Politico on the GOP’s Rangel problem:

Boehner and other top Republicans don’t want to make Rangel into a sympathetic figure and are sensitive to any accusation from African-Americans that there is a GOP campaign to remove him from power. Boehner, who had ethics problems himself in the mid-1990s, also wants to avoid a full-blown ethics war with Democrats. Boehner fears retaliation against some of his members, such as GOP Reps. Don Young of Alaska and Jerry Lewis of California, who face their own ethics issues.
And some Republicans believe that a wounded Rangel is of more political value to them staying where he is.
Rep. John Carter (R-Texas), author of the Rangel removal resolution, said he will either offer it again “in a very short period” or offer a different resolution that is a “first cousin to the [Rangel] resolution.”
But, Carter said, “I don’t want to look like I am trying to overkill the Rangel issue.
“I don’t want to make people think that I’m some guy on some kind of witch hunt for Charlie Rangel,” he said. “I’m on a witch hunt only for stopping all this crap that goes on in Congress — and this is one example.”