Charlie Rangel: We don’t need no stinkin’ Congress

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Rangel naps at his ‘tax-free’ Dominican Republic hideaway. Photo via Splash News/Daily Beast

The Observer’s Politicker reports on a recent interview Congressman Rangel did with NY1 in which he expressed support for President Obama going around Congress via the use of executive orders “for everything”:

Congressman Charlie Rangel has a solution for bypassing gridlock in Washington D.C.: executive orders for β€œeverything.”

InΒ an interviewΒ last night with NY1, the congressman praised Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s decision to push through the so-called β€œnuclear option” to end filibusters on most presidential nominees. But he lamented the fact the work-around could not be used for legislation, suggesting the president turn to the executive orders–like the kind used to end the deportation many people who’d entered the country illegally as children.

β€œYou know, the DREAM Act for the kids that came over here and didn’t know their home town, the president did that by executive order. What I did is I’ve taken out the language that he used and I’m gonna see why we can’t use executive orders for everything. What’s he gonna do? Make the Republicans angry? They’re gonna get annoyed? They’re not gonna cooperate?”

He went on to slam the Republican Party for refusing to cooperate–accusing them of acting against the interests of their own constituents.

β€œA police officer once told me when I was a kid that the worst criminal to deal with is one that doesn’t mind dying,” he said. β€œAnd if you take a look at what these Tea Party people have done–recognizing that there’s more sick and poor white folks then there is–but they still are resisting everything that the president wants to do so they can destroy the people in their district in terms of education and jobs, the Congress, the Republican name. And when we had the debt ceiling crisis, they were really prepared to let the United States of America fiscal policy to go in the tubes. How can you talk with people like this?”

And just last week, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) proposed expanding the use of the nuclear option to beyond just the filibuster on judicial nominees by way of, ya know, actual legislation.

How DARE Republicans disagree with Democrats and President Obama on how best to turn around the economic crisis our country faces – a crisis that has actually gotten WORSE under their watch? Β Shame on the GOP for accurately predicting exactly what problems Obamacare would cause. Β It was just pure luck they got it right. There can’t possibly be any genuine philosophical differences for disagreement with liberals. Why, conservatives and Republicans just want to “destroy” people. Oh, and raaaaaaaaaacism!

It’s always illuminating when the ‘moderate’ masks of Democrats come off, isn’t it? Their true fascistic faces are revealed in all their ugliness for the country – and the world – to see. Β It’s disturbing to watch but necessary. It’s good to know who – and what – you’re really up against.

Related:Β Obama calls GOP an ‘impediment’ at Seattle fundraiser

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