Three Ring Circus

Well, actually, more than three rings. Watching all the garbage that happened yesterday with the Democrats had my husband and I chuckling and shaking our heads last night. Wow, are we in for a ride with this bunch in power! I hope you're happy, uninformed and blind American voters, with what you've foisted on the rest of us. A synopsis:

First this, then this, and...this?? And let's not forget the Rangel tangle, the Blago corruption, etc. etc. etc....sure glad you cleaned up Washington, Crazy Nancy!! You could fit the ethics of the entire Democrat party in a thimble and have room left over.

Honestly...has Harry Reid ever looked more like a fool..??

JASmius adds: More on the Rangel tangle (via Newsmax Insider):

Representative Charles Rangel, already embroiled in an ethics committee probe, used campaign funds to pay $1,540 in fines from parking tickets in Washington during the past two years, according to a report on the Congressional Quarterly’s Web site.

The New York Democrat’s campaign committee and his political action committee have made fourteen separate payments to the D.C. treasurer for “automobile expenses” since March 2007, and a Rangel spokesman confirmed to CQ that campaign aides believe they were for parking tickets.

Overall, the House Ways and Means Committee chairman has paid $2,035 in parking ticket fines since 2001.

It is not illegal for Rangel to use campaign funds to pay for parking tickets if they were incurred while he was engaged in campaign activities or carrying out his duties as an officeholder.

But it is illegal to use contributions “to fulfill any commitment, obligation or expense of a person that would exist irrespective of the candidate’s election campaign or individual’s duties as a holder of federal office,” including a “non-campaign-related automobile expense,” according to federal campaign finance law.

Rangel’s spokesman Emile Milne told the Web site, CQ Politics, that the congressman is in compliance with the law, but could not provide details on each of the tickets.

CQ notes: “Regardless of any potential legal issues, the congressman is paying parking tickets with other people’s money.”

Last year Rangel’s car was towed from the House garage after the New York Post disclosed that he had been storing the undrivable vehicle there for several years, in violation of House rules.

The Post also reported that Rangel was using a Cadillac leased by his taxpayer-funded House office to travel to campaign events in New York — also a violation of House rules.

The Washington Post and the New York Times both called on Rangel to step down as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in the wake of ethics charges that recently came to light.

The Times disclosed that Rangel helped preserve a valuable tax loophole for an oil and gas drilling company while the firm’s chief executive was promising to donate $1 million to the Charles B. Rangel School of Public Service at City College of New York.

The House Ethics Committee is investigating allegations that Rangel paid below-market rents on four apartments in New York, including one that was used illegally as a campaign office.

It also is alleged that he failed to pay tens of thousands of dollars in taxes on rental income from a vacation home in the Dominican Republic, and used official letterhead stationery to solicit donations to the public service school.

The WaPo and NYT call on Rangel to relinquish his powerful Ways & Means Committee chairmanship secure in the knowledge that the overpopulated House Donk caucus will never - AND I MEAN NEVER - force him to do so.

However inured by the trappings of power some Republicans got by 2006, at least it took 'em twelve years to descend there; as I predicted two years ago, the Dems never missed a beat because they wrote the book on corruption and arrogance and abuse of power.  Think Rangel will be hounded out of D.C. the way, say, Tom DeLay was three years ago over worse offenses than "the Hammer" was ever accused of (even if they hadn't been trumped-up smears)?  Think Rangel would give up the ship as easily as DeLay did even if he was?

Culture of corruption, anyone?  Or will nobody ever give a damn again because it's perfectly okay when the Democrats are running it?