Tag Archive 'corruption'

Nancy Pelosi’s Culture of Corruption: Rangel edition

Posted by Moonage on 16 Sep 2008 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race, Ethics

Charlie Rangel, who everyone has to love, is in a little trouble with the IRS, and possibly the FBI I would imagine.  The FBI just usually sort of comes along with the IRS.  Here’s the abbreviated list of what he’s in some doo-doo over:

Rangel’s papers over the past 10 years show no reference to the [...]

How corrupt is Congress?

Posted by Moonage on 11 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: 527's, Opinions

I read an excellent comment on Outside the Beltway. I’d like to just post the whole thing here, but that’s discouraged. So, I’ll just lift the best part:
Perhaps naively, I still believe genuine corruption among Congressmen and other major officials in American politics is an aberration rather than routine. The people who aspire [...]

Nancy Pelosi Condemns Rangel for dissing Mississippi

Posted by Moonage on 10 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Shock and Awe

The Democrats haven’t even officially taken over the government yet, but they are already tossing out anything Republican as fast as they can.  Along with that, I guess we can totally dismiss Bush’s "conservative compassionism":
Its not just committees our influence within the House Democratic caucus will grow enormously, Mr. Rangel said in an interview.
To [...]

It’s the economy, stupid

Posted by Moonage on 17 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: 2006 US Senate Races, National Politics, Polls, Senate Races, The Media, US Regional Politics

From MSNBC:
On a long list of issues, including Iraq and “ethics/corruption,” 23 percent cited the economy as their top concern, up from 17 percent in May.
I have been the firm believer that all politics is local. it’s not my idea, but I sure do believe it. I have said so repeatedly.
I listed those [...]