He blames us?

’’Last July, the Republican Party declared guerrilla war against Democrats and since then has made every effort to smear me and members of my party,’’ Rangel wrote in the letter.
’’My record in the Ways and Means Committee and 38 years in Congress is unassailable, so they’ve pried into my private life and used insinuation and half-truths to write stories that sell papers,’’ Rangel wrote.
When asked Friday in an interview with New York’s WCBS-TV how the chairman of the House tax writing committee, could get into tax problems, Rangel said: ‘’I can just say that it is a series of mistakes that are unconscionable, but we’re not talking about any intention to avoid or evade the law.’’