Rangel's Wrangle

And the Republican Racism.

I am calling a spade a spade. Republicans are racists in large part. Very large part. Admit it. I know it first hand to be true in more ways than I care to repeat or even reflect upon because it makes me sick (I am a white girl -OK frantically freckled with rumored native american blood from about a hundred years ago in the gene pool -which my blonde hazel eyed mother denies.)
This Charlie Rangel mess is a persecution campaign against black legislators hoping to smear Obama eventually- whack Maxine while you are at it.
Get SERIOUS. This is doing more to undermine Republican credibility than Mitch McMarbles (does he not talk like he has a mouth full of marbles?) making everyone bow and cow tow and kiss to his 'agenda.'
I am not going to comment on declaring rental income in the DR- He denies it- perhaps there were legit set offs they are not taking into account like maintenance costs, etc...that reduced the total income, etc...I didn't do his taxes so I don't know.
I also don't know about the Franking issue of using the congressional stamps and franking for a college in new york that had some program or building named after him- but doesn't that in a sense also promote the institution as a whole if a sitting congressman has a building named after him or a program attributed to him? Isn't that something we the American people want to encourage? Apparently not if it is a black congressman promoting lower income education. The Republicans actually in some districts loudly lobby for totally abolishing the department of education. Ridiculous.
Then there is the issue of getting a few rent controlled apartments in Harlem- for what? office space? Good for him. Manhattan is ridiculously expensive- you want a congressman paying Trump instead? GET SERIOUS- what are these "ethics" issues really but smoke and mirrors for the Republican campaign of persecution against black legislators? Rent Control is a 'gift?" in violation of the Gift Ban? Rent Control is a law- Congresspeople can't take advantage of it like any American? They have to pay out the nose? With what? Campaign contributions?
Does that mean that if I rent a room in a house with people in a House on the Hill and they give me a break and don't charge me out the nose that I am guilty of some kind of graft?
This is a sad pathetic joke and Republicans should be ashamed of themselves.
We should be applauding people with long records in Congress who have done as much good for underprivileged people in a major city as Charlie Rangel. Did he benefit his 'friends' too much? Who doesn't try to do that in Congress? Mitch McMarble tried to help all his tobacco lobby friends-and they ran around the country giving people lung cancer.
Leave Rangel alone- or you will set a Karmic precedent that is going to get all of you jokers.