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Is the fix in with Rangel?
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
Bill Alliston asks the question: Ethics Panel to Clear Rangel?
House Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel predicted, on C-SPAN’s Newsmakers program that aired Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009, that his multitude of ethics woes would soon disappear. “I think that next Tuesday you will see a break in this and as soon as the Ethics Committee organizes they ought to be able to dismiss this,” National Journal’s CongressDaily quoted the Rangel as saying.
If so, it’s hard to imagine that the Select Committee on Ethics will have devoted anything more ...
GOOD QUESTION: After Daschle and Killefer, Why Should Rangel Get a Pass?
Because he’s black? It…
Instapundit —
... Because he’s black? It’s hard to imagine any other reason. “Assets worth between $239,026 and $831,000 appear or disappear with no disclosure of when they were acquired, how long they were held, or when they were sold, as the operative House rules at the time required.” Certainly the “highly talented” exception wouldn’t seem to apply. ...
He's From Tennessee. Whaddya Expect?
INSTAPUTZ —
White people are dropping like flies from the Obama Administration. Old Man Rangel still has a job, though, and Putz senses a conspiracy afoot: Because he’s black? It’s hard to imagine any other reason. Hey, remember that time Putz -- who is, of course, in no way a product of his state's racist party -- speculated that incompetent Donald Rumsfeld kept his job, despite all the blood on his hands, just because he was white? (And remember how Putz, in a classy moment, declined to run puffy items about how ...
POLITICO: Carter Tries to Push Rangel Out. “Republican Rep. John R. Carter of Texas offered legisl…
Instapundit —
... Wednesday that would require Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel to relinquish his gavel until the ethics committee completes an investigation into Rangel’s finances. Under the rules of the House, members must consider Carter’s resolution by next Tuesday, forcing Democrats to confront Rangel’s ethics in the same week they will try to move the massive economic stimulus and a handful of late appropriations bills.”
More on Rangel’s problems here. Plus, After Daschle and Killefer, why should Rangel get a pass?
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Democrat Tax Cheat Champion; Charlie Rangel Tops Tom Daschle and Timothy Geithner 28-2
Pundit Review —
... and determined that he failed to report taxable events 28 separate times. Here is what they found , We took a look at his filings going all the way back to 1978, the first year members were required to disclose information on their personal finances, and found 28 instances in which he failed to report acquiring, owning or disposing of assets. Assets worth between $239,026 and $831,000 appear or disappear with no disclosure of when they were acquired, how long they were held, or when they were sold, as the operative House rules at the time required. Congratulations Charlie, ...
Rep Carter forcing a Rangel Scandal?
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... …which is, of course, the last thing that the Democrats want to do, given that it’s going to be kind of hard to explain why Rangel has quite so many rent-controlled apartments, was so behind on his taxes, and generally appears to be giving an excellent impression of a corrupt suckweasel. So now they’re actually going to have to do something about it, even if “something” is a whitewash. Which is the most likely result: if Congressional Democrats actually cared about corruption, they wouldn’t have quite so ...
Rangel's 30 Years of Fuzzy Math
JammieWearingFool —
... avoided an Obama cabinet appointment? The financial-disclosure forms filed over the past three decades by Rep. Charles Rangel are full of fuzzy math , according to an exhaustive review released yesterday. The nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation identified 28 separate instances within Rangel's 30 years of congressionally mandated filings where, it says, he failed to report acquiring, owning or disposing of assets. The new report could add more woes for the powerful Democrat, already under investigation by the House Ethics Committee over his finances and possible abuse of ...
Rangel sets new modern-day record for "ethics issues"
Doug Ross @ Journal —
... then his accountant and finally the fact that he didn't speak Spanish. • In violation of New York City statutes, he secured four rent-controlled apartments, three to serve as luxury living quarters at bargain-basement prices. • He abandoned his Mercedes in the House parking garage. • He had his campaign committee "funnel $80,000 to his son for performing little or no work on a Web site." • He killed a tax increase that would have hurt one of his major donors. As of yesterday Rangel believed that his ethics troubles were drawing to a close . He gloated, "I think that next ...
