By FITSNews || S.C. Sen. Mick Mulvaney blasted fourteen-term incumbent Democrat John Spratt for refusing to take a stand against corrupt Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-New York), who has temporarily stepped down from his powerful chairmanship pending ongoing investigations into his numerous ethical lapses.
“Other Democrats – independent thinkers – have already taken the difficult but courageous step to go against Speaker (Nancy) Pelosi and do the right thing,” Mulvaney said. “Why hasn’t Congressman Spratt?”
Indeed, Spratt – who voted with Pelosi and the Democratic leadership in Washington 97.8 percent of the time last year, according to the Washington Post – has been a consistent Rangel supporter, voting twice to keep him in office over the last twelve months despite mounting evidence of Rangel’s impropriety (see roll call votes here and here).
Rangel was publicly admonished last week by the House Ethics Committee for accepting corporate-funded trips to the Caribbean. He is still being investigated on several more serious charges, included failure to report income on his tax returns.
Mulvaney said he believed part of Spratt’s motivation not to join the growing chorus of Democrats opposing Rangel was simple Washington arithmetic.
“While John Spratt has been busy passing budgets with trillion dollar deficits, Charlie Rangel has been busy passing the tax hikes to pay for them,” he said.
Once viewed as a moderate Democrat, Spratt has lurched to the left in recent years.
For example, he voted in favor of President Barack Obama’s $787 billion bureaucratic bailout as well as a “cap and trade” energy tax hike and most recently, Obama’s socialized medicine plan.
(See the Congressional record of Spratt’s votes in favor of those items by clicking here, here and here).
Spratt also voted for another round of bureaucratic bailouts last December, and along with Rangel has been pushing for the largest debt hike in U.S. history.
By Anonymous March 3, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Why is Spratt still there? Seriously? He doesn’t seem to like the job very much anymore, and he hasn’t cast his own vote since he became budget chair. 20 years ago he would be beating down the doors to kick out scum like Rangel.
Now, he is sort of just taking up space.
By PasserBy March 3, 2010 at 12:53 pm
FITS:
I think I’m getting some fatigue on this one. The headlines are just: “Mulvaney blasts Spratt for (fill in the blank)”.
Is this the only contested race in SC, other than the one in the 1st District where everyone’s running? Surely there must be some interesting info on some of the other races.
By fitsnews March 3, 2010 at 12:57 pm
PB,
Well, there’s that race (which we wrote about last week)…
http://www.fitsnews.com/2010/02/24/entire-sc-first-district-running-for-sc-first-district/
And this one, too …
http://www.fitsnews.com/2010/02/23/rice-no-abortion-funding-for-rape-and-incest-victims/
Of course neither of those races features an opportunity to replace one of the most fiscally liberal politicians in Washington with one of the few proven fiscal conservatives in state government.
In other words, if you want Spratt propaganda, go read the fucking Rock Hill Herald. Or the San Francisco Chronicle. We love us some Mick Mulvaney in these parts.
-FITS
By countryboy March 3, 2010 at 1:26 pm
I have known John Spratt since he came to Chesterfield County the first time he ran for Congress. He has changed 180 degrees over the years. I truly liked the original fiscal conservative Spratt and honestly, I voted for him all these years when I should have stopped several terms ago. I agree with Anonymous that Spratt is just taking up space. He has lost his backbone or balls somewhere along the way.
By BadNewsMulvaney March 3, 2010 at 1:35 pm
Mulvaney needs to stop thinking bout Washington and do his damn job in Columbia. He’s too busy blasting 1)Spratt for representing his district and attempting to slow an ever growing budget and debt or 2) trying to persuade the SC Senate that we need to remind the US Government about the 10 Amendment, while unemployment in SC is rising and the state budget cuts are getting deeper adn deeper. Mulvaney do your damn job first, then worry about campaign against a gentleman who has forgotten more about constituent service or representation than you can ever hope to fathom.
By sclawboy March 3, 2010 at 2:01 pm
FITS,
Do you love you some Mulvaney doggie-style, missionary, or standing up? ‘Cause one of you is clearly f*cking the other…
By waiting March 3, 2010 at 2:10 pm
How is the opinion of a blog that does not make bones of its bias a bad thing? Seems to me that links have been provided for each of these votes Spratt “allegedly” cast. But that is the point isn’t it? They are not alleged, SPRATT CAST THE VOTES. Angry comments aside I for one am glad a news outlet is taking the fight to a career politician like Spratt instead of covering his tracks for him.
By CNSYD March 3, 2010 at 3:19 pm
Lets me see if I understand Sanfraud clone Mulvaney correctly. ALL the national debt is directly the responsibility of Spratt. The budget is the SOLE responsibility of Spratt. Spratt is SOLELY responsible for the bailouts. The Obama health care plan was SOLELY authored by Spratt. Then two things are obvious. The Bush administration bears NO responsibility for anything and Spratt is a busy, busy man since he SOLELY does all the work in DC.
By PasserBy March 3, 2010 at 5:14 pm
FITS:
I never said I wanted “Spratt propaganda”, but my point was that all of the Mulvaney attacks are starting to sound the same to me, at least as I read them on here. Doesn’t mean he (Spratt) doesn’t need to go, or hasn’t overstayed his time.
By flipnut March 3, 2010 at 10:48 pm
Anonymous, two reasons Spratt is still in office, anger against unfair free trade agreements and the RINO party can’t find anyone worth a #@$% to run against him. The RINO party here seems to have knack for finding candidates who are directly tied in a bad way to the political issue of the day, and love free trade.
Ralph Norman had the best chance to beat Spratt, but he had a little problem with illegal labor being used on Warren Norman Co. construction sites before the election, and when people started pointing it out and asking questions work nearly stopped until after the election. He’ll win again because Mulvaney is a real estate developer who built tract subdivisions.
By Harry March 4, 2010 at 12:09 am
If I cheated on my taxes like Rangel I’d be thrown in the slammer.
Apparently Spratt doesn’t mind turning a blind eye to injustice.
By beentook2 March 4, 2010 at 8:58 am
PB don’t you ever watch NCIS. Gibbs Rule 1: never apologize, it is a sign of weakness.
Once I implied that willie was sucking up to Bauer and one would have thought I ripped off his left nut with a pair of rusty vise grips.
Bottom line PB: tell willie to fuck off.
If it weren’t for our comments, he would be home vacuuming and cleaning while the wife works to support him.
By fred March 4, 2010 at 10:05 am
Jesus Christ, I hope Mulvaney is paying well to print all of this shit.
A couple of months ago, I asked you to look into the Indian Land Boondoggle (http://ilboondoggle.blogspot.com/), which would implicate Mulvaney in a negative way and you declined…
Seems VERY unfair and imbalanced to me.
Instead of taking cash from Rangel, seems Spratt needs to give cash to Will Folks.
Fred
By FITSNews March 4, 2010 at 10:12 am
Fred,
Since you mention it, we called the person who is (allegedly) behind that website and offered them an unfiltered opportunity to lay out their allegations and supporting documentation.
They refused.
Specifically, we offered them an unfiltered (i.e. no questions from us) video availability, which we would have then posted on our YouTube page and posted here on FITS.
Again, they refused.
Mulvaney’s attorney, on the other hand, has provided us with specific documentation that refutes the charges that were made. Accordingly, we see no reason to write a story unless the “IL Boondoggle” guy is actually going to make the (since disproven) allegations on the record.
Apparently, he wants NONE of that, and we don’t blame him, because as far as we could tell everything on that website is bullshit.
Finally, for what it’s worth, “Unfair, Imbalanced” is our friggin’ slogan, dumbass. We make no bones about that, but where people are allegedly wasting tax dollars (as the IL Boondoggle people allege that Mulvaney did), we investigate.
-FITS
By Old MSgt August 15, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Then print the specific documentation, destroy the allegations against Mulvaney, and be a hero. You want him to win, open fire!