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“There is no way anyone can ever believe anything Weiner says again after that”
And therein lies perhaps the shiniest part of the silver lining of this Weiner-shaped cloud for us. While having discraced himself and his office, Weiner has utterly ruined his personal credibility. Where he once appeared as a liberal voice even on Fox News, he will from here on out evoke juvenile thoughts and snickers. He has well and truly screwed himself, and no one deserves it more.
Figures Kirsten Powers would date this guy. Seems like her (or any other media feminist’s) type.
LOL.
Brilliant!
What a shame such a beautiful woman has the social graces of a black widow.. or Praying Mantis..
To be friends with Wiener it must be so.. she must be a handful for a normal american.. Otherwise how could she get along with such a neurotic character as Wiener.. unless she was not wrapped too tight herself..
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America's Founders understood human nature and the human tendency to betray trust, to abuse delegated power, and need for a written Constitution to protect "We, the People" from such flaws in human nature.
Although the recent false idea that persons in positions of power can "compartmentalize" their tendencies in such a way that disloyalty and lack of fidelity to friends and family do not signify the same tendencies in matters of public trust, wise persons throughout the ages have known better.
In effect, he conscripted her into his lies.
This particular point is why I think Weiner will be gone before next Monday. It's one thing to conscript a bunch of half-witted partisan sycophants into your lies, but the truth is that he got a lot of big Democratic names involved in this, too. These are the people who are going to drive him out of office.
And I say it's going to happen before Monday because Congress has been out of session for a couple of weeks, and they're back in session on Monday . . . and this Weiner can never show his ugly face to his own Democratic associates in Congress again.
"I don’t know the details, but I know him [Weiner] to be a person of integrity and I am virtually certain he had nothing to do with this." -- U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), 5/31/11
If this were a manager trolling for sexual response in an office setting among a company full of female employees, that manager could be charged with harrassment by one female, and the serial harrassment by the manager of the others could be used as evidence in proving the case of the lady making leveling the charge.
The serious nature is that the manager held power over those women, and the system would not view favorably his abuse of power. He and his company would be liable for millions. He could go to jail.
In the instance of Weiner, he identified himself as a powerful sitting congressman. Is not the "company" of which he is a part the US of A? Does his power not intimidate when he is seen on TV wielding that power and when stories abound of those who've paid horribly for angering politicians or other powerful people?
I believe his "partners" were intimidated, and I think they should charge him and sue both him and his employer for sexual harrassment and predation. They should argue that his power was intimidating, and they should show the number of women harrassed as evidence of his predation.
No one, to my knowledge, is saying it, but this whole matter is a bit broader than a mere sex scandal. It can’t have escaped notice that both the Dems’ most provacative talking heads—Wiener and Debbie Wasserman Schultz—are Jewish. And while Schultz’s chances for noteriety of any kind will never approach Wiener’s, she’s nonetheless a lightning rod in an already overexposed institution. The Democrat party can hardly afford to alienate any more Jews—liberals or otherwise. Which, interestingly, leaves the ultimate censure solely to Schultz.
D.C = Land of the flagrant and the home of the brazen.
Keep Wiener in DC and NYC. You deserve him.
Without doing an ounce of journalism, she goes on national TV and spits out the hand delivered talking points and I'm supposed to feel bad for her.
She's nothing more than a Democratic, talking point propagandist.
lOL!
Weiner seems convinced he can survive this and he's got a point. Bill Clinton did!
Somebody didn't read the EULA very closely... :-)
The unasked question....... what did he send Kirsten and more to the point what did she send him?