Why's GOP calling Rangel 'crooked Harlem Democrat'?

Why's GOP calling Rangel 'crooked Harlem Democrat'?

From "Salon":http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2010/03/04/rangel_email/index.html?source=rss&aim=/politics/war_room It's only natural that Republicans should want to get some benefit out of the trials and travails of Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., who resigned his post as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee earlier this week under a cloud of scandal. And of course they want to tar other House Democrats by association with him. But as it did all of that on Wednesday, the National Republican Congressional Committee chose an interesting combination of words, calling Rangel as "the crooked Harlem Democrat." That's a rather specific way of referring to the congressman -- he could, after all, just as easily be called "the crooked New York Democrat" or simply "the crooked Democrat." Click "here":http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2010/03/04/rangel_email/index.html?source=rss&aim=/politics/war_room to read the rest of this story.