Cain denies the Bialek allegations entirely. What he hasn’t denied — and which was pressed today, now that Joel Bennett client Karen Kraushaar has allowed her name to be released — is that this former NRA employee is the woman who filed a claim against him (that he knew about); the one with respect to whose claim he then recused himself; the one for which the NRA lifted confidentiality; and

Says he steadfastly denies any allegations that he used sexually inappropriate gestures while funneling guns to Mexican drug cartels. (thanks to geoffB)

Here’s what I gathered about her from the Daily story. Turn-ons: horses, puppies, Truth. Turn-offs: scoliosis, Cuban boys who escape communism, double-breasted suits that exude power.*

Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail: These people make up the Occupier generation. They aspire to join the virtueocracy – the class of people who expect to find self-fulfillment (and a comfortable living) in non-profit or government work, by saving the planet, rescuing the poor and regulating the rest of us. They are what the social critic Christopher Lasch called the “new class” of “therapeutic cops in the new bureaucracy.” The

Wait, a group known for left-wing community organizing with ties to the President involved in the organization and manipulation of a movement whose “message,” such as it is, is presented as in keeping with the President’s own class warfare rhetoric? Shocking. –Or, were the AP writing this story, they’d call this latest suggestion of some connection “unexpected.” Take your pick. (thanks to DarthLevin)

Has the ring of familiarity. On the plus side, it will get read. And that’s a good thing. (thanks to sdferr)

The pushback has begun in earnest. Those on the right who’ve previously joined the left in what it is clear is a politically motivated attack on Cain have an opportunity here to finally do the right thing and start pressuring this story. If it’s true, and Cain is a serial harasser, we need to know that. But if he’s not — and this has been yet another attempt to destroy