Rangel Tries to Fight Back Against the ‘Times,’ But Gets a Beatdown

Representative Charles Rangel fired off an angry letter to the Times this week regarding their report showing how he fought to keep open a tax loophole for an oil and gas drilling company that pledged $1 million to one of his pet projects. Reading the article and learning the sequence of events, it seemed pretty clear that Rangel was doing a favor for the Nabors CEO, a shiny-haired man named Eugene Isenberg. By now, both the Times and Washington Post have called for Rangel to step down as chairman of the House Ways and Means committee. So Rangel, understandably, is irked.