SLAP MY HAND CHARLIE

Charlie Rangel, 40 year Congressman from Harlem in NY. He just got reelected. Does that make him a Career Politician? He's 80 years old.

For over 2 years he's been charged with multiple House ethics violations. Finally, right after the election, of course, the House Ethics Committee finds him guilty of egregious ethical behavior. The activities that got him in trouble are very troublesome, including tax evasion and using campaign funds to pay personal legal bills. WOW! Another cheater in the House.

So what does the House Ethics Committee do? They "censure" him. Instead of expulsion, they slap him on the hand.

Expulsion appears in the Constitution. Censure does not. Censure is similar to a reprimand. It's a nothing penalty! It's a pass. It's letting the fox into the hen house knowing the fox is up to no good. Censure simply means Old Charlie will stand in the well of the House while the Speaker of the House rebukes him. That means Nancy Pelosi gets to take Charlie to task for his lack of ethics and honesty. The same Nancy who said "we are going to drain the swamp." Now Nancy, in case you haven't noticed, there is so much toxic waste in the swamp it's unlikely it will ever be drained during your tenure. That's because you are part of the pollution.

Now that the House has made their determination I wonder if the IRS and other agencies will investigate Charlie? You can bet they would if you or I or some other "commoner" were evading taxes. Anyone else would be looking at penalties, fines and interest.

This slap on Charlie's hand is a microcosm of the uncontrolled corruption in Congress. They never pay the price for their deeds. They just snicker and look the other way.

RON KIND PLAYS HARDBALL FOR BIG BUCKS

Following up my post of 10/26, here is more information about Ron Kind, 3rd Congressional District incumbent, apparently selling his services to constituents. Kind was asked about this in a debate and he denied it. But think about it. Would highly respected doctors sign affidavits and make these claims if it didn't really happen? Would they risk their reputations and future relationship with Kind if it didn't happen? If Kind stays in Washington he could wield intensely vindictive power, and their assertions would most certainly come back to haunt the good doctors, their clinic and their hospital.

As to why the doctors didn't come forward in 2007? My theory is fear of reprisal from Kind and his Washington cronies.

There could be more claims coming from other groups who experienced the same extortion tactics. Stay tuned to your news outlet.

But read these articles to the end. Kind has other problems. He has an ethics issue regarding a group called the New Democrats, which Kind is a vice-chair of. The group holds meetings with lobbyists for various businesses and then hits them up for donations to the New Democrat's PAC. Sounds like pay-to-play politics, doesn't it? Hopefully enough voters will see this for what it is and fire Ron Kind on Nov. 2.

CLICK HERE for ProPublica article
CLICK HERE for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel On Line article

Open Letter To Obama

Below is a letter allegedly written to Obama in April, 2009 by a fourth grade teacher from Hillsboro, MO. I have researched this, and this woman does exist and she is a teacher in MO. But the letter was actually written by a man named Franklin T. Bell who writes posts for a site called redpill.org. It is a very interesting site, and you can go there and check it out. The name Frank Bell may or may not be his real name, but his letters are right on the money. I thought this one said a lot and I wanted to share it with any of you who haven't already seen it. Not that any of this would make a difference to King Obama.

I will check on redpill.org occasionally for other interesting letters that might enlighten us or inflame us, and I will share them with you.



April 17, 2009

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington , DC 20500

Mr. Obama:

I have had it with you and your administration, sir. Your conduct on your recent trip overseas has convinced me that you are not an adequate representative of the United States of America collectively or of me personally.

You are so obsessed with appeasing the Europeans and the Muslim world that you have abdicated the responsibilities of the President of the United States of America . You are responsible to the citizens of the United States . You are not responsible to the peoples of any other country on earth.

I personally resent that you go around the world apologizing for the United States telling Europeans that we are arrogant and do not care about their status in the world. Sir, what do you think the First World War and the Second World War were all about if not the consideration of the peoples of Europe? Are you brain dead? What do you think the Marshall Plan was all about? Do you not understand or know the history of the 20th century?

Where do you get off telling a Muslim country that the United States does not consider itself a Christian country? Have you not read the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the United States? This country was founded on Judeo-Christian ethics and the principles governing this country, at least until you came along, come directly from this heritage.

Do you not understand this?

Your bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia is an affront to all Americans. Our President does not bow down to anyone, let alone the king of Saudi Arabia. You didn't show Great Britain, our best and one of our oldest allies, the respect they deserve yet you bow down to the king of Saudi Arabia. How dare you, sir! How dare you!

You can't find the time to visit the graves of our greatest generation because you don't want to offend the Germans but make time to visit a mosque in Turkey. You offended our dead and every veteran when you give the Germans more respect than the people who saved the German people from themselves. What's the matter with you? I am convinced that you and the members of your administration have the historical and intellectual depth of a mud puddle and should be ashamed of yourselves, all of you.

You are so self-righteously offended by the big bankers and the American automobile manufacturers yet do nothing about the real thieves in this situation, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Frank, Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelic, the Fannie Mae bonuses, and the Freddie Mac bonuses. What do you intend to do about them? Anything? I seriously doubt it.

What about the U.S. House members passing out $9.1 million in bonuses to their staff members on top of the $2.5 million in automatic pay raises that lawmakers gave themselves? I understand the average House aide got a 17% bonus. I took a 5% cut in my pay to save jobs with my employer. You haven't said anything about that. Who authorized that? I surely didn't!

Executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be receiving $210 million in bonuses over an eighteen-month period, that's $45 million more than the AIG bonuses. In fact, Fannie and Freddie executives have already been awarded $51 million. Not a bad take. Who authorized that and why haven't you expressed your outrage at this group who are largely responsible for the economic mess we have right now?

I resent that you take me and my fellow citizens as brain-dead and not caring about what you idiots do. We are watching what you are doing and we are getting increasingly fed up with all of you.

I also want you to know that I personally find just about everything you do and say to be offensive to every one of my sensibilities. I promise you that I will work tirelessly to see that you do not get a chance to spend two terms destroying my beautiful country.

Sincerely, Every real American

Ms Kathleen Lyday, Fourth Grade Teacher, Grandview Elementary School, Hillsboro, MO
(Franklin T. Bell)