A reader sends breaking news and asks a question. In the LCR mailbox:
Lawyers have reached a tentative deal to settle ethics charges against Rep. Charles Rangel. If approved by the House ethics panel, the deal would stop public hearings on alleged ethics violations.
The buck stops no where with these guys - what do you think?
I simply wrote back, "every infringement stacks up to more electoral losses for the Democrats in November."
To expand upon this - perhaps a public trial would not be as damaging for the Democrat party and leadership (and potentially at the ballot box in November) as yet another smoke-filled-backroom-attorney-power-broker-deal is. I recall similar antics played out during the train-off the-tracks Republican congress and we all recall how that turned out.
Charles Rangel cutting a deal to avoid a public trial may just incite more anger from independents, Tea Partiers, libertarians, moderates and conservatives than the ruling class is estimating.
If only I had photoshop skills, images of Charlie Rangel and a three ring circus are flooding my mind:
Cross posted to War Planner, Proof Positive, Rational Nation, Allied Liberty News.
Madmath1 · 765 weeks ago
Andrew33 103p · 765 weeks ago
Folks, this is just in jest. NYC is a far better place since Rudi cleaned house. Rudi would make a good running mate for a strong pro-liberty (libertarian leaning Republican) presidential campaign in 2012.
Andrew33 103p · 765 weeks ago
Call it a hunch but I tend to think that both Rangel and Steele (RNC) still have their political positions for one reason. (Gotta clarify your meanings when you mention Steele and "positions".)
Andrew33 103p · 765 weeks ago
Now KOOK and LCR are sharing posts which gets our material on his blog which gets far more traffic and we get LCR as a part time contributor. Beyond his excellent material, LCR brings bigtime blogger cred to our concept of how the print media used to be back in the days when a local newspaper actually supported America wholeheartedly. So, good luck LCR and thank you for sharing your work and readership with us. I hope that we can help usher in a time when the media will again support America, and liberty will be the rule rather than the exception
KOOK 91p · 765 weeks ago
Andrew33 103p · 765 weeks ago
I maintain my view that Rangel will bring others down with him, but with this deal, the big fish will have to wait until November to get kicked out of the pond.
KOOK 91p · 765 weeks ago
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Andrew33 103p · 765 weeks ago
Andrew33 103p · 765 weeks ago