Send A. WEINER Packing

I have to say that I am not the least bit surprised about the Congressman A. WEINER scandal (that's right, he will henceforth be identified by his apt first initial and last name, which accurately describes not only who he is but what he is). The guy always came across as a smug, arrogant, self-righteous, pompous, little A-Hole. It seems like the biggest loudmouth media whores are consistently the politicians taken down by scandal (with Senator Schumer, mentor to A. WEINER, being possibly the one exception), and Congressman A. WEINER had sure followed in his mentor's foot-steps, becoming quite proficient at saying ANYTHING he needed to in front of a camera in order to raise his public profile. The shame of it is that he'll likely get away wth not resigning his office & still probably get elected Mayor of New York City by the sucker residents there after his congressional post is redisrticted away from him.

This man was always distasteful to me, and for more than simply political reasons. He always just seemed a little off. When this scandal first broke, I told Laureen that it would come out that he sent the photos himself, that nobody "hacked his account." With countless other politicans, I likely would have been willing to grant some benefit of the doubt, but Congressman A. WEINER always seemed like a little bit of a weirdo... a pervert even. It probably sounds crazy, but sometimes you can tell without "knowing" any facts. Charlie Sheen is a perfect example... always seemed a little creepy, a little perverted to me, and boy, has he EVER lived up to that perception recently. I never watched his sitcom because I thought it was creepy to have him on a show with an adolescent... I thought this long before any of the scandals broke about him. A. WEINER was another one, like Sheen, who just exuded this creepy perversion every time he got in front of a camera.

As to whether Congressman A. WEINER should resign his position, I think the answer is a clear and resounding ABSOLUTELY. Set the adultery, greatly offensive in its own right, aside for a second here. And as a quick disclaimer, some might misguidedly believe I have come to this conclusion based solely on his bona fide left wing idealogy and my decidedly opposite worldview. But they'd be wrong. You see, maybe I come across as some kind of prude in our morally relative society, but I think that the people we elect & send to office should be held to a higher standard (or, For God's Sake, at least to the same standard that we hold each other). Think about it in these terms: if you were running a business and you hired an employee to work for you, would you allow him to get away with "sexting" and making phone sex calls from your place of business? Would you allow him to send naked photos of himself to random people, photos that were clearly taken in your business, while he was supposed to be working? I think that the vast majority of us would fire such an employee... and I think we all know we'd VERY likely be fired for such behavior at work. Justifiably so. So why should we give a free pass to a member of Congress. These people work for US. They are employees of the American people. Something happens when they get to Washington. They get some deranged sense of entitlement... start acting like we exist to serve them and they are above the very laws they write, the very laws they serve... it's the other way around, folks... these politicians are in DC by the will and grace of the People, to serve We, the People. It SHOULD outrage you that A. WEINER possessed so little respect for his office that he thought nothing of turning it into some 21st century, electronic version of a bath house. Then he lied about it right to our faces. And these weren't even Clintonesque lies of "I didn't do it"... A. WEINER fabricated a story about a hacker breaking into his account, a la Susan Smith's "A black man kidnapped my children." To me, it is a clear cut sign of contempt for the people who elected him. A. WEINER should not go unpunished. A. WEINER should suffer as punishment a political castration so to speak. Demand his resignation. Send A. WEINER back to NY with his, ahem, TAIL between his legs.