WASHINGTON POST PAGING CHARLIE RANGEL

The Washington Post is calling for Charlie Rangel to step aside.   They advise him to give up his Chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee becauseL

Mr. Rangel's amended financial disclosure form, which exposes omissions from his 2002 through 2006 records, is a treasure trove of outrage. He neglected to report a checking account with the Congressional Federal Credit Union and one with Merrill Lynch, each valued between $250,000 and $500,000; the tens of thousands of dollars he's earning from dividends from a number of mutual funds and stocks; and the money made from the sale of a Harlem townhouse. As a result, Mr. Rangel's reported net worth doubled, from between $516,015 and $1,316,000 to between $1,028,024 and $2,495,000.

They say they previously asked him to step aside in November while the committee probed his contact with a pet project.

Then they hit this high note of quivering moral indignation: "Much is expected of elected officials. Much more is expected and demanded of those entrusted with chairmanships and the power that comes with them, especially when it involves the nation's purse strings. From all that we've seen thus far, Mr. Rangel has violated that trust continually and seemingly without care."
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THE PROBLEM is that it never bothered them when Dan Rostenkowski played foot and loose with the House Ways and Means Committee and was finally caught and sent to jail. (Prosecuted by Eric Holder, if you want irony.)

THE WASHINGTON POST is selective in their outrages so we have to assume: 1) They expect more revelations, and 2) They don't want the bad publicity to interfere with the passage of ObamaCare.

Certainly, it's never good having the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee charged with writing legislation concerning taxes be known as a tax evader on a major scale. That's almost guaranteed not to bother them. No, they don't have any problems pretending virtue. But it will look really, really bad if  the Dems will have to admit taxes are going to go up - unless, of course, Americans accept the public option.

There's some reason they want him to go. And it is not because they are decent people.