lame 1 term former Mayor who greatest ideas were in essence to promote his ideas in front of a wall of graffiti and to run red lights with his police escorts.
Now the dean of poor memory and blaming everything on his wife is going to be censured and he will sit in office being ignored by everyone in Congress as we are denied our voice in Washington. Call loudly for him to step down immediately prior to January.
Hey Charlie, the party's over. Time to pack it in and retire to your condo(s) in the Dominican Republic that you didn't report on your Federal Income Tax.
New York State politics is still the laughingstock of the nation and I don't see it changing anytime soon
WHAT IS THE LIKELIHOOD THAT HE WOULD LEAK SCANDALOUS INFO ON OTHER DEMS WHO THREW HIM UNDER THE BUS? I BELIEVE EVERYTHING HE IS GUILTY OF IS ACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR WITHIN THE FRAT-HOUSE OF CONGRESS. HE MIGHT RESIGN IF GIVEN A GOLDEN PARACHUTE TO KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT.
Don't you like how they scheduled this AFTER the elections.
Don't you like how John Liu (the 13th Apostle and your next mayor) was crawling all over the stage with Rangel election eve?
"Censure" and "reprimand" are both meaningless wrist-slaps, and while BHO is in the White House, there will be no IRS follow-up on his tax evasion. Rangel has won.
Boo Hoo! He's getting a slap on the hand. If I didn't pay my taxes, I'd be in jail already.
HE MIGHT RESIGN IF GIVEN A GOLDEN PARACHUTE TO KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT.
Charlie has every incentive to resign, typically a single term congressman while in office did not pay SS like you do and out of office get an instant pension based on $189K annual salary. Imagine Charlie's pension calculated on salary and 40 years in office!!
It's just that while you are in office that you can earn so much more and pay for nothing and everyone bidding for your attention to do something. It's about the power and Charlie abused it to high heaven and making it look bad for all the other creepy congressman in office. Next up: Congressman Joe Crowley; another political club chieftan bites the dust!
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