Rift in Democrat Party Over Charlie Rangel: Obama Wants Him Out But Hill Dems Eyes Only a Wrist Slap

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Although you won’t find this reading in the Obama suck up media, I don’t see how anybody can interpret the president’s comments yesterday concerning the situation New York Rep Charlie Rangel is in facing an ethics trial as anything other than, “Resign now and go far away from here!”

Obama’s approval ratings continue to plummet thanks to his job-killing, big government policies and the last thing he needs is for Charlie Rangel to be given only a slap on the wrist despite the mountain of evidence pointing to his sleazy corruption.

Has Obama lost that much juice within the Democrat Party that his call for Rangel’s resignation as subtle as it was, falls totally on deaf ears?

Personally, I hope Rangel fights tooth and nail because it will be better than watching Snooki falling down drunk on Jersey Shore.

But, this is defiantly a rift in the Democrat Party that “state controlled” media doesn’t want to report it as such.

New York Post

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.

That's much higher than previous estimates of less than $1 million based on the congressman's financial disclosure forms for 2002 to 2007.

Meanwhile, nervous Democratic Congress members are beginning to abandon Rangel's shaky ship.

Two -- John Yarmouth (Ky.) and Zack Space (Ohio) -- yesterday called on Rangel to resign.

But the head of the investigatory panel that conducted the two-year probe of Rangel revealed that they want to let him off with only a reprimand.

"The recommendation that we have is a reprimand," Rep. Gene Green (D-Texas) told reporters.

A reprimand would have to be approved by the full House ethics committee and then the House itself.

The light admonishment falls short of censure or expulsion from Congress and doesn't even require an apology.
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Arrogant Democrat Rep Charlie Rangel Doesn’t Like when a Reporter (Luke Russert) Acts like a Real Journalist

The below video is a perfect illustration of the relationship between the mainstream media and the Democrat Party



Luke Russert, son of famed host of Meet the Press, Tim Russert, actually had the audacity to ask Charlie Rangel some pertinent questions related to Rangel’s recent multiple ethics violations charges.

Look at hiw Rangel treats Jason Mattera who also asks relavent questions Rangel never gets form the suck up media.


Rangel is not used to being treated by the press this way and questions Russet’s professionalism and accuses him of acting disrespectfully.

That’s because the expected mode of behavior for the press is to advocate, to cheerlead, and parrot whatever the Democrat Party wants them to say.

There is no free press anymore.

It’s willingly enslaved by Liberalism.

They have gladly become public relations associates for the Democrat Party masquerading as the press.

Here’s an example of press hooker, Ed Schultz, who has his own show on MSNBC.


Act like a dictator…

Let’s act like Hugo Chavez…

Let’s get our Adolph Hitler on…

Let’s do the Joseph Stalin boogie and step on the Constitution, take away people’s right of free speech, do away with due process, throw people in jail because they dare have a mind of their own and disagree with the government, and if all that doesn’t work, just kill’em all.

Since there’s no such thing as being a little pregnant, acting a little like a dictator is just the first step to totalitarianism. Left untreated, the cancer will only spread and get worse because absolute power, which Schultz clearly was selling to the public, corrupts absolutely!

This is who the media really is, Left Wing ideologues like President Obama, Charlie Rangel, and Ed Schultz.

Luke Russert must’ve missed the meme.

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