The Democrats should be very proud that the resolution to oust Charlie Rangel as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee was defeated (“Do the Right Thing, Nancy,” Editorial, Oct. 10).
Now they can put Rangel aside and have plenty of time to worry about how they are going to stick it to us in the health-care debacle.
Sleaze is alive and well in the halls of Congress. These people have no shame.
Jose Couselo
Cathedral City, Calif.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi wouldn’t know the “right thing” if it bit her on her butt.
Throw out both her and Rangel, or we will see more and more people following our new administration’s lead — as tax cheats.
Jane Isabella
Johnstown
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By giving Rangel a free pass, despite the mountain of evidence against him, Pelosi’s promise of giving us the most ethical Congress ever has instead given us an even greater culture of corruption than the one she and her fellow Democrats rode to majorities on.
Dave Becher
East Northport
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A major reason for changing my 54-year Republican political registration last year to independent was due to GOP arrogance and total disdain for anyone other than “the party faithful.”
My reason for never registering Democrat is because of politicians like Rangel, who, by all rules and standards, should be occupying a cell in the federal prison system.
The Republicans have lost their moral compass while the Democrats, as I recall, never had one to lose. The Democrats refuse to take any responsibility for corruption within their ranks, particularly in Rangel’s case.
Is it any wonder that we find ourselves in such a horrendous economic and moral dilemma as we do today? Corruption has become the Washington keyword instead of integrity.
Eugene Clark
Rockville Centre
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Why is the House investigating Rangel, and why isn’t the IRS?
John Reynaud
White Plains
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It is time for The Post to expose the members of the Ethics Committee who are supposed to be reviewing Rangel’s problems.
What are their names and their backgrounds, and why are they not meeting the responsibility with which they have been charged?
Matthew Pease
Demarest, NJ
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It’s about time the average citizen takes some action. Will somebody print the names of those who voted in favor of Rangel?
I do not live in New York. But if I knew that my representative voted in Rangel’s favor, I would not vote for his re-election.
If we all would take this view, maybe we, the taxpayers, could start to take control.
S. Howard
Boca Raton, Fla.
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Expose Rangel for what he really is — a big fraud.
Cindy Birch
Manhattan
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I know why all of the Democrats voted not to kick out Rangel: They want the same courtesy when their tax fraud becomes known.
Howard Lipset
Port Washington
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Can’t New York’s wonderful attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, do anything about Rangel? It seems that some of Rangel’s “indiscretions” are more local than national.
Isn’t doing nothing, when you know a crime has been committed, a crime in itself?
Then again, we’re talking about politicians here.
Tom Oathout
Bear, Del.
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Letter writer John Santoro (“Reining In Rangel,” Letters, Oct. 7) chastises The Post for opposing Rangel’s tax cheating and other acts of dishonesty.
It is supporters like Santoro who perpetuate the corruption that permeates politics by giving politicians a free pass on criminality.
No one is asking Santoro to change his political views, only to support honest candidates.
Tony Osbon
Amelia Island, Fla.