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Screw Rangel, frigging criminal wants special treatment.

Rangel Speaks, and Asks for Time

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/20...s-for-time/?hp

The republicans increased our national debt and nixxed finance reform on the same day. They must be proud.

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Two of the three firms providing legal counsel to Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., in his pending ethics cases are lobbying firms. In fact, one firm, Oldaker, Belair & Wittie, conducts much of Rangel's political fundraising, while operating four different lobby shops.

But who's ultimately paying Rangel's legal bills? Mostly corporate and union political action committees along with individual lobbyists. Over the past six months, PACs and lobbyists have accounted for a majority of the money Rangel's campaign has raised this year, not counting transfers from Rangel's other fundraising operations (more on them below).

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Ahhhh Rangel nice guy. He who has been taking care of his wall street buddies for so long is now being repaid (sorta) for his true loyalties.
Another POS who has been in power too long. Shackle him up and throw him out.
Its sickening that these "lobbyists" can not only buy politicians, but that after their true colors are shown, they still benefit by defending them, both monetarily and politically. Fuckin shell game is what it is. So glad things have changed in Washington - NOT.

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Originally Posted by Spexxvet (Post 673207)

The republicans increased our national debt and nixxed finance reform on the same day. They must be proud.

Proud and bitchy!

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Originally Posted by classicman (Post 673278)

Man, they sure have seemed to circle the wagons around him to protect him in Congress. If it was a republickin they would be building a gallows in front of the halls of Congress.

Grayson bills taxpayers for DVD of term's highlights

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Thanks to perks given to all members of Congress, it's not Grayson's campaign but taxpayers who footed the nearly $73,000 bill to produce and mail the DVD to 100,000 homes in Grayson's district of Lake, Marion, Orange and Osceola counties.

It's a stunt that drew howls from Republicans, who complained that Grayson was abusing the congressional privilege of franking that allows lawmakers to send taxpayer-paid newsletters and other mail to residents.

"This is an outrageous abuse of taxpayer dollars, and it goes to show that Alan Grayson is completely out of touch with Central Florida," said state Rep. Kurt Kelly of Ocala, one of seven Republicans looking to unseat Grayson this fall.

"This is just ridiculous behavior. What congressman would do this in the face of a huge budget deficit?" he asked.

What a douche. But dayum - gotta give him credit - he sure learned quickly.

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Since taking office, Grayson has used speeches and hearings to loudly attack everything that he sees as wrong with America — including giant corporations, financial leaders and Republicans.

He's best known for a floor speech in which he says the Republican health-care plan was for sick patients to "die quickly," although Grayson aides were quick to note that the health-care quip was not included on the DVD.

"If we were self-serving, we would have put that one on there," Jurkowski said.

ZZZZZZZZZZZing!! !!! !!!!

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Originally Posted by classicman (Post 673278)

This GD Criminal just got off. No racial preference there! Now if Maxine Waters gets off the Demoncrats will have proved for once and all that they are no different than the Republickins. You people who call yourself Dem should be frigging ashamed. And the beat goes on...

This could NOT continue - It's an election year! C'mon Merc, did you really think they were gonna let this drag on into Nov?

ETA

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Democrats could make a real statement by drumming both Rangel and Waters out of the House, but they won't.
No doubt the private thought of most members on both sides is probably something like: "There, but for the grace of God, go I."

But before Republicans go gloating, it should be noted for those with short memories that after Tom DeLay was admonished by the Ethics Committee in 2004, the Republican leadership replaced their Ethics Committee Members, fired the Committee Staff Director, Chief Counsel, & Spokesperson, and changed the rules to make it easier to kill any ethics investigations.
At least in these two cases, Democrats are willing to investigate our own when they go wrong.

Exactly why Pelosi should just commit Hari Kari.

I wonder if they serve them at their lunch parties.

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Waters, a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, helped arrange a meeting in September, 2008, between Massachusetts-based OneUnited Bank and Treasury Department officials, according to ethics investigators.

OneUnited Bank ultimately received $12 million in bailout funds.

According to the report, Waters' husband owned almost 4,000 shares of OneUnited stock at the time of the meeting. The shares had declined in value from more than $350,000 in June to $175,000 at the end of September.

"A meeting was in fact granted, however, the discussion at the meeting focused on a single bank -- OneUnited. Rep. Waters' husband had been a board member of the bank from 2004 to 2008 and, at the time of the meeting, was a stock holder of the bank," the report said.

The report released Monday stated that Waters "agreed to refrain from advocating on behalf of OneUnited," but failed to instruct her chief of staff, Mikael Moore, from doing so.

Following the September 9 meeting between Treasury and National Bankers Association officials, Moore "was actively involved in assisting OneUnited representatives with their request for capital from Treasury and crafting legislation to authorize Treasury to grant the request" for financial assistance, the report said.

"Reasonable" people could construe Moore's "continued involvement in assisting OneUnited as the dispensing of special favors or privileges to OneUnited," the report concluded.

Waters refuted that allegation as well Tuesday.

"If you're going to wrap this all around creating these violations because I failed to supervise my staff, it doesn't hold water, they don't have any proof of that and I maintain that I want to go to trial or whatever they want to call it -- adjudicatory hearing -- because I think I don't deserve this," she said.

Sounds reasonable... not really. Sounds like more well-connected political games.
Oh and Mikael Moore is her grandson.

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Moore is the son of Edward Waters, one of the congresswoman's two children, both of whom were noted in a 2004 Los Angeles Times story about money the family has made by doing business with companies and candidates the congresswoman has helped.

more and more all over the net.

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Originally Posted by Spexxvet (Post 673207)

The republicans increased our national debt and nixxed finance reform on the same day. They must be proud.

What silly-assed spin. You have not considered how much smaller the national debt would be had that so-called health care reform bill been voted down. That passage in and by itself was the making of many trillions of debt obligations. The Party of Adult Supervision -- the Repubs, for the Dems have eschewed adult thought for decades -- says this is not a good thing.

I agree, of course, for unlike some thoughtless types around here, I get that government deficits drive inflation. Large government deficit drives inflation harder. Few here seem to acknowledge that.

Destroy government-owned national health care root and branch, and destroy deficit spending with it. This is what the adults think; if you disagree, you're no adult, but just a sort of enlarged, aged child. In fewer words, you're a leftist. How abominable, not to be adult.

Socialist Party of America reveals list of Dems as memebers.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/...erica_rev.html

I went to a "transition luncheon" one time and the out-going Director thanked a particular person for their contributions.

Then there was a major embarrassment when the in-coming Director also thanked the the same person for contributions.

The audience loved it !