Bill Pascrell for Congress?

Leave it to Bill Pascrell to be tone-deaf to corruption. Even as Nancy "The Nannygoat" Pelosi almost threw longtime Harlem Congressman Charlie Rangel out of the House leadership, her lackey and our Congrssman decides to bring Rangel in for his $500-a-head gala in West Paterson to be attended by Passaic County's high society. (a.k.a the only people in the 8th who can afford the taxes the Pascrell machine imposes upon them.)

Let's review. Rangel, who like Pascrell has never met a tax hike he didn't like, has been a Congressman since he took the seat of the similarly ethically challenged Adam Clayton Powell in 1971. Just as he was railing against Republican efforts to lower taxes, he himself paid no taxes on a rental property he owned in the Dominican Republic. And when he tried to explain why he did not report the $75,000 in income, Rangel almost reached Pascrellian absurdity saying:

“Every time I thought I was getting somewhere, they’d start speaking Spanish.”