Gail Collins says as much:
The Republicans are [...] completely right about Rangel. Whenever a powerful committee chairman has so many problems that you need a timeline to keep all the allegations straight, he is a liability. When those problems revolve around things like failure to pay taxes, it is not a good plan to have him be in charge of tax policy. I say this with great sadness because Rangel is my congressman. [...] Despite my great stake in keeping Rangel in his current post of power, I’m not prepared to argue that you can have a chairman of the tax-writing committee who failed to declare $75,000 in rental income on a Caribbean villa on his tax returns. Or one who seems to think you can turn yourself into a resident of two different cities if it gets you cheaper housing and that the House only requires its members to list their financial assets beginning with the letters F through M.
He should go.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/10/resign-rangel/195652/
