Reading Impediment
As the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Congressman Charlie Rangel stands in the way of Bush’s foreign policy agenda. Rangel points out that the American people have spoken and are not satisfied with the way Bush has waged a war, which has lasted longer than World War II.
Members of the House and Senate are trying to determine the best way to get out of Iraq, while protecting the troops during a period of transition. However, Bush insists that he doesn’t care what the Congress wants to do, because as the commander in chief, he has a constitutional responsibility to conduct this war any way he wants.
Rangel said that the military is going to get all of the money that it needs for its safety. Congress has the power to support or not support the war, because when the American people says they are fed up with it, no president, Republican or Democrat, can survive.
MSNBC’s Tucker Carlson challenged Rep. Rangel: “You and Senator Levin have unveiled what you call a new trade agenda for the United States. And it includes the following requirement. Quote: ‘require other countries to adopt and maintain and enforce basic international labor standards in their domestic laws and practices, not merely enforce their own laws.’ In other words, it would impose our standards on other, in almost every case, poorer countries.
If that hasn’t worked in Iraq, coming in with our notions about how people ought to live and imposing them on another culture, why will it work when it is imposed by your trade bills?”
Congressman Rangel replied: “Tucker, you know, I really think that you have a reading impediment, but I hope that it’s correctable, because, there is nothing that you have read or can hardly make up that would suggest that we are trying to impose our standards, our very high standards, on developing countries.
That would be wrong, morally wrong, and, in my opinion, stupid. What it does say is that we are trying to make certain that the basic minimum international standards, which deals with child labor, which deals with the inability of people to organize, which deals with slave labor, the things that any decent people have said that, at the minimum, these things should be protected. We have got cases right now where children are using pesticides and dangerous chemicals, and don’t go to school.”
Poor Tucker Carlson can’t dance or read. :-)
Members of the House and Senate are trying to determine the best way to get out of Iraq, while protecting the troops during a period of transition. However, Bush insists that he doesn’t care what the Congress wants to do, because as the commander in chief, he has a constitutional responsibility to conduct this war any way he wants.
Rangel said that the military is going to get all of the money that it needs for its safety. Congress has the power to support or not support the war, because when the American people says they are fed up with it, no president, Republican or Democrat, can survive.
MSNBC’s Tucker Carlson challenged Rep. Rangel: “You and Senator Levin have unveiled what you call a new trade agenda for the United States. And it includes the following requirement. Quote: ‘require other countries to adopt and maintain and enforce basic international labor standards in their domestic laws and practices, not merely enforce their own laws.’ In other words, it would impose our standards on other, in almost every case, poorer countries.
If that hasn’t worked in Iraq, coming in with our notions about how people ought to live and imposing them on another culture, why will it work when it is imposed by your trade bills?”
Congressman Rangel replied: “Tucker, you know, I really think that you have a reading impediment, but I hope that it’s correctable, because, there is nothing that you have read or can hardly make up that would suggest that we are trying to impose our standards, our very high standards, on developing countries.
That would be wrong, morally wrong, and, in my opinion, stupid. What it does say is that we are trying to make certain that the basic minimum international standards, which deals with child labor, which deals with the inability of people to organize, which deals with slave labor, the things that any decent people have said that, at the minimum, these things should be protected. We have got cases right now where children are using pesticides and dangerous chemicals, and don’t go to school.”
Poor Tucker Carlson can’t dance or read. :-)
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