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NEW YORK POST: Another week, another Rangel probe. ?What took so long? The committee waited more t?

By Glenn Reynolds

NEW YORK POST: Another week, another Rangel probe. “What took so long? The committee waited more than nine months after the trips were first disclosed. . . . Rangel’s fellow Democrats have rebuffed GOP demands that he temporarily relinquish the chairmanship of Congress’ key tax-writing committee while he’s under investigation. But then, Charlie Rangel has always been better at writing tax laws than obeying them.” He seems to have plenty of company in that regard. . . .

UPDATE: Reader Dan Simmons writes:

With the threat of probes, Pelosi has Rangel on a short leash. Isn’t it curious that House Ways and Means Committee took a pass on cap and trade, even though for all intents and purposes, it is an energy tax.

Boy, my readers have nasty, suspicious minds this morning.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 26, 2009 (boomark / email).