It certainly didn’t take long for scandal to rear its ugly head in the new era of Democratic control. Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich saw to that, and in spectacular fashion.
But while most attention is fixed on the Blagojevich scandal — coming as it does in President-elect Barack Obama’s home state and replete as it is with enough tape recorded talk of peddling a Senate seat, shaking down contributors and blackmailing journalists to make even FBI agents blush it may not be the most troublesome one for the new president.
Rep. Rangel is being investigated by the House Ethics Committee for failing to pay taxes on $75,000 in income on a vacation home in the Dominican Republic, for controlling multiple rent-controlled apartments in a New York apartment building, for using congressional stationery to raise money for a center named in his honor and, most recently and seriously, for helping a donor to his center win a tax loophole in return for a contribution.
House leaders, including Speaker Pelosi, will have a big say in pushing the Obama legislative agenda regardless of who runs which committee. Still, Rep. Rangel figures to have a lot more to do with Mr. Obama’s new life in Washington than will Gov. Blagojevich.
SOURCE: WSJ
From what I see is Obama has many problems and he has not taken over the White House yet. Once in the White House he will have even more of these scandals coming down on him! The question is how many more of these scandals will Obama be able to lie around to stay clean? Obama’s chickens are coming home to roost wouldn’t we know it!
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