Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., is still insisting that he was not the one who sent a suggestive photo from his Twitter account, though he said that he couldn’t “say with certitude” whether the image was of his own crotch, the Washington Post reported. But as CNN’s Wolf Blitzer told Weiner: “You would know if this was your underpants.”
Tuesday’s House vote against raising the debt ceiling followed show votes on Capitol Hill aimed at voting down the Ryan and Obama budgets. And “although there’s general agreement that the most pressing issue facing the federal government is its runaway finances, the Democrat-controlled Senate hasn’t passed a budget in 762 days, a new standard for dereliction of duty,” wrote Dana Milbank in Wednesday’s Washington Post. The Senate Budget Committee supposedly is waiting to see what, if anything, comes out of Vice President Joe Biden’s deficit-reduction talks. Milbank quoted a Senate Democratic aide as suggesting that the Ryan budget has been such a boon for Democrats that they’d rather criticize it than put forward their own proposal. As Milbank wrote, “It is just the sort of thing that offends Americans about Washington: The triumph of tactical advantage over the national interest.”
The Wichita City Council and Sedgwick County Commission were right to nix a proposed Planeview-area grocery store last fall, because of the developer’s record of housing-code violations and request for a higher sales-tax rate to cover costs. But it’s great news that an even bigger Save-A-Lot store and shopping area are on track for the same site at Pawnee and George Washington Boulevard, with a groundbreaking scheduled next week and no plans to seek tax incentives. Good for the new owners for having found a way to build the store, with its value-priced food and 30 jobs, without putting a higher tax burden on its low-income customers.
