Congressman Charles Rangel: Hmm, How Can I Divert The Heat I’m Getting For not Paying My Taxes?

A few days ago we reported about Congressman Charles Rangel’s tax troubles.

The powerful Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, the chief tax-writing committee for the U.S., would like us to forget about his personal tax troubles. What to do… What to do? I know, Let’s play the race card.

FoxNews quotes a New York Post exclusive:

First it was Gov. Paterson. Now the dean of New York’s congressional delegation has played the race card — and just as the governor did, he’s using President Obama to do it, the New York Post reported.

Rep. Charles Rangel said Tuesday that “bias” and “prejudice” toward Obama are fueling opposition to health-care reform.

Those incendiary comments came on the heels of Paterson’s controversial comments about race that also mentioned the nation’s first black president.

“Some Americans have not gotten over the fact that Obama is president of the United States. They go to sleep wondering, ‘How did this happen?’ ” Rangel (D-Manhattan) said Tuesday.

Rangel has a dream that Obama’s little congressman will one day live in a nation where he will not be judged by the content of his character, but by the color of his president’s skin.

Rangel then likened the battle over health-care expansion for the uninsured to the fight for civil rights.

“Why do we have to wait for the right to vote? Why can’t we get what God has given us? That is the right to live as human beings and not negotiate with white southerners and not count the votes. Just do the right thing,” he said.

Rangel’s comments came less than two weeks after Paterson claimed he has been the victim of a racist white media — and also suggested that opposition to Obama’s plan is racially driven.

The White House was quick to rebut Paterson’s comments.

Critics of ObamaCare blasted Rangel for taking the low road.

“Charlie Rangel knows that race has nothing to do with the health-care debate. He should not be implying that race has anything to do with it,” said Rep. Peter King (R-LI).

State Conservative Party leader Mike Long called Rangel’s comment “outrageous and outlandish” — and suggested the congressman might be trying to deflect attention from his ethics woes.

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