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...to know intimately what a fraud rangel is. if the dems take back the house and this posturing hot air machine becomes head of ways and means, look out below re the economy and the stock market. and i wouldn't trust george w. "missing veto pen" bush to do much about it, considering rangel has already outblustered our president in anti-chaevez rhetoric.

thanks for depressing me.

I'm completely understand Rangel's political need, but still he said what needed to be said. He should be praised for doing the right thing.

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His district and the church that hosted Chavez ought to be ashamed.

To host this despot who endangers the United States with every move, that forms alliances with the most despicable terrorist supporting governments, that uses oil as a weapon (and then makes fools out of people by providing discounted heating oil), that has grandiose expansionist dreams for his own country (where 51% live below the poverty line) and brings terrorist organization members to Venezuela is beyond explanation.

It shows the absolute ignorance and ability to be "bought" for a price by all who attended and supported this specious "dialogue". This is not about freedom of speech or expression. It is about opening your door, your neighborhood, to a person that insults your country, government and way of life. All because they disagree with the President politically? Let me be the first to say it is unpatriotic.

Frankly, I think Charlie's speech is not only cover for himself, but these self indulgent, unappreciative Chavez supporting dolts in his district.

"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori"

I mean what do you expect from Rangel's district of scholastic dropouts and dolts who feel eternally victimized and who won't lift a finger to help themselves. These are your hardcore Dhimmicrats on the liberal Democratic plantation.

He took as many shots at Bush as he did at Chavez. And he had praise for Venezuela at the start and after his one 'resentful' sentence.

Listen to it again, he might as well have said, "You're 100% right, and you're my hero, but please refrain from saying that while you're here. By the way I love you Hugo."

to compare his anti-Bush rants with Hugo's; they are, after all, nearly identical in substance. Rangel had to differentiate and defend the President to that extent.

The Dems cannot now be called Hugo-lite.

Rangel & Pelosi had no choice. Harkin, I estimate, was drunk.

on June 6, 2005 on NYC's WWRL radio said:

It's [the Iraq War] the biggest fraud ever committed on the people of this country.

This is just as bad as six million Jews being killed. The whole world knew it and they were quiet about it, because it wasn't their ox that was being gored.

Hat tip to Larry Elder.

I will be mistaken for the Flying Nun before the Democrats are perceived to be anything but anti-Bush kooks. What a joke. Rangle, Kerry, Murtha, Durbin, Pelosi, Boxer, and on and on and on...

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but he said something that needed to be said. In light of his vociferous criticisms of the Prez, most unwarranted and some damned near unhinged, there were few people who could have delivered so stinging a rebuke to Chavez. I don't care if it was a partisan political stunt (though that nonsense about the soldiers does not fly; Rangel is as left as they come but he also has a record of service that few men anywhere in this country can rival), it doesn't make him wrong. I wouldn't vote for him if you held a gun to my head, but for a fleeting moment in time I respect him.

Stopped clock.

Blind pig.

Inspector Clouseau.

I'd still take any of those over Charlie Rangel.

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Not one tax cut is worth keeping, but the United Nations is "sacred." From his press release:

Neither is it helpful for a head of state to use the sacred halls of the United Nations to insult President Bush.

I laughed so hard when I read that line that I've decided to make it my signature for a while. Apparently, the only reason Rangel was *really* upset at Chavez was because Chavez was smack-talking the President from the sanctum sanctorum, the holiest of holy places for the Democratic Party. If Chavez had given his speech from Union Square, or at a Yale commencement ceremony, or even from the floor of the House of Representatives, that probably would have been just fine. But the United Nations. Oooooh, it gives him the shivers. I wonder what Monsignor Annan and the rest of the Eminences thought?

Here's Charlie Rangel speaking at the Grand Opening of the Church of Scientology of New York -- another one of his "sacred places."

Charlis Rangel -- Worshipping at the Sacred Halls of the United Nations.

to very different comments from Tom Harkin, who must be attempting to draw publicity by any means necessary. Even Nancy Pelosi was offended at Chavez.