Charlie Rangel Is Back Living the High Life
So Rangel is getting an award from the NPCA, having been scored 91.63 percent for his national parks voting record in the 111th Congress.
Call me suspicious, call me jaded, but if I know that I’m going to receive $100 for walking home the same way every day, do you think I won’t walk that way unless I’m offered a greater incentive for walking another way?
The award was based on Rangel’s voting record on one dozen national park-related bills, with awardees voting “correctly” on at least seven of them. Overall, the bills had to do with keeping firearms out of national parks, open space under the guise of land preservation, the cleaning of monuments, and an omnibus public land management act.
When he received the award, Rangel said: “I always thought children and their future were our country’s greatest treasures.” My understanding is he went to Congress to do what was best for the people, not what was best for those with deep pockets, who would restrict the use of public property.
Rangel also spoke of “teaching the American people the significance of our history.” Really? I thought the idea of teaching Americans the significance of “our history” was to do it in a truthful and accurate way. Not the distorted, revisionist rendering of history that leads to amyotrophy of the mind.
The question that begs an answer is this: When will the public realize that the Rangels of the political world are not in office to help the people as such, unless it doubly helps the politician? The Rangels of the political world are only there for ordinary people if it makes them look good and/or makes an opponent look bad.
The majority of people in Rangel’s district cannot begin to pay for the kinds of favors that lobbyists and special interest groups can. So it stands to reason that he would use his ill-gotten gains to wine and dine with those who visited his Caribbean resort home, or favor in other ways those who had the means to contribute to his Rangel Center.
Sadly, while Rangel basks in the light of his award – he speaks about how terrible Republicans and Tea Party people are for preventing Obama from creating jobs.
Why would you expect anything else? He is guaranteed the seat for life. The code among lawyers is to never really censor your own. And that is the code of congress.
Look at the district he comes from..illerate BPOSs…
He is the ultimate BPOS and nobody in our electrate steps in to do anything about these peopl.
So!!, it is our fault, because WE keep electing the same people to represent us. HOWEVER..AS LONG AS WRANGLE IS ALIVE HE WILL BE REREREREREREELCTED BY THE ASSES OF HIS DISTRICT..JUST LIKE PELOSI, LEE, ETCETCETC
Mychal:
Just so you know I read PJMedia as well as your other columns. Good job, my friend.
charlie rangel is like 85% of the politicians. liars and theives. and the STUPID voters just keep reelecting them and wonder why they never do anything for the good of the people or the country,
Rangel’s voters are FAR from stupid. They see him as being the engineer driving their gravy train of welfare, Section 8, EBT, SNAP, WIC, affirmative action, subsidized mobile phones, taxpayer-funded housing, medicaid, and free emergency care when they shoot or stab or beat up each other.
No, they are far from stupid.
Rangel is morally corrupt to the core, as are his comrades in the CBC or democratic party!
Mychal,
Harlem, Spanish Heights etc., never get tired of Rangel’s telling of his, ‘Korea story’ and the thought of going off the plantation is too spooky.
Why are his constituents scared? Cause ol’ Charlie tells ‘em government dependency, multiple-generation welfare recipients, baring children-out-of-wedlock and not raising that child is A-O.K.
For being independent, self-reliant, upward mobility seeking, striving to be a good spouse, parent and law abiding citizen is for chumps. Thee prime example is of course Mr. Teflon/AA/EEO himself.
“I always thought children and their future were our country’s greatest treasures.”
Gosh, I’m still teary eyed. pffllttt
Rangel is a perfect example of the “political parasites” infesting OUR CONGRESS.
“Parasite repellent” DOES NOT get rid of them; They have to be dealt with as the lethal infestation they really are.
Congress needs to be tented. When was the last time that was done?
What your essay states, and he even admits, is that Rangel, after all these years of “promises” to his constituents, hasn’t accomplished or improved anything for them. BUT, he has lived large on their revenue, and had a very good life at their expense.
Living the high life and preaching about how a constrained Barack is forced to circumvent the Constitution and do the legislating himself through executive order. (not exactly how Charlie phrased it)
Charlie whimpered, even cried, at censure by his around 40-year gig, the United States House of Representatives.
Ah, but those daze are forgotten and Charlie The Tuna is trying to recover his old form.
Sorry Charlie, ain’t gonna wash.
Good observation Mychal, that Rangel puts his efforts into the expansive countryside vs his urban constituency. Essentially ignoring his base to wheel and deal with highest bidders to enrich himself.
Wow! That’s quite a charge when you say it out loud…
Do I understand this correctly?
“He is the third longest serving congressman in the House, and yet today, to hear him and his constituency tell it, they’re no better off. They’re still plagued by racism, poverty, unemployment, poorly performing schools, drugs, and crime — every day.”
Charlie Rangel is one of the most disgusting people on this planet. He’s about as dirty as they come when it comes to politics, and that’s saying a lot for a politician coming from New York City. The man should have been thrown out of Congress, but Pelosi circled the wagons and gave her best buddy a second chance. So they put on a show in the House of Representatives and Charlie stayed on board. Terrible, yes. Disgusting, yes. Hypocritical on Pelosi’s part, certainly. The man should have been thrown out but in one of the most astounding exhibitions of pure corruption on the part of Speaker Pelosi, he stayed. All true and all fair.
But what’s not fair is putting all of the local problems in Rangel’s home district on his doorstep. There is plenty, and I mean PLENTY, of blame to go around in New York City, most of it due to local corruption. This doesn’t have much to do with Charlie Rangel and it has A LOT to do with how New York City is run. New York City has to be one of the most poorly run cities in the world where unions and organized crime still pretty much run things. But that’s a local beef and it doesn’t have much to do with Rangel. Charlie probably has given a lot back to his district at the Federal level, from more school aid to more aid for teachers (especially to keep the Teacher’s Union happy), and I doubt he would still be there if he wasn’t bringing home the bacon for his district. And as long as the local city government, the unions, and the mob are kept happy, then the man can stay in power for as long as he likes.
But, in the final analysis, if the people in his district are not happy with the job Rangel is doing, why have they been sending him back to Congress for 40 years now? For New Yorkers who keep this guy employed, you get what you pay for.
Pelosi circled the wagons and gave her best buddy a second chance.
Yes she did. And delayed forever (well more than a year) her good buddy’s censure proceeding.
Giving, of course, the lie to Pelosi’s promise of a clean and transparent House when she took over as speaker.
Of course, the only thing clean and transparent about Nancy is the air in her head.
Look at Sir Rangel another way. If New York were Alaska, if his last name were Palin instead of Rangel, and if the U.S. Congress was like Alaska and Rangel had all his Congressional expenditure reports available to us pions. There would a 1/2 dozen lawsuits filed against him by the same person using a name “Celtic somebody” on the Internet. Just saying that we all know there is no equality in distribution or retribution. Just an abundance of cognitive dissonance.
Your right about no equality in distribution of wealth in America anymore. If you are a white male you are penalized for being white. While they lower the standards and make the tests easier for minorities to pass. You never hear from the whites complain about how well the Asians do. The whites try to keep up with the Asians. Charlie should have gone to jail, but that is true of most of our politicians. If we threw the bad ones in jail maybe we would get some decent politicians. Do not piss the Celtic`s off!
Just another example of government looking after themselves, and people not caring. Plain and simple, Rangel should no longer be in office. Honesty and integrity should be what people look for in politicians. I have to believe you can be honest and still do great things for the people you represent.
Officer Cardillo was unavailable for comment.
The only reason people like Charlie Rangel prosper is because we don’t have real newspapers.
It’s really not worth beating one’s head against a brick wall over this. Charlie Rangel will remain a member of Congress until the day he dies and probably a couple of terms after that. The voters in his district wouldn’t care if he was caught stealing money from an orphanage or foreclosing on an old-folks home so he could tear it down and build a strip club. None of it matters because the race card is always in his pocket and no matter what he steals he can always whine “Well those Wall street fat cats steal more than me.” (Followed by a memo to said fat-cats soliciting campaign contributions.)
Joseph de Maistre said that “Every contry has the government it deserves.” Rangel’s district certainly deserves him. In any decent representative system he would have been thrown out on his ear decades ago but that isn’t going to happen.
Touche Chambers. There truly is no need for us to get upset at politicians like Charlie. His constituents are who they are and the people do deserve the government they vote into office. I have quit getting upset with these charlatans and I only have one vote and that is really all I can do.
Of course, the problem is, I don’t deserve the government they vote for.
You have nailed it and this is the same crowd that will vote for Obama no matter what comes out about him. The gravy train people both rich and poor will re-elect crooks like Rangel and Obama over and over as long as the gravy keeps flowing. There is nothing Obama can do that is bad or evil enough to keep this group from voting for him. We are close to the point where there are more of them than us and when that time comes my friends we are doomed.
People like Rangle are 100% amoral. So is Obama, and probably 90% of the people in Congress, including most of the Republicans.
In private, they laugh at ordinary citizens. They think we a are fools; their own personal ATM machines.
Rangle is one of the better ones. He is smart enough to at least act moderately normal in public, and he was able to hide his criminal activities for decades.
In charlies world he did nothing wrong just the norm for our politicians. Charley says love my good and plenty!
“Censure by the House hasn’t cramped his style one bit.”
I don’t know anybody who thought it would.
Supercommittee: Occupied October 27, 2011 – by Donny Shaw
http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/2414-Supercommittee-Occupied
Speedypete is a moron
Those in his district might turn him out if they knew about all his deeds. The newspapers are liberal controlled, and TV, which most have access for news(and the news is laced with anti conservative commentary)Very few are literate enough to understand much of what may come out. He is trusted, and he can deny it. The justice will come from some other way. It will come someday, you can be sure. Is it on his mind when he tries to sleep. If he has no conscience, no problem for him. Just a thought.
Charlie Rangel is doing EXACTLY what his White Masters in the DNC tell him to do. He is a Slave to the Liberal Wealth Distribution System….”Yes Massa I vote zactly like you wan’”
More proof that is is almost impossible to rehabilitate a criminal, and it is totally impossible to rehabilitate a politician. Charlie Rangel would make the ideal poster child for term limits.
Shame, double shame on Fox News for continuing to have this felony criminal on their shows thereby providing a veneer of respectability and credibility. Rangel should be inhabiting a cell in Federal prison right now. Anyone of us “little people” who committed the number and magnitude of his crimes would have been swiftly tried, convicted and sentenced to a long prison sentence. Our Republic will have not been restored until corrupt politicians like this race huckstering sleaze ball are prosecuted and sent to jail.
Indeed amazing, oreilly keeps having this POS on his program, can you imagine a republican pulling this crap and still being in congress, God help us all with this scum in DC. And YES , you also have to blame the idiot voters who keep garbage putting like Doddd, Barneys frank, shumer etc. in office.
No brains no headaches.
Rep. Rangel does what his constituents want him to do. No harm in that.
Instead, unconscionable media hacks like Colbert I. King write flame pieces equating selected right-wing “oracles” in the same box, like his recent WaPo piece slamming Coulter and Buchanan as equal partners in the oppression of Blacks.
I’m no big fan of Coulter, but placing her tongue-in-cheek statement of conservative unity, “Our blacks are so much better than their blacks,” in the same context as the bigot Buchanan, and flagging it as an attempt to “put Blacks in their place” demonstrates a evil streak in liberal journalistic thought that needs to be examined and exposed by caring spokesmen like yourself.
The Unconscionable Lack of Liberal Conscience
“Let your conscience be your guide” is an outdated axiom for Catholics in the Democrat Party, as is the concept of moral and ethical conduct as they apply to their religion.
True and unfortunately, morality and ethics are antithetical constructs in any political context and “ethics committees” seem out of place in political bodies and largely exist as pro-forma charades to satisfy a gullible public but many liberal Catholic Dems go further by overtly flaunting their contempt for ethical behavior.
Of course, relativists reject the idea of any absolutes in life, which is a nifty excuse for avoiding condemnation for violating established societal norms of decency since they absolutely disagree with those dictates.
Thus, Catholic and non-Catholic Democrats alike are able to campaign against what reasonable individuals understand intuitively, the existence of living, human life in the womb, on the bases of debatable claims that it is not a human life, that it’s not viable, that a woman’s right to privacy takes precedence over pre-born life.
The moral-ethical relativists absolutely believe all that and, though I think their beliefs are absurd, I can consider the source and accept them. If their faiths condone the murder of innocent pre-borns, who am I to disagree? The prudent approach of opting for sparing lives when there is any doubt as to when life begins in-utero is inapplicable to relativists.
You see, it’s all relative, whatever that means.
What I find totally unacceptable are politicians, especially ostensibly-Catholic politicians, who preach civil rights yet advocate in favor of denying the most fundamental civil entitlement, the constitutionally-guaranteed “right to life” through abortion. When they complain about Catholic consciences inhibiting their unorthodox views, they are hypocrites verging on apostasy.
Dozens of current Catholic politicians have been lectured . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=6647.)