Rangel adds to Dems’ tsunami
It’s not as though the sirens for a political tsunami in November haven’t already been sounding for Democrats. They knew they were paddling into the teeth of a strong headwind with a struggling economy and an American public soured on deficit spending and a controversial health care reform plan. Bad enough, but now there’s Charlie Rangel. The veteran Democrat from New York, chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, is up to his eyeballs in ethics problems. He’s stepped down from his chairman’s post while the House Ethics Committee checks into a raft of claims of malfeasance — including one that Rangel didn’t pay federal tax on rental income from a villa he owns in the Dominican Republic. Naturally, there’s a photograph of Rangel snoozing on a beach lounger down in the D-R circulating on the Web. So you’ve got unhappiness with Democrats’ total charge of Washington and the tinge of scandal. Republicans know it’s a toxic mix. In 2006 they had the Abramoff scandal and Rep. Mark Foley’s salacious e-mails and instant messages to congressional pages dragging them down, and they lost control of Congress. If they were giving advice to the Dems, it would probably be this: Batten down the hatches. Too late to do anything else.
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Wasn’t it Pelosi who said she was going to clean the unethical swamp? What’s taking her so long….too busy trying to bribe enough members of the house to pass a dubious health care reform bill…having to resort to reconsiliation to get a bill passed by a simple majority when you have a huge majority in both houses doesn’t seem to bid well….Don-Calion