16 November 2010 pm: parting shots

Rep. Charles Rangel: it is a pity as he has represented Harlem for almost my entire life. But evidently he got too full of himself and started blowing off the rules:

A House panel on Tuesday found Representative Charles B. Rangel guilty of 11 counts of ethical violations, ruling that his failure to pay taxes, improper solicitation of fund-raising donations and failure to accurately report his personal income had brought dishonor on the House.

After a public hearing on Monday that was truncated by Mr. Rangel’s walking out in protest, an adjudicatory subcommittee of the House ethics committee deliberated for four hours before finding him guilty of all but one of the 13 counts against him. (Two other counts, involving Mr. Rangel’s misuse of House franking privileges, were merged into one.)

In a somber tone, Representative Zoe Lofgren, Democrat of California and the chairwoman of the panel, announced its findings just before noon. Ms. Lofgren described the contentious process as “difficult and time consuming” and said the committee hoped to decide on a punishment within days.

If a Republican had done these things, I’d scream bloody murder and think “see, that is how they are”. It is time for him to leave; in fact, past time.

News Media I like Keith Olbermann, but evidently he isn’t that easy to get along with.

Politics No: a candidate having lots of facebook friends really doesn’t mean that much. Here is the statistical evidence.
I am going to use this with my statistics class.

Republicans: No government spending, earmarks and pork…unless it is for me.

Republicans: betting that the Democrats will cave in on the tax cuts and “bundle” them (for the rich and non rich in one vote). I am sorry to say that I’ll bet on the Republicans; we are a bunch of wimps.

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