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6:50 AM ET, June 1, 2011

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Anthony Weiner Is Not Doing Himself Any Favors — We won't pretend to know the truth behind Weinergate — whether Weiner was the victim of a hacker or prankster or conservative conspiracy, or whether he was personally responsible for sending a college girl a photo of a man's bulge over Twitter.

Discussion: TPMDC, JustOneMinute, Right Pundits and Taylor Marsh

Mark Joyella / Mediaite:

Rep. Weiner Has Angry Exchange With Capitol Hill Reporters Over Twitter Scandal — One of Capitol Hill's most media-friendly people, New York Rep. Anthony Weiner, seems to be souring on the subject of his Twitter account, brushing off questions about his Twitter feed and the photo of a man …

Discussion: minx.cc, Verum Serum, Maggie's Notebook and American Power

Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:

WeinerGate OMFG! @RepWeiner Gives Worst Press Conference EVAH! (Video) — I'll add commentary and links in a few minutes. But it's kinda superfluous after this astoundingly bad performance: — UPDATE: Ace of Spades finds the video . . . arousing. — The video is from Mediaite.

Discussion: Mediaite, Doug Ross, The Daily Caller, Outside the Beltway, Nice Deb, REPUBLICAN REDEFINED, Conservative Hideout 2.0, American Power, The Lonely Conservative and Pajamas Media

Michelle Malkin:

Weighing in on Weiner; Update: Getting testy with MSM reporters, calls one a “jackass” — I know many of you have been following every twist, turn, and awful pun related to Democrat Rep. Anthony Weiner's Twitter-gate fiasco. I'm still catching up after being offline with family over the holiday weekend, but I do know this:

Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ, GayPatriot, Hot Air, Fox News, Washington Post, The Lonely Conservative, Pajamas Media and The Note

Dan Riehl / Big Government:

Weiner's Actual Tweet Stream Disputes His Version, Raises Valid Questions — The second image below is an exact duplication, in top-to-bottom chronological order of Rep. Anthony Weiner's actual Twitter timeline on the night of what's now being called Weinergate.

Discussion: Associated Press

The Note:

Woman Targeted in Tweet from Rep. Anthony Weiner Account “Tweets Out” — ABC News' Devin Dwyer (@devindwyer) reports: The Washington State college student who was the target of a lewd photo posted to Rep. Antony Weiner's Twitter account Friday appears to be defending her electronic ties to the congressman.

Discussion: The Politico, Politics, Sweetness & Light and National Review

The Note:
Rep. Anthony Weiner Gets Combative With Reporters About Lewd Twitter Photo

Discussion: The Politico, National Review, American Power, Proof Positive, Patterico's Pontifications, Big Journalism and Left Coast Rebel

Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Congressman says #Weinergate cybersecurity investigation vital in order to ‘ensure our national security’

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Little Green Footballs, Patterico's Pontifications, Weasel Zippers, Washington Post and Ironic Surrealism

The Daily Caller:
Weinergate Poll: Does photo show Congressman Weiner?

Discussion: Mediaite, FishbowlDC and Runnin' Scared

Aharding / CNN:
Liberal congressman plays down Twitter controversy over lewd photo

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Salon, Washington Post, Babalú Blog, GayPatriot and Pajamas Media

Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Weiner's office refuses to say if lewd photo is of congressman. No police investigation underway

Discussion: Hot Air, Fox Nation, Washington Post, The Daley Gator, Big Government, iOwnTheWorld.com, National Review, Ace of Spades HQ, New York Magazine, Patterico's Pontifications, POWIP, Pajamas Media and Instapundit

Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
The Power of Simple Sentences

Discussion: Datechguy's Blog, That Mr. G Guy's Blog, American Glob, UNCOVERAGE.net, minx.cc, The Daily Caller and New York Post

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Weiner: Let's move on, shall we?

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications, The Camp Of The Saints and Pajamas Media

The Note:

Sarah Palin, Donald Trump Meet In New York City Tuesday Night, Eat Pizza — ABC News' Michael Falcone (@michaelpfalcone) reports: — UPDATED Sarah Palin sat down with Donald Trump in New York City on Tuesday night for just over a half hour at the former Alaska governor continued her roadtrip up the Eastern seaboard.

Discussion: Washington Wire, The Politico, Politics, Gawker, Swampland, The Gateway Pundit, Gothamist, GOP 12, Mediaite, Runnin' Scared, Daily Kos, Fox Nation, The New Republic, New York Magazine, TPMDC and The Page

Alex Fitzsimmons / NewsBusters.org:

Martin Bashir: Sarah Palin's Bus Tour ‘Breach of Federal Law’ — MSNBC's Martin Bashir on May 31 insisted that Sarah Palin's bus tour amounts to a “breach of a federal law.” — Anchoring his eponymous program, Bashir scolded, “In fact, the whole thing could be in breach of a federal law …

Brian Montopoli / CBS News:

Sarah Palin's bus tour treats reporters like paparazzi — Sarah Palin and her advisers are refusing to tell members of the media where she is going on her current bus tour - and the former Alaska governor seems to be enjoying the cat and mouse game that's resulted.

Kendra Marr / The Politico:

Sarah Palin: Bus tour 'isn't about me' — Sarah Palin's explanation for her One Nation bus tour? — “It's not about me,” she told Fox News' Greta Van Sustern on Tuesday. “It's not a publicity seeking tour. It's about highlighting the great things about America.”

Chris Good / The Atlantic Online:
What Palin and Trump Might Say to Each Other

Discussion: Gothamist, Politics, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Daily Dish and The Note

Allahpundit / Hot Air:

Fail: House defeats Obama request to raise the debt ceiling, 318-97 — Why would the GOP bring it to the floor knowing that they had more than enough votes to kill it? Simple: To make the Democrats choke on it, of course. The public is on the GOP's side of this issue, unambiguously …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, REPUBLICAN REDEFINED, National Review, The Nation, RedState, Don Surber, USA Today, WyBlog and American Glob

Russell Berman / The Hill:
Hoyer urges House Dems to vote no on clean debt-ceiling hike

Discussion: The Politico, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, TPMDC, Opinion L.A., Swampland, Taylor Marsh, New York Magazine, The Lonely Conservative, National Review and Booman Tribune

Erik Wasson / The Hill: THE HILL POLL: Voters oppose raising the $14.3T debt ceiling

Alan Silverleib / CNN:
House rejects debt ceiling increase, 318-97

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Balloon Juice

Jake Sherman / The Politico: House rejects debt increase

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Morning Plum — * What are Dems prepared to trade away?

Discussion: The Reality-Based Community, A plain blog about politics, Hullabaloo, TalkLeft, Daily Kos and TPMDC

Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:

Rand Paul, Supposed Defender Of Civil Liberties, Calls For Jailing People Who Attend ‘Radical Political Speeches’ — Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) made headlines last week for single-handedly obstructing the renewal of the Patriot Act, calling the law an unconstitutional infringement on civil liberties.

Discussion: United Liberty, Hullabaloo and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Media Czech / Barefoot and Progressive:
Rand Paul calls for putting himself in jail. Or his own deportation.

Discussion: Bark Bark Woof Woof

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

Wisconsin Dems 6. Wisconsin Republicans 0. — Conservatives and some political observers are making a big deal out of the fact that the Dem candidate in the closely watched state Supreme Court race in Wisconsin finally conceded defeat today, as had long been expected.

Discussion: host.madison.com, The Impolitic and Crooks and Liars

JSOnline:
Panel OKs recall elections against 3 more Republicans

Discussion: Daily Kos, Hot Air, WisPolitics Election Blog, Taegan Goddard's …, TPMDC, Firedoglake, Daily Journal, The Mahablog, The Lonely Conservative and Hullabaloo

The White House:

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION — The story of America's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community is the story of our fathers and sons, our mothers and daughters, and our friends and neighbors who continue the task of making our country a more perfect Union.

Discussion: Bark Bark Woof Woof and Balloon Juice

Robert Dreyfuss / American Prospect:
Get Off the Warpath

Discussion: Rethink Afghanistan War Blog

Chris Geidner / Poliglot: Obama Issues Pride Proclamation — With No Mention of Relationship Recognition

HealthCare.gov:

Changes to the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan in Your State — The Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) was created under the Affordable Care Act to ensure more Americans with pre-existing conditions have access to affordable health insurance and serves as a bridge to 2014 …

Discussion: Barefoot and Progressive

United States Department of Health and Human Services:
HHS to Reduce Premiums, Make it Easier for Americans with Pre-Existing Conditions to Get Health Insurance

Discussion: Denver Post, Firedoglake, The Lonely Conservative, USA Today and ThinkProgress

Arthur Delaney / The Huffington Post:
Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan To Offer Much Lower Premiums

Discussion: Daily Kos

Matt Cover / CNSNews:

Obama Commerce Nominee in 2009: U.S. Must Pass Cap and Trade Now — (CNSNews.com) - John Bryson, nominated by President Barack Obama today to head the Department of Commerce, once said it was “incredibly important” that the United States pass cap and trade legislation and that America needed …

Discussion: Michelle Malkin

Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Issa blasts Commerce nominee as ‘green evangelist’

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, The Politico, Reuters and The Lonely Conservative

BBC:

Four arrests after patient abuse caught on film — Secret filming at Winterbourne View appears to show patients being physically and verbally abused — Police in Bristol have arrested four people after secret filming by BBC Panorama found a pattern of serious abuse at a residential hospital.

Discussion: Guardian and Biased BBC

Sarah Anne Hughes / Washington Post:

Ku Klux Klan protests Westboro Baptist Church (Video) — Members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan. (Michael S. Williamson - THE WASHINGTON POST) As President Obama honored fallen soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, three members of the Westboro Baptist Church protested …

Discussion: Religion Dispatches, TBD All News and Gawker