You know that yesterday the House Ethics Committee charged Charlie Rangel with 13 ethics violations and now he’s scheduled to stand trial in the House.

So just what is he charged with? Our Rachel Slajda brings you the details.

… to bring you this brief interruption of fluff: Pics of the Hudson River Valley venue for Chelsea Clinton’s wedding this weekend.

We now return to regular programming.

The ADL — which, let’s remember, is the Anti-Defamation League — comes out against the so-called Ground Zero Mosque.

The argument, which you can see in the link above, is painful and tortured. We believe in freedom of religion. They have every right to build there. But just this one time, let’s make an exception.

Sad.

Senate Republicans are now filibustering a jobs bill based mainly on tax cuts.

Mason-Dixon has a new poll out this morning which shows Harry Reid one point over Sharron Angle, though that shows her possibly recovering a bit from a few weeks ago. Here’s the TPM Poll Average of this race below. As you can see, Reid’s finally crossed over into the lead. But it’s basically still a margin of error race.

I don’t know Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY). We’ve never met or had any one-on-one dealings. For all I know, he may be unbearable in person. But his feisty public persona — his no-holds barred, pugilistic, in-your-face approach to politics — is a glimpse of what a muscular progressive attitude and approach to politics would look like. His indignation doesn’t lead him to smug hand-wringing. When he’s outraged by something, he actually gets outraged. When his opponents are being idiots, he doesn’t aloofly dismiss them; he reacts as if they are idiots.

Take a minute to watch Weiner erupt last night on the House floor. It’s pretty classic stuff. Read More

Revised government numbers out this morning show GDP growth was zero for 2008 and -2.6 percent for 2009, the worst drop since 1946.

SEC charges the Wyly Brothers, longtime major GOP fundraisers, with insider trading.

This should go over well.

A campaign aide to first term Dem Mike McMahon (D-NY) of Staten Island wanted to show that a lot of Republican challenger Mike Grimm’s money came from outside the district.

Putting together a list of the “Jewish Money” Grimm raised in Q2 probably wasn’t the best approach. And if that wasn’t enough, she sent the list to the New York Observer. How could anything bad come of that?

McMahon has relieved the aide, Jennifer Nelson, of her duties.

Diane Serafin, the leading of the protest against the building of a new mosque in Temecula, CA.:

“They hate Jews, they hate Chrisitans, they hate women, they hate dogs. [The idea of the new mosque] scares the daylights out of me. I want you to stress this — I’m not prejudiced. I worked retail for nine years and I didn’t even know my manager was gay until someone told me. And when I found out, I didn’t care.”