Posts Tagged ‘charlie rangel’

That didn’t last long…

Posted: March 4, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Morning Joe plays a video or two and Presto Pete Stark is out:

Officially, Stark stepped aside to keep the gavel of the panel’s health subcommittee. But lawmakers and aides said Stark faced a rebellion within the committee and the caucus over his sometimes bizarre behavior and penchant for making offensive comments.

Gee Ya Think? Via Glenn who lives outside of the space time continuum explaining his proficient blogging.

A bunch of slides on how to raise money is equal to:

Patterson’s ethics issues

Rangel’s Ethics issues

Stark’s big mouth

Massa’s ethics issues

They opened with all of these eithics issues and started to shakes their heads to begin the 6 o:clock hour only to call the politico in that was shocked shocked by some slides from an RNC fundraising plan?

First of all those images are so tame compared to anything that the democrats were producing over the period of the previous administration that it is an insult to the intelligence to say that the person making the slide for a fundraiser should be fired. (In fairness Joe did mention this)

If I’m the RNC I’m so owning this and comparing the reaction of the DNC to this vs the ethics issues.

and lets finish up with the president and the judgeship.

The Add writes itself, you list the ethics issues and compare it to the slide finishing with: What outrages the MSM more?

And now their first new guest is going on about how “disgusting” and beyond the pale it is.

I’m sorry this if you were MSNBC you couldn’t make yourself more foolish by making the equivalency. Then again it IS MSNBC the fact that they are reporting both gives a glimmer of hope.

…is an ad campaign against a candidate designed to tweak his weight a good idea?

Mr. Corzine’s television commercials and Web videos feature unattractive images of Mr. Christie, sometimes shot from the side or backside, highlighting his heft, jowls and double chin.

Meanwhile, Mr. Corzine, 62, is conspicuously running in 5- and 10-kilometer races almost every weekend, as he did last Saturday and Sunday, underscoring his athleticism and readiness for the physical demands of another term — and raising doubts about Mr. Christie’s.

On Morning Joe where Corzine is often a guest and Mika is almost a health nazi they thought it was over the line. I think that kind of thing is going to turn off a lot of voters.

The Huffpost has the ad and a poll concerning it, but I think the ad has a bigger problem for democrats to wit:

didn’t pay taxes you owe
ignored ethics laws

There is some buzz on it but for myself I didn’t think that particular ad highlighted his weight but considering the Charlie Rangel vote yesterday and the acorn issues is it really a smart idea for a democratic ad to be highlighting not paying taxes and ethics laws? That is going to have ramifications all the way down the ticket.

…asks Mika on Morning Joe concerning Charlie Rangel?

I think she is smart enough to know the answer, he has a “D” next to his name, he is a personable fellow and a combat vet from Korea. He is a longstanding powerful black congressman.

All of these things preclude scrutiny from the MSN.

After all it precluded scrutiny concerning others.