Sorry. I'm trying to quit. Really.
After reading Kirsten Powers' commentary on El Weiner (content warning!) I was moved to write about what a truly foul degenerate he really is. But the ick factor was too great, and Powers' piece speaks for itself, anyway. Over to Mark Steyn, then, for the larger implications of "the Weinerization of the culture":
In effect, he conscripted [Powers] into his lies. Now, in demanding he be allowed to “go back to work for the American people”, he’s forcing the entire country to collude in them. [. . .]Read the rest. And from another Steynpost:
Like Kirsten Powers, I have minimal expectations of this country’s depraved political class. But if you can’t draw the line at being ruled by creeps with a spambot penis, you can’t draw it anywhere. Anthony Weiner Tweets his crotch to young women on the grounds that, even if only one in twenty responds, that’s still a helluva strike rate: Shame on him. If his electors and the broader political culture acquieses in that, shame on us.
Whatever one feels about the pants on fire, the liar ought to be an issue. Why would any sentient being believe a word the right honorable Weiner says about anything ever again? The debt ceiling, Libya, Medicare, anything? Look at what this thuggish narcissist grotesque was prepared to do over the last week, and ask yourself. If Weiner is fit for “public life,” who isn’t?Exactly, and that's why this "malevolent toad" (Steyn's words) has got to go.
PS: As a general rule I never pay for content on the internet (we like to think of ourselves as [ahem] thrifty), and I'm a little annoyed by a sales pitch that equates the cost of a subscription to something else I decline to spend money on. But I'm sorely tempted by this. Blurgh.
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I must agree with Mr. Steyn. The reason he should resign now is his bold-faced lying. What lack of respect Weiner has for his fellow Americans! For him to think we should employ a person with not a single honest bone in his body to serve in the highest representative body existing today.
ReplyDeleteCongressman Weiner should NOT quit. The one thing I have learned from reading hundreds of comments about Sarah Palin is that quitting is always bad. Even if remaining in office means that you will be ineffective or that it may cause personal bankruptcy, remaining in office is the right thing to do. There is never a good reason to quit. How often have you seen the press criticize senile, nonagenarian senators for not stepping aside and letting someone with a working brain replace them? It never happens because staying in office is good and quitting is bad. So please Congressman Weiner, resist the pressure to quit and serve out your term. And if you do that, you may get another--after all, you are a Democrat in New York City, which is almost as good as being a Democrat in Massachusetts. Did Barney Frank quit after finding a cushy job for his lover? Did Ted Kennedy quit after his negligence resulted in the death of a young woman? Or Charlie Rangel and his little problem with taxes--did he become a quitter? No, they continued on as respected members of Congress after weathering the storm. Why be the first Democrat to let a little scandal make you into a quitter?
ReplyDeleteIf Vitter can stay, Weiner can stay.
ReplyDeleteSimple as that.