Who's Putting Sponge in the Bells I Once Rung?

Truly Deeply
One of Mr. Weiner’s most emotional apologies was delivered to former President Bill Clinton, who officiated at his wedding in July and is extremely close with the congressman’s wife, Huma Abedin, an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Clintons are deeply unhappy about the situation and with Mr. Weiner, people who had been told of their thinking said. (NYT, 6/8/2011)

Anyone else see the irony here?

Fully Deeply
"By fully explaining himself, apologizing to all he hurt and taking full responsibility for his wrongful actions, Anthony did the right thing," Mr. Schumer said. "He remains a talented and committed public servant, and I pray he and his family can get through these difficult times." (NYT, 6/8/2011)

Weiner apologist Schumer prays that he can get through these (self-inflicted) difficult times.

Apples and Oranges
Who could bear the thought that we are about to begin months of inquiries over whether Mr. Weiner sent seminaked pictures of himself to strangers from his personal BlackBerry or from a government-issued computer? Or whether he brought discredit on the House of Representatives? Having abetted nearly a decade of wars, and permitting fat cats to bring the economy to a state of collapse, Congress ought to be able to tolerate a few embarrassing and crude messages sent by one foolish man in Queens. (Jim Dwyer, NYT, 6/8/2011)

So - if we have this right - Dwyer believes that the Weiner scandal must be judged alongside the Bush wars and Wall Street greed.  Why stop there?  Maybe there is another "foolish man."  This one writes for the New York Times.

Truly Massive
This recession required — and very much still requires — a massive public employment program to fill the hole created by our offshoring private sector and Americans families’ towering debt. Such a program would have required a massive and brilliant sales job from Obama at the outset of his presidency, given the decades of the American right’s delegitimization of government. (Harold Myerson, Washington Post, 6/8/2011)

Just when states are finally working to undo the damage caused by out-of-control public employee unions (and their Democrat enablers), Myerson calls for.....more public employee hiring.

Floater
General Motors CEO Dan Akerson said his company and his industry would be helped, not hurt, if consumers paid higher gas taxes. In an interview published in Tuesday's Detroit News, Akerson floated the idea of a $1 a gallon increase in the gas tax as a way to encourage buyers to purchase smaller, more fuel efficient cars. (CNNmoney.com, 6/7/2011)

So let's see if we have this right.  GM - a company that has never made money selling small cars even after setting up Saturn - a company specifically set up to manufacture and sell small cars competitively....and now defunct - now calls for a $1 gas tax to encourage more people to buy the small cars that it makes (unprofitably).  Anyone see a conflict of interest?