The Support of Corruption by The Congressional Black Caucus

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First there was a resolution to take a privilege away from a member of Congress due to his corrupt behavior:

House Members Wednesday will have to cast a recorded vote on whether it is acceptable for Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-NY) to evade federal taxes for over a decade, and yet pay none of the penalties and interest charges that the IRS piles on the average American taxpayer for far less serious offenses.

House Republican Conference Secretary John Carter (R-TX) this morning is introducing a Privileged Resolution calling for Rangel to be removed as Chairman of the committee that oversees the IRS and the federal tax code, until the 16-month investigation of multiple tax, federal disclosure, and ethics violation charges against Chairman Rangel has been concluded.

Rangel in August made new confessions of failure to report nearly a million dollars in assets on federal disclosure forms. Since the Ethics Committee investigation of Rangel began in July 2008, it had already been expanded twice before the latest revelations.

Of course, the politics of racists got in the way and it was voted down:

Final vote tabling Carter’s resolution to remove Rangel from W&M chairmanship: 243-156. 19 voted present. 3 REPUBLICANS joined the Democrats….

The 3 Repubs who joined Ds to table remove Rangel resolution: King (NY), Rohrbacher & Young (AK).

While one of the biggest racists excused Rangel’s corruptness because…well, everybody does it.

“Many members” of Congress suffer from the same disclosure issues as Rep. Charles Rangel (D.N.Y.), one of his allies said Wednesday.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) downplayed the seriousness of allegations against Rangel that he failed to disclose sources of income and pay taxes on some properties, saying that many lawmakers suffer from innocent lapses in judgment when filing mandatory financial disclosure forms.

“I want to tell you, there are many members who, if you go back over all of their records, over all of the years, you’re going to find that there were disclosures that were not made,” Waters said during an appearance on MSNBC Wednesday morning.

Everyone hides millions of dollars worth of assets don’t they?

Yeeeeah.

But from Maxine Waters it shouldn’t surprise anyone, hell….even the leftist group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington have her as one of the top 15 most corrupt officials in Washington.

So in her case….she’s just backing a fellow scumbag, who just happens to be black. Kinda doubting she would be doing the same thing for a white member…..and the doubt grows stronger when we see this today: (h/t Michelle Malkin)

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The Congressional Black Caucus flexed its political muscle by sending a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) defending Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) from partisan attacks.

The letter, dated Oct. 7, was sent the same day Democrats beat back a GOP attempt to force Rangel, a founding member of the CBC, to resign as chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee because of a string of ethics allegations against him involving a series of financial violations on his taxes and required congressional disclosure forms, among other accusations.

In a partisan vote of 246 to 153, the House referred to the ethics committee a GOP resolution aimed at removing Rangel from the top post on the panel while the ethics committee continues its investigation of the charges. The Democratic parliamentary procedure to refer it to the ethics committee effectively killed the GOP resolution.

“As members of the Congressional Black Caucus, we support our colleague, Charlie Rangel, Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, and condemn partisan attempts to ignore the well-established, bipartisan ethics process,” they wrote.

The letter was designed to demonstrate the sheer magnitude of Rangel’s support among one of the most powerful Democratic factions in the House.

Just pathetic…

The liberals and their racial identity politics trumps all it seems. Doesn’t matter how corrupt they are, if they’re black then the black caucus will support them. Of course if your a conservative black you will get none of that support since your just a Uncle Tom anyways.

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Partisan attacks … It’s as if they still think their media parrot can get it done for them.

So the members of the Congressional Pickaninny Playpen have brought forth yet another diaperload of ethical diarrhea….color me not surprised.

The world if full of two (2) types of people:

Those who would put a smelly dead rat in the trash can, and;

Those who would take a dead smelly rat and parade it around with joy.

Rep. Charles Rangel is out of place. He is not honorable, he stinks.

What do you have to do to lose any position in washington any more?? I guess unless you turn up covered in blood with a butcher knife in one hand and video of the crime in the other you are pretty much immune to the LAW.

If I were to suddenly discover that I owned an extra few million dollars of property I had not paid taxes on for years and years… The government would seize it. But when Rangel does it there is no fine, no penalty, and all the other corruptocrats line up to say he should not be punished. There is one law for congress and another law for the peons.

Not only should Rep Charlie Rangel step down from his position of Chairman of the HWMC, he should resign from Congress.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus

http://www.theobamafile.com/ProgressiveCaucus.htm

The 80 socialists in the US Congress.

This has nothing to do with political disclosure. It has to do with income tax evasion. Not just an oversight but pure and simple criminal intent to defraud the government.
Has anyone checked his freezer?

How does someone accuse another of racism when in fact the issue is corruption?

Well, you guys knew the RACE CARD was going to be played.

@Beckwith: I was shocked to find that there even is a DSA. I knew my representatives from CA would all be on it. And they are. The thing is that they will all vote in unison no matter what the issue is. I don’t ever recall a time that Sam Farr has been on the chopping block but this year, I hear his name and see letters suggesting that it’s time for him to retire. He inherited his position from his father, Sam. He slides by every election due to his coastal protection votes. I’m hoping the Republicans can run someone against him with that issue covered but get the scoundrel out on issues such as this one…voting for the corrupt Rangel.

What would they call it if we started a group called The Congressional WHITE Caucus?

Anyone? Bueller?

@TexasFred: I think they should try it and let everyone see the hypocrisy up close. If White caucus is racist so is Black caucus.

What did the Congressional White Caucus have to say about this? Oh, I see some of you have already used that one.

@ Blast

Him and at least 400 other members of that body, dem and repub. There may actually be 35 good honest people in the House. I just find it harder to believe everyday.