Charlie Rangel Has Hoof and Mouth Disease

In the last few months it has occurred to me that the Democratic Party has become more hateful towards American citizens who are not like them. And so have members like Charlie Rangel. Rangel doesn’t care too much for disabled people either. His disgusting interview with a TV station makes me sick to the core, as I am a female Navy veteran, who is disabled through service to my country.

Rangel’s rather narrow view became quite clear in a the interview. In the interview he called Sarah Palin “disabled”. When the reporter called him on it, he tried to make it better, he called her “disabled politically”. I believe there was a veiled comment about her last child. As he tried to make his talking points sound better he just really stepped in the cow shit.

This is just unbelievable. Roll the tape!

My disgust with Rangel and his type runs deep. I am not the only disabled person in my family, my brother has mental retardation and autism. I grew up with the belief he is no different than I am just had different challenges to meet over the years. And there are so many wonderful times I spent with my brother, so many funny, side splitting stories, and too many of them to tell.

Sometimes it is heart breaking when in one minute I know he is an adult but still a child in so many ways. But he has always given me an unconditional love. There are no boundaries to his love. He puts no set requirements on his love. And I don’t have to open my “checkbook” for him, just return my love in the same manner.

And it is that kind of love and learned behavior that is lost in the mire and quicksand of the “new” Democratic Party. The Democratic Party no longer has a flag ship, instead it is adrift in its own morass. Party members like Carol Fowler of South Carolina and now Charlie Rangel of New York are poor excuses of humanity, lashing out because there is no central message except make sure you insult everyone you can. It is no longer the party of the people, the people have been left behind. People like me and you have become nothing more than a open checkbook.

It is time for the “new” Democrat to look hard inside oneself, if at all possible, take stock of who they are. When they are done with this self analysis, I hope they realize they are loathsome human beings. I hope they can feel and see their own bitterness and filth. And I hope that the “new”Democrat realizes that they have left humanity and empathy behind.

And I hope the “new” Democrat doesn’t let the door hit them in the ass on the way out in November because I am fighting for your defeat, whoever and where ever you are.

NancyA.

Charlie Rangel Facing Ethics Charges, Repubs Ask To Give Up Chair

LA TIMES

Republican leaders on Tuesday called for a powerful Democrat to step down as chairman of an influential tax-writing committee until ethics charges against him could be resolved.

The letter targeted Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, who has been under intense scrutiny in the aftermath of reports about financial arrangements involving rental properties in New York and a beachfront villa in the Dominican Republic.

Basically, in NY he has been accused of renting office space in a building meant for low income housing, and in the Dominican Republic he owns a house with a 0% mortgage and has never claimed the rental income from that property on his US Income Taxes.

OUCH.

Obama Starts The Snubs. The People NOT Invited To The Convention.

Well, I am not sure what Barack Obama is thinking, but he is snubbing a lot of very heavy hitters in the Democratic party and is sure to make a ton of enemies doing it.

So who has he told to NOT come to the convention?

1.  Kwame Kilpatrick – this was predictable, but he is an important politician in the black community and there are a lot of people not very happy about this.  I mean, I understand no speaking role, but a don’t even come?  WOW.  Even Marion Berry got treated better than that if I remember correctly…  and he was caught smoking crack with a hooker?

2.  Charlie Rangel – Arguably the most important African American in Congress, not to mention one of the most powerful people in Congress PERIOD.  This is the man who is in charge of tax policy in the United States.  This is the last guy you want to piss off, and Charlie is reportedly pretty unhappy with the snub.

3.  Wesley Clark – WOW.  Obama must have brain damage.  4 Star General Wesley Clark has been told that there is no reason to come to the convention…  which is political speak for “F off.”  Clark is beloved by the netroots, has a huge fan base, is an important fundraiser in the party getting downticket Dems elected… and would be an absoultely essential supporter for Obama, shoring up his lack of a military record…  foreign policy record…  diplomatic record…  any sort of record what so ever?

I wonder who else Obama uninvites from the DEMOCRATIC PARTY’s Convention?