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The Spectacle Blog
Republicans can have few people more well suited to exhibiting the moral seriousness and fairness required to be their leader on the House Ethics panel than Alabama’s Jo Bonner. Here is the video of his takedown of ethically challenged Rep. Charles Rangel. Here, if Ihave worked the link right, is the text of his statement.
Rep. Bonner has been around Capitol Hill a long time — since arriving there as a staffer in 1984. Time on the Hill can do one of two things: It can either corrupt you by seeming to be an entitlement, or it can inspire a respect for the institution of Congress that makes you treasure the notion of honorable service to it. For Rep. Bonner, the latter applies. Hence his particular castigation of Rangel for Rangel seeming to suggest that 40 years in Congress gives him more leave to have erred, rather than, as Bonner would see it, what should instead be a greater commitment to maintaining honorable behavior.
Good for Rep. Bonner. He has it right.
Eric CArtman| 11.19.10 @ 11:28AM
Here's another good one: http://www.thedailyshow.com/wa.....lie-rangel
Mimi| 11.19.10 @ 11:35AM
Thanks Quinn for the video....Charlie Rangel should have lost his seat in Congress...Honor and Integrety matter. 20 elections and now 80 years old....The district should hang its head in SHAME....Only in New York....corrupt, citizen robbery, most highly taxed NewYork!!!
Yorktown Bob| 11.19.10 @ 12:47PM
Mimi, ya think his constituents even care? I would bet a dollar to a donut a majority of his contituents collect more in govt aid than they pay in taxes. Why should they care if he doesn't pay his? They don't. Payin' taxes is fo' da rich White folk!
Brian| 11.19.10 @ 2:34PM
Hey Mimi, when we talk corruption, lets not forget about my sweet home Chicago. The old emperor Richard II, is abdicating and Rahm the Magnificient, is the Heir Apparent. It's a done deal. The 'election' (actually the Democratic primary. Chicago has not elected a Republican anything since my long dead grandfather started puberty) is fixed since the local demigod 'Obama' has decreed it through subtle hints and omens.
Margie| 11.19.10 @ 12:11PM
Next up: Maxine Waters.
Oldefarte| 11.19.10 @ 12:38PM
As Sarah Palin would say, YOU BETCHA! For these two arrogant, corrupt individuals to be even allowed to pantificate within the halls of congress is a disgrace, an abonmination, and a dispicable and immoral happening. They should both be removed from congress, not just centured. Of course, to critisize an African American is to commit RACISM, DISCRIMINATION, DISENFRANCHISEMENT, GENTRIFICATION, and other BS terminology!!!!!!
al gayda| 11.19.10 @ 12:19PM
Did charlie pay taxes on the $2,000,000 in campaign funds he gave his lawyers ?
Al Adab| 11.19.10 @ 12:43PM
Expulsion likewise should be debated. Rangel is not the only one involved here. Frank and Waters along with others on both sides of the aisle need to face Justice. Unless our representatives are above reproach, the citizen's loyalty will remain insecure.
danny| 11.19.10 @ 12:47PM
No, No, No, Margie. Sheila Jackson Lee, then Maxine. LOL
danny| 11.19.10 @ 12:54PM
Sorry, Margie I meant to say Eddy Bernice Johnson.
glenny| 11.19.10 @ 1:01PM
Rangel, Bill Jefferson, Canjorski, etc. Tax evasion, corruption, graft. These are Democrat resume enhancements. glenny
Warrior | 11.19.10 @ 2:05PM
Makes you wish for the days for the simple toe tapping in an airport bathroom stall.
Oldefarte| 11.20.10 @ 1:02PM
Or [concerning the lowlife Democrats] possibly, pizza, cigars, and a reading of LEAVES OF GRASS poetry in the Oval Office; a southing massage for THE SEX POODLE; or an act of fornication on a restaurant floor by a member of Camelot!!!!!
Ralph| 11.19.10 @ 3:23PM
Notice the MSM is more upset over the possibility that Bristol Palin may win Dancing with the Stars than Charles Rangel's ethics violations?
Al Chandler| 11.19.10 @ 5:03PM
One skunk down.Next up,Maxine Waters,who gives new meaning to the phrase "scum bag".There are many more: both Repub's and Demo's. Get them!
Oldefarte| 11.20.10 @ 1:04PM
She makes the term LOUDMOUTHED, IGNORANT PIG seem insufficiently descriptive!!!!