Weiner Tells Friends He Will Resign

NY Times ^ | 6/16/11 | NY Times

[illiac]

WASHINGTON — Representative Anthony D. Weiner has told friends that he plans to resign his seat after coming under growing pressure from his Democratic colleagues to leave the House in the wake of revelations of his lewd online exchanges with women, said a person told of Mr. Weiner’s plans.

The news comes as Democratic leaders prepared to hold a meeting on Thursday to discuss whether to strip the 46-year-old Congressman of his committee assignments, a blow which would severely damage his effectiveness.

[Michael.SF.]

If Weiner goes, so does his power

It is the other way around. Weiner is resigning because he has lost his power. His was an ascending star in DNC circles and a possible Mayor of NYC, or Senator to follow Chuckie boy.

Now the DNC is dumping him, had they not done so he would have stayed on.

[Sooth2222]

Let me guess — he agreed to resign after Obama agreed to appoint him Ambassador to Amsterdam?

[Outlaw Woman]

Apparently it is up to the nazis at the top of the food chain to decide which depravity merits resigning and which ones do not. Guess Barney’s Frank is completely safe and he can carry on in the most vile behavior. But it’s ok.

Hey Anthony, you picked the wrong gender to expose yourself to. If it would have been ‘males’ you’d be completely safe.

[wtc911]

Of course, that means Huma will be gone and Hillary will have to find her another Democrat congressman.

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Nope, Huma can now spend the next twenty plus years being the dedicated super/single mom who has been wronged by that nasty man. It's the perfect disguise...your divorce and child as your beard.

[Joe 6-pack]

"...I’m starting, just starting I say ,to feel a little sorry for him. Imagine probably getting teased your whole life about your last name and possibly compensating by going in this sick direction."

When I was a little kid, my pediatrician's name was "Dr. Weiner." Very successful guy who died just a few years ago. I'm sure there are lots of successful people named 'Weiner' who were also teased. There are a lot of successful people whose names aren't Weiner who were teased or taunted about something else.

The problem is not Weiner's name, it's his personality, probably his upbringing, his worldview and his arrogance.

For his sake, I sincerely hope he gets his mind right, learns a little humility, and finds happiness in some healthy pursuit rather than in lording his power over others.

As for sympathy? IMHO, he's not getting anywhere near what he deserves, a conclusion based both on what would happen to any joe-blow citizen caught in the same situation as well as Weiner's own proposed legislation regarding online predators.

[RockinRight]

I would have rather had him stay in and be the face, or, the groin, of the Democrat party all the way through 2012...

[Psalm 144]

The rolling pin marks will fade in a couple of weeks.

[Daisyjane69]

Crap. I wanted him to hang on.

[rightistight]

Good riddance

[OB1kNOb]

Did he notify his “friends” via Twitter including pics?

[no-to-illegals]

Since Huma is moslem, doesn't she have to be stoned to death for this indiscretion? Huma obviously caused this. Islamic Law and all. Does the hotdog throw the first rock or is it the relish?

[hoagy62]

Figured it’d happen sooner or later. There was just too much pressure on the guy to leave, and with him being the butt (or is that ‘crotch’) of so many jokes...it was inevitable.

Now, he needs to completely disapppear from public life, never to be seen or heard from again.

[N. Theknow]

whether to strip the 46-year-old Congressman of his committee assignments, a blow which would severely damage his effectiveness.

Strip Weiner?

A blow to Weiner?

Doesn't matter. He'll just hustle his buns back to his district, reload, and the perv supporters in his district will vote him back him.

Massachusetts did/did/does the same thing over and over with a homosexual who made advances on a Congressional page(who was underage at the time), a Senator who killed a woman in his car and tried to cover it up and even had the audacity to run for POTUS, and another homosexual who had his live-in boyfriend running a homo call-boy service from his house and claimed he knew nothing, and they still vote for him even after he crashed their home values to less than 50% of what they were.

Morally bankrupt Northeastern liberals have zero shame.

Palin emails are much more important to them.

[Iron Munro]

Too bad.

I was looking forward to those long, drawn out congressional ethics hearings in August and September of 2012.

[Red Badger]

Damn.........I was soooooo hoping he would not go limp................

[ErnBatavia]

He could have started pronouncing it “Winer” and gotten that off his back, unlike a guy I met years ago who was named Al Shitsky......THAT poor sap was backed into a corner for life.

[Rebelbase]

So I guess it will be the stress from the humiliation and divorce separation that will cause the “miscarriage”?

[Red Badger]

This moment came too soon.

Pre-mature extractulation?...............

[Arrowhead1952]

Surprise, surprise, surprise. - NOT.

[N. Theknow]

Just remember....even if he doesn't run and get re-elected in 2012, we the people are still on the hook to fund this full-salaried, full Congressional healthcare perverted being for the rest of his life.

What a country!