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Nancy Pelosi refuses to ask Charlie Rangel to resign after ethics probe

Here’s a re-cap of the story of his ethics probe:

And this story from CNS News is the latest.

Excerpt:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) insisted on Friday that she is running the most ethical and honest Congress in history. At the same time, however, she indicated she will not ask House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel (D.-N.Y.) to resign his chairmanship—at least for now.

Rangel was admonished this week by the ethics committee for taking corporate-funded trips to the Caribbean.

Pelosi noted that the ethics committee is looking into other issues involving Rangel, and made it clear that she was interested in seeing the outcome of these investigations soon.

The committee, for example, is looking at Rangel’s failure to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets that should have been listed on his congressional financial disclosure reports.

[…]When a reporter prefaced a question about Rangel by noting that Pelosi had promised to run the “most ethical and honest Congress in history” she interrupted him to say: “And we are.”

Here’s a video of Pelosi:

Does she seem accountable to you?

Friday night funny: entitlements, the left, Chris Wallace

Charlie Rangel

From Scrappleface. Featuring Scott Ott and Alfonzo Rachel.

Hilarious!

The looming entitlement crisis.

From 1RedThread.

Doomy-doom-doom. Doomy-doomy-doom.

Funny cartoon

From Granite Grok. (H/T ECM)

Chris Wallace

Chris Wallace of Fox News explains the Obama White House. (H/T Hot Air)

Funny, because Wallace is the most even-handed cable news journalist I know. What an outburst!

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Which political party is more corrupt? Republicans or Democrats?

Americans for Limited Government mails a letter to Democrat leaders demanding that Democrat Congressman Charlie Rangel step down as leader of the House Ways and Means Committee. (H/T Granite Grok via ECM)

The letter lists the following accusations:

1) failure to report over $1 million in outside income and $3 million in business transactions as required by the House,

2) failure to disclose at least $650,000 in assets he had previously failed to list on his House financial disclosure forms,

3) failure to disclose to the IRS or on his financial disclosure forms $75,000 in rental income for a beach villa in the Dominican Republic,

4) violation of state laws by claiming three primary residences and broke municipal laws by maintaining four rent-controlled apartments,

5) violation of House rules by using congressional letterhead to solicit donations for an education center bearing his name at City College of New York, and

6) delinquency in paying his property taxes on two New Jersey parcels and failure to report the sale of a $1.3 million brownstone.

And don’t forget another Democrat who had a lot of money unaccounted for. He got convicted 11 times for corruption.