Track-A-’Crat: The Roll Call of Democratic Delinquency

Big ol’ fat Rep. Charlie Rangel.

How do we love thee?

Let me count the ways:

1) For working so hard each and every day to redistribute wealth away from the productive (exploitative) members of the populace to the unproductive (victimized) ones.

2) For helpfully reinforcing base stereotypes, by perpetuating incomprehensibly stupid notions such as black people should only vote for fellow black people.

3) For shamelessly using tragic events to further his particular brand of imaginary grievance-mongering.

And now for suddenly disclosing more than $500,000 in previously unreported assets.

Rangel recently filed an amended 2007 financial disclosure report, in addition to a very late 2008 report.  The updated 2007 report showed a miraculous growth in his personal wealth from between $516,015 and $1,316,000 as first reported, and between $1,028,024 and $2,495,000 as now updated.

He’s doubling the account of his assets, not that any members of the Fourth Estate will bother to notice.

Which begs the question: what kind of person forgets about half of what they own?

That somebody of Rangel’s skills has amassed this sizable personal fortune is yet more proof of all that is wrong in politics.  Politics should be mentally, not materially, rewarding.

Final thought: who would win in an eating competition between Rangel and this guy?

Being a big fat bigot sure is exhausting.

Rep. Charles Rangel has expended so much energy recently on spreading his unique brand of ignorance and hate-mongering that it’s hardly surprising that he needs a break.

Thank you, Gateway Pundit, for finding a suitably embarrassing photo of Rangel (which, virtually alone among the ranks of Democratic dunderheads, had eluded me until now) and thank you, Smitty, for alerting me to a pic that is now among the elite on my site, alongside this one, this one and this one.

Time to watch some Wimbledon, so goodbye for now…

I’m more than a little perplexed at how he’s managed to do this (or, rather, avoid doing this), but there’s a distinct lack of embarrassing photographs featuring Charles Rangel.

This is normally the easiest, and most fun, part of my posts (see here for a prime example) and is particularly surprising given how prone Rangel is to saying really stupid things.

He’s also a repeat offender at making dumb statements, which poses a slight problem as I have to come up with new ways to mock him.  I can’t start simply repeating myself – I’ve standards, don’t you know.  Make fun of his unhealthy size?  Check.  Point out his many self-enrichment rackets?  Done that.

So let’s use old faithful, his whopping stupidity, again.  Rangel has said that Attorney General Andrew Cuomo should not challenge New York governor David Paterson in a primary next year, and try to wrap your brain around this incredibly deep thought process, because:

“Since we have most African-Americans registered as Democrats, and since you would be making an appeal for Democrats, it would be devastating, in my opinion.”

According to Rangel, black people can only vote for other black people.

If there’s any silver lining to the election of President Intern, then please Lord make it that African-Americans no longer feel quite so obligated to automatically vote Democrat.

By voting against the expansion of free trade, against the promotion of risk-taking and entrepeneurship and for punitive taxation against the most successful people, they are choosing to to keep themselves mired in whatever circumstances made them vote Democrat in the first place.

Human/walrus hybrid Rep. Charlie Rangel is corrupt to the core.

And he’s also multi-talented, using the memorial service of NYPD officer Omar Edwards (who was tragically killed by a fellow officer) as an occasion to make idiotic jokes and grievance-monger.

Rangel hilariously told a crowd of 100 that President Obama should “make certain he doesn’t run around East Harlem unidentified.”  Hmm, I wonder what exactly he was inferring?

Morons like Rangel are fixated with a problem that is rapidly diminishing.  But they will never admit that because, without the crutch of racism, their uselessness would be blindingly obvious and they would never get (re)elected.

Rangel’s world view is a nice n’ easy one – all the problems he sees are caused by racism and, therefore, (somehow) the Right – and he won’t let reality rupture his fantasy.

In the words of Morgan Freeman, the only way to get rid of racism is to “stop talking about it.”

As light relief, Charlie Rangel is without peer.

But, try as he might, he is not a comic.  He is a politician.

And a very greedy little piggy, as well.  Jason Mattera has the down-low on his wealth-accumulation schemes and tax evasion.

And there is, of course, a twist.  Rangel is chairman of the House committee responsible for writing and implementing tax measures.

Hope’n'change!

Looks like a jovial guy, doesn’t he?  Pretty happy with himself, sure, you bet.  As well he should be after getting away with what he has.

And, ooh, blaming your staff for your failure to pay the appropriate taxes.  Not exactly courageous.  Must be because Charlie-boy was concentrating so hard on solving everyone else’s problems.