Looks like Charlie Rangel might get Cantored - Primary

[Engineer]

He at one time may have been a honorable man. That was a very very long time ago.

I hope he loses but i suspect in the long term it won't matter

I'm pretty sure the Primary is today and I just read that he picked up several key endorsements over the last few days. We just keep on sending the same ones to Congress that screw us over and over and over again.

 

[bradley]

Rangel is proof that making your vote predictable means politicians take you for granted. I don't remember the last time he was considered honorable or honest, for anyone actually paying attention to such matters.

Espaillat attacked Rangel's 1999 vote to repeal the Glass-Steagall separation between traditional banking and risky securities trading, saying economists widely cited it as a cause of the 2008 banking collapse. Espaillat then asked why Rangel voted to roll back a key aspect of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law, referring to Rangel's support for a measure that would reinstate taxpayer support for risky derivative trades by big banks.

And people keeps saying that increasing awareness isn't working. Now let's hold the new guy to his very high standards, if the broken and corrupt system will allow it.

 

[theeedude]

Cantor was the GOP Majority Leader, on track to become speaker. Him getting primaried was a BFD.

Rangel is a rank member of minority party. Makes no difference to me who is the nominee in his district. He's 84, so he's on track to nothing good.

Also, rising populism is far more dangerous to the GOP than to Democrats, since it drives a wedge between Chamber of Commerce Republicans and the Tea Party crowd.

 

[JManInPhoenix]

The best thing that could happen to the nation would be a 100% turnover in the upcoming election. Old guard out, new faces in.

:thumbsup:

 

[D-Man]

The best thing that could happen to the nation would be a 100% turnover in the upcoming election. Old guard out, new faces in.

Read through your post to fast I thought I read Old guard out, new feces in.

 

[Engineer]

Looks like Rangel is going to win barring any last minute surge.

 

[Jhhnn]

Cantor was the GOP Majority Leader, on track to become speaker. Him getting primaried was a BFD.

Rangel is a rank member of minority party. Makes no difference to me who is the nominee in his district. He's 84, so he's on track to nothing good.

Also, rising populism is far more dangerous to the GOP than to Democrats, since it drives a wedge between Chamber of Commerce Republicans and the Tea Party crowd.

Well, yeh, except that the Tea Party isn't grass roots but rather astroturf rolled out by the extreme right wing of the party, the destroy the govt of the people faction. They're def a threat, and not just to Repubs but rather to all of us. The Teatards are their brownshirts.

 

[Victorian Gray]

Well, yeh, except that the Tea Party isn't grass roots but rather astroturf rolled out by the extreme right wing of the party, the destroy the govt of the people faction. They're def a threat, and not just to Repubs but rather to all of us. The Teatards are their brownshirts.

When you write crap like this what makes you any different from them? Hyperbole is *not* your friend.

 

[DucatiMonster696]

AHAHAHAHAHAHA....you can't make this shit up. The dem sheeple re-elected Rangel.

http://news.yahoo.com/york-congressman-charles-rangel-wins-democratic-primary-ny1-040216400.html

 

[ivwshane]

This could be an easy win for republucans, who are they putting up?

 

[bradley]

Give me (even a now co-opted) grassroots movement like Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party over what constitutes a political truth nowadays. Please Tread on Me.

Oh well, sad to realize what might have happened if New Yorkers had greater imaginations. Don't believe that Rangel has anything other than total disregard and thinks the worst of his constituents.

 

[Daverino]

This could be an easy win for republucans, who are they putting up?

Ahhahahah, no. Rangel is NY13. That's Harlem, Morningside Heights and the Upper West Side.

That's as Democratic a district as this nation has.

 

[Zebo]

Honestly I'd wish almost all of them would get Cantored. These bought and paid for establishment assholes need to go....and politicians know it too.. why you think Hillary is pushing her "poor" train despite being worth about 120m and total establishment?

 

[shira]

Looks like Rangel will probably win. He leads by 1,828 votes, with probably less than two or three thousand absentee votes and "affidavit ballots" still to be counted.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/rangel-espaillat-make-final-push-108267.html

 

[xBiffx]

Just read that the stage nearly collapse during Rangel's victory speech. There were too many fat people on stage. Rangel had to ask the heavier people on stage to think about safety and get off.

Just found it entertaining. About the only nugget I could find within this news.

 

[hal2kilo]

This could be an easy win for republucans, who are they putting up?

Not in Harlem.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

This could be an easy win for republucans, who are they putting up?

This certainly could be an easy win for Republicans, if New York's 13th district was in Utah and not Harlem.

 

[fskimospy]

Ahhahahah, no. Rangel is NY13. That's Harlem, Morningside Heights and the Upper West Side.

That's as Democratic a district as this nation has.

The Cook PVI for NY-13 is D +41.

The Democrats could run Hitler there and probably still scrape out a win.

 

[Genx87]

Democrats have more work to get their scum out of congress.

 

[fskimospy]

Democrats have more work to get their scum out of congress.

It is sad that even a total dirtbag like Charlie Rangel will still get back into Congress somehow.

 

[Matt1970]

It is sad that even a total dirtbag like Charlie Rangel will still get back into Congress somehow.

Promising the goods to all your constituents tend to make them overlook your shortcomings.

 

[fskimospy]

Promising the goods to all your constituents tend to make them overlook your shortcomings.

Nah, name recognition, well financed campaign and a heavily democratic district are all he needed.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

It is sad that even a total dirtbag like Charlie Rangel will still get back into Congress somehow.

It's because partisan politics has convinced a whole lot of stupid people that the letter beside someone's name is the only thing that matters. That, and we need stiffer penalties for blatant acts of corruption. Elected officials abusing the public trust for personal gain is treason, pure and simple, and it should be punished as such. Rangel should be in prison for life or awaiting execution, along with dozens of other politicians who have engaged in similar bribery/corruption affairs over the past few decades. This country's elected leadership has gone to shit and it's because we not only allow them to abuse the public trust for personal gain, but encourage them to do it by continually reelecting them to fuck us some more. Jesus fucking Christ. At this point, we would actually be better off as a country if citizens weren't allowed to vote, as the vast majority continually remind us they can't be trusted with that power.

Fortunately, Congress has become so completely dysfunctional that it's unlikely that any of Rangel's continuing malfeasance will affect anyone outside of New York in any tangible way. So that's a plus, I guess. Why is our government so fucking shitty?

 

[Matt1970]

Nah, name recognition, well financed campaign and a heavily democratic district are all he needed.

Oh I am sure his name is synonymous with promising the goods to all his constituents

 

[glenn1]

It is sad that even a total dirtbag like Charlie Rangel will still get back into Congress somehow.

As if you'd vote against him in the general. Nope, gotta pull the lever for the corrupt dirtbag who was convicted by the House Ethics Committee for tax evasion and other reasons than someone from the other party, eh?