A defiant Charlie Rangel (D-NY) has received his "rebuke" or whatever you call it from House Spoker Nancy Pelosi. (That's not a misprint or typo.) Of course, Charlie is hardly remorseful. Here is a clip from the Washington Post showing his "answer" to a Washington Times reporter's question about how an average citizen would be treated in his case. (Hat tip to Hot Air)
Note to Rangel: Average American citizens are not corrupt.
If you think Rangel is less than remorseful, wait until the trial of Maxine Waters begins. This is the most odious person in Congress. She will be on trial for arranging a meeting with Treasury chief Henry Paulson to discuss a bailout for a bank her husband had an interest in. (No, she didn't inform Paulson.) Among other things for which she is not being tried are:
Sending a letter to Fidel Castro asking him not to extradite an American woman who escaped from prison (she killed a cop), and escaped to Cuba.
Spreading the malicious lie that the CIA was involving in flooding the LA inner city with crack.
Intervening in a DEA case in Houston, which led to that DEA office dropping an investigation into someone who was a boyhood friend of her husband.
Of course, look for Maxine to pull out that race card, which in this case, has to be thrown at her own party.
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Your reference to "the race card" and "her own party" are more nuanced than in the past... a notable improvement.
If there's one thing I can't stand it is a Democratic congress rep having dealings with the enemy (a Republican treasury secretary).
Assata Shakur is perfectly harmless, and given the politics which corrupted the allegations against her, justice is well served by leaving her alone.
Can a member of the Black Caucus be corrupt? Sure, anyone can be corrupt. Will a corrupt person play any card they can when they are caught? Sure, black, Irish, Anglo, Italian, and many other demographics do that. Should it save them? Not hardly. But the House is not a court of law -- if the Washington Moonie Paper wants harsher punishment, they need to inquire why criminal charges have not been brought.
The Race Card and Victim Card are used so often that they are worn down to a point where anyone should be able to see right through them. The rhetorical use of a long list of crimes that he was NOT charged with that Rangel recited seems to make him feel practically innocent. At least that is what he wants his constituency feel. Waters also minimizes her fiduciary breaches as misdemeanors.
It is amazing how much people will tolerate just to avoid being considered a racist. Enough of them will even vote for a black man to be President just to avoid the label or just to make themselves feel enlightened... and look what the rest of us got! ... an inexperienced, incompetent, affirmative action President!
Voting for a black person or forgiving a crime because of the color of their skin is every bit as racist as plain vanilla bigotry.
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GW called it the "soft bigotry of lowered expectations." As long as we tolerate people like Waters, we are expecting less of black people. That is a form of bigotry.
GW called it the "soft bigotry of lowered expectations." As long as we tolerate people like Waters, we are expecting less of black people. That is a form of bigotry.
What makes it worse is that real accomplishments by minorities are too frequently discounted in the end. This is because of the presumption that they received some kind of affirmative action break instead of the intelligence and hard work that is assumed for everyone else.
That's another unintended sad consequence that the "feel good" Left brought about.
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Now I know Miggie isn't talking about me, because I don't "feel good" about much of anything. I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE.
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