House Ethics Panel Expands Charles "Chuckles" Rangel's Ethics Probe

[BENZ-LGB]

A Dem giving breaks to BO (big oil) and/or selling influence?

Shocked, I am shocked!!!

WASHINGTON – The House ethics committee is expanding an investigation of Rep. Charles Rangel, chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee. The ethics panel issued a statement Tuesday saying it had voted to expand an already far-ranging probe into the New York Democrat to examine whether he protected an oil drilling company from a big tax bill when the head of that company pledged a $1 million donation to a college center named after the congressman.

The move means the Rangel inquiry will likely stretch well past early January, when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., had previously said she expected the matter to be resolved.

For more details, follow the link below:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081210/ap_on_go_co/rangel_ethics

[t walgamuth]

I am shocked too.

Actually you will have crooks no matter which party you look at, of course, human nature being as it is....flawed.

[Carleton Hughes]

That's it.Scratch nearly any professional politician,particularly from the lower ranks,of any affiliation and you'll find someone incapable of earning their bread by conventional and ethical means.

[Honus]

Originally Posted by Carleton Hughes

That's it.Scratch nearly any professional politician,particularly from the lower ranks,of any affiliation and you'll find someone incapable of earning their bread by conventional and ethical means.

A vast overstatement.

I have no way of know which politicians are honest and which aren't, but I would guess that the overwhelming majority is as honest as anyone else.

[Carleton Hughes]

Originally Posted by dculkin

A vast overstatement.

I have no way of know which politicians are honest and which aren't, but I would guess that the overwhelming majority is as honest as anyone else.

Quite possibly,but it's a fatal error to imagine others share your values and ethics.

[BENZ-LGB]

Originally Posted by Carleton Hughes

Quite possibly,but it's a fatal error to imagine others share your values and ethics.

Well said! (or written)

[Honus]

Originally Posted by Carleton Hughes

Quite possibly,but it's a fatal error to imagine others share your values and ethics.

I don't know if it's necessarily a "fatal" error, but it certainly is an error.

Why do you raise that point here? Who do you think made that error?

[Txjake]

with that hairdo, who would have thought Rangel was corrupt?

[Carleton Hughes]

Originally Posted by dculkin

I don't know if it's necessarily a "fatal" error, but it certainly is an error.

Why do you raise that point here? Who do you think made that error?

Oh,no you don't.You'll get no polemics from me!

[Mistress]

OMG, I can't believe it, say it isn't so! After a proper probing I'm sure the congressman will be punished if he is found guilty....

[Dee8go]

I have heard that a lot of "probing" goes on in Congress all the time . . . .





. . . . . some groping, too.

[Botnst]

Originally Posted by Dee8go

I have heard that a lot of "probing" goes on in Congress all the time . . . .





. . . . . some groping, too.

What was that senator from Oregon's nickname? "The Tongue"! When that got out, he was doomed. Doomed I say.

[Mistress]

Originally Posted by Dee8go

I have heard that a lot of "probing" goes on in Congress all the time . . . .





. . . . . some groping, too.

Tap, Tap Tapping as well.

[BENZ-LGB]

Originally Posted by Mistress

OMG, I can't believe it, say it isn't so! After a proper probing I'm sure the congressman will be punished if he is found guilty....

Mistress, you get a special prize!

You were the first one to work the words "ethics probe" into a salacious comment.

It is always good to hear from you.

[Mistress]

Originally Posted by BENZ-LGB

Mistress, you get a special prize!

You were the first one to work the words "ethics probe" into a salacious comment.

It is always good to hear from you.

Mi piace mi amigo.