Rep. Rangel: Resign post . . . or be removed

MiamiHerald.com

OUR OPINION: APPLY SAME ETHICAL RULES FOR DEMOCRATS AS FOR GOP

When Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., took the gavel in January 2007 to become the first woman to fill the post of House Speaker, she proclaimed that Democrats would run the chamber ''with the highest ethical standards.'' That was then.

This is now: Rep. Charles Rangel, D.-N.Y., chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, is caught in a scandal in which he ...... [read on]