After Two Years, the House Panel Charges NY Rep Rangel with Ethics Violations

You read the headline right -- took two years to get this far on the Rangel Ethics Violations when the investigation should have been over a long time ago. Did Charlie Rangel just get tossed under the bus by Obama and Pelosi?

The preliminary investigation should have been a slam dunk from all the facts that came out. Guess what Pelosi says about ethics and what she does is two different things until facing the upcoming election where prospects for the Dems do not look good. All of a sudden she cares about the Rangel Ethics complaint. Too late because voters know if the Dems were looking really good in November, these complaints would not have seen the light of day.

Pelosi and Obama are no longer fooling people -- they will throw anyone under the bus to keep their power and their Government planes!

House Panel Charges NY Rep. Rangel With Ethics ViolationsUpdated: 12 minutes ago, June 22, 2010

Larry Margasak AP
WASHINGTON (July 22) -- A House investigative committee on Thursday charged New York Rep. Charles Rangel with multiple ethics violations, dealing a serious blow to the former Ways and Means chairman and complicating Democrats' election-year outlook.

The panel did not immediately specify the charges against the Democrat, who has served in the House for some 40 years and is fourth in seniority. The charges by a four-member panel of the House ethics committee sends the case to a House trial, where a separate eight-member panel of Republicans and Democrats will decide whether the violations can be proved by clear and convincing evidence.

The timing of the announcement ensures that a public airing of Rangel's ethical woes will stretch into the fall campaign, and Republicans are certain to make it an issue as they try to capture majority control of the House.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi had once promised to "drain the swamp" of ethical misdeeds by lawmakers in arguing that Democrats should be in charge.

A House panel on Thursday charged New York Rep. Charles Rangel, the former chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, with ethics violations.

Responding to the charges, Rangel said in a statement, "I was notified today, two years after I requested an investigation, that the Ethics Committee will refer the allegations reviewed by an investigations subcommittee to a subcommittee that will review the facts. I am pleased that, at long last, sunshine will pierce the cloud of serious allegations that have been raised against me in the media."

Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly said, "The action today would indicate that the independent, bipartisan ethics committee process is moving forward."

Republicans immediately seized on the case. House GOP leader John Boehner said the charges were "a sad reminder of Speaker Pelosi's most glaring broken promise: to drain the swamp in Washington."

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