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Democrats still Protecting Charlie Rangel - One of the Most Corrupt Politicians in Washington

WILL HOUSE DEMOCRATS VOTE TO PROTECT CHAIRMAN RANGEL AGAIN?FAILURE TO PAY TAXES AND DISCLOSE INCOME, USING OFFICIAL LETTERHEAD TO RAISE MONEY FOR ‘MONUMENT TO ME’, CORPORATE-FUNDED TRIPS AMONG ACCUSATIONS RANGEL FACES
October 6, 2009 House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) PermalinkUpon winning the majority in the 2006 election, Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared that Democrats would usher-in “the most honest, the most open, the most ethical Congress in history.” Despite that well-known promise, however, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) remains as chairman of the Ways & Means Committee even though he faces serious charges that are now the subject of an Ethics Committee investigation. Moreover, Democrats have twice voted against resolutions calling for Rangel to step down as chairman until the investigation is complete. House Republican Conference Secretary John Carter (R-TX) announced last week his intention to offer another resolution this week to remove Rangel from his chairmanship pending completion of the investigation. Before the House votes on a resolution, it might be helpful for the Majority Democrats to review the accusations facing Rangel:
Failure to report $75,000 in rental income on federal and state tax returns: The New York Times reported that Rangel “earned more than $75,000 in rental income from a villa he has owned in the Dominican Republic since 1988, but never reported it on his federal or state tax returns, according to a lawyer for the congressman and documents from the resort.” Rangel also “paid no interest for more than a decade on a mortgage” for the villa and “the loan was given to him by the resort development company, in which Theodore Kheel, a prominent New York labor lawyer, was a principal investor. Mr. Kheel, who has given tens of thousands of dollars to Mr. Rangel’s campaigns over the past decade.”
Agreed to preserve a tax break that would benefit a supporter who on the same day pledged to give $1 million to Rangel’s ‘Monument to Me’: As the New York Times reported, Rangel agreed “to preserve a tax loophole for an oil-drilling company at the same time that its chief executive pledged $1 million to a City College of New York school that will bear the congressman’s name.”
Used official congressional letterhead to solicit support for his ‘Monument to Me’: The Washington Post reported that Rangel “penned letters on congressional stationery and has sought meetings to ask for corporate and foundation contributions for the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at the City College of New York, a project that caused controversy last year when he won a $1.9 million congressional earmark to help start it.”
Rented four rent-stabilized apartments: As the New York Times reported, Rangel had four rent-stabilized apartments “including three adjacent units on the 16th floor overlooking Upper Manhattan” and “six floors below, as a campaign office, despite state and city regulations that require rent-stabilized apartments to be used as a primary residence.” Rangel “paid a total rent of $3,894 monthly in 2007 for the four apartments” even though the “current market-rate rent for similar apartments in Mr. Rangel’s building would total $7,465 to $8,125 a month.” Rangel later relinquished the apartment used as a campaign office.
Took at least two corporate-funded trips: As The Hill newspaper reported, the funding of trips Rangel took to the Caribbean raise questions about whether the trips violated “a two-year-old ethics rule passed after Democrats regained the House.” A major airline “provided in-kind donations of tickets for Rangel and five other members of Congress to fly from their districts to St. Martin.” According to ethics experts, the donation of tickets “for members to use for a specific trip is a clear violation of House ethics rules governing travel.”
Failed to disclose millions of dollars in income and assets: The New York Post reported that Rangel “failed to report as much as $1.3 million in outside income -- including up to $1 million for a Harlem building sale -- on financial-disclosure forms he filed between 2002 and 2006, according to newly amended records.” Rangel also “lowballed his income by as much as $70,000 in 2002, $46,000 in 2003 and $117,000 in 2006” and in 2004 “Rangel left off his disclosure form as much as $430,000 in stock transactions.” CBS News reported that Rangel also omitted a checking account worth more than $250,000.

Conservatives: Don't fall into the Main Stream Media blind Spot

Have you noticed that things don't seem to be moving at warp speed in congress. The main stream media is blowing the horn telling people how the health care bill is getting more popular, not true. When asked people want health care insurance reform yes, but government health care no.

Its kind of the same old story, print only what you want of whatever source you are using. Health care has become an issue in some minds of reforming the health insurance process, which does need to be done. This was Obama's intention since late July when he started saying "health insurance" reform. People around the country overwhelmingly disapprove of the government option. What Obama is doing is simply overloading people with one crisis to the next. Think about this, Iran blows up a week ago, Afghanistan is now a real problem, ACORN exploded and health care is still out there bubbling up. That's a lot for the American people to get their hands around.

People need to understand that if they want to succeed in getting their views across they need to focus on a single issue, maybe two at most. The desire to react to different things which you believe in passionately is hard to control. People need to hold their fire until the issue or two they are seeing as the most important come to the top. A good example is ACORN. Where is the story today? The media has too many things to cover they can't stay on one topic, they want ratings so they move from issue to issue. One day Iran is at the top, the next day its almost completely unheard. Talk radio is no different, Beck was on health care, then it was ACORN, now its Afghanistan. Yes he still mentions the others but he is not driving them home. If you are against cap and trade, when is the last time there was a major story on it? Once or maybe twice a week even on Fox.

Where I'm going to here is that people have lives, they work, they have kids, its hard to stay focused like a laser beam on something without a staff of people working for you. Health care is a make or break issue for America and Obama. The liberals need to pass something, they need to. They will pass something, god only knows what. The other option is total failure and they can't afford to have that. If health care is a big issue for you stay on it. The troops are a big issue for a lot of people, if it is for you try to divide what energy you can among the two. Its hard, but Obama is using everyone, and he has a staff, to get his agenda through congress, Washington is stopped revolving around health care. Don't take your eye off the ball, its to big of an issue to let slide away.

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I want to take this opportunity to tell people we are moving this Friday, Oct 9th, to the new site called http://www.standbyliberty.org/. We have simply outgrown our home here on blogger and need a little more room.

The new site has been up and running for a couple months now and we just got to the point when its time to move. The new site has resources we are finishing such as a directory for all types of sites around the web. It has a video page with some of the latest or best videos on the web. And we are working on setting up a page for links to other bloggers with rss feeds filling the page. One last thing is a all news page with feeds coming in from around the world.

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America - Don't Forget about Health Care, Including the Government Option - Because Obama & Democrats Did Not

I would like to take minute or two to say something on health care.The reason I am doing this is because the whole subject has gone off track in several different directions. Obama is mostly to blame for that has he came out supporting health care but has no plan, you might say he came up MIA on this as well.

First we need to clear up a real misconception. Democrats talk about the Republicans not having a plan, this is flat out false, they have several. Democrats say Republicans are not contributing to the dialog, again they have offered several amendments in both the house and senate and none have been taken up. Another thing is that we hear all the time how Obama needs health care to fix the economy. Yet, none of the Democratic proposals cost less than a Trillion dollars over 10 years. These are facts, you can argue all you want but they are the truth and are documented as such. Now a few other things.

Several people have offered the idea of letting people purchase health insurance across state lines which is widely accepted as a way to reduce cost. Yet, no plan from the Democrats have it included, why? Simple, the message has gotten shifted, Obama's original plan was "free" health care, the operative word is "free". When he saw the idea wasn't selling he switched to "health insurance reform" as a way of trying to get traction. He like other liberals realized that the American public was not on board for another government entitlement, which is a nice way of saying "welfare" program, so he switched terms. The reason we do not see ways of reducing insurance costs in any of these plans is because they don't care about what you pay. They care about being able to raise enough money to get government run health coverage for everyone, read "free" for many. A change in words does not mean a change in tactics, Americans need to remember this.

The next thing is a major concern for people, most want to know why are they being forced into buying health insurance and being threatened with fines and even jail time for not doing it? Again, an easy answer, without getting money from everyone they can't raise enough to pay for it. Yes there are cutouts for certain people, but guess who they are. Without money from the "middle class" in the pot, there is not enough to go around. So in other words, when Obama promised over and over during the campaign not to raise taxes on the middle class, he lied. He tried to say its not a tax, but even Democrats have conceded it is. Getting people back to work should be his primary focus, not trying to alter the structure of our nation.

Another thing is coverage for illegals, remember "you lied", or how can you forget. Democrats in the senate and house have blocked amendments that require people to show identification to get medicare and medicaid funds as well as access to the new government option they want, why would you want to do that? They have gone so far as to have the nerve to demand illegal aliens get coverage under a government program. This is in the house and senate. One last thing, the government option is not dead. While it has no support with the American public, Harry Reid is demanding a bill be on the senate floor next week and that it include the public option. If you live in Nevada you should be on Harry Reid without mercy, this man is a disgrace to his state and nation. He is pushing a party agenda over what the voters in Nevada and the United States want. He is a prime example of whats wrong with Washington. Voters in Nevada need to remember this next year when his term is up.

So what does this all mean? It means Democrats and liberals in congress and the White House are still pushing their agenda despite what every poll says the people in the country do not favor.

They are forcing their agenda despite what is harmful to the nation in both the short and long terms. 2010 and 2012 can't get here soon enough.

Obama comes up MIA on Afghanistan

The United States is faced with a few facts about our fight against terrorism, one is that our commander in chief is confused about what to do. So after almost 5 weeks, he still has no idea, now what?

Obama is making a purely political decision based on his own domestic needs. He knows liberals in both houses of congress are against further troop deployments. He is stalling trying to get his health care through and knows he can ill afford to upset them any more than they are already. The fight over health care has become all consuming, yet poll after poll shows little support for his plan and even fewer believe health care should be his priority. Obama is doing what Obama believes is important not what Americans thinks is important. Obama's agenda is starting to show its wearing thin around the edges, not just at home but around the world as well.

What you can see and hear more and more from foreign news services is that Obama is being perceived to be what he is, weak. He truly believes he can change the outcome of things by his force of personality. This is a dangerous mindset for him and for the United States. When he plays to a crowd inside America he has the press fawning over him, people screaming like he is a rock star, hanging his pictures all over their homes, life sized card board Obama's standing in a corner. Then reality sets in. The rest of the world doesn't see him that way. The people it matters most with surely do not. Rogue states around the world have no fear of him. This new "soft power" tactic is not working so well. The Russian's have hosed him in public twice now and he keeps going back for more. Even the French are telling us that we are not being hard enough on Iran, this is the French telling America we are not aggressive enough, whats happened? Iran said sure you can look at our enrichment site, Obama demanded in two weeks or less, so they come out and say a little over three if you please. Obama says that's a positive step, sure, lets give them 4 or 5 weeks to clean everything up before we get there. Not like that ever happened in Iraq or anything.

Now, with an army in the field Obama doesn't know what to do. But you will never hear the press say that, will you? We have Joe Biden who has not got a foreign policy decision right in the past 20 years, involved in deciding what to do, great. Biden has been on the wrong side of history for a decade, yet he is in the mix. What does that tell you about Obama? With an economy in a slow death spiral, terrorists being arrested monthly inside the United States, Islamic extremist terrorists by the way. North Korea testing nukes and new missiles. Iran on the verge of nuclear weapons testing long and short range ICBM's, not to mention shooting people in the street. The Russians once again expanding their sphere of influence, the dollar sinking like a stone around the world and the Chinese worrying about getting their money back. Obama's time is being spent on his big priority, health care for his supporters. That would be at the top of my list, how about you?

When a soldier in which ever branch he or she may be in comes up missing in the morning, they use the term MIA (missing in action) to describe him/her until they have been found or their status is known. Its sad to say, but Obama is MIA when it comes to Afghanistan, when he should be standing firmly behind the military as they have troops in battle, he is sitting at the table with liberals crying over health care.