Charlie Rangel's Congressional Sclerosis

One year ago, The New York Times called for the resignation of the corrupt NY Democrat Representative and Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Charlie Rangel.

Richard Cohen of the Washington Post writes...

[Charles Rangel] suffers from the degenerative disease called Congressional Sclerosis. Its symptom is the belief that the rules, especially the petty ones, no longer apply to you. This happens over time. It comes with seniority and a sense of victimization that combine to produce the onset of entitlement for goodies to which, in the course of things, you are not entitled. All this is abetted by the righteous belief that everyone else is making money and taking private planes and dipping their tootsies in the balmy Caribbean on a given February Friday -- and so why can't you? You have the power and the staff -- just look at all those people! -- and flunkies who will hold the elevator for you, pick you up at Reagan National Airport and on the other end at LaGuardia -- and you ought to have some commensurate luxuries. This is only right.

That's damned good stuff. I wish I could write like Mr. Cohen.

"Politics is the business of gaining power and privilege without possessing merit." - P.J. O'Rourke

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