Good stuff from Dan Henninger on Charlie Rangel and his fellow "great guys":

Nancy Pelosi keeps talking about how she was going to "drain the swamp." This is unfair to swamps. Like politics, a swamp is a complex ecosystem. It may smell at times, but the smell has a biological purpose. Politicians aren't meadowlarks and butterflies. Everyone knows that. They slither and coil and provide crude balance to the ecosystem. If we "drained the swamp," everything would die.

Read it all.