KRAUTHAMMER: RANGEL ‘OFFICIALLY PATHETIC’

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'The Most Ethical Congress Ever' Still Treats Rangel with Great Respect

If This Insanity Continues, God Help Us, Charlie Rangel Might Even Have to Pay His Taxes

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See below: Hegel would get a kick out of this. Alinsky would be confused.

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h/t: NewsBusters

Read between the lines. The tea party movement has a massive effect on the actions of the members of congress. But only viewers of Fox News know anything about the tea party movement. So there is something large and influential going on in the country but it is not covered by the alphabets, etc. So Todd is telling us that if you want to know what is going on in the country you have to watch Fox. Also implied: the dinosaur media are not true news organizations but merely conduits of very select propaganda. Can I get a group giggle from the panel. please?

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Though I'd love to be able to take credit for the insightful reading of the subtext of Chuck Todd's remarks, I cannot. I saw this clip on NewsBusters and this discerning reading was reflected in more than one of the comments on the thread. The right blogosphere rules: all of this insight obtained without benefit of a 'real' news organization.

How To Get A Senator Seated When 'Transparency' and Bribery Rule the Nation's Capitol

I just read some good news at HotAir.com. They quote Charlie Rangel as saying that the health care faux reform bill cannot be passed before February. Good news if true. Unfortunately one would not usually go to Rangel for the truth. If you want to be robbed, lied to or cheated, Rangel is your man. But it does make sense that the DemCare bill is a no go. There have been many reports of past supporters in the House splintering over abortion funding and the President’s insistence that some private insurance plans be taxed. And I think few are happy that Florida and North Dakota are getting very special treatment just because their senators are not as stupid as mine.
But my real focus here is something that was brought up in the HA comments thread about what Rangel had said. Someone styling herself ‘katy’ wrote:
“If not there’s always this idea I grabbed from Hillbuzz..
We are telling you now — any Republicans listening — that you need to have a plan in place starting January 20th when Scott Brown pulls off the upset and wins this seat in Massachusetts. You cannot come up with a plan on January 20th. It needs to be ready now, so that on January 20th you hit the ground running. Anyone with in driving distance to Washington needs to go the Capitol and form a mob on the steps demanding the Senate seats Brown immediately on January 20th if Democrats try these tall tactics. It needs to be the most massive march on Washington ever seen — so large it will terrify everyone on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.
katy on January 13, 2010 at 11:38 AM”
I went to Hillbuzz to get a url for the quote. With a non-exhaustive search I did not find it. But no matter. The important thing is that what katy said is true and needs circulating. I have a sense that Hillbuzz has some Democrats that are disgruntled with the whole DC Dem machine. Some of them seem to have given some thought to the situation Scott Brown may end up in if the Mass Dems and Harry Reid try to block him from being seated and voting. Below are three paragraphs of quotes from Hillbuzz that have some good ideas about how to deal with the establishment tricks.
“* We really wish Burris had the guts to do this next part, because it would have made the history books — it’s such a good visual. If Harry Reid claims he won’t acknowledge a Senator such as Brown, then Brown needs to rent a U-Haul truck and office furniture and head to the US Capitol. The day after he’s elected, he needs to come to the Capitol with FOX News crews in tow and demand to be allowed into his new office. If Reid refuses, then Brown needs to setup an office for himself on the steps of the United States Capitol. An area rug draped on one of the ornate landings, a wooden desk, book shelves, chairs for him to receive his constituents, potted plants, a copy of the United States Constitution on an easel, a bowl of red, white, and blue M&Ms, etc. Brown needs to then sit at his desk, with nameplate sparkling in the sun reading SENATOR SCOTT BROWN, MASSACHUSETTS on it, taking photographs with all the tourists who come by. We think there’d be lines for hours and hours to see him.

“* Embarrass Reid and the Democrats in the Senate. Humiliate them. We can’t tell you how much we wanted Burris to do the above: an elderly black man shivering in the cold, sitting at a desk out in the open, outside the Capitol, barred from having an actual office. Great Merciful Zeus, the image of that would have been indelible. This won’t have the same resonance with Brown, but it will be effective. Reid will try to bar him from the building, but Brown needs to start acting like a Senator from DAY ONE after the election — should he win and Coakley and her supporters in Massachusetts try to illegally impede him from coming to Washington to do his job.”
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“* Republicans at large, and Scott Brown specifically, need to understand they are in the fight of their lives. We’ve made the analogy before and will do it again: a Brown victory in Massachusetts is the equivalent of the fledgling Rebellion taking down the Death Star in Star Wars. Imperial hubris manufactured a battle station the size of a small moon, with the most destructive weapons systems ever designed – so massive was this magic 8-ball of evil that the Emperor himself believed it indestructable, unstoppable. A lot of things supposedly indestructable go up in flames, or sink to the bottom of the ocean with Leonardo DiCaprio on board. The Healthcare Rationing Bill will be one of them if Brown is elected January 19th. Democrats know this. We can’t tell you how many times Rahm Emanuel’s watched Titanic with hunky Secret Service guys in the White House, but we bet it’s a lot. Like over 50. That’s called “cuddle-time”. Scott Brown is the iceberg Democrats fear. He’s the spark to the flame on their giant gas bag hovering over New Jersey (that for once is not Oprah). Hottie McAwesome, as we love to call him (because he is, indeed, the scientific combination of hot + awesome), is the handsome rebel pilot zeroing in on the Death Star with a weapons-grade can of whupass in tow.”

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NewsBusters says that the TV networks have given no coverage at all to this election.
"It's a little bizarre that the broadcast networks would cover Ted Kennedy's death and funeral as an enormous story, but ignore the campaign to replace him."
Is the fix in? Or do they just not know what to do so have chosen to wait until they get directions? Are they having so much fun being in the tank that they will never leave?

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I said South Dakota above when the state in question was actually Nebraska. Sorry.

Lisa Meyer's Report on Rangel's Crimes and His Entitled Reaction

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Another Great Oldie

This is from March 06, 2009.


Suzanna L. calls Jason Matera 'big sexy.' This seemed strange to me at first. But I can see how a girl might find him attractive.

More Tax Cheating from Democrats - More Corruption in Congress -- Will This Guy Walk???

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h/t JammieWearingFool

While We’re Talking Resignation Let’s Not Leave Out Dodd, Rangel, Feinstein and Some of the Other Crooks Who Could Benefit Us All By Retiring

Sarah Palin has resigned as governor of Alaska and the dinosaur media are acting as if it is some big scandal or something. But if Sarah were to heal our racial divisions Huffpo’s coverage might be along these lines: “In a blatantly racist move the slutty Sarah Palin has caused the unemployment of thousands of civil rights leaders. In what must be an attempt to draw attention away from the true maternity of Trig Sarah Palin, who is stupid enough to quote the Bible, has dramatically increased friendship and cooperation between the races. If we let her get away with this slap in the face of our trusted leaders she is bound someday to do something unethical for which somebody will find objectively acceptable evidence. She has been investigated dozens of times for unethical acts. Yet people still listen to her. Americans are so stupid. The smartest thing Michelle Obama has ever done was to develop a healthy shame for her American roots.”
As near as I can tell Sarah Palin is an honest person. So I can accept her explanation for why she is quitting. If Barack Obama or Harry Reid had given me that explanation I’d be wondering what the truth is. Since they have no history of honesty. With these con artists the default setting is to take everything they say as a lie or cover up.
I have liked Sarah Palin all along. But my initial reaction to her resignation was not positive. It caused me to wonder if it didn’t make her look less serious. And caused me to wonder if she can be trusted to go the distance when needed. But more reflection has caused me to be much, much more accepting of her decision. Her situation is unusual. In my life I have never seen the pack of rabid dogs that the dinosaur media have become descend so destructively and with such unprincipled abandon on one individual. And there has been an unending stream of frivolous and groundless ethics complaints that have cost Ms. Palin too much time and money. Maybe as a private citizen she will be better placed to deal with these attacks. Maybe she might even be able to forge tactics that will neutralize these Alinsky inspired attacks from the DNC so that public discourse can begin a return to civility.
Yes, Sarah Palin has many reasons to resign. Which got me to reflect on the many office holders who should resign for the good of the country. Starting close to home is my own senator, Diane Feinstein. She was chairperson of a subcommittee that gave a half a billion dollars in contracts to her own husband. I don’t care if that doesn’t bother the senate’s so called ethics committee. It is unethical and should be criminal. And she should resign for the good of the republic. Charlie Rangel has three or four rent controlled apartments for his own private use. I doubt that he could get away with this if he was not at the center of political power. To me that is abuse of power whether or not the local authorities and the house committee that should be over seeing ethics let him walk on this. How about Chris Dodd? He gets sweetheart deals from companies he is charged with oversight of and apparently the senate ethics committee is giving him a pass. I am sure the common good would be well served by Dodd and Rangel resigning. These three and others like them have truly questionable ethics yet continue to wield power. The media doesn’t seem particularly bothered by these gaping wounds at the heart of the body politic. No, they would rather squander resources on treating Sarah Palin like a pariah while there are real ethical problems that they are ignoring. And they endlessly assail Ms. Palin just because she rubs them the wrong way and might be threatening to office seekers they prefer. Compared to the bands of thieves and clowns in Congress Sarah Palin merits minimal coverage. Between the Congressional Record and all the legislator’s financial disclosure statements there are probably enough crimes to keep the press corps busy for years. I’m not even going to get started on Geithner and the rest of the cabinet. But instead they chase empty and baseless rumors in Alaska. One more time Sarah P. and the American public are mugged by Bizarro Journalism (a wholly owned subsidiary of the DNC with all of the protections and next to none of the benefits of authentic journalism).
The media have no respect for someone who will not lie to them. They see it as an attack on their self worth: in their twisted world, if you think they are powerful you will lie to them and manipulate them to gain control of some of their great influence. There is the old myth of the backward, heathen tribe that will be insulted if the visitor will not sleep with their wives or daughters. In this style of magical thinking, the journalist sees honesty as an insult and tantamount to a denial of value to his work. Some of this perversity in reporters is probably a defense that they naturally construct to deal with the lower class of people political reporters are so often dependent on and spend too much time with. I suspect that another cause is the unresolved guilt that accrues from sacrificing professional and personal standards for political expediency.

The Racist Bean Counter and the Racist Pimp Are the Face of the Obama Administration

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Hey, Obambi, About Those Taxes…

Posted by: B.C., Imperial Torturer™ in Democrat Culture of Corruption, Hypocrites, Race Baiting Assholes, Socialist Swine, Totalitarians
8:51 AM

Here’s a little “heads-up” to the Communist-elect, when it comes to “taxing the rich”— Ya’ might wanna start off with the thief who’s in charge of writing the tax laws.

First there is the Washington Post’s revelation that Rangel inappropriately claimed a tax break on his D.C. townhouse by claiming it was his primary residence. The five-year charade only netted the congressman from Harlem about $1,500, which is relatively small potatoes. But it nicely dovetails with two other Rangel escapades of late: That he failed to pay taxes on $75,000 in rental income from his luxury beach villa in the Caribbean because he—ahem—didn’t know it was income; and that he scored several rent-stabilized apartments in New York, each of which he must claim as his primary residence. Taken all together, it looks like the top tax-writer in Congress is a tax cheat.

You’ll notice that the LefTards and their mouthpieces, the Lamestream Midiots™, have been strangely silent about Pimp Daddy Rangel’s multiple, multi-year felonies, whereas they’ve been haranguing and hounding Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), endlessly, for having his house worked on by constituents, pro bono. William “Cold Cash” Jefferson (D-Loserana) is STILL serving in the Politburo, over four years after being caught commandeering a National Guard truck to retrieve $90,000+ dollars of bribe money from the freezer of his New Orleans brothel crib.

“Hypocrisy, Thy Name Is Donk Communist.”

F.E.T.E.

above is from http://www.nicedoggie.net/2008/