Darrel Issa (R-CA), the committee chairman leading House Republicans' investigation into the Obama administration's handling of the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, has concealed witnesses, withheld documents, publicly aired unconfirmed allegations, and excluded Democrats from a hastily planned trip to Libya last weekend, according to his colleagues across the aisle.

"Although Chairman Issa has claimed publicly that ‘we are pursuing this on a bipartisan basis,' the Committee's investigation into the attack in Benghazi has been extremely partisan," reads a memo circulated today by the Democratic staff of the committee and obtained by The Cable. "The Chairman and his staff failed to consult with Democratic Members prior to issuing public letters with unverified allegations, concealed witnesses and refused to make one hearing witness available to Democratic staff, withheld documents obtained by the Committee during the investigation, and effectively excluded Democratic Committee Members from joining a poorly-planned congressional delegation to Libya."

U.S. debt has shrunk to a six-year low relative to the size of the economy as homeowners, cities and companies cut borrowing, undermining rating companies’ downgrading of the nation’s credit rating.

Total indebtedness including that of federal and state governments and consumers has fallen to 3.29 times gross domestic product, the least since 2006, from a peak of 3.59 four years ago, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Private- sector borrowing is down by $4 trillion to $40.2 trillion.

Reduced borrowing means there is less competition for the U.S. Treasury Department as it sells debt to fund spending programs to help the nation recover from the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Credit-rating firms are discounting the improvement even as debt, equity and currency markets suggest the U.S. is more creditworthy than before Standard & Poor’s stripped the nation of its AAA grade in 2011.

drsmooth wrote:

cshort wrote:non-profit

sesame workshop <> jim henson co <> PBS

businesspeople understand the distinction

Soren wrote:so is that a good thing

CalvinBall wrote:we're doing it

cshort wrote:

drsmooth wrote:

cshort wrote:non-profit

sesame workshop <> jim henson co <> PBS

businesspeople understand the distinction

no shit genius, that wasn't the point

CalvinBall wrote:Stephen Gutowski ‏@collegepolitico
So @fivethirtyeight's model gives Romney a 25% chance of winning the election? That's not a joke on his part?

Stephen Gutowski ‏@collegepolitico
This is why I've never taken @fivethirtyeight's "I can see things you don't in these polls with my magically spectacles" act very seriously

this guy went to a small christian school in the center of pa. nate silver understood math better than he does now at the age of 8.