This is just a brief note to show a touch of respect for a couple of partisan hacks who decided to shed their hackery for a moment to promote a better good:
Chuck Rangel, Nancy Pelosi, you may not hear me say this again, but THANK YOU. Many of your peers are basking in the glow of the fact that Hugo Chavez has translated your normal talking points into Spanish in front of the UN and the New York poor. You, however, took the higher ground.
I know you normally mean to fuck-over folks like me, but your demonstrated fraternity with our President is refreshing.
Rangel:
"You don't come into my country, you don't come into my congressional district and criticize my president, " Rangel said from Capitol Hill.
He added that "it would be crazy to think that Americans do not feel offended" by Chavez's remarks.
You rock, sir.....
this time. Please accept the humblest of thanks from one of your most vocal critics, as we all realize George Bush does NOT need the help of the likes of Chavez to look a fool.
The reason Chavez has the balls to say what he says is precisely because of comments made by Rangel, Reid, Pelosi, etc etc...
I'd like to think he had a fleeting moment of common decency, but I sincerely doubt it.
In 1995, Charlie Rangel described a House Ways and Means vote that closed a tax loophole as being "just like under Hitler."
In June of 2005, Charlie Rangel said, "The Iraq war is the biggest fraud ever committed on the people of this country. This is just as bad as the six million Jews being killed." comparing the Iraq war to the Holocaust.
These have the balls to ask why Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad come to the United States and criticize this country and their president? Shit, they do it all the time. Fsck them.
One thing I really don't understand is how a guy like Rangel gets so much support from low income dems when he shows up at every event in a $5,ooo suit, rolex and gold tie bar. He's not only a blatant opportunist along the lines of Sharpton and Jackson, he's a flat out nasty son of a bitch....
Tim- I hardly think that Bush is the "kid" and Rangel and Pelosi are the "abusive adults." I've seen Bush hold his own against those idiots for years...but they don't own Citgo...Chavez does. Chavez DEFINITELY is the "bigger bully" here, not necessarily bigger than Bush, but certainly bigger than the entire Democrat side of congress combined.