House Votes to Censure New York Rep. Rangel
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Veteran Rep. Charles Rangel, the raspy-voiced, backslapping former chairman of one of Congress’ most powerful committees, was censured by his House colleagues for financial misconduct Thursday in a solemn moment of humiliation in the sunset of his career.
“I brought it onto myself,” Rangel told the House. But he also said politics was at work.
After the 333-79 vote, the 80-year-old Democrat from New York’s Harlem stood silently at the front of the House and faced Speaker Nancy Pelosi as she read him the formal resolution of censure.
Then, in response, he admitted he had made mistakes, including his failure to pay all his taxes, filing misleading financial statements and improperly seeking money from corporate interests for a college center bearing his name.
But he also declared, “In my heart I truly feel good.” He said, “A lot of it has to do with the fact that I know in my heart that I am not going to be judged by this Congress, but I am going to be judged by my life.”
It was only the 23rd time in the nation’s history that a House member received the most severe punishment short of expulsion. Aside from the embarrassment, censure carries no practical effect and ends the more than two-year ordeal for the congressman who was re-elected to a 21st term last month with more than 80 percent of the vote.
Relief and defiance took over the moment Rangel finished speaking. Somber, Pelosi quietly slipped out of the chamber, but some Democrats gave him a standing ovation. Rangel made it only a third of the way up the aisle when a phalanx of well-wishers stopped and hugged him; he responded by saying something that made them laugh. He was smiling for the rest of the 10 minutes or so that it took to get through his colleagues to exit the chamber, his humiliation past.
Despite the censure, he contended in his response on the House floor that it had been proven that “at no time has it ever entered my mind to enrich myself or to do violence to the honesty that’s expected of all of us in this House.”
“I am fully aware that this vote reflects perhaps the thinking not just of the members but the political side and the constituency of this body,” he told his colleagues. Outside, he told reporters the censure vote was “very, very, very political.”
Still, the matter is likely to stain Rangel’s half-century in public service. The House ethics committee last month found him guilty of 11 of 13 charges of financial misdeeds, including submitting misleading financial statements and failing to pay all his taxes.
The chairman of the ethics committee, Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, said the censure her committee recommended was consistent with a Democratic pledge to run “the most honest, most open, most ethical Congress in history.”
She said Rangel “violated the public trust” while serving in influential positions including chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.
Rangel’s predicament pained his many friends in the House. His staunchest allies—members of the Congressional Black Caucus and the New York delegation—tried to reduce the punishment to a simple reprimand Thursday, but that effort failed by a vote of 267-146.
Before the final vote, the dapper congressman, wearing a blue suit and blue tie with a blue handkerchief, was humble before his colleagues.
“I have made serious mistakes,” he said, apologizing for the “awkward” position his troubles had placed them in. He was at times contrite, saying that members of Congress “have a higher responsibility than most people” for ethical conduct and that senior lawmakers like himself “should act as a model” for newer lawmakers.
A half-dozen members spoke in his defense, arguing a reprimand was appropriate and that censure had been used for members found guilty of sexual misconduct. Lofgren, though, suggested that today, expulsion would be appropriate for those types of misdeeds.
It‘s a difficult sunset for Rangel’s long career. A jovial politician with a distinctive voice, Rangel was re-elected in November with more than 80 percent of the vote despite being under an ethics cloud for more than two years. He has argued that censure is reserved for corrupt politicians—and he’s not one of them.
He also has been making a more personal plea, asking colleagues to remember that he won a Purple Heart after he was wounded in combat in Korea, to focus on his efforts for the underprivileged and to understand that he has great respect for the institution he has served for so long. He’s tied for fourth in House seniority.
The House ethics committee painted Rangel as a congressman who ignored rules of conduct and became a tax scofflaw despite his knowledge of tax law from his long service on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.
Rangel chaired that panel until last March, when he stepped down after the committee—in a separate case—found that he improperly allowed corporations to finance two trips to Caribbean conferences.
Rangel shortchanged the IRS for 17 years by failing to pay taxes on income from his rental unit in a Dominican Republic resort. He filed misleading financial disclosure reports for a decade, leaving out hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets he owned.
He used congressional letterheads and staff to solicit donations for a monument to himself: a center named after him at City College of New York. The donors included businesses and their charitable foundations that had issues before Congress and, specifically, before the Ways and Means Committee.
Rangel also set up a campaign office in the Harlem building where he lives, despite a lease specifying the unit was for residential use only.
He has paid the Treasury $10,422 and New York state $4,501 to fulfill an ethics committee recommendation. The amounts were to cover taxes he would have owed on his villa income had the statute of limitations not run out on his tax bills.
The last previous House censure was in 1983, when two members, Reps. Gerry E. Studds, D-Mass., and Daniel Crane, R-Ill., were disciplined for having sex with teenage pages. Nine House members have been reprimanded, the latest last year when Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C. was punished for yelling “You lie” at President Barack Obama.
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TXPilot
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:53pmI would tend to bet there are many people in federal prison right now, who were convicted of tax evasion, who would gladly take a few mins of embarassment instead of inhabiting a cell for years….
I think the time is rapidly approaching, when shooting the bums will be a better option than watching them steal us blind and then lie about it. If you go to Washington, betray the public trust, become a traitor to the country and then face a penalty slightly more severe than being slapped on the wrist, maybe our legislators will think twice about embracing treason and self-enrichment. For what these enemies of freedom are doing to us, there should be public trials of all of them, with capital punishment “on the table” as a possible punishment. Let’s see how many of them will betray us, when they know that theres a possibility of a firing squad in their future, should they be caught.
Report Post »WTSpike
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:53pmCan we not at least employ a pillory when they censure him? Funny how he’ll never be reviewed by a Grand Jury somewhere.
Report Post »thetang
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:47pmPelosi reprimand of Charlie was like she was asking him for a date? Now don’t do that again Charles,or I will take your candy away! What do we have to look forward to now? Can’t wait for Waters to come before the committie,they will give her the madal of honor??
Report Post »NC
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:47pmCongressman Butterfield, representing NC house district #1, a member of the black congressional caucus, and a member of the ethics committee is also under an ethics investigation himself.
Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D., N.C.) told the [Wall Street] Journal that he sometimes just pocketed the leftover per diem money…In its statement, the ethics committee said it was investigating Mr. Butterfield, as well as Reps. Robert Aderholt (R., Ala.), Eliot Engel (D., N.Y.), Alcee Hastings (D., Fla.), Solomon Ortiz (D., Texas) and Joe Wilson (R., S.C.).
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703628204575618843169625602.html
Report Post »mcjj
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:45pmI am still seething after watching this theater production of slapping Rangel on the wrist. And then he has the balls to stand up and basically say he did nothing wrong! If he were a regular citizen he would be in jail! He is so arrogant! When will they actually DO something about the corruption instead of acting like mindless puppets and continueing out the theater production!!!! We the People do not believe it anymore and frankly WE ARE SICK OF IT!
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:44pmHis constituents are all crooks that support a fellow crook like him.
Report Post »Reason
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:41pmWe are a nation of laws in which no man is above the law. He should be tried as any other citizen with the same consequences as anyone else if he is found guilty by a jury of his peers.
Censure perpetuates the false belief that members of the House or Senate are not subject to the laws they create.
We are NOT their subjects. THEY are our representatives. And the law is the law irregardless of the stature of the person.
Report Post »eyestoseeearstohear
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:40pmCharlie calls what he did, a MISTAKE.
Charlie said he DIDN’T profit or gain from his mistakes……WHO DID?
Charlie says he tried to HELP A COLLEGE …so I GUESS what he did SHOULD BE EXCUSED, HUH?
CHARLIE RANGEL HAD 17 YEARS OF MISTAKES.
CHARLIE RANGEL DID PROFIT FROM HIS 17 YEARS OF NOT PAYING TAXES.
( If WE didn’t pay OUR TAXES for 17 years- wouldn’t WE HAVE A LOT MORE MONEY?)
Did you see the sympathy and sadness for Charlie having to talk about his wrong-doing?
They showed him SUCH support and love they showed…
as to say, “It’ll be ok, Charlie”….you poor baby….
They even APPLAUDED him….”Way ta go, Chuck…..YOU PULLED IT OFF!
And, Charlie left the room stepping lighter, higher and had begun to BELIEVE HE REALLY DIDN’T DO ANYTHING WRONG.
WHAT A BUNCH OF LIARS THEY ALL ARE.
Report Post »I HOPE THEY ALL REMAIN PRISIONERS IN THEIR MINDS….FOREVER AFRAID THAT THE TRUTH WILL SOMEDAY, SOME WAY, REVEALED….UNTIL THEY FINALLY GO INSANE.
booger71
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:48pmAnd the Vampire Killer got 3 years for the same thing
Report Post »ARIZONA VETERAN
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:40pmprison prison prison , just another african in prison…
Report Post »ARIZONA VETERAN
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:39pmwhy doesn’t Tom DeLay get this kind of deal? oh..wait thats right DeLay is white,,never mind
Report Post »ConservativeBeauty
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:38pmI found it interesting that Mr Rangel didnt have that smug, arrogoant, I can do what I want look on his face today. He must have been playing for sympathy. And I wish they’d get rid of the same POC Sheila Jackson Lee. And NO it is NOT that they are black…any skin color can be a doofazz, arrogant, I don’t give a crap about the people. And both of them are …among others in congress.
Report Post »FoundersKeeperUSA
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:37pmThey should have kicked him out.He has know right to represent any American as corrupt as he is.They have once again shown that they live in a bubble and have zero understanding of what the election meant.They have a mental desease called liberalism for which there is no cure.
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:36pmIf you Losers would actually venture out into America and actively endeavor to make your fortune and leave your mark, you would learn that George Soros and Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama are NOT out there trying to stop you. The only thing stopping you is the fact that you are glued to your computer screens 20 hours per day desperately looking for someone to blame all your frustrations on; all with the help of Glenn Beck, who has done exactly what I’ve describe above. His business is FOMENTING PANIC. He has been incredibly successful at his business model and I applaud him for his vision, hard work and success. Why don’t you all find something profitable to do and GO DO IT?????? (That was a rhetorical question)
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:47pm@Broker 0101
Get this part, I have run two small businesses before entry into the pastorage; I have run a church, and helped with founding many other small charity organizations. So, apperantly as that now, I do volunteer at the local food closet I have worked with to expand and develop into many other fields for the last seven years, and a thrift store that directly supports both the food closet and the local benefits society for the needy families, that obviously means that I have nothing to do, since only 20+ hours a week I work on church matters from my apartment on the computer you so lovingly put down.
Broker I will put this with most succulence, GET OVER IT!!!
Report Post »TrueToTheCoreAmerican
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:48pmLooks like you either commented on the wrong article or your standing on the liberal soapbox.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:49pmAlso, if you wish for a focus of your non-stop whining rhetoric, just focus upon me, at least then you would be leaving the rest of the Blazers the heck alone. And I can deal with your wonderously sardonic loss of humor as always, by devotion of the minimilistic aspects of the cerebellum matter required to understand and deal with it each and every day.
Figure it out.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:49pmIt’s very presumptive you to assume everyone here is a loser, and no one, but apparently you, can venture out into America and actively endeavor to make their fortune and leave their mark.
Report Post »teahugger
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:55pm@broker: We are very grateful that you could take time away from your busy bag boy job in order to enlighten all of us here on the Blaze. Next time I need help out with my groceries I will call you …meanwhile I hear there is a clean up on aisle 7. Get on it!
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 7:05pmdo a google search on this idiots user name………………….top of the list
how many posts has this idiot made?……………………..dont really care
how many posts are relevant……………………..0
you only make yourself look like a fool, but dont let us stop you carry on water boy
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 7:06pmLooks like what Glenn Beck has been saying works, look at you BROKER0101
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 7:08pmBroker, you silly thing. I went out into America and made my way. Now I can spend as much time as I want doing whatever I want and I think that probably aplies to alot of people at this site. Does that give you class envy?
Report Post »pollyanna
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 7:27pmDid you say something?
Report Post »M31Sailor
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 7:33pmBroken Just got back from volunteering at a book bank that tutors over 500 kids a week. These kids have to be tutored by volunteers because some of the New Haven ,CT teachers union members do such a great job. Also many children of a lower age aren’t read to by their parents so they come to kindergarden unprepared. As a Liberal, Socialist , Progressive , Communist, DEMOCRATS ALL, you and you ilk are the cause of this scourage of America. Scum like you , are laughed at by people like the Blazers. Pray tell us of all the great volunteer work you do.
Report Post »Sailor
snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 7:46pm@M31Sailor
Both thumbs up for the work you do; best wishes in the future with the kids, for they are indeed the future built upon our works of today.
Report Post »M31Sailor
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 8:16pmThanks Snow
The Book Bank is in the New Haven, Ct ghetto and in my 6 years there , I’ve noticed a few things, Very few blacks volunteer their time( those that do are wonderful people). Most of the libs that are there are paid by grants from Taxpayers(money stolen by the guberment). The Yale students that volunteer do so because it looks good on their summer intern resume’s. but they still look down their snooty noses at a grey haired old man . I just continue to bust their stones. Most of the time they don’t get the barb. , but the children are wonderful until the city system chews them up. Thanks for all the good things you have done Merry Christmas Sailor
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:00pmI’ve already been out there and done my thing. That means I have the time to sit here (if I wish to) and express my views. Others are out there doing their thing now, and have the time to sit and express THIER views. Do you mind very much, dude? myob.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:06pmIf you can read,,,,I think a point was made with all the responses. You’re not the only “real man” here. Surprised???
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:13pmand I even made $10,000 in the last 2 days on the stock market, all just sitting here posting my ‘views’. Any thing else bugging you, dude?
Report Post »aeronut44
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:34pmMy uncle just had to spend some time in jail because he COULDN’T pay some of his businesses taxes after being screwed by his partner. Now this MORON says he didn’t know he had to pay taxes and he gets a finger wagged in his face..,..OMG I cannot stand that piece of trash, or John Lewis either for that matter…hell is too good for them.
Report Post »aeronut44
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:36pmBTW, my uncle paid his due and never blamed anyone else…….Uncle Charlie for Congress!!!!
Report Post »FoundersKeeperUSA
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:40pmThey are creating two classses of people.The ones who work in the government and us.One more step towards communism.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:34pmGreat. Now how about criminal charges, with the possibility of jail time, like anyone else would have to face.
Report Post »Lorist
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:34pmRangle makes me sick. he should be in jail. when he says he never did anything that was for self benefit. i would like to know who it benefitted when he didn’t pay 17 years of taxes.
Report Post »TrueToTheCoreAmerican
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:32pmThis criminal is on the floor and continues to make excuses. He outright blamed his STAFF for being the reason for at least seven of the charges. He made light of being censored all the while asking the censor to be reversed and then saying he isn’t judged by his peers here but basically by God. Arrogance and ignorance at it‘s best is Rangel’s attitude.
He says he’s done wrong but what he did was not so bad and that all the good he did makes up for the bad. So to say a person who may lead 50 years of moral life, then kills someone should be forgiven for the killing because the good years make up for it. WRONG!
Your a criminal and a thief and you cheated the very system, the very people you represent and you Mr. Rangel have destroyed your reputation and by the way… YOU were judged by your peers and soon based on your age may face the final judgment.
What a sad excuse of a human and may all those that voted for you have to answer for their arrogance and ignorance and contribution to the corruption in our government.
Report Post »TrueToTheCoreAmerican
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:34pmDarn spell checker: Correction = censured
Report Post »Bermuda Onion
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:32pmUnlike us tax paying dopes. When we do what he did we get the privilege to go to jail and pay taxes WITH interest retroactive. But, hey, nothing to see here move along.
Report Post »spookydude
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:55pmUh…Yessssss….Move along…nothing to see here…What…what….nooooooo…noooooooo….that…No that is just aaah….nothing……..OUR new World Order
Report Post »donedunn
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:31pmThere is no guilt and consequence in the Liberal mind. The ends justify the means .
Pelosi is supposed to read the reprimand? It will sound like Rangel is getting the Congressional Medal of Honor instead of a rebuke.
Report Post »pollyanna
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 7:39pmhehee…likely so. Pelosi reading Rangle the “riot act” is right up there with the pot callin’ the kettle black.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:30pmFollow up, if he would just have admitted to the law breaking and let the punishment part commence I could have held just a bit of respect for the man. Not what he did, just for owning up to his mistakes. Now, I hope he just goes away.
Report Post »eyestoseeearstohear
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:29pmDidn’t I tell ya?
Censure: “Chuck….YOU’VE been bad. Now, go and DON’T DO THAT ANYMORE.
And….THAT’S IT!
Charlie Rangel just pulled off the SWEETEST DEAL….AND WITH A LAWYER!
We can just IMAGINE the SWEET DEAL MAXINE WATERS IS GONNA GET, HUH?
I hope THEY ALL BURN IN HELL!
Report Post »eyestoseeearstohear
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 7:00pmooopppssss!
I MEANT…..WITHOUT A LAWYER.
Ok…I’m done!
Report Post »Konservative PUNK
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 7:27pmHey, don’t hope they burn in hell, that’s harsh. Hope they get justice (they won’t on Earth but will in the afterlife)
Report Post »pollyanna
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 7:34pmI’m sure you meant to say, you don’t want to see these SIMPLE FOLKS burn at all….We would like them to WAKE the heck up…A COLD Waterboarding in the face, is a good way to wakey-wakey. :P
Report Post »I start EVERY morning with Cold water on my face! Works wonders.
snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:28pmBad Rangel, Bad Rangel!!
Nothing more will happen.
This part is interesting…Nancy Pelosi had to read the censure to him before the House.
Hmm, since I quoted part of the article I guess the Associated Press will now be upset…
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Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 11:37pmMistress Nancy: “Charlie, you sniveling little toad . YOU WERE A BAD BOY.”
Report Post »Sub Charlie: Yes, “Mistress I was.”
Time for your punishment in front of all the other slaves, “You’re a bad boy.” Smack, Smack on the hand.”
Konservative PUNK
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:27pmThis crook ought to be treated like all other citizens would under the same circumstances: PRISON.
Report Post »Konservative PUNK
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:43pmLet’s not forget that he WRITES the laws he broke, and claims innocence and ignorance, for 17 years I might add.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:45pmSooo, his punishment is that he has to listen to Pelosi read to him? How ever will he bear it?
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:51pmThis is one time I wish I could have read it to him, getting people riled up is a fine art form, and once in awhile, it is appropriate. This would be one such time.
Report Post »pollyanna
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 7:24pmYes, and it’s like the “olden” days when a naughty boy had to sit in the corner of his classroom, (SANS the duncecap.)
Report Post »I don’t get it. It’s all Greek theater to me. There should be no triple standards.
We’re harder on children, than we are on this man.
Rangle the Wrangler, needs to be Lassoed, and given the boot.
jblaze
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:25pmDoes he feel the shame!
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 7:05pmIf this man had any decency or sense of duty as a former service member he’d stick a gun in his mouth. This guy took an oath to defend the constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion.
I apologize for my brutal exclamation of my utter disgust with this guy.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 8:56pmnot yet,,,he still feeling sorry for himself. If the censureship happens as it SHOULD (administrered/read to him by ‘her lameness’ Pelosi) he SHOULD feel ashamed.
Corrupt politicians should face expulsion, not censureship……just my ‘view.’
Report Post »MamaofJ5
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 8:59pmJBLAZE, your kidding right. He can’t feel shame, because he doesn‘t see that he’s done anything wrong. He writes the laws and tax codes, so they don’t apply to him, just us peeons and Wesley Snipes.
Report Post »rbqueen
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:25pmNone of this means anything unless they kick his tail out of there. Along with his other crooked cronies!
Report Post »tradexpertbuysell
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:47pmJail time
comes to mind.
What is good for John Q. Public is especially justified for Joe Corrupt Politician!
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:50pm@The Blazers
Broker 0101 is back, and hope you all will like the commentary I left for him. Enjoy.
Report Post »Sheepdog911
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:59pmEven if they kicked him out, he’d be back in January, just with no real seniority.
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 7:04pmAnd he’s STILL talking on TV about it, in like a weird Shakespearean manner. Dramatic Pauses. Long sighs. OK. He thinks he was put in Washington because of how “great” he is, when really, he’s just supposed to do the work for We the People.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 7:07pmHe can’t get jail time because there is no proof that he did anything against the law – that is why he only got the censure – personally I feel he should have be kicked out! http://maboulette.wordpress.com
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 7:08pmNot only kick him out .. anyone else would be in jail for tax evasion!
Report Post »Konservative PUNK
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 7:20pmI just can’t believe they pre-empted the Glenn Beck Show to show that sniveling rat saying how he is innocent before God.
Steverino
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 7:27pmThis man deserves whatever he gets. Harlem, however, would reelect him forever. Why don’t they get upset about him totally gaming the system?
Wait. I just answered my own question. DUH!
On a totally unrelated note, I just tried to post this at Media Matters. It was a Beck slam – fest
( Shocking, I know ) and they were grousing about certain “obscenity triggers”. My post didn’t go through, but I’m very proud of it:
Nothing like freedom of speech, eh, people!
As all progressives know, words hurt. They hurt really, really, REALLY bad.
[i]Sanctioned by MMFA Censorship Department of Censorship, as stipulated in section 427a.211[/i]:
[i]“Swearing, or overtly destructive, derogatory, or defamatory language will be censored and / or restricted, with the following exceptions:”[/i]
[u][b]EXCEPTIONS ARE AS NOTED:[/b][/u]
1.) When referring to Fox News (HEREAFTER to be known as “FAUX NEWS”);
2.) When referring to any Faux News personality or guest;
3.) When referring to Faux News specifically, or in general;
4.) When referring to any person who may come to defense of aforementioned Faux News.
5.) When referring to any principal of Faux News, including, but not limited to Mr. Ailes, Mr. Murdoch et al.,
6.) When referring specifically to Mr. Beck, any and all swearing, derogatory, and defamatory language is not censored and / or restricted. MMFA encourages and supports this.
[i]Pursuant to section 427a.212[/i]
Thank you in advance for you cooperation, sheeple.
Respectfully,
Your MMFA Overlords
Thanks in advance for your indulgence, Blazers. I HAD to post it somewhere!
Steve
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 7:59pmSnipe got 3 yrs….
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 8:41pmI thought it in poor taste to claim a bad heart right away, and profess censureship was too harsh, and get his cronies to ad lib for him, and reaffirm his 40 years of committment for ‘no censureship’. Maybe he just finally got caught and the charges were more serious than he would admit to.
Corruption must be ended in politics, or we all pay the price. No doubt there are many more to seek out.
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Posted on December 2, 2010 at 8:57pmHe just was RE-ELECTED from Harlem, New York. That’s the best they can do. All this Guy did was say, “Other people have done much worse than Me.” I guess they didn’t get caught not paying taxes for a Hotel on an Island for 17 year. Yeah that’s right SEVENTEEN YEARS. What would happen to you? Ask one of My favorite actors ‘Wesley Snipes’ who has to start His 3 years in prison next week for doing less wrong. Our Politicians work for Us. If they don’t go to jail how in the Hell can one of us go for the same thing. We are their bosses. No, not any more.
THEY HAVE NO LAWS. WITHOUT LAWS FOR ALL WE HAVE NONE FOR ANYONE.
Chuck said his worse day was 60 years and 2 days ago. I don’t think very many of us were here then and even if you were does that count for a crime 60 years later? You people better get ready. The crap is going to hit the fan. Just try to get ready.
GET ON YOUR KNEES & ASK GOD FOR MORE TIME, WE NEED IT.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:04pmAn EFFECTIVE leader is one who leads by example. I hold government leaders to that, and DEMAND they remain above reproach. If they can’t do that, or are unwilling, then they need to go. There are many honest people in our country with a high level of integrity that can be placed into those positions. I pray that the MAJORITY of Americans recognize that.
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:40pmKicking him out isn’t even enough. Just ask Wesley Snipes. What Wesley did pales to what Charlie did (17 years of false tax returns and tax evasion). If he doesn’t get thrown in jail, there is no rule of law. When a civilization’s elites think they are above the, it’s the end of that civilization. If you are not outraged, you ain‘t payin’ attention. This is a travesty of justice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8DnA4Ro9tQ
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silentwatcher
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:47pmto CULTUREWARRIORS:
that is true. ‘false tax return = fraud’
he should be going to JAIL, like the rest of us peons. Why isn’t the IRS on this????
Report Post »SheriS
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:04pmLets just hope he pays all the back taxes and the penalties—then kick him out of Congress and back to his beloved voters to face the music and their anger which he so deserves!
Report Post »Oil_Robb
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:12pmRangel….Jackson…Sharpton….same crap different bucket
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:25pmIf you ever get caught evading taxes, just tell the IRS you are sorry, see if they “censure” you.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:33pmthe censure you for sure………they’ll send-you-sure to prison
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 11:04pmUh, WalkWithMe -
I’m just looking for some clarification here. Could you explain to me why the following charges are not illegal?
Rangel shortchanged the IRS for 17 years by failing to pay taxes on income from his rental unit in a Dominican Republic resort. He filed misleading financial disclosure reports for a decade, leaving out hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets he owned.
He used congressional letterheads and staff to solicit donations for a monument to himself: a center named after him at City College of New York. The donors included businesses and their charitable foundations that had issues before Congress and, specifically, before the Ways and Means Committee.
Rangel also set up a campaign office in the Harlem building where he lives, despite a lease specifying the unit was for residential use only.
Report Post »forTforMAG
Posted on December 3, 2010 at 12:00amFolks wake up…this is all a huge dog and pony show. It doesn’t amount to a hill of beans if this so called man is censured or not. This is all to give the illusion to the mindless drones looking for Obama money that congress is still somewhat credible. After all they punished one of their own…they must be legit if it was one of their own right??? They are buying time…keep the unwashed masses content and confused for just a bit more till they collapse this bizzzatch.
All of this makes me sick. Puppet theater.
Report Post »kreese
Posted on December 3, 2010 at 12:54amHe should go to jail, but after what Bubba got by with, how do you punish anyone—unless you’re a common citizen?
If the American people cannot see some sense of fairness in our society, we are doomed.
Report Post »1st a Father
Posted on December 3, 2010 at 4:43amHe got 80% of the vote to put him back in office even after being proven to be corrupt. Who says race has nothing to do with him being re-elected. Many would call me racist for making that statement but it wouldn’t be true. I judge a man by the content of his character, not the color of his skin. And when it comes to national politics; by one’s defense of the constitution, that very few legislators seem to read now days.
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