WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Remove Rangel From Tax Panel Chair.

Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., understands something that continues to escape House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.: Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., is radioactive, owing to multiple investigations of his serial failures to disclose millions of dollars worth of income and investments. Rangel had contributed more than $19,000 to Welch, but the Vermonter recently sent it back. That was a good decision because Welch is a member of the House Ethics Committee, which is conducting one of the investigations of Rangel. But it shouldn’t be necessary to be on the ethics panel in order to understand that Rangel’s actions disgrace Congress, make him unfit to chair the powerful tax-writing committee, and renders campaign donations from him as dirty money. Over the years, Rangel has given more than $2.1 million to House colleagues. Each of the many recipients of Rangel’s tainted dough should give it back. This newspaper will track those who do and those who don’t. . . . Unfortunately, Rangel is not the only scandal on which House Democrats are compiling a record of evasion and tolerance of serious wrongdoing.

Read the whole thing. So much for Pelosi’s promise to “drain the swamp.”