Charlie “Corrupt” Rangel Can Be a Boom to Republicans in 2010

I lived in New York for all my life. For as long as I could remember, ole’ Corrupt Charlie has been serving in Congress. I don’t live in his district, so I haven’t had the pleasure of voting against him. But, I remember from young, that there was something about this guy that was very creepy.

Now that I’m fully grown, my suspicions of him were on the money. When you look at ole’ Corrupt Charlie, he looks like he come from central casting for a B movie as playing the part of smooth taking snake oil salesman that could charm the panties off any woman for breakfast, and broker a real estate deal that benefits his campaign coffers by lunch time.

Truth is, ole’ CC has been doing the do of sleazy politics for a long long time. According to the New York Post, back in 1965, he scored a low-interest loan from a city program to rehabilitate his family home into apartments meant for low-income tenants -- but lived in one of the units himself, despite his higher income.

You’re something else, Charlie!

During his first term in Congress, he bought a four-bedroom house in DC and got tax breaks by listing it as his primary residence -- though he still lived in the Harlem family home

Hey, why not?

None of those deals are under investigation by the Ethics Committee, which for over a year has been probing Rangel's failure to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in income and assets, his illegal use of four rent-stabilized apartments and his improper solicitation of funds for CUNY using his House letterhead.

What else is House letterhead good for?

Some House Republicans are pushing ole’ Corrupt Charlie to resign this week. That’s as likely to happen as President Obama deciding to send 200,000 troops to Afghanistan, unilaterally bomb supposed nuclear sites in Iran without U. N. approval, and deciding to convert to the Republican party and become a a fiscal conservative.

I say keep CC exactly where he is and make him the poster boy for Nancy Pelosi’s failed promise to be the most ethical Congress in history.

Rangel is the gift that keeps on giving.