The Superior Grace

Just to avoid any "Sherroding" accusations, here's the direct, full clip of Charlie Rangel realizing for the first time that he's the Dan Rostenkowski of 2010:

It also introduces Luke Russert, son of the late Tim Russert and a chip off the old block, to the national stage - at poor old Charlie's expense.  Think his career path may be headed in Fox News' direction? (Russert's, that is)

Next are both Limbaugh AND Beck in full, and well-earned and -justified gloat mode:

Not that Rangel will willingly admit being a filthy crook who will be abandoned by his Party because his status as a PR liability finally outweighs his former status as powerful senior elder statesman/tribal chieftain/grand poobah/dinosaur with the killer asteroid plowing through the atmosphere/whatever.  It's the one useful aspect of getting electorally destroyed - it affords the opportunity to clean out all the trash and reinfuse with new blood.  And given how old the Donk caucuses in BOTH houses of Congress have become (average age above seventy, as I recall), they've got a lot more Charlie Rangels (age eighty) to purge than just one.

Just don't tell Melissa Bean (D-IL8 and sitting right on the tsunami bubble).  She's having the twenty eight grand she got from Charlie bronzed and hung in the Capitol Hill office Joe Walsh may be moving into five months from now.