Showing posts with label Charles B. Rangel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charles B. Rangel. Show all posts

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Week With The Dems: Chicken Crap & Charlie



We started the week with a Republican screaming, "This is why the American people threw you out!" and now we end it with these two tragic statements on the Democrats' behavior and soon-to-be legacy. One, above, where John Boehner has to restrain himself in the face of the Democrat's silly, petty, and useless posturing, and then the one below, where the Dems expose their lack of values by, first, censuring Charlie Rangel for ripping the rest of us off, and then applauds him for not going to jail like the rest of us would, if we were ever caught in his very expensive italian shoes.



It's a sad spectacle all the way around.

We have nothing really to add to this, except get 'em out - get 'em out now, get 'em out of power as soon as it's humanly fucking possible and not a second later:

They've already done too much damage and stunk up the joint enough.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Charley, Charley, Charley,...You Old Dog

"While aggressive evictions are making rent-stabilized apartments increasingly scarce in New York, Representative Charles B. Rangel is enjoying four of them, including three adjacent apartments in a sprawling penthouse overlooking Upper Manhattan, courtesy of one of New York’s premier real estate developers.

Mr. Rangel, the powerful Democrat who is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, uses his fourth apartment, six floors below, as a campaign office, despite state and city regulations that require rent-stabilized apartments to be used as a primary residence.

Mr. Rangel, who has a net worth of $566,000 to $1.2 million, according to Congressional disclosure records, paid a total rent of $3,894 monthly in 2007 for the four apartments at Lenox Terrace, a 1,700-unit, six-tower luxury development with doormen that is described in real estate publications as Harlem’s most prestigious address.

The current market-rate rent for similar apartments in the building would total $7,465 to $8,125 a month, according to the Web site of the owner, the Olnick Organization."


-- David Kocieniewski, reporting on the continuing (but expected) saga of Democratic hypocrisy, for the New York Times

My friends, the walls are indeed tumblin' down,...