This is bad news for the Democrats. Rangel wants to go down with the boat and take everyone with him. They coddled this crook for too long. Now he thinks he's entitled:
A combative Rep. Charles Rangel told the House on Tuesday he's not resigning despite 13 charges of wrongdoing and demanded the ethics committee not leave him "swinging in the wind."
Rangel, who is 80, spoke without notes in an extraordinary, often emotional 37-minute speech that defied his lawyers' advice to keep quiet about his case.
The New York Democrat and 40-year House veteran had a sharp message in dismissing fellow Democrats who, worried about election losses, want him to quit: "If I can't get my dignity back here, then fire your best shot in getting rid of me through expulsion."
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Remember: Rangel has been in office 40 years. He's lost all sense of right and wrong. Power corrupts. And power for too long corrupts totally.
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