Democrats Allow Tax Cheat Charlie Rangel to Keep His Committee Chair

 According to this article, Democrats voted to continue probing Charlie Rangeland his personal finances and his little tax problems. Charlie Rangel is the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, as such he is responsible for writing the tax laws that he broke and his new boss is Timothy Geithner, renown tax cheat extraordinaire. Oh the tangled web we weave.

 But the part that I find the most interesting is the fact that they let this tax cheat keep his committee chair. No rest for the wicked.

 Even as the probe into Charlie Rangel expands from his tax cheating into his passing out favors for lobbyists the Democrats beat back a Republican effort to remove him because of the following blatant conflict of interest.

   He preserved a loophole in tax laws for an oil company that donated $5 million to the Rangel Center. And all this time I thought that bush was the oil man.

 Democrats loved to talk about the culture of corruption when it was Republicans who were involved but now that they have a chance to act on the rhetoric, the Democrats look the other way when it is one of their own.