Prepare for Charlie Rangel to become a household name during the fall campaigns, political operatives from both parties are saying. The Republican plan for August, according to aides TPM spoke with this week, is to tie the party to Rangel and the fact he was charged with 13 violations yesterday. The GOP says it’s only fair game, since the Democrats in 2006 ran on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s pledge to “drain the swamp” and tried to link all of the Republican candidates with disgraced former Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX).
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