Rangel in the swamp

The House ethics committee today decided that charges should be brought against Charlie Rangel. It only took two years to come to that conclusion. The next step is that another committee will look at the facts and see if a further trial is appropriate. If that takes another long time, we may soon have a race to see if Rangel can outlive the laborious process set up in the House to "investigate" such charges. The truth is that the process is designed to bury the charges not to investigate them. by the time this whole thing is over, Rangel will probably be long gone.