This time it’s Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel, who’s about to lose his powerful position after way too much corruption.
Rangel, like the late John Murtha, is one of the last dinosaurs standing.
He’s been an effective legislator in some ways, but power’s prevented him from being remembered as anything but a sleazy pol. Failing to pay income taxes, cozy real estate deals in New York and the Dominican Republic, free trips paid for by lobbyists: it’s the usual litany.
Facing a possible disaster in the fall elections, the Democrats have decided to pitch Rangel over the side.
Gorilla thinks: “If only health care reform could be passed with such alacrity!”
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