Opinion

An infested government: Rangel won’t go away

The Issue: Politicians who choose not to resign after a scandal, and instead try to continue their career.

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Rep. Charlie Rangel, has some gall to say he is going to sue Speaker of the House John Boehner over his 2010 censure (“Charlie Rangel’s War,” Editorial, April 24).

Why doesn’t he take his medicine like a man, and just step down?

He’s lucky he was only censured and didn’t face expulsion.

Tommy DeJulio

New Rochelle

As a constituent of Rep. Rangel, I am proud of the job he is doing and hope he continues for many years to come.

The Post should give up on the years-long vendetta against Rangel.

The congressman’s judgment did not result in thousands killed and maimed in the Iraq War, which was based on lies.

The Post should concentrate on those issues.

John Santoro

Manhattan

Rangel, who should have been sharing a cell with Wesley Snipes, has the nerve to sue several members of the House to reverse his “humiliating” censure?

I know what a hardship it must have been to have to look at Nancy Pelosi for 30 seconds while she “berated” him for violating House ethics rules by getting caught — I mean, cheating on his taxes.

The only people worse than Rangel are the idiots in his district who continue to vote this criminal into office.

Steve Becker

East Meadow

So the thieving Rangel wants to sue his fellow congressmen for censuring him instead of giving him his “due process.”

If he wasn’t given censure and was given due process, he would be where he should be: prison.

Instead, he got to buy another congressional term.

Anyone with any sense of shame would have slithered away quietly. In the land of Spitzers, Weiners and Rangels, shame doesn’t exist.

The low-moral voters will keep these losers around forever because they’re Democrats.

Patrick O’Shea

Scotia, Pa.