Ethics Trials for Rangel and Waters Not Likely Before Election
by PubliusFrom the Associated Press:
Highly visible ethics trials for two prominent Democrats will almost certainly be put off until after the November election, denying Republicans a televised spectacle that could influence voters near the end of campaigns dominated by economic issues.
The House ethics committee failed this past week to set a trial date for either Reps. Charles Rangel of New York or Maxine Waters of California.
Lawmakers plan to recess by Sept. 30 or soon afterward—not enough time to complete a trial. The House ethics committee is unlikely to start proceedings and then interrupt them. The committee has not announced its intentions.
Neither Rangel nor Waters had an immediate comment on the delay.
Rangel, who has tried to negotiate a settlement, has said previously he wanted the case resolved before the election.
Republicans are making a strong bid to regain a House majority. Their House campaign committee is preparing advertisements that will focus on Democrats who received campaign money from Rangel or Waters, and demand that the money be returned. The campaign organization also has sent news releases to 35 House districts on the same issue.
Polling, however, finds the economy and jobs are the dominant campaign issues. News releases and attack ads by the National Republican Campaign Committee won’t substitute for a rare televised ethics trial—where House ethics investigators act as prosecutors trying to prove misconduct.
Democratic campaign strategists are predicting that the ethics issue will have little impact on their candidates’ individual races. Republicans have juxtaposed Rangel’s and Waters’ troubles with Democratic leaders’ winning campaign strategy four years ago, when they accused the GOP of fostering a “culture of corruption.”
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As long as they are hung in public after they are found guilty I am ok with it……
They get off because of this. Their constituents are used to getting free "stuff" and they pay no taxes, so they will keep them in power.
REO Speedwagon comes to mind.
Ridin' The Storm Out, just waitin' for the fall out ….
Just as long as they have one.
Whilst they are at it, might as well convene an Ethics Trial for the illustrious and dubious Eleanor Holmes Norton.
No, because the RATS don't want bad press. and;
Stall it off at all costs.
Hey Waters, I'll tell you what this conservative is all about. This conservative is all about following the law and equal justice under that law. That translates to jail time for you an old Charley….at least jail time, I'm still hoping for a hanging or two.
Maybe the French had it right….just sayin
We're not idiots, and we don't need a televised spectacle to know that Charley Rangel and Maxine Waters are both crooks and belong behind bars. Such as it is, if we have to wait for a trial and convictions, so be it. I'm mean after all………….that is the American way. Not the old Ready, Fire, Aim way……of noblama and his minions.
Gary,
You can't say hanging when talking about a corrupt Black Politician. They will brand you a racist and a bigot.
The strongest language you can use, would probably be "tickle fight".
LOL you are right again CB….the damage is done, I am doomed…
I have tried to post (OXYMORON ALERT)
Congressional Ethics
three times and it keeps getting deleted,,,,whats up with that?
I've often wondered how Lynchburg, VA. and Lynchburg, TN. got their names, and also why ":African"-Americans have not asked (demanded) that the Federal Government force a name change.
They have Blacksburg, VA and Blacksburg, NC. It is a tie.
It does not exist, yet.
Just like the convicted Alcee Hastings. Below is courtesy of Wiki and he is sitting in Congress today. That proves Democrats are really stupid and like corruption.
In 1988, the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives took up the case, and Hastings was impeached for bribery and perjury by a vote of 413-3. He was then convicted in 1989 by the United States Senate, becoming the sixth federal judge in the history of the United States to be removed from office by the Senate. The vote on the first article was 69 for and 26 opposed, providing two votes more than the two-thirds of those present that were needed to convict. The first article accused the judge of conspiracy. Conviction on any single article was enough to remove the judge from office. The Senate vote cut across party lines, with Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, voting to convict his fellow party member, and Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, voting to acquit.[1]
Hmmm?
A) Show trial and coverup now
OR
B) Trial after January with the new Teaparty controlled House?
B B B B B B
after all, we all know that the Beas know!
Saw that one coming. Can't have any embarrassing ethics trials before the votes are counted. They'll get a pass in the lame duck session, it's the entitlement thingy.
Oh..Please..The ethics czars will cover this up. The gestapo will take everyone away pushing for a trial.
Let's be honest, there is virtually NO CHANCE either of them will ever be forced out of office without their being caught over a dead body with a bloody knife in their hands. They will always be able to convince the poorly educated, freeloaders in their districts that it is nothing more than "Whitey being out to get them". The only thing accomplishment will be to expose roaches like them to the light of day and embarress them. And that is enough for me.
This is only a dog and pony show because they were exposed. Rangel and Waters will be exonerated of all wrong doing because the are FREAKING LIBS. Who sits on the ethic committee? More libs.
Maggots and corruption everywhere. I want to take a shower everytime I see the administration's pics on this computer. Today I saw Chris Mathews about the schools in CA and how they are implementing what the perv Jennings wants for the whole country. Small children to get educated about homosexuality. The parents were cheering. I wanted to vomit. What is wrong with these people? I'm not against anyone being a homosexual if they choose to be, but small children learning about fisting?
This progressives are turning this country into a cesspool filled with feces. Where is the ethics committee on this?
Bottom line: there are no ethics.
Hell, I didn't know they were African-Americans, I thought they were Americans, well at least in body if not spirit.
Do you have a link to that video?
Can anyone believe that these trials will convict either Rangel or Waters? Come on. Politicos trying politicos. It will be a farce with a soft, slapping of hands. BTW, Waters is already stumping the race card.
These people should be next:
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/2782...
I bet they don't find any LOL
Shocker, black Democrats charged with blatant Ethics issues, and Rangle gets re-elected, as Marian Barry, Pa was re-elected, and their constituents are not racist? They vote by skin color, not ethics, morals, or values.
And they call white people racist? I don't think so. White people elected a black President! End of that story.
They will be Pardoned before it goes to Trial
That's exactly why I would never run for office, the only thing people would concern themselves with is "packaging" and "marketability"…
The people no longer vote for the character they vote for the caricature, just like a bunch of lemming Euro-peons…
Sad to say but Chollie and Maxines crooked behavior is quite insignificant when taken within the
BIG PICTURE of what we face in the coming 2011 Congress.
I've never been an advocate of 'letting go' when ethics and fraud are the crime but this may be a
case when we should cut bait and move on. What do we have to gain, after all. Of course we
would all love to see both of them gone from DC forever, however there is such a thing as a prior-
ities list. Will drubbing them mercilessly bring us any votes, I can't see where/who?
Get on to discussing the economy and jobs. We need to convince many in the middle that we are
serious, and we do have ideas about accomplishing these goals, much more important to the over-
all spectrum of voters than a couple of tired ol' political hacks.
.
Dems break all the rules, cheat us all to stuff money in their pockets, and then call everyone else greedy. Hypocrites. When will the people in their districts notice that the Democrat's "war on poverty" has chained them to failing cities, failing school districts and failing economic areas? Wise up. Big liberal government is the problem, and all that money passed out somehow never gets to the little guy.
This is okay by me. Rangel and Waters will be campaigning, still carrying that baggage around. You just know they'll be given a big fat pass when it comes to trial, so I'd rather see them with soiled hands than sparkly clean ones.
Tough choice, but I think getting past this election with a few less losses is their sole focus right now. I'm for starting a 4-year purge next term.
Can't find a bigger enough pump to drain that swamp eh Nancy?
Yeah, kinda like the police, policing the police!
You could run a black dog in either of their Congressional Districts and I will guarantee a 98% of the voters for it. Ethics is not a subject of much interest to the tribes.
Let them hang out to dry … makes a really good talking point.
This November lets vote and party like it is 1776. Let Us show the political elites who is the boss, because we are the ones who do the consenting. We will have our voices heard at the ballot box. WE WILL NEVER FORGET.
Very good post Copper, I agree.
Forget ethics trials…what about criminal charges for income tax evation…thats what got another gangster ..Al Capone in prison.Wheres the feds ???
When we clean up this country, can we get rid of Michael Moore? I just heard him on CNN Wolf Bitlzer's program and he feels the mosque should be built ON TOP of Ground Zero! Speaking of ethics. Once again, there are none when it concerns the wierdo's that are running loose in this great country.
All the insane asylums have evicted their patients.
Thank you. By the time we get rid of Caligula, there will be a lot residual damage and I AM NOT A PRUDE OR A FRINGE right wing evangelist. I am a normal person that has open views on a lot of subjects, except for this. Our children are precious and our future.
What’s the point of this? Nobody will stand up and do that one single necessary thing that is needed to put a stop to this! We all just talk and chit chat and complain all the while our Constitutional freedoms are under attack and we slip further and further into being slaves to the government! There’s one hundred million of us voters to what… let’s say about a thousand of them and we can’t do our Constitutional duty of ousting them for their deliberate betrayals to you, me and the U.S. Constitution! The Founding Fathers gave to us a tool to use in cases such as this and nobody wants to pick it up! If you care about your freedoms and your future you have a choice….pick up that tool or be their slave, it’s your decision!
You have a point Missy8s, but if that's your dream, screw em! Go for it! Let them learn something. You'd have lots of support, and you're so smart, you'd be a great leader.
But if it's not a burning dream for you, then avoiding the brutal political world would be smart too. It would suck the blood out of the most hardened criminal. It's brutal.
You seem to be pretty savvy in the field of economics. Maybe you could start as an economic or other type of advisor to a politician, and then see how that goes, and take it from there.
But I understand your feelings and resentment. It is justified. I can't stand ignorant, judgemental people. I am in science and I always explain TG scientifically and people tend to accept that easier. Like the gay thing, it's not a choice. It's a biological fact. It's all science. Once they get that, then go from there. Learn some genetics.
However, then there's Religion, and liberalism/socialism, which are another story. They're tough. They have fixed ideas and closed minds.
Don't forget about O'Donnell since you all care so much about ethics…
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/09/18/odonnell.e...
No wonder she canceled all her Sunday talk show appearances including Fox News. These documents are all over the freakin' place.
We don’t care about ethics, we’re learning from the parasitic left. The only thing anybody cares about she’ll vote no against Barry and his Bolsheviks.
And again, what is the problem with O’Donnell?
Waters and Rangel will be cleared of ANY WRONG DOING… Democrats are in the fight for their life now. If Waters and Rangel go to trail for ethics violations, it will be another 2 nails in their coffin. They will be cleared that is a fact!
By the way, the "cheering parents" could have been an astroserf crowd provided by Soros money. Don't believe what they show us.
(Maybe) not if enough Republicans have the good sense to stop it from happening in the lame duck session.
yes…right here……………….take your pick………………..
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Bill Maher had the video on his HBO show last night………..not that I watch that asshole.
I think this was the real thing because the the parents were CA morons in a meeting with the school board.
Uh-oh.
I never thought about the Black Hills.
Don't tell Russell Means.
A couple of very god reasons for Sharia law are Rangel and Waters. A gallows on the capitol steps would be a nice deterant to those who would screw over their constituents. OK, OK, instead of the violence, let's just implement term limits of five years for any held office.
The Ruling Class
Who are these rulers, and by what right do they rule? How did America change from a place where people could expect to live without bowing to privileged classes to one in which, at best, they might have the chance to climb into them? What sets our ruling class apart from the rest of us?
The most widespread answers — by such as the Times's Thomas Friedman and David Brooks — are schlock sociology. Supposedly, modern society became so complex and productive, the technical skills to run it so rare, that it called forth a new class of highly educated officials and cooperators in an ever less private sector. Similarly fanciful is Edward Goldberg's notion that America is now ruled by a "newocracy": a "new aristocracy who are the true beneficiaries of globalization — including the multinational manager, the technologist and the aspirational members of the meritocracy." In fact, our ruling class grew and set itself apart from the rest of us by its connection with ever bigger government, and above all by a certain attitude.
Other explanations are counterintuitive. Wealth? The heads of the class do live in our big cities' priciest enclaves and suburbs, from Montgomery County, Maryland, to Palo Alto, California, to Boston's Beacon Hill as well as in opulent university towns from Princeton to Boulder. But they are no wealthier than many Texas oilmen or California farmers, or than neighbors with whom they do not associate — just as the social science and humanities class that rules universities seldom associates with physicians and physicists. Rather, regardless of where they live, their social-intellectual circle includes people in the lucrative "nonprofit" and "philanthropic" sectors and public policy. What really distinguishes these privileged people demographically is that, whether in government power directly or as officers in companies, their careers and fortunes depend on government. They vote Democrat more consistently than those who live on any of America's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Streets. These socioeconomic opposites draw their money and orientation from the same sources as the millions of teachers, consultants, and government employees in the middle ranks who aspire to be the former and identify morally with what they suppose to be the latter's grievances.
Professional prominence or position will not secure a place in the class any more than mere money. In fact, it is possible to be an official of a major corporation or a member of the U.S. Supreme Court (just ask Justice Clarence Thomas), or even president (Ronald Reagan), and not be taken seriously by the ruling class. Like a fraternity, this class requires above all comity — being in with the right people, giving the required signs that one is on the right side, and joining in despising the Outs. Once an official or professional shows that he shares the manners, the tastes, the interests of the class, gives lip service to its ideals and shibboleths, and is willing to accommodate the interests of its senior members, he can move profitably among our establishment's parts.
cool,the next congress can boot them as easily as this one should. will be more fun to wait and hear the howls of double standard yelled at the newly elected replacements for the farce of this current congress.
A good test for the new Congress will be to see if these two are given a pass or not. Under the olde system the Republicans would be 'above' having them answer for their crimes. I want representatives who won't look the other way or give a free pass because 'everyone does it'.
They work for us. Maybe we should hold the trials, the hell with congress.
Can ya all see I am ticked?
Great read! And perfectly describes a parasite. As is the case throughout history, it’s never a good thing when the peasants get out their pitchforks, what was that immortal line, “let them eat cake!” That didn’t end well.
Moore is an azz.
Hey Stan, thats good. Barry's Bolshevicks….I like it !
Dems are too deep in the Government.. They been set up years ago to filter out their people and hammer the NON-Democrats. That's the same was with the Tax issues. Just how many of Obama's Dems been caught not paying their tax for years and not so much as a trail, where NON-Democrats are forced out of their position or office..
This deserves a " Just Damn ". What else is No Bama going to change?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/revisionist-recit...
It does roll off the tongue!
Problem is she is a woman, and a Tea Party official. Democrats can't control their bowels movements over that..
Remember Ted Kennedy. He wasn't forced out of office with a dead body. If memory serves he was cheered when he came back from the Senate.
You mean like our Secretary of the Treasury?
After all that has happened in the past two years,…….
do the voters really need,…. "a televised spectacle",…….
to make the right decision come November.
You still can't get over that she won her primary and just because some so-called watch dog group says it is illegal doesn't mean anything. Also it has already been addressed.
"White people elected a black President!"
Actually, most white people voted against Obama. McCain got roughly the same percentage of the white vote as Bush got in 2004. Obama was elected because of America's continuing demographic revolution. A revolution which no Republican seems willing to try to stop. In fact, from all of the "I love legal immigrants" comments I see here, most conservatives apparently are more than happy to see their country fall into the hands of leftists.
I do think that if we get some Congressional power back that we should enforce our "Fed Immig Law" and clean out the Country and seal up the Border, and concentrate on America only for a while, as we restore ourselves.
I agree with that. But it will take more than enforcing our current laws. We need drastic cuts in LEGAL immigration. Legal immigrants from the third-world vote overwhelmingly for left-wing Democrats. And we are importing them by the millions. It makes no sense why no conservative politician is saying anything about this.
The photo accompanying this story reminds me of Jabba the Hut-
corpulent and corrupt
Seriously …. I guess it's "Black First" … Americian second … This President is getting worse by the hour .. so thin skinned
I thought he was the President of all of us or is he trying out for the HNIC job at SEIU ????
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39250950/ns/politics-...
I agree 100%. I saw a special today on how many muslim schools there are in the U.S. and how difficult it is to control the teachings of Islam when they drift over to Radical. This is very dangerous for U.S.
I think they should get out of the U.S. and take their Mosques with them. I think the U.N. communists can get out too. I agree that we need to reverse this Invasion now.
I've blogged before about cleaning out America and stopping Immigration and the deliberate attempt by Progressives to dilute our Country's culture. Their meddling in our text books is illegal.
Also our Colleges are filled with Foreigners on 'foreign aid scholarships' and are displacing our own American students from a seat in that College. It's all wrong. We've got to reverse course big time.
I've blogged before that our enemies, and opportunists are using our own "tolerance" against US! A prime example is Imam Rauf. He refers to our 1st Ammendment to USE IT AGAINST U.S! He says we must all work together. HE LIES! He wants to build an Islamic University which will turn out Islamic Radicals. You know like the ones that mass murdered 3,000 innocents on 9/11.
He is A PHONEY, AND A LIAR! He needs to be DEPORTED! He has nefarious intentions toward the US! and Bloomberg, NY, is allowing it. What a disgrace! We will fight
The obsession of the obama administration with the ILLEGALS is very dangerous. They are purposely leaving the Borders open for a gangplank from Central & So. America and 30 other Countries. This is not only NOT SAFE FOR U.S. but it is changing the demographics so radically that we will soon be the marxist Global World Order instead of the greatest Country on earth, America.
Let's face it, Obama is STEALING AMERICA! and we have to stop him legally and through multi-media like this blog, Fox News, Talk Radio, the new Tea Party Elections, etc…….
I personally want to see the Obama Administration brought before a Grand Jury for Abuse of Power, High Crimes and treason, Dereliction of Duty, and Failur to uphold their OATH of office according to The Constitution.
What the Republicans should do is let the Democrats delay the trial until after the election, then delay it even further until after the new Congress is sworn in, and they have a majority that can expel them.
Rangel has an impressive challenger, MICHEL FAULKNER, who is running a positive campaign focused on job creation for his community (www.Faulknerforcongress.com).
Amen to that.
They are the racists. They only see skin color.
Michael Moore is a scourge upon America. The man is a communist, and should be boycotted and punished for his anti-American views.
-IRONICALLY he is a Capitalist! because of all of the money he makes from his vile Anti-American movies. Hypocrite!
Missy- truth be told, from what I've read from you, I'd trust *you* in office far FAR more than any other that's been serving thus far. I don't look at "packaging" or "marketing"…I look at values, I look at past history.
You, I'd trust.
Well, don't you people have standards when it comes to politicians and their ethics problems? Or is it just Democrats?
"just because some so-called watch dog group says it is illegal doesn't mean anything" — Well maybe you should let these folks know that then, huh?
http://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2010...
"We don’t care about ethics, we’re learning from the parasitic left" — Oh so when it's the "parasitic Left, it's evil but when it's one of your own you do what? Conveniently ignore it? Brush it under the carpet and throw snivel fits about the Left?
http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/08/willia...
But hey, the Left are parasites who have no problem holding our own accountable unlike some sissy "parasites" the country knows, eh?
Democrats have a history of clearing other Dems of wrong doing. Here is a perfect example:
http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/08/willia...
Now if only the Left would stop their corruption when conveniently ignoring the ethics problems of O'Donnell. Damn, dirty Democrats always lie for their own like that sleazy Christine O'Donnell.
The ruling class has obedient servants who can't think for themselves. <hint, hint>
Oh God forbid he fires up the base. That would sound the racist WAAAAHHHHHbulance for the Right. Remember a few short years ago when the Conservatives weren't such a bunch of whiney sissies with their pink little panties all wet every 6 minutes? WTF happened to you girlies? You cry about everything for Chrisesakes.
Not time for me to fly?
Dig the plank out of your own eye.
You made a funny Syntax. Remember to point and laugh!
As is typical with you Syntax, you miss the point. I have learned from the parasitic left, and my litmus test is, “what’s in it for me?”
Answer: A reliable “no” vote against Barry. “I-Don’t-Give-A-Damn- About–Her–Ethics!”
ah .. the left as usual .. zero sense in the comment … and we wonder what is wrong with our education system …. GOVERNMENT envolvement …..
go listen to Air America ,,,,
I guess there is a first time for everything.
http://drudgereport.com/flash2.htm
word
Did you see this story? It is very good.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pag...
maybe this PR stunt will save one House seat,……
it's worth the shot,…….
he's got nothing else.
No….. as others have stated, their constituents are to going to keep on loving you. Cuz that;s the only thing they wanted to do. They don't want to sleep…..
You have that right, it is a PR stunt. Kind of reminds me of Buba carrying the bible to church after the Lewinsky story broke.
thats true
your post is probably going viral as we speak and being used to show how racist the
TPM is
This might even work out to our advantage…. Since it was already public knowledge that Rangle, Waters and the rest would fly past the primaries regardless of their corruption and pending trails,,,,,if we wait until after they get re-elected, their trials can get them sanctioned or better still booted out of congress after the election,,,leaving their seats open for a spell,,,,,just hopin for a change
All ego. No substance. Not one thing worth anything to his constituents. They're uninvolved and don't care.
What's really crappy is that the people in their districts RE-ELECTED them!!
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