If you hold me the the same standards as white people I am going to cry rascism!

OOPS! CHARLIE FORGOT THIS $1M HOUSE

by CHARLES HURT | Bureau Chief NYPost

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Charles Rangel failed to report as much as $1.3 million in outside income -- including up to $1 million for a Harlem building sale -- on financial-disclosure forms he filed between 2002 and 2006, according to newly amended records.

The documents also show the embattled chairman of the Ways and Means Committee -- who is being probed by the House Ethics Committee -- failed to reveal a staggering $3 million in various business transactions over the same period.

This week, Rangel filed drastically revised financial-disclosure forms reflecting new, higher amounts of outside income and numerous additional business deals that had not been reported when the reports were originally filed.

In 2004, for instance, Rangel reported earning between $4,000 and $10,000 in outside earnings on top of his $158,100 congressional salary.

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Its hard to find fault with Charlie Rangel. He is so busy proposing to raise everyone else's tax bill he has no time to take account of HIS own wealth. A few buildings in rent-controlled NYC (Which clearly someone of his stature deserves instead of the spirit of the law), property in PR, and god know what else, no surprise he's unaware of his personal tax liability. Too bad they wont send him to jail, or at least hit him confiscatory tax bill of upwards of 80% like they would do to any of us. Another fine example of some pig being more equal than others.

Heavy is the head which wears the crown

CURL: Obama press aide gets bashed in debut

Joseph Curl (Contact)

Friday, January 23, 2009- Washington Times.com

The White House press operation got off to a fumbling and stumbling start Thursday, with the day's opening briefers insisting on being identified only as "senior administration officials," followed swiftly by the new president's spokesman accidently outing one of the secret aides less than two minutes into his first White House briefing.

Although President Obama swept into office pledging transparency and a new air of openness, the press hammered spokesman Robert Gibbs for nearly an hour over a slate of perceived secretive slights that have piled up quickly for the new administration. It wasn't pretty.

"Why did the administration believe it was important for the American people not to know the name of the two senior administration officials who briefed us this morning on Guantanamo?" one reporter asked in the packed and steaming hot briefing room just off the White House West Wing.

"I hope that you all found the exercise that we did this morning helpful," Mr. Gibbs offered helpfully.

"Do you know," the reporter followed, "that you've used ... one of those senior officials' first names several times in this briefing?" A very long pause ensued.

"I do," the spokesman said, his cornflower-colored tie suddenly looking a bit too tight. "Are we allowed to repeat that name?" Mr. Gibbs answered by citing as precedent of Brazilian soccer stars being known only by a single name - sure to one day be a classic White House non-answer.

Then it got uglier.

"How is it transparent," another reporter asked, "when you control the only image of the re-swearing - there's nobody in there but four print reporters, there's no stills, there's no television? And the only recording that comes out, as I understand it, is one that a reporter made, not one that the White House supplied."

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It's not so easy, now is it? Better give the press everything it wants from you or they will turn on you quicker than snakes on a plane.

Good news, Princess Caroline has realized that only one tax dodge can make it into government at a time, especially if you are a political lightweight. Don't know or care who will take up the post but I am very glad it's not a Kennedy with no credentials. Now if only Minn. could get it double-counting head out of its ass we can get the show started.

Hypocrisy meter:
5 of 10, should be higher as its so soon into the administration but I am feeling generous.

It's sad all the funny SNL people who died but not this un-funny man

Funny Business in Minnesota

In which every dubious ruling seems to help Al Franken.

Strange things keep happening in Minnesota, where the disputed recount in the Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken may be nearing a dubious outcome. Thanks to the machinations of Democratic Secretary of State Mark Ritchie and a meek state Canvassing Board, Mr. Franken may emerge as an illegitimate victor.

Mr. Franken started the recount 215 votes behind Senator Coleman, but he now claims a 225-vote lead and suddenly the man who was insisting on "counting every vote" wants to shut the process down. He's getting help from Mr. Ritchie and his four fellow Canvassing Board members, who have delivered inconsistent rulings and are ignoring glaring problems with the tallies.

Under Minnesota law, election officials are required to make a duplicate ballot if the original is damaged during Election Night counting. Officials are supposed to mark these as "duplicate" and segregate the original ballots. But it appears some officials may have failed to mark ballots as duplicates, which are now being counted in addition to the originals. This helps explain why more than 25 precincts now have more ballots than voters who signed in to vote. By some estimates this double counting has yielded Mr. Franken an additional 80 to 100 votes.

This disenfranchises Minnesotans whose vote counted only once. And one Canvassing Board member, State Supreme Court Justice G. Barry Anderson, has acknowledged that "very likely there was a double counting." Yet the board insists that it lacks the authority to question local officials and it is merely adding the inflated numbers to the totals.

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Sweet baby Jesus Minnesota, you are more retarded than Florida. How anyone could have selected Al Franken to represent them in the Senate make as much sense why he was even on SNL. This guy has failure written all over him. At least it's exposing the Democrats as the hypocrites they are. All politicians by definition are hypocrites, not just Dems, but they more than likely tend to think their shit dont stink...and this is a massive turd of a shit!

I didn't vote for 44 but I wish him well, this site is not dedicated to slamming him, just catching the lies and hypocrisy inherent but overlooked by the MSM, I will try to be as fair as I can but Al Franken can DIAF. It's not because he's a Dem, or Liberal, or had a popular book about Rush Limbaugh...it's because he is unfunny.

44 is not funny but that's ok, he's not a comedian.

Hypocrisy Meter:

10 of 10