Charlie Rangel: We don’t need no stinkin’ Congress
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 βeverything.β
InΒ an interviewΒ last night with NY1, the congressman praised Senate Majority Leader Harry Reidβs decision to push through the so-called βnuclear optionβ 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 ordersβlike the kind used to end the deportation many people whoβd entered the country illegally as children.
βYou know, the DREAM Act for the kids that came over here and didnβt know their home town, the president did that by executive order. What I did is Iβve taken out the language that he used and Iβm gonna see why we canβt use executive orders for everything. Whatβs he gonna do? Make the Republicans angry? Theyβre gonna get annoyed? Theyβre not gonna cooperate?β
He went on to slam the Republican Party for refusing to cooperateβaccusing them of acting against the interests of their own constituents.
βA police officer once told me when I was a kid that the worst criminal to deal with is one that doesnβt mind dying,β he said. βAnd if you take a look at what these Tea Party people have doneβrecognizing that thereβs more sick and poor white folks then there isβbut 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?β
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