(Scott) The case of Rep. Anthony Weiner is worth pursuing if only to resist the double standard that would allow him to brush it off with this obvious bit of stonewalling : A day after hiring a lawyer to look into the online mini-drama now dubbed “Weinergate,” Rep. Anthony Weiner said that he wants to move on. “I’m going to return to working on the things I care about,” the New York Democrat told reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday. “This is a distraction, and I’m not going to let it distract me.” If a Republican were at the center of the chain of events in which he finds himself, Weiner would be leading the charge to get to the bottom of the story or run the guy out of town. And a suspected perpetrator who characterizes the chain of events as “a distraction” is pleading nolo contendere. As Weiner would be the first to point out. And he would be abetted by the media adjunct of the Democratic Party. JOHN adds: I think the case is now closed. Weiner doesn’t want an investigation, so that the police can identify the malefactor before he can hack another Congressman’s Facebook or Twitter account. Because there is no malefactor. And Weiner doesn’t deny that the photo is of him: Was the photo in question of Weiner himself? You know, look, I’m not going to talk about this any more. I think that if I was giving a speech to 45,000 people, and someone stood up and heckled in the back, I wouldn’t spend three days talking to him. I’m going to get back to the conversation I care about. So, unless someone “hacked” his way into Weiner’s bathroom–there to be greeted warmly by the Congressman, apparently–there is only one plausible conclusion. Weiner inadvertently made a private tweet of himself in his undershorts public. Does this mean we get to hold another special election? And if not, why not? UPDATE by JOHN: OK, if there were any doubt, this painful exchange with reporters dispels it. As Garry Trudeau wrote about John Mitchell back in Watergate days: Guilty, guilty, guilty! If Mark Foley had had this kind of chutzpah, the Republicans might have held the House in 2006!
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The Christian Science Monitor – The US House on Tuesday is set to consider a bill that would raise the nation’s debt ceiling. Right now, that legislation is almost certain to get voted down. Republicans will oppose it in block, since it includes no large budget cuts that might make it more palatable. Many Democrats may cast “noâ€� ballots as well, given that voters oppose a debt-ceiling hike.
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Pop star Miley Cyrus got on her high horse, via Twitter, to paint former Pennsylvania Senator and current GOP presidential contender Rick Santorum as a bigot for his stance on same-sex marriage. On May 26, as reported by the Politico , the singer/actress was so upset that Urban Outfitters had contributed to Santorum she took to Twitter to preach to her fans that every time they made a purchase from the clothing retailer they were helping to “finance a campaign against gay equality.” The former star of Disney's hit kid show, Hannah Montana, who was already annoyed that the company had allegedly stolen jewelry designs, added the Santorum donation to her list of personal grievances against Urban Outfitters, as seen in the following tweet: “IF WE ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE NEXT THING U KNOW PEOPLE WILL BE MARRYING GOLD FISH” – Rick Santorum UO contributed $13,000 to this mans campaign.”
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This just in, by way of St. Petersburg Times fact-checking website Politifact: when considering irrelevant and misleading employment statistics, Texas has not, in fact, created more jobs in the past five years than the rest of the country combined. Sure, when considering the relevant numbers – the ones that most honest observers would use – the claim, made by the Texas Public Policy Foundation in a recent ad, is perfectly factual. But through an exercise in pure semantics, Politifact was able to draw out a meaningless retort to TPPF's claims. Politifact rated the statement “half-true” for using data on net job creation instead of gross job creation. In other words, taking into consideration that states can help and hinder job creation (and that doing the former isn't so useful if you're also doing the latter) was enough to penalize TPPF in Politifact's judgment. (Check below the break for further explanation on that score.) Politifact first determined that TPPF's statement, made in the video above, was true, but with some qualifications: So, the foundation’s figures stand up — in the way that such figures are often analyzed, including by PolitiFact. Unsaid is that this gauge defines job creation as a net increase in employment. That means the foundation’s analysis only takes into account the number of jobs created in excess of the number lost over a five-year period. But gross job creation is absolutely irrelevant to a measure of a state's economic climate as it pertains to job growth. If a state creates 5 million jobs but loses 10 million, it's far worse off from a relative employment perspective than a state that creates two jobs but only loses one. Or, as TPPF spokesman Josh Trevi
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Huh? Of all the complaints about Sarah Palin and her bus tour, this one’s easily the strangest. CBS reports that the media has begun to grumble that Palin’s decision to keep them out of the loop on the tour’s stops have created a dangerous working environment for reporters: Since Palin and her team won’t share where Read this post
Disappointing US data take shine off a broader market rally as two separate measures of consumer confidence and manufacturing activity fall short of expectations
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