Democrats Vote to End Term Limits and Save Charlie Rangel’s Ass

 On the first day of the new session of congress the Democrats managed to pull a fast one. Democrats voted to end term limits on committee chairs.

Charlie Rangel (D); being investigated for tax fraud.

The interesting aspect to this story is the implications it will have on the corrupt Charlie Rangel, committee chair of the House Ways and Means Committee. As the chair of the House Ways and Means committee Charlie Rangel is responsible for writing the tax code. So it is interesting that Charlie Rangel is being investigated for tax fraud, it appears that if you write the tax code you know where the loopholes are. Or at least he thought that he did.

 Here is a list of Charlie Rangel’s alleged indiscretions:

Rangel, according to allegations reported by the New York Times, failed to report $75,000 in rental income from a villa he owns in the Dominican Republic on either his state or federal tax returns.
 
He also allegedly helped to preserve a tax loophole for an oil-drilling company whose chief executive pledged $1 million to an education center that will bear the congressman’s name.
 
In addition, he allegedly gave his potential support for tax legislation that would save A.I.G. millions of dollars a year after a $5 million pledge was made by the insurance company’s largest shareholder to the Charles Rangel Center for Public Service at City College of New York.

 Here is where the whole aspect of this story about the Democrats voting to end term limits gets interesting.

  The Democrats promised to run the most honest and open congress in history. Nancy Pelosi also promised to release the findings of the ethics committee’s investigation into Charlie Rangel but she never did. When the congress convened it’s last session the chair of the ethics committee investigating Charlie Rangel had reached his term limit.

 Nancy Pelosi will make the newest appointment to chair the ethics committee and we will never find out the findings of the investigation into Charlie Rangel unless someday he is indicted. How convenient is that?

 While the ethically challenged Charlie Rangel will be allowed to forever hold the seat that allows him to write the loopholes in the tax policy that he flaunts, the man in charge of investigating him will not be returning to his committee chair.

 So much for the most open and honest congress in history.