BREAKING NEWS: A House majority votes to censure Rep. Rangel; roll call continues

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: MSNBC

BREAKING NEWS: A House majority votes to censure Rep. Rangel; roll call continues

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[IamK]

1. at least he is not on double secret probation nt

[cal04]

2. House censures Rangel for ethics violations on 333-79 vote

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/131779-house-censures-rangel-for-ethics-violations-on-xx-vote

The House has voted to censure Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), the once-powerful chairman of the Ways and Means panel, for a string of ethics violations.

In a vote of 333-79, the House handed down its steepest form of punishment short of expulsion to one of the most senior and beloved members of the House.

Rangel is only the 23rd lawmaker to be censured in the history of the House and the fifth in the last 100 years.

A somber Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) immediately handed down the punishment.

[savannah43]

6. Rangel gets censured, publicly humiliated, for pretty much

nothing, and the war crimes of the Bush administration are not even talked about by anyone other than some left wing blogs on occasion. That's the new American justice for you.

[glitch]

8. SOP in our "new democratic" republic /sarc belated welcome to DU btw. nt

[savannah43]

9. Thank you.

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[Ruperto31]

3. Disgusting hypocrisy. n/t

[FreeStateDemocrat]

4. Good, now they can get back to the important job of extending the tax cuts for the obscenely rich.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. Until justice is done for the thousands who are dead thanks to Bushco

I cannot view Rangel's treatment as fitting.

Shame, shame, SHAME on the hypocrites!

[Jefferson23]

7. Big bad Rangel, wow. He had better step down, look at how bad he makes Dems look!

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

On edit to add from Nov 16th.

A House ethics panel finds "no evidence of corruption" but convicts Rangel on 11 counts anyway

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/11/16/rangel_guilty_sloppy/index.html

[Mnemosyne]

10. And war criminals walk free with no fear... knr n/t

[slackmaster]

11. It could be worse. They could have voted to bullyrag him.

Or expel him, and frog-march him out the door.

[hugo_from_TN]

12. He's not in jail, so he should be happy about that.