Fox News is reporting that while Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) takes a “leave of absence” from his House Ways and Means Committee chairmanship to rehab his image (actually, wait for the ethics clock to run out), Pete Stark (D-CA), who was “cleared” by the same “Ethics” Committee for essentially the same charges, will take over for him.
Fox notes that places Californians at the head of all three of the committees that will deal with PlaceboCare 4.1 (the aforementioned Stark “temporarily” heading Ways and Means, Henry Waxman running Energy and Commerce, and George Miller running Education and Labor), as well as a fourth major committee (Howard Berman running Foreign Affairs), and said “Ethics” Committee (Zoe Lofgren).
Guess it’s time to to dip into the video vault…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFMLARtqxCY[/youtube]
Revisions/extensions (7:37 pm 3/3/2010) – Roger L. Simon lists just some of the lowlights of Stark’s raving madness. As Simon says, “Do these Democrats have a death wish? Have they gone completely bonkers? Or did Nancy Pelosi’s plastic surgeon misfire and accidentally inject the Botox into her brain?”
R&E part 2 (2:35 pm 3/5/2010) – It’s now Rangel ally Sander Levin “in charge”. As Ed notes, it’s actually SanFranNan and Chris Van Hollen that run Ways and Means.
