{"id":4294,"date":"2006-11-20T11:09:52","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T11:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4294"},"modified":"2025-09-29T23:15:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:15:48","slug":"charles_rangel_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4294","title":{"rendered":"Charles Rangel on the draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Rangel is a long-serving member of the House of Representatives &#8211; his district is in Harlem. He will be chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee (dealing with finances). He is a major league blowhard. Rangel was on <strong>Face the Nation<\/strong> this weekend, where he resurrected his idea to re-establish the draft.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Michelle Malkin&#8217;s take:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/archives\/006397.htm\">Michelle Malkin: Draft-mongering Dems<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>It&#8217;s a fitting symbol of what Democrat rule in Congress will be the next two years: A worthless, cynical expenditure of time and energy that accomplishes absolutely nothing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Rangel is a long-serving member of the House of Representatives &#8211; his district is in Harlem. He will be chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee (dealing with finances). He is a major league blowhard. Rangel was on Face the Nation this weekend, where he resurrected his idea to re-establish the draft. Here&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6032,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions\/6032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}