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| Courtesy of the Associated Press |
If you play with fire, eventually your going to get burned. Well, Charlie Rangel (D-NY) definitely got burned. The former Chairman of the House Ways and Means was charged with 13 ethic violations involving financial misconduct and harming the credibility of Congress. Now the embattled Congressman is facing a full trial-like hearing some time in the future to account for his actions which include: violating house gift rules, improperly using his office to raise money, and lying about his residence to evade taxes. Yet these serious charges have not seemed to discourage him; in fact, they seem to have done the opposite. Rangel has been notably open about his situation and has recently challenged the House ethics Committee to kick him out if it dares. Are his actions just a shrewd political front or really just deadly hubris?
