Related Link » Obama May Have to Wait for Health Care PassageCharlie Rangel (arms folded in above photo) is the chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee.
“‘No one wants to tell the speaker [Nancy Pelosi] that she's moving too fast and they damn sure don't want to tell the president’, Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., a key committee chairman [someone "of weight"], told a fellow lawmaker as the two walked into a closed-door meeting Tuesday. The remark was overheard by reporters.” [emphasis added]
— AP, Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Would you buy a used car from these guys "of weight"?
On September 24, 2008, the House Ethics Committee announced an investigation into Rangel's alleged failure to report thousands of dollars in rental income or pay taxes on his beachfront villa in the posh resort in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, allegedly living in multiple rent-subsidized apartments in New York City while claiming his Washington, D.C. home as his primary residence for tax purposes, alleged use of congressional stationery to solicit donors for a public policy institute in his name at City College, and other alleged questionable activities. — From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaWould you buy a used car from this slime-ball "of weight", let alone a multi-trillion-dollar overhaul of the American health-care system?
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