" ... doesn't have the experience ..." Rangel is a charlatan and an imbecile. He'll get his wish -- I find it uncanny that he doesn't seem to realize what fulfillment of his wish will mean for a 2008 Republican ticket. Cheney's appointed replacement could be anybody (they will probably be less experienced than Cheney.) What if Bush named Rice? Giuliani? Romney? Jeb! Ha! Rangel is a two-bit race-baiter with brightness of intellect comparable to a post-coital lightning bug. I bet he scratches his back with a fork at five-star restaurants.

Several things spring immediately to mind.

1.Don't throw us into that briar patch Brer Charlie.

2. Dick Cheney is 64 years old. Charlie Rangel is 75. And, I have have no doubt that the pacemakered Cheney could kick the utter stuffing out of the blowhard Rangel in a fist fight. Should we therefore be calling for Rangel's resignation?

3. What is Rangel's opinion of the 137-year-old Robert Byrd?

4. OJ, when will you learn not to count your resignations until they're submitted?

Here is the interesting question: Why does AP think that the flappings of Rangles mouth are worth reporting?

Wrangel isn't dumb, he's just stupid. That must be why his constituents elect him; birds of a feather.

H.D.:

You're just too short-sighted.

Charlie Rangel is morphing into Billy McKinney (Cynthia's daddy) right before our eyes.

If there were a prominent Jewish Republican considering a run for the Presidency, who would be the first Democrat to attack him for being a Jew? There are too many suspects to count, including John Edwards and John Kerry, who have already attacked homosexuals.

... a new SC justice ...

Another good one, oj. I'm thinking Williams, too, but still wanting Brown.

If laughter is the best medicine, Cheney's probably never felt this good in a long time.

Should one hope that Rangel will continue his awesome stand up routine for years and years to come?

Pure therapy.

"He should never have stepped up in the first place," Rangel said. "He's too old for the job and doesn't have the experience."

But wait - isn't Cheney Bush's puppetmaster ?
Being the "shadow POTUS" for five years should have given Cheney all of the experience that he could need, right ?

Further, for those more grounded in reality than Rangel, Cheney was the White House Chief of Staff under Gerald Ford, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Wyoming in 1978, serving there for ten years, and was a wartime Secretary of Defense under President Bush the Elder.

How much more experience does one need to be POTUS, and for that matter, who in recent times has run for President that has HAD more experience ?

If Presidents in America were chosen by a selection committee, instead of by voters, Cheney would have been ahead of Bush the Younger, Carter, Bill Clinton, Dukakis, Edwards, Kerry, Lieberman, and certainly the rest of the '03 - '04 Dem field of candidates, not to mention Rangel himself.

IMO G.H.W. Bush, Ford, Gore in '00, and Mondale would have been ahead of Cheney.

Cheney vs. Reagan I cannot evaluate, due to personal bias.

Posted by: Michael Herdegen at October 2, 2005 8:19 PM

We should all be grateful for malicious idiots like Rangel. He helps us resist the temptation to think too highly of Congress.

Maybe Rangel's gone full blown loon because he is impotent. We'll know that's the case if he starts telling Cheney to refrain from activity that will damage his heart.