Rangel To Reintroduce Draft Resolution

It's like clockwork (or paying taxes on April 15), except that Charlie Rangel has a way of avoiding the latter. The detestable and ethically challenged Democrat from Harlem continues his assault on the military by pushing forward with an idea to reestablish the draft, even as the military repeatedly has stated that a draft is not only unnecessary but counterproductive to the mission of training and deploying highly motivated soldiers, sailors, and Marines.

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) likely will introduce his controversial legislation to reinstate the draft again this year, but he will wait until after the economic stimulus package is passed.

Asked if he plans to introduce the legislation again in 2009, Rangel last week said, “Probably … yes. I don’t want to do anything this early to distract from the issue of the economic stimulus.”

Rangel’s military draft bill did create a distraction for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) soon after Democrats won control of Congress after the 2006 election.

In the wake of that historic victory, Pelosi said publicly that she did not support the draft and that the Democratic leadership would not back Rangel’s legislation. She also said Rangel’s legislation was not about reinstating the draft but was instead “a way to make a point” about social inequality.

Reintroducing the military draft bill, which would attract media attention, will be trickier for Rangel in 2009 than it was a couple years ago because the Ways and Means Committee chairman is now under investigation by the House ethics committee.

He's just going to hold off long enough until he and the rest of the fiscal illiterates in Congress push through an economic stimulus package.

UPDATE:
Corrected a typo above, thanks to legalbgl.