Roy Blunt: Charlie Rangel Equal To All GOP Corruption

On C-SPAN's Newsmakers Mary Ann Akers asks Roy Blunt about telling Republican members of Congress that it's okay to run against the Republican brand, and about members like Rick Renzi, John Doolittle, Jerry Weller and Ted Stevens who are all potentially in a lot of trouble and why they haven't been censured by the Ethics Committee.

Blunt responds with saying that basically voters are too stupid to really understand all those crazy specifics of the Republican corruption and they've said they're innocent so of course they must be, he's happy voters are buying into their latest talking point on Off-shore drilling instead of paying attention how corrupt so many of them are, and now that they've got one more corrupt Democrat besides Jefferson in Charlie Rangel to go after he uses that as an excuse to ignore responding to what the members of the GOP did that the reporter was asking about.

Any member of Congress that's been there too long is probably corrupt in some way shape or form, but the level of corruption with the GOP that Blunt is giving a pass on, and comparing the scandals that Stevens and others are accused of to Rangel getting a discount on an apartment is really laughable. All of it needs to stop but using the second lousy Democrat they could find to hammer on compared to the dozens and dozens of extremely corrupt GOP Congressman they cover for daily is ridiculous.

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[chumashfalcon]

Hey Roy Blunt, its Missouri calling... we wanted to tell you that your son is a crook and a fool. We got rid of him, and we are going to get rid of you soon.

P.S. your ugly, dumb, and your party is a criminal racket.

[sharshur]

this guy is smug. and wrong.

[SimplyStupidNews]

change the GOP, to OLD, and KICK there old but outs!

[grassrootsful]

This joker cheated on his wife, had her commited to a mental hospital, divorced her for some young trophy jewish bitch, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. He is a sleeze ball the likes most states never see and he's waved a flag and shoved a bible up his ass the whole time. He's almost gone, he's in our voting crosshairs and we're going to replace him with Robin Carnahan. I hope he and his crooked family move some place like Baghdad or N Korea.

[jotunobsidianeyes]

Ha that's my congressman. I never voted for him though.

[brawnymike]

If, as Blunt stated, that Rangel campaign office was provided by the landlord, which was a corporate entity, how exactly does the rental amount come into play? Does he mean the corporation claimed (on its taxes) forfeiture of the rent it WOULD HAVE received, and then misstated that rent at the old rent-controlled (cheaper) dollar amount rather than fair-market dollar amount? Wouldn't that be between the corporation & the IRS, and probably unknown to Rangel?

Someone, please explain.

[asdffd]

I'm choking on all the bullshit this creepy looking guy is spewing.

[moejardines]

No shit, he's an embarrassment. Missouri is an interesting state though: its got KC, which is pretty cosmopolitan, St. Louis, which is largely ghetto, the suburbs of STL, which are relatively affluent, and then southern MO, which is pretty much podunk.

Demographically a really tough spot to make calls on. Clair McKaskill rocks though!

I'm from the east side in IL, so I know the 'Lou well. Between North St. Louis and East STL, jesus, its like both of the USA's armpits.

[swaggajee]

We need term limitations in a big, big way. Two terms and you're out. There wouldn't be a status quo in D.C. that we've been seeing. And it would probably help to curb lobbyists from buying politicians when they'd have to buy new ones almost every election.

[kargenlewis]

america is cleaning house. this guys days are numbered.