According to Michael Alan, blogging at Legal Insurrection, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, the current chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), is attempting to brush aside the actions of her New York House colleague, claiming that Anthony Weiner “is dealing with ‘a personal matter.’”  That “personal matter” is the Congressman’s tweeting a certain semi-lewd picture to a college co-ed.

When, however, a male congressman sent somewhat lewd messages to young men, she not only castigated her colleague, but demanded the resignation of the House Speaker as well, suggesting he was complicit in those shenanigans.  While Alan attributes the difference in her reaction to the partisan affiliation of the congressmen in question, we should also note that she has called for a much harsher censure of the man sexually drawn to members of his own sex while seeking to excuse the behavior of an apparently heterosexual federal representative.

Could it be that she used the pretext of the 2006 scandal involving Congressman Foley to draw attention to these misdeeds of a gay man, so reminding people of the shibboleth that gay men regularly prey on teenage boys?  And yet she finds it excusable that a married straight man would use electronic media to flirt with a woman less than half his age.  This Democrat appears more ready to criticize a gay man than a straight one.

I’m sure HRC is already looking into the matter and asking why the Democrat who showed such outrage over Foley’s illicit electronic missives to young men would be so indifferent to Weiner’s tweets to young women.

(Via Instapundit.)

Yesterday, I blogged that Obama Democrats don’t seem to be willing to admit that their economic policies have failed.  Today, while scanning the blogs, I caught this over at Gateway Pundit.  It’s not just that the president’s party refuses to admit failure, they want to double down and continue with the very policies which failed to generate the growth they promised when they passed the “stimulus.”  Jim quote a post from The Hill:

House Democrats this week have amplified their calls for new spending on infrastructure and other federal projects in the face of May’s discouraging job-creation figures.

Even as Republicans are insisting on “trillions” of dollars in spending cuts, Democrats maintain that a targeted injection of additional federal dollars in the near-term would go a long way toward reversing the hiring slump. Friday’s disappointing job report, they say, only bolsters their case.

“The American people, while concerned about the deficit, place much more emphasis on job creation, and they see a role for the government,” Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) told The Hill. “A fast injection of job stimulus on the public side would help tremendously. … It [the job report] helps our argument about investment.”

Um, Congressman, why are you so convinced that the American people believe that job creation requires federal involvement?  Seems you’re projecting your ideology onto them.

Sometimes, ya gotta wonder if spending is like heroin to the Democrats; they only feel good when they’re spending the taxpayers’ money.

one of the things that I’m trying to break is a pattern in Washington where everybody is always looking for somebody else to blame.

–Barack Obama, March 19, 2009

IT’S NOT MY FAULT! Reuters: Obama Blames Europe, Japan for US Economic Woes.

–Glenn Reynolds, June 4, 2011