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RUSH: I wish I could JIP it but I\u2019m not going to JIP it because… maybe we should JIP a little just to give you a sample. Charlie Rangel is on the floor of the House giving the most hilarious example of doublespeak I have ever heard in my life. For example, he said (imitating Rangel) ‘I couldn\u2019t find one lawyer, I couldn\u2019t find one friend who told me that I should take the floor today and explain myself here.\u2019 I wonder why that is? I wonder why not one lawyer and not one friend would tell him to take the floor. And just before the program\u2019s hour started here, they had to interrupt, some woman\u2019s running the House today, had the gavel bang down and said, ‘Uh, uh, order, order, please, members will take their conversations outside the House floor.\u2019 <\/p>\n

So nobody\u2019s even listening to him. They\u2019re in there having their own conversations, and Rangel, this is the funniest ‘I never did it\u2019 in my life. (imitating Rangel) ‘All I\u2019ve ever done is public service. That\u2019s it. The prosecutor was in the Army 40 years, yeah, that\u2019s all I\u2019ve ever done, that\u2019s all I know.\u2019 (laughing) Forty years, four apartments, no taxes on rental property, and how do you own rental property in the Dominican Republic on what he\u2019s made as a legislator? His salary is sizeable, it\u2019s more than what most Americans make, but it\u2019s not the kind of thing you can own rental property in the Dominican. You want to hear a little bit of it? Our microphones are there, it\u2019s the House floor, Charlie Rangel, ‘I am not going away. I\u2019m not going anywhere.\u2019<\/p>\n

RANGEL: But my lawyer says don\u2019t offend them. My friends say don\u2019t go to the floor. And I say, what are you gonna do me? Huh? Suppose I do get emotional, suppose I do think of my life, the beginning and the end, are you going to expel me from this party? Are you going to say that while there\u2019s no evidence that I took a nickel, asked for a nickel, that there\u2019s no sworn testimony, no conflict —<\/p>\n

RUSH: What do you mean? <\/p>\n

RANGEL: — that I have to leave here?<\/p>\n

RUSH: What do you mean?<\/p>\n

RANGEL: As much as I love you Democrats, I figure it would be easy — I\u2019m the guy that was raising money in Republican districts to get you here, but that doesn\u2019t mean that I criticize you for saying, ‘Hey, that\u2019s great then, but I\u2019m running for reelection now.\u2019 I mean do what you have to do. And Republicans, hey, you don\u2019t have much to run on, but, you know, but what the hell, if Rangel is an embarrassment based on newspaper articles, I can see why you would do it. But think, think, isn\u2019t this historically the first time that it appears as though partisanship has entered the ethics committee? Isn\u2019t it historically the first time that the recommendations of the subcommittee of investigation is turned down?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. You get the flavor of this. Rangel again saying that he didn\u2019t have one lawyer, not one friend tell him to take the floor, don\u2019t want to offend the committee, don\u2019t want to offend the ethics economy. He makes $174 grand a year and he says he didn\u2019t notice. (imitating Rangel) ‘Everybody does it. All right, maybe I was guilty of insensitivity. I thought that I was being treated the same. Nobody ever told me that I was being treated differently.\u2019 So you didn\u2019t notice that an extra $800,000 that you didn\u2019t earn that somehow is in your bank account, you just didn\u2019t notice and nobody is treated any differently than you are. (imitating Rangel) ‘I raised money for you to run against the Republicans. Ask the Republicans, they know, I was raising money for you.\u2019 He\u2019s dumping on them now. He\u2019s chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, oversees the IRS and all of our tax laws, and he wouldn\u2019t think he had to report $800,000 in extra income. There you have it, Charlie Rangel. And nobody knows why he took to the floor today other than he\u2019s trying to defend himself. He was complaining earlier that, (imitating Rangel) ‘Well, the way they\u2019re talking now, the hearing won\u2019t even happen until after my primary. Yeah, after 40 years, and then if I win the primary they\u2019re having the ethics hearing right before the general. How does that happen?\u2019 (laughing) Ask Obama, Charlie, because Obama is out there throwing you overboard and under the bus at the same time. Obama said, ‘It\u2019s time to retire with dignity.\u2019 It\u2019s time to get out of there with dignity.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: First, I have to issue a correction on Rangel. It was not $800,000 he didn\u2019t recognize. I confused a couple things. It was $80,000 in back taxes from his rental property. He failed to report personal assets totaling as much as $780,000 in financial disclosure reports, but the 800 grand is 80. I just confused the two: 780,000, I rounded up to $800,000. The bottom line here is he said (doing impression), ‘I\u2019m not going away. I\u2019m going to defend myself. I love the Congress, and I love my country — and I want one last chance to dip my hand in the cookie jar before they kick me outta here,\u2019 which is the bottom line. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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