Congressman Rangel looking for the ropes but his friend Obama says: It’s the end for Rangel
US Representative Charlie Rangel, a Communist Cuba sympathizer was thrown under the bus by compañero Obama yesterday. Perhaps Mr. Rangel could live in Cuba and quietly await the fall of the Castro’s Family Oligarca regime till he runs somewhere else. Now he is in trouble. Having fought for Civil Rights for decades while ignoring the rights of millions of Black Cubans, he has become an embarrassment for his friends of the Socialist International, who he served in a very efficient manner. He is accused of tax evasion among other crimes. He is now looking for the ropes but Barack Obama will not throw the lifesaver. Congresswoman Maxine Waters is another leftist member of the US House who’s also in trouble. With their speeches and interviews they have been singled out by Americans as “extreme leftists”. Now they both face charges and neither Fidel nor Raul Castro seem to be throwing any ropes, as their friends on the left (To the left, To the left) turn around wearing colorful Che T-shirts. Surely, they must have more important things to do. It is typical among the extreme left: the proletariat first, and their interests and their families before the proletariat.
If Rep. Charles Rangel was looking for support from President Obama, he’d better not get his hopes up.
Obama last night called the ethics charges against Rangel “very troubling” and sharply noted that the embattled Harlem Democrat is “at the end of his career.”
“I think Charlie Rangel served a very long time and served his constituents very well. But these allegations are very troubling,” Obama said on the “CBS Evening News” in his first comments on the Rangel scandal.
“He’s somebody who’s at the end of his career. Eighty years old. I’m sure that what he wants is to be able to end his career with dignity. And my hope is that it happens.”
Earlier, it was revealed that the House ethics panel has recommended only a slap on the wrist for Rangel — a formal reprimand.
Government watchdog groups and other critics ripped the proposed punishment — the weakest in the House’s arsenal — as outrageously lenient given the severity of the allegations.
“The substantial number of violations against Congressman Rangel make a reprimand totally inappropriate. It’s ridiculous,” said Melanie Sloan, director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
The charges include failing to pay taxes on the villa he owned in the Dominican Republic; not reporting huge amounts of assets and income on his financial disclosure statements; improperly soliciting funds from entities with business before his committee to finance a “Charles Rangel Center” at CCNY; and receiving a rent-stabilized apartment that he improperly used as a campaign office.
The House ethics committee report showed that Rangel failed to report as much as $1.7 million in personal assets over the past 12 years.
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Not to mention that Rangel has controlled Harlem politics like a dictator: No opportunity for anybody else. No wonder he likes Fidel.