Rangel Charged With Ethics Violations

Finally


The litany of crimes is longer then your arm.
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The Hemingway Report: Difference Between Charlie Rangel and Al Capone

                                                                                 Wait a minute... 

                                                                        someone's reaching for the 

                                                                             race card

Rangel Charged With Ethics Violations

WASHINGTON -- A House investigative panel on Thursday announced multiple ethics charges against Rep. Charles Rangel, the powerful New York Democrat who has been fending off accusations related to his business dealings and fund-raising, among other issues.

The case will go to trial before a separate ethics committee, and Rangel said Thursday he looks forward to the opportunity to explain himself to his constituents after two years of allegations.

Rangel was chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee until he stepped down in March following criticism from the House ethics committee in a separate case.

The announcement Thursday did not specify which alleged violations would be considered during this trial. Sources familiar with the allegations, who were not authorized to discuss them publicly, told the Associated Press the charges against the 40-year Democrat were related to:

--Rangel's use of official stationery to raise money for the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at City College of New York.

--His use of four rent-subsidized apartment units in New York City. The city's rent stabilization program is supposed to apply to one's primary residence. One had been used as a campaign office, raising a separate question of whether the rent break was an improper gift.

--Rangel's failure to report income as required on his annual financial disclosure forms. The committee had investigated his failure to report income from the lawmaker's rental unit at the Punta Cana Yacht Club in the Dominican Republic. Rangel also belatedly disclosed hundreds of thousands of dollars in investment assets.

The timing of the announcement ensures that a public airing of Rangel's ethical woes will stretch into the fall campaign, and Republicans are certain to make it an issue as they try to capture majority control of the House. Speaker Nancy Pelosi had once promised to "drain the swamp" of ethical misdeeds by lawmakers in arguing that Democrats should be in charge.

Responding to the charges, Rangel said in a statement, "I was notified today, two years after I requested an investigation, that the Ethics Committee will refer the allegations reviewed by an investigations subcommittee to a subcommittee that will review the facts. I am pleased that, at long last, sunshine will pierce the cloud of serious allegations that have been raised against me in the media."

Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly said, "The action today would indicate that the independent, bipartisan ethics committee process is moving forward."

Rangel led the tax-writing Ways and Means panel until he stepped aside last March after the ethics committee criticized him in a separate case -- finding that he should have known corporate money was paying for his trips to two Caribbean conferences.

Officials said that in the current case, the committee and Rangel's attorney tried unsuccessfully to negotiate a settlement. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private discussions. A settlement would have required Rangel to agree that he violated ethics rules.

Rangel had hoped to regain his chairmanship, but the allegations make that virtually impossible this year.

He announced a bid for a 21st term recently, days before his 80th birthday. One of his Sept. 14 primary opponents is Adam Clayton Powell IV, son of the former congressman whom Rangel defeated in 1970.
From the frying pan to the fire!

While the case will generate unfavorable headlines for Rangel, it may have little effect in his congressional district, New York's famed Harlem, where the congressman has been a political leader for decades and is known by older constituents as a Korean War hero.

In other words... he could kill someone and still get elected.

The suit's almost the right color

He's another reason for term limits!

The Associated Press contributed to this report

Rangel Charged With Ethics Violations

His favorite drink is an Almond Schnapps

It's been reported in SC Lindsey Grahamnesty "is a little light in the loafers." I guess when your favorite drink is a Almond Schnapps it doesn't exactly bolster his image. I would like to suggest he is also a little light in the head. My suggestion....start looking for another line of work. Your gonna need it come November.


By the way, why do they even bother with confirmation hearings? They state their positions at the hearings then do whatever they want (for life) after their appointed.

With one GOP vote, Kagan wins Senate panel’s backing

WASHINGTON — Splitting largely along party lines, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted yesterday to recommend former Harvard Law School dean Elena Kagan for the US Supreme Court.

Kagan’s nomination now heads to a vote by the full Senate, which is expected to confirm her in the next several weeks, before its traditional August summer recess.

Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, joined the committee’s 12 Democrats in the 13-6 vote in favor of the nomination. Graham, the only Republican on the committee last year who supported the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, said senators should honor the results of presidential elections and not turn confirmation hearings into political tests. Graham said that he disagreed with Kagan on many political issues but that she handled herself well in two days of testimony before the committee, showing knowledge of the law, confidence, and good humor.

“It was not a hard decision,’’ Graham said of his vote to support her.

“She will serve this nation honorably,’’ he said, “and [she] would not have been someone I would have chosen, but the person who did choose, President Obama, I think chose wisely.’’

In May, Obama nominated Kagan, the US solicitor general, to fill the seat of retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. Kagan, 50, testified before the committee for about 17 hours last month.

The committee debate yesterday over Kagan’s fitness for the court largely mirrored the public debate over the nomination since the president chose her. Most of the committee’s Republicans portrayed Kagan as an inexperienced liberal partisan who did not make a persuasive case in her testimony that she could separate her political views from a judge’s responsibility to be impartial.

The committee’s ranking Republican, Jeff Sessions of Alabama, attacked Kagan for “a lack of robust legal experience,’’ noting that Kagan, who has never been a judge, worked as a lawyer and policy adviser in the Clinton administration.

“Much of what she’s done has been defined by her experience in politics,’’ said Sessions.

Sessions also cited Kagan’s decision at Harvard to restrict military recruiters on campus because the ban on openly gay soldiers violated the school’s policy on nondiscrimination. Kagan has maintained that the military had adequate access to students through a campus veterans group. “It was not good enough,’’ said Sessions, “and it was not right.’’

Graham, a lawyer in the Air Force Reserve, did not share those concerns. “If I believed she had animosity in her heart about those who wear the uniform, I would easily vote no,’’ he said. “I don’t believe that.’’

Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania joined his Democratic colleagues in backing Kagan, even though he had voted against her nomination to be solicitor general last year. At that time, he was a Republican. Yesterday, he supported Kagan’s nomination, though he said he had “grave concerns’’ about “her failure to answer questions which I think ought to have been answered.’’

Other Democrats on the committee praised Kagan’s varied experience and broad knowledge of the law.

Kagan is expected to receive more GOP support in the full Senate, although no Republican other than Graham has publicly backed her so far.

Democrats attributed that to political considerations.

“Sadly, it appears election year politics may deprive her of the vote total that her nomination deserves,’’ said Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York.

Politically active conservative groups are pressuring GOP senators to oppose her nomination. The National Rifle Association is urging a no vote or a filibuster to block Kagan outright, saying she is hostile to the Second Amendment right to bear arms, and has warned that it will downgrade supporters in candidate ratings circulated to millions of gun-owning voters.

The Susan B. Anthony List, a group opposed to abortion rights, wrote to senators Monday urging opposition based on Kagan’s actions as a Clinton administration official to resist a broad ban on a procedure opponents call partial-birth abortion.

If confirmed, Kagan would be the fourth woman to serve on the court and her swearing-in would mark the first time that three women have served together on the nine-member Supreme Court.

His favorite drink is an Almond Schnapps

Why is the Black Vote in the Democrats Pocket?

You see this guy? You can see him right? 

But can you see through him?

This is not a BS Picture. Well it is....but it isn't. It's Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr (birth name) known in some circles as Robert Byrd. Yes Robert Byrd. He was the United States Senator from West Virginia. Byrd served as a Senator from 1959 to 2010 and was the longest-serving senator and the longest-serving member in the history of the United States Congress.

 Another reason we need term limits. It's an election not a coronation.

In the early 1940s, Byrd recruited 150 of his friends and associates to create a new chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.

According to Byrd, a Klan official told him, "You have a talent for leadership, Bob ... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation." Byrd later recalled, "suddenly lights flashed in my mind! Someone important had recognized my abilities! I was only 23 or 24 years old, and the thought of a political career had never really hit me. But strike me that night, it did." Byrd held the titles Kleagle (recruiter) and Exalted Cyclops.When it came time to elect the "Exalted Cyclops," the top officer in the local Klan unit, Byrd won unanimously.

In 1944, Byrd wrote to segregationist Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo:

“ I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds. ”

I don't want to say... unfortunately he died 6-28-10. On the other hand fortunately is not the word I would choose either.

So I'll tell you what. I'll let Bill Clinton handle the "unfortunate" passing. This is what he had to say:

Clinton excused Byrd's early association with the KKK: 

(Only Clinton could pull this off)

"I'll tell you what it means. He was a country boy from the hills and hollers of West Virginia, he was trying to get elected. And maybe he did something he shouldn't have done, and he spent the rest of his life making it up. And that's what a good person does."

Kind of exemplifies his own life don't you think?

  After reading the above you have to wonder... why is the Black Vote in the Democrats Pocket?

  (You'd think this guy alone would be motivation to vote Republican. 

Those Black Americans living in the Democrat-controlled neighborhoods who are tired of being poor should take control over their own destiny and stop voting mindlessly for Democrats who use "plantation politics" to buy their votes while keeping blacks in the poor house.

Democrats will forever hold a "lock"on the black vote, for as long as Black Americans... including rich Blacks who sympathize with poor Blacks... continue believing the myth that the Republican Party is a racist party and clinging to the bull that poor blacks are "victims" who need government handouts to survive. 

Charles Barkley summed it up nicely:

"The poor have voted Democrat for 50 years. They are still poor."

Remember this Guy? He freed the slaves.

Work hard

 Become successful

Be happy

The Democratic message:

Vote for us and we'll give you this

Democrats... paving the way for Blacks... From the plantation to the projects.

Why is the Black Vote in the Democrats Pocket?

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National Guard to Deploy to Southwest Border Aug. 1st

Administration officials on Monday announced that the 1,200 National Guard troops pledged weeks ago by President Obama will deploy to the southwest border starting on Aug. 1 as part of an effort to bring the region "under control."

Alan Bersin, commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, said the troops would "support" the work of Department of Homeland Security personnel already operating on the border.

"The Guard has been a tried and tested support to law enforcement ... and I'm confident they'll prove it again in this instance," Bersin said.

He said the deployment will coincide with a boost in surveillance technology in the region.

Obama in May announced the National Guard deployment amid increased concerns about border violence stemming from illegal immigration and drug smuggling. The announcement also came after Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a law making illegal immigration a state crime -- a policy the administration is trying to strike down in federal court.

Some border-state lawmakers criticized the National Guard plan as too weak to make a dent in border security challenges and expressed concern that the 1,200 who are deployed would be relegated to desk jobs.

 Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who has called for 6,000 National Guard troops, claims 1,200 is not enough. Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., in May expressed concern that the Guard deployment would not add "boots on the ground."

But officials on Monday described the deployment as a "bridge" to keep border security strong while 1,000 CBP agents are added over the next year.

National Guard Bureau Chief Gen. Craig McKinley said the Guard at the border would be working on criminal and intelligence analysis, as well as "entry identification" -- a specialty that involves surveillance. He said the full National Guard force should be stationed in the four U.S. border states by September.

According to the Obama administration, nearly half of the troops will be sent to the volatile Arizona-Mexico border. A total of 524 will be stationed in Arizona, with 250 in Texas, 224 in California and 72 in New Mexico. An additional 130 will serve in "command-and-control" and other support positions.

"The border is more resourced and more secure than it's ever been, but the work continues and the challenge remains," Bersin said.

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Sure it is.

More resourced and more secure then it't ever been? He sounds just like Napolitano. If we had any less control there would be an easy-pass lane.

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A New Low... Even For Them

Video Surfaces Of Malik Zulu Shabazz Praising Bin Laden




If you had any "doubt" the Black Panthers are crazy, racist's, dogs this video should clear it up.

Video 15

  Remember the old  Saturday Night Live skit where a husband (Dan Aykroyd) and wife (Gilda Radner) are arguing about whether a product, "New Shimmer" is a dessert topping or a floor wax:

Wife: New Shimmer is a floor wax!
Husband: No, new Shimmer is a dessert topping!
Wife: It's a floor wax!
Husband: It's a dessert topping!
Wife: It's a floor wax, I'm telling you!

The spokesman (Chevy Chase) quickly enters at this point and says:

Hey, hey, hey, calm down, you two. New Shimmer is both a floor wax and a dessert topping!

 "The New Black Panthers" are a lot like Shimmer...  


 both Panthers and Muslim Terrorist's in the same can!

A New Low... Even For Them