Rangel: I'll quit Congress if Democrats lose (he's "all in")

[sabra]

http://www.silive.com/newsflash/metro/index.ssf?/base/politics-0/1154533178318720.xml&storylist=simetro

Rangel: I'll quit Congress if Democrats lose


WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Charles Rangel, a powerful senior Democrat in Congress and the dean of New York's congressional delegation, said Wednesday that he'll quit Congress if the Democrats don't retake control of the House this year.

"I'm a poker player and I've had good hands all night long. This is all in," Rangel said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I would not put everything on the table if I thought for one minute we would lose."

Rangel, the ranking Democrat on the House Ways & Means Committee, is 76 years old and has spent 35 years in Congress. The Democrats need to gain 15 seats in the 2006 midterm election — a victory that would return Rangel to the chairmanship of the powerful committee.

"Hell, if we don't take back the House, then the Democrats would go down in history, saying that there's no group in the world that can grab defeat from the jaws of victory," Rangel said. "It just seems like America is so frustrated and fed up like I am and if she's not then I may have to say maybe it's me."

[saigon68]

1. Be careful what you wish for

We are dealing with Devil Rove here

And millions of hateful Christian Nut-Cases.

[cyberpj]

2. Don't forget corrupted voting machines, practices and tactics. nt

[eagler]

3. And Congress just decided to delay any further action on

this issue until 2010 if I'm not mistaken.

[zonkers]

4. I love Rangel, Ican just hear his raspy little NY voice saying this.

[PaDem]

5. see ya Charlie............

we could have used you in 2007.

[Connie_Corleone]

6. He got his bags packed yet??

Even though the Democrats SHOULD win big in November because of everything going on, I'm not betting everything on it.

[waiting for hope]

7. So many pessimistic responses here...

I refuse to believe that we can't take back Congress.....PMA all the way!

[samsingh]

8. i don't know how this will end up - but at least he's showing confidence

which is way better than the Democrats have been for a long time

[loudsue]

9. Mr. Rangel needs to have a talk with Mr. Conyers...re election fraud.

As long as Diebold and ES&S are in charge, and the central tabulators are still being tinkered with, then Dems will not be able to take control of the House. All it takes is a "computer glitch"... you know, the kind that ALWAYS favors republicans.

:kick::kick::kick:

[rodeodance]

10. Will people be 'fed up" enough?--