Rangel Keeps Chairmanship of Ways and Means

Can you say den of thieves? I know you can, because that's what this amounts to. Rangel has no business being anywhere near a position of power after abusing his position as Congressman for years and abusing the tax code with impunity - ignoring the very laws he and his Committee write.

Yet he was voted back as Chairman unanimously.

House Democrats voted unanimously today to keep Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel as chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee in the next Congress.

Rangel, 78, is currently under investigation by the House ethics committee for failing to pay about $10,000 in income taxes on a Dominican Republican vacation villa he owns and rents out.

Once the issue surfaced, Rangel said he was only guilty of a simple error, paid the back taxes and himself called for an investigation.