Good Time Charlie’s Birthday Party
As the pall of an ethics investigation hangs over his head, Charlie Rangel held his birthday party-slash-fund raiser in a swanky hotel in New York City last night as his political cronies swirled around him as if he’d been a faithful tax payer lo these last 80 years. Fox News names some of the friends of the tax cheat who attended last night;
The show of public support for Rangel among the state’s highest officials was the most striking element of the evening, given that many of them — including U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo — will face voters in November.
If i still lived in New York, those would be some of the names of people who wouldn’t be getting my vote just because they showed up to support the rotund little tax evader.
“Charlie delivered for this nation, he carried the banner for people who are long left behind and forgotten,” Cuomo said. “His voice has always been a powerful voice.”
Just like John Murtha, Dan Rostenkowski, and a long line of ethically-challenged politicians, the only reason Rangel carried that banner was to cover for his own misdeeds and feather his own nest. Al Sharpton tried to blame that Big Media bugaboo for Rangel’s troubles;
The Rev. Al Sharpton, for his part, directed his criticism toward the media, which he said had waged a campaign against Rangel.
“We showed up for Charlie Rangel because Charlie Rangel always showed up for us,” Sharpton said. “Don’t turn your cameras off, don’t put your notepads down. You have started and executed a political execution, so stay tuned for a political resurrection.”
Yup, it was Big Media that screwed up Rangel’s tax forms. How someone could sit in that room and listen to that bullshit – then still feel good about themselves is beyond me. of course, the worst that could happen to Rangel is that he’d get a stern letter from Congress and the people of Harlem would vote against him in November (fat chance). He’d still be walking the streets. Not like the rest of Americans who’d be cooling their heels in a jail cell for trying to keep more of their own money.
Category: Congress sucks
Good God, The hypocrisy of all of them is astounding.
Seems the Republicans try to address scandal and the dems just re-elect people like Ted the Swimmer, Land Deal Reid, and it would appear runaway Rangel.
The reason people like Sharpton, Schumer, Cuomo, etc. can sit there listening to the bs and still feel good about themselves is because they are nothing but pond scum, themselves, especially Schumer, who, IMO, is the scumiest of them all.
Sick.