{"id":3166,"date":"2008-09-15T13:41:18","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T17:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=3166"},"modified":"2008-09-15T13:41:18","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T17:41:18","slug":"the-oh-that-guy-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=3166","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Oh, that guy&#8221; defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t you wish you could get out of trouble with the IRS just by telling them you&#8217;re going to get a new accountant? Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080915\/ap_on_go_co\/rangel_ethics_2\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Rangel can<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/rangel.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3167\" title=\"rangel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/rangel.bmp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, it helps that slimy-assed Lanny Davis is his lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>Well, on top of the tax problems, <a href=\"http:\/\/bitsblog.florack.us\/?p=11874\" target=\"_blank\">Bits Blog <\/a>writes that he&#8217;s been getting freebies from lobbyists without declaring them. Which guy is going to get blamed for that?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rangel said in a statement he became aware of the issues over the weekend while working with his attorneys and staff.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The congressman acknowledged he made mistakes but said they were errors of omission and should not lead to the loss of his high position in Congress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, errors of omission to pay to your stupid taxes like the rest of us, ya old buffoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t you wish you could get out of trouble with the IRS just by telling them &hellip; <a title=\"The &#8220;Oh, that guy&#8221; defense\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=3166\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The &#8220;Oh, that guy&#8221; defense<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}