Yesterday, Sen. Jim Bunning continued, until late in the day, to try to hold the Senate to its “pay-go” legislation by objecting to the stopgap funding for such items as unemployment extensions and highway funding. The Senator stood alone and was villified by Sen. Harry Reid, Sen. Dick Durbin, Sen. Susan Collins, and even WH Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
Throughout last night, there were reports that Rep. Charlie Rangel, the subject of several ethics investigations, would step aside from his powerful Chairmanship of the House Ways and Mean Committee. Insisting he was still in control after emerging from Nancy Pelosi’s office last night, this morning Charlie Rangel took a “leave of absence” from his Chairmanship.
So the questions are:
(1) Was Sen. Bunning justified in his objection to legislation that was not funded as PayGo requires?
(2) Should Charlie Rangel resign his Congressional seat entirely?
THOUGHTS???
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March 3, 2010 at 7:33 am
Relentless
No. He voted AGAINST PayGo, which doesn’t go into effect until next year, and it was an emergency extension of a bill that had already passed.
Yes.
March 3, 2010 at 7:34 am
Thomas Paine
Although he is a crotchety old coot I agreed with Bunning’s stance. Good riddance to Rangel. They need to send a message to all members of Congress about this type of behavior.
March 3, 2010 at 8:44 am
gumply
Charlie Rangel was a sleaze bag from the moment he set his foot inside the congress. He has been a disgrace to his office since day one and the people keep sending him back not because he is honorable and forthright but because he is black. His constituents want one of their own to be representing them and there is nothing wrong with that at all. It is just that we have a habbit of looking the other way when deceitful or illegal and crooked things are done by our representatives, and the worse thing is that we don’t expect or demand the very best to respresent us.
The American people do not understand the constitution or the bill of rights and most of them do not want to know, they are too use to mediocrity or worse and have come to except that as the norm.
He shoud have been permanently expelled from his office long ago but just like the one in the White House political correctness and the race card has stifled our entire body until we perform like programmed robots unable to think on our own.
As for Bunning I am afraid that he is too late and a dollar short. This is what he should have been doing since the day he set foot in the Congress. This has the appearance of Custer’s last stand it isn’t going to work, the whole attempt at self righteousness is ludricus.
Even the so called conservatives in congress are pathetic. They go up and down like a yoyo crossing over when ever they think they want to show a statement of bi-partisanship. In our congress being bi-partisan is a badge of honor. Hell has been unleashed on we the people so many times in the name of bi-partisanship that it makes me sick.
We did not elect candidates that stated certain principles during their campaign to go to DC and compromise those principles, we did not give them that authority. The sad state of affairs is that we didn’t kick their butts out of there the very first time we had the oppportunity to do so.
By not doing that we sent them a message and each time they came back it was worse then the last time and it kept evolving until now they are so despicable and despot they don’t even care if we are mad at them or not. They just keep cramming one rotten piece of legislation after the other down our throats. Almost daring us to see if we have the guts to do anything about it. There has been a lot of talk about how we are as mad as hell and we aint going to take it anymore but I’m watching the signs and they are not good at all.
The first Tea Party Conference wasn’t all peaches and cream with their $100,000 speaking fees and tickets at $550 and then we had CPAC with a bloody battlefield in the back room. Texas, the state that everyone touts as being the epitome of our Constitution is now going to have a run off between Perry the Bilderberger and Kay Bailey Hutchison the died in the wool establishment Rhino Republican. And the only true Constitutionalist, Debra Medina didn’t make the grade. I just read an article about the fact that it would rather be better to re-elect the king of the Rhino’s then one of his challenger’s that is lesser of a Rhino. No mention of Jim Deakins who is another constitutionalist.
I am sorry but the light at the end of the tunnel seems to be flickering and it appears that business as usual is right around the corner. The GOP machine is not going to sit back and let freedom ring without one hell of a backroom, underhanded vicious fight to keep their Rhino’s in power and the lunatic fringe (that’s us) can’t seem to make up our mind if we are for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights or just some of the time or part of the time. It appears that we all have our own agenda!
God Help us, please?
March 3, 2010 at 12:17 pm
JAMES
We need to clean house.. term limits by the ballot box.