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...thing, money--where it comes from, where it goes--has always been at the heart of the charges against Gingrich. In the main, he's accused of improperly taking tax-deductible contributions made to various nonprofit foundations and funneling them into party-building activities for the G.O.P., then misleading the ethics committee when it investigated those dealings. So when it came time to decide his fitness as Speaker, it might have been better if House members had been spared any hints that their future withdrawals from the G.O.P. campaign-finance account might depend on how they voted. Niceties like that...
...Gingrich thought he could tiptoe past the political graveyard. On Dec. 21 the House ethics committee released a 22-page report based on evidence assembled by James Cole, its special investigator. Most of its findings concerned whether the nationally broadcast college course that Gingrich taught, which was financed by tax-deductible contributions to nonprofit organizations, had partisan purposes. The subcommittee concluded that it had. Most damningly, the panel determined that Gingrich had misled committee investigators by signing false statements declaring that his political organization, GOPAC, had no involvement with the course...
...tax-law questions are intricate, a matter of subclause (a) filtering into subclause (b). But whether Gingrich had partisan purposes for his college course, then denied it to the ethics committee, is less murky, at least on the basis of the committee's report. It offers a full record of instances in which Gingrich declared that his purpose was to raise up a generation of G.O.P. activists. Against those, his bland assurances in at least two letters to the investigating committee that the course was "completely nonpartisan" ring hollow...
...same day the committee offered its report, Gingrich issued a letter. Though he denied any intent to mislead the members, he admitted that "inaccurate, incomplete and unreliable statements were given to the committee" over his signature. He claimed to be "naive" about the tax laws. All of that gave him reasonable hope of getting away with just a reprimand, the lightest penalty, from the committee. While even that would be unprecedented for a House Speaker, it would fall short of censure, which would require Gingrich to step down...
...leadership. Funding must be increased sharply to biomedical research institutions to produce effective vaccines. The federal government must ensure that local, state, and national emergency services can communicate and coordinate successfully during a crippling flu outbreak. The threat of flu demands attention, even at the cost of reversing tax cuts and reducing spending in Iraq...