Tag: Charlie Rangel
With Friends Like Charlie Rangel, Who Needs Republicans?
Maybe it was the water that they drink at Harvard.
— Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), quoted by the New York Observer, on why President Barack Obama thought he could work with what Rangel calls the “mean, racist people” in the Tea Party.
Rangel Predicts End of the Republican Party
There are a lot of Republicans that I know are not proud of this period that they’re going through. I predict the end of the Republican Party, maybe not in my lifetime, but soon.
— Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), quoted by Politicker.
Charles, the Ethically Challenged
Now the ethics committee’s left Rangel
At the end of his rope there to dangle.
It gets really complicated
When your conscience gets sublimated,
And your ethics get all in a tangle.
Originally published March 4, 2010
Politics of Ethics
When an ethics panel’s out to destroy ya,
Why waste good money on a lawyer?
‘Cause when you’re Charlie Rangel,
You’ve got to play every angle —
Just walk out, because ethics probes bore ya!
