Oh, my bad. The Democrats are in power now. Which means that the....wait for it....Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee...can revise his tax filings and show (oops!) a doubling of his actual net worth.

And keep his Chairmanship.

You or I do this and we go to jail. Period. End of story.

Media Bias Flag: Remember how much was made of John McCain not being totally sure of the number of his heiress wife's houses? Do you think that the media will bring the heat on Rangel...the chief tax law writer in the nation...for just, um, forgetting about half of his net worth?

Me neither.

Ask yourself: What would the media do if this were the Secretary of the Treasury?

Okay, bad example. What would the media do if this were George W. Bush's Secretary of the Treasury?

Is there any doubt that our President, Ethelred III (the Really, Really Unready), will soon clean up politics in Washington just like he did in Chicago?

Related: Andy Levy on Ted Kennedy: "I hope that should I ever commit manslaughter that my punishment will be that I don't get to be President."