Charles Rangel Too Dumb, Or Too Corrupt, To Follow Own Tax Laws?
About the Author: The Party of Kennedy is NOT the Party of Pelosi. The Democratic Party has radically degenerated into a socialistic and postmodern perversion of its former place in American political thought. In place of Judeo-Christian values they embrace secular humanism; in place of a strong national defense they embrace a reliance upon internationalism; in place of a strong family they embrace a radical abortion agenda that increasingly includes outright infanticide.
I can't sit idly by and watch the culture war pass me by. It is time to choose sides. As Joshua 24:15 puts it, "choose this day whom you will serve."
Polls have shown that the more committed one is to (any) religious belief, the more conservative one tends to be politically. One’s views toward religion profoundly affect one’s commitment to political, social, and moral issues. In my articles, I seek to argue in favor of a religion-friendly view of culture, morality, and politics. Read more from this authorI suppose we’ve finally got the properly sarcastic retort to the now very tired Democratic charge that John McCain doesn’t know how many houses he owns: “John McCain doesn’t actually own ANY houses, thank you; and at least his wife, who does own them, pays taxes on them. And she’s not even the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.”
What do you say to a Democratic Party who gives Republicans moral lecture after moral lecture that a good government is a government that heavily taxes its rich citizens - and that the rich “have a duty to pay their fair share” - whose own House Ways and Means Committee Chairman in charge of tax laws doesn’t bother to follow his own laws or pay his own fair share?
You say they’re the worst kind of hypocrites. And if you’re smart, you say “No, thanks” to more of the same with your vote this November.
Charles Rangel is your typical Democrat: he’s far more concerned with the splinter in Republicans’ eyes than he is with the log in his own eye.
Charles Rangel joins his good buddy on the Ways and Means Committee, William Jefferson, who was discovered to have innocently misplaced $90,000 in his freezer a few years ago. He is still proudly serving his district, and plans to run for re-election this year as his case continues to crawl its “ways and means” through the criminal justice system. Rangel innocently forgot to follow his own laws and pay taxes on his income; Jefferson just-as-innocently left ninety grand of bribe money in his freezer.
I know, I know. Being caught with $90,000 in your freezer doesn’t mean anything. Half the houses on your block probably have $90,000 in the freezer. Heck, I’d better check my own freezer; I’ll bet I’ve got at least $90,000 in there somewhere.
Ah, yes, I still remember the glorious day that incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made one of her typical smarmy, pompous, self-righteous, over-the-top, flies-in-the-face-of-the-all-reality sort of statements that has come to characterize her Party when she said, ““Democrats are leading the effort to turn the most closed, corrupt Congress in history into the most open and honest Congress in history.” She liked the ring of that so much she said it again and again with varying iterations. “The Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history.”
Change you can believe in.
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Charles Rangel can be the poster child for term limits ! I say he’s corrupt and stupid. but is he any different from the rest of them ?
Log in his own eye…ha ha ha
Open and Honest government at it’s best !
Your introduction of term limits brings this to mind:
As a conservative, I not only want, but demand, term limits. Why should power be awarded on seniority instead of merit? And I demand an end to “redistricting” that allows politicians to carve out completely safe seats for one another based on partisanship. Districts that are not based ENTIRELY on geographic/town boundaries are inherently corrupt.
We get rid of the Rangels of the world by getting rid of these political patronage vehicles.
McCain would push for both; Obama wouldn’t dream.
In California, Republicans TRIED to enact fair districting, and Democrats stopped it cold. I believe the same thing happened in Texas.
If my memory serves me right, wasn’t that part of the our Republicans Contract with America ?
Yes. ( I answered my own question)
http://www.house.gov/house/Contract/CONTRACT.html
But the same people who lined up and showed their support for term limits then became the people they wanted to replace.
The only way we would ever see anything like this happen is if this was to become a national referendum and have the folks vote on it. No career politician would be crazy enough to vote themselves out of a job. BUT we can sure do it for them !
http://www.heritage.org/Research/GovernmentReform/EM376.cfm
Redistricting never passed my smell test either.
It’s crazy, and it was begun during the 80s and 90s when the Democrats were in charge.
More than any other single phenomenon, redistricting created the sharp divide between parties. Gerrymandering is guaranteed. Politicians have been able to choose their voters, rather voters their politicians, and “safe zones” were created that favored extremism. Tensions, explosions, and “red meat” politics was inevitable.
btw,
I agree with you as with your earlier comment. It has been Repubs who’ve been behind things like term limits - but when they got to be the majority party they seemed to forget.
Mind you, the Dems “forget” regardless of their status.
True conservatism isn’t about voting for your party; it’s about shaping your party to do the right thing.
Implementing term limits at the national (and local) levels - and requiring that districts be constrained to common sensical geographic and municipal boundaries - would do a great deal to end many of our problems.