Originally Posted By Darkbeer In the best news from today..... <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9ALCUJO0&show_article=1" target="_blank">http://www.breitbart.com/artic...rticle=1</a> >>WASHINGTON (AP) - The Census Bureau on Friday severed its ties with ACORN, a community organization that has been hit with Republican accusations of voter-registration fraud. "We do not come to this decision lightly," Census director Robert Groves wrote in a letter to ACORN, which was obtained by The Associated Press. In splitting with ACORN, Groves sought to tamp down GOP concerns and negative publicity that the partnership will taint the 2010 head count. "It is clear that ACORN's affiliation with the 2010 census promotion has caused sufficient concern in the general public, has indeed become a distraction from our mission, and may even become a discouragement to public cooperation, negatively impacting 2010 census efforts," Groves wrote. << Hopefully the rest of the government will no longer fund this very biased group, that has done way too may illegal actions!
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "What about Charles Rangel, the head of the Ways and Means Committee (aka the IRS), and is a AMJOR Tax Cheat in regards to failing to report millions of dollars of income.... When will he resign?" You know, you got ignored the last time you whined about Rangel, so at 3:26 a.m. with nothing better to do, you bring him up again? Please explain, in your own words, what relevance the tax issues a congressman from New York has to do with the sexual proclivities of a state assemblyman from California. Moreover, let's assume for one brief, insane moment that Duvall's attempt to backpedal from this with a lame explanation is true. Let's say he never had sex with the lobbyist. At a minimum then, his big, fat, sexually deviant mouth, running off unchecked in the boys' locker room, has ruined this woman's life and career. And you're okay with that? Because I have to assume you are, as you're on here defending Duvall by bringing up Rangel. How do you explain that to the women in your life, assuming there are any? Wouldn't distancing yourself from this yahoo be the sensible, practical, respectable thing to do here? And Darkbeer, rather than ignore my question to you in post 44, I think everyone here would like to see your answer. NO crap links, nothing but your own words. It's a an issue of integrity that crosses party lines. It's an issue of YOUR integrity, since you saw fit to defend this bastard. Man up for a change.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer When did I defend the former California Assemblyman Mike Duvall? I am GLAD that the Republican party cut off his chairmanships in less than 24 hours, and also very glad that he took the right course and resigned! On the other hand, the Democrats have been protecting folks like William Jefferson and Charles Rangel. Heck, even the Liberal Washington Post Newspaper has called for the MAJOR Tax cheat to resign or be removed from office... <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/02/AR2009090203082.html" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/...082.html</a> >>FOR POLITICIANS with major bad news to release or to make public, there's no time like the dead of August to do it. The thinking goes that the public won't remember a thing come September. We hope Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) will have no such luck. His belated revelation of previously unreported income, property and bank accounts demands that he step aside as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Mr. Rangel's amended financial disclosure form, which exposes omissions from his 2002 through 2006 records, is a treasure trove of outrage. He neglected to report a checking account with the Congressional Federal Credit Union and one with Merrill Lynch, each valued between $250,000 and $500,000; the tens of thousands of dollars he's earning from dividends from a number of mutual funds and stocks; and the money made from the sale of a Harlem townhouse. As a result, Mr. Rangel's reported net worth doubled, from between $516,015 and $1,316,000 to between $1,028,024 and $2,495,000. We called on Mr. Rangel to resign his coveted post last November while the House ethics committee probed his contact with a potential donor to a pet project who also had business before the committee. Mind you, that committee already was looking into his using official stationery to raise funds for that pet project, paying below-market rents on four Harlem apartments, failing to report income from a Florida condominium sale and failing to pay taxes on a home in the Dominican Republic. There's another subcommittee investigation into lobbyist-paid trips by Mr. Rangel and four other members of Congress. Much is expected of elected officials. Much more is expected and demanded of those entrusted with chairmanships and the power that comes with them, especially when it involves the nation's purse strings. From all that we've seen thus far, Mr. Rangel has violated that trust continually and seemingly without care. <<
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder Shove you rlinkd where the sun don't shine. I said IN YOUR OWN WORDS. Apparently you're incapable of original thought. I specifically asked what relevance Rangel had to Duvall. The correct answer is NONE. Continuing to mention him in the same breath as Duvall means you're still excusing, rationalizing and defending Duvall.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad It's getting hot in the Alphabet soup pot up in DC. Too many Czars spoil the soup. If Hillary steps down, things will really boil over at that point. The whole country is like a run away freight train on top of everything else. I can't remember people being so completely polarized against one another.
Originally Posted By HRM >>> "Shove you rlinkd where the sun don't shine. I said IN YOUR OWN WORDS. Apparently you're incapable of original thought." <<< Almost beginning to sound like the "civil debate and discussion" we hear in Congress. ;-)
