[wallcrawlr]

Using his screen name, NCPAC, after the National Conservative Political Action Committee, where he once worked, Mr. Steffen thanked correspondents to the Web site for their support, writing, "This might even burnish my reputation."

I read this quote from him earlier today...accept as I read it, it was part of a longer comment on his regret at the amount of trouble this has caused. In no way an attempt to bolster himself or "raise his stake" in any of this.

Context please NYT.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Context please NYT.

You're clearly an optimist.

[Lazamataz]

This whole thing could have been avoided IF O'MALLEY HAD STOPPED CHEATING ON HIS WIFE!!!!!