JUST ANOTHER DAY AT WAYS AND MEANS: Wesley Pruden on the Charlie Rangel affair.

Rep. Charles B. Rangel, who has been in Congress longer than almost anyone else, spent Thursday vainly trying to cut a deal with the House ethics committee over his presumed capital indiscretions with the tax man. Charlie is a master craftsman of congressional bonhomie, and like most of his colleagues, he imagines that rules, most of which Congress writes, apply only to the peasants.

Hopefully, he’s going to find that the peasants have pitchforks, tar, and feathers.

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