Nancy Pelosi is Privately Urging Charlie Rangel to Resign

Democrat Charlie Rangel who is chairman of the committee that writes the tax laws as been outed as a tax cheat and a fraud. He needs to resign, if not from congress that at least his chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee. I think he should resign from both. He is unfit to and undeserving of holding both his seat and his chairmanship. There is no way that the Democrats will ever admit that Charlie Rangel needs to resign as a member of congress but what about his committee chair? Up until now Nancy Pelosi has resisted the calls for Rangel’s resignation. At least publicly.

Privately, however, it appears as though Nancy Pelosi is urging Charlie Rangel to resign from the Ways and Means Committee. It is not surprising that Nancy Pelosi would have one position publicly and another privately. It isn’t much different than Barack Obama publicly being for a troop withdrawal from Iraq even while in a private meeting with the Iraqi foreign minister he asked that troop withdrawals be delayed until after the election so that he could take credit for it. But I digress.

It also appears that Rangel is beginning to feel some heat from other Democrats.

One member of the New York congressional delegation who supported Pelosi’s decision said, “You have to have one standard – you can’t have one for [Republicans] and one for us.”

This person must be up for re-election and fearful of potential fall out from the Rangel scandal. Never before have I heard a Democrat bemoan a double standard in the way Republicans and Democrats are treated when it comes to scandals.

Nancy Pelosi is still denying that she asked Rangel to step aside, probably so that he can save face by saying that he is stepping aside on his own for the good of the party.

Either way, he needs to resign.