Charlie Rangel is a crook and a cheat. In 2008 he was charged by the House of Representatives Ethics committee, and found guilty on eleven counts, including not reporting rental income and income tax improprieties. He was removed from the Ways and Means committee as a result, which directs how money is spent by the government. But he has been a loud-mouth and a divisive, partisan hack since his earliest days in the House, but it seems that his style and ethics are to the liking of the Democrat party and his New York constituents, and he is the second longest serving member in the House.
Never short on opinions, he suggests that the financial recovery under Barack Obama has not been strong enough or fast enough (true), but his answer is to expand the meme of “social justice” which generally means more welfare, reparations for slavery, and whole host of other giveaways to his African-American supporters. In the video on the next page Rangel also shows how challenged he is with actual U.S. history, and it is clear that many of his positions are founded on ignorance of the facts.
See page 2 for embarrassing Rangel comments:
He is old enough to know better…maybe too old for his job.
No that would be the Democrats .
Wow….everyone knows it’s Libs n Dems behind the KKK
Wtong party
This is another attempt to twist the truth! Clearly this fellow has not read the basic FACTS that ANYONE can see when looking up KKK!
Your a racist idiot. It was started by the southern Democrates
Somebody give this idiot an American history book.
Sorry the republicans freed the slaves. And the KKK WAS Democratic.
You better take history over again
Fact Not one Republican was ever associated or a member of the KKK! KKK was 100 percent, Southern Democrats! Robert Byrd was a recruiter for the Klan while in his 20s and 30s, rising to the title of Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops of his local chapter. After leaving the group, Byrd spoke in favor of the Klan during his early political career. Though he claimed to have left the organization in 1943, Byrd wrote a letter in 1946 to the group’s Imperial Wizard stating “The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia.” Byrd attempted to explain or defend his former membership in the Klan in his 1958 U.S. Senate campaign when he was 41 years old.[1] Byrd, a Democrat, eventually became his party leader in the Senate. Byrd later said joining the Klan was his “greatest mistake.” The NAACP gave him a 100% rating on their issues during the 108th Congress.[2] However, in a 2001 incident Byrd repeatedly used the phrase “white niggers” on a national television broadcast.[3] All the Dems including Obama and Clinton praised him at his memorial! Clinton called him her mentor! NICE TRY RANGEL!