{His odds of surviving politically would be greater if only he were on the other side of the aisle, in the party of righteous (and phony) indignation.}

Weiner should fall on his sword, walk away and get the help he needs.

Hillary will then make sure, at the appropriate time, that he finds a place somewhere in the Dem-party. He’s a progressive and this nation is too short of his kind to condemn them to eternal political damnation.

Politicians love the adulation of celebrity status but some like to leverage it to a personal and or sexual advantage. Bizarrely, we call that “success” in America ... until it is splashed all over the headlines.

Just ask Billy-boy Clinton, since resurrected from the politically dead.

If the Republican Party was to weed out all the criminals, perverts, party animals, prostitute afficianados and full-frontal liars, the only one left in the room would be the janitor. I can’t say much different about their competition, but I can say that when a Democrat’s indiscretions come to the fore, the Republicans make damn sure they stay in the news forever.

Had a flash vision this morning of Boehner, Cantor, Ryan, et al, holding the leash of Pelosi, Reid, an now Wasserman, and others like dogs at a bear baiting event, with Weiner as the bear.  Would make a great cartoon, the visual is perfect for what is going on here. Since when do the Dems participate in rabid “guilty until proven innocent” nonsense.  Let Weiner’s constituents decide his fate; his wife has already decided.  Beyond that, unless laws were broken, which so far has not shown to be the case people need to concentrate on the real issues like saving us from the Republicans. I’m taking names on this issue with Dems who are being Repub. shills. I will not be giving them any campaign money because it is clear to me they don’t have a grasp of what is important here.

If Tony ‘Tiny’ Weiner is granted a congressional leave of absence while he goes into ‘rehab’ in an attempt to cure the psychosis that prompts his apparently insatiable need for genital exhibitionism, it would seem only fair that the entire Congress be granted an indefinite leave of absence to obtain psychiatric help.

Just to see if it’s possible to cure, or at least alleviate, the congressional propensity for continuous masturbation, 24/7/365, which is an at least as obnoxious display as Tiny’s relatively modest cock-shots.

And even if Congress cannot be cured by lying around in a ‘rehab’ center, swilling margaritas and smoking dope at poolside, while practicing keeping their hands out of their own and each others’ pants and panties, the interim of their absence will provide a welcome respite for the US citizenry from having to watch, and be the victims of, their normal three-ring absurdities.

Republicans do not just display a ‘Tacit acceptance of all brands of turpitude’. Indulgence in all brands of turpitude is a requisite for GOPer membership, as part of their ‘You gotta go along to get along’ credo. Public displays of abject perversions are required of aspiring new members during the republican party initiation rites, to permit blackmail coercion to adhere to GOPer policies, should future members ever exhibit signs of rationality, morality, or serving the public’s interests, thus deviating from the GOPer ‘Crooked and Wide’ path.

The US hosts the most profitable porn industry in the world - selling every imaginable product from electic frying pans to dental floss with sex, the implied message being the average Americans knows how to party - as soon as somebody gets caught - and then they mob like a hoard of miss goodie two shoes with pitchforks - what a joke.

Weaner’s escapades seems to have been a gift sent from the media gods….  After all how much ... Palin, Bochman and Newt and Tea Bag/Koch Brother crap can one stomach? What war? Who gives a daman about Medicare, surly not the Republicans and I am not sure about the Democrats?

Seeing such Moral high ground as portrayed by people like Andrew Breitbart brings a tear to me eye, the fact that Andrew Bereitbart refused to expose the wenier, weiner picture shows that Bereitbart is a man above, the normal crassness of other Republicans. Bereitbart should become the poster boy and moral compass for our society.  His display of the proper way to blackmail without calling for money, was a refreshing from the usual, the old asking for money blackmail thing. 

Bereitbart shows an exceptional political savvy exceeding what most Repulicans pass for smarts.  I hope to see more people with integrity such as Bereitart exposing things and going into politics under the Repulsion or Tea Bag ticket. 

A few other people who happen to show integrity and morals of the higher pain, crawling out of the woodwork on the Repulsion ticket,...people like Palin, Bochman or Newt, so far the whole Repulican cast,... fighting for the people, the huddled masses out there suffering with the people, for surly Repulicans portray the highest of highground and expose the Democrats for their weak character of compassion.

We need more people showing the quality of being, the honesty and morally uprightness as Andrew Bereitbart has. Touching our lives and Televisions (but only after applying copious amounts of antiseptic), displaying their pathetic so called reality.

I’m more sick of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and others in the Democratic party dancing like puppets on a string to the Republican tune.  We’ve got much bigger problems than Anthony Weiner and frankly he handled his apology better than some of our Democratic leaders handled their a—kissing of the Republiicn line.  He was stupid, but his constituents and his wife will deal with him as they want. The rest of us need to get back to work saving ourselves from the Republican “Ayn"scum that’s trying to steal everything we have and make us into slaves the the monied elite.

The screeching, whining and self-righteous attacks were never about Anthony
Weiner’s tweets.  The noise was to take attention away from Clarence Thomas.
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8561  Thomas, unlike Rep. Anthony Weiner, appears to have actually,
and flagrantly, and repeatedly, broken the law.
Connecting the dots, it would seem the couple made huge profits from Thomas’ participation and insider knowledge of last year’s Citizens United ruling at the U.S. Supreme Court, as we’ll show you below.

While Barack Obama’s DoJ seems to be looking the other way, there was one person in Congress trying to bring attention to this issue last week with his ConflictedClarence.com website: Rep. Anthony Weiner!

Don’t get me wrong, what Wiener did was absolutely insane.  Why identify
yourself in a lewd context to people you don’t even know?  His emails and pics
reveal an immature sex addict who is easy to set up for exposure.  And, yes, I
do believe many of those women who kept pressing Wiener to come see them
were hired help.  He proved to be an easy mark.

That said, do I think he should quit?  No.  Isn’t it strange how Democrats eat
their own, so frightened of losing power?  And they let the Republicans, whose
politicians seem to weather and even thrive despite the crimes committed,
taunt them into doing so.  Wiener didn’t break any laws and much of this is
personal. If he stays in office, he has an opportunity to learn a lesson and work
hard to redeem himself with both his colleagues and, more important, his wife. 

I’d show him a little sympathy.  He’s been humiliated all over the planet.  That
must be really tough.

gerard, June 9 at 10:34 pm:

It seems obvious to me that righteous indignation is a characteristic universally present among Americans. ...

Especially in the media, including the Internet, and including many of the contributions of both (supposedly progressive) columnists and commenters here on Truthdig.

It’s a way of putting people down, of getting the better of them, in a way of carrying on war, which leads often enough to real wars, violence, terror.  When you want to destroy people, you first make them out to be evil.

It’s also unutterably tedious.  Weiner sending around a picture of his wiener was irresistibly funny to the tabloids, but now that the humor of that has worn thin, I suppose the grinding of the wheels of serious moralization must be started up.

It seems obvious to me that righteous indignation is a characteristic universally present among Americans. Our present foreign policy reveals this arrogance clearly.  We are forever finger-shaking,  all too quick to take offense, and refuse to admit our historical exploitative nature as we ravage the world’s resources.  By keeping most of the profits within our own precincts to be wasted on imperialistic wars, we scorn the needs of our own working class, and overlook the starvation and disease of millions of people in poor countries whom, quite apparently, we do not regard as worth saving.
  We hold grudges, and resist efforts to take up equal partnerships in the world, but instead insist that we are so virtuous that others harbor desires to attack us, not because of our domineering behavior, but “because they envy our freedom, or our wealth etc.”  We insist on managing internatioinal affairs by a constant show of overwhelming military power, establishing hundreds of bases all over the planet with the express purpose of airing our superiority.
  Righteous indignation is a hallmark of the extreme right wing,(lauded as “pPetriotism”) but it appears as well among the Democrats, and the evidence is the creeping pace of change in spite of easy access to a wealth of information and evidence that America is generally resented, hated and envied throughout the world—a not-enviable reputation if we truly want to do anything good anywhere.