The Madness

As a US Senator you don't have to resign because you solicited sex from whores from the Senate floor, all the while espousing "Family Values," and promoting and voting for venal anti-Gay, anti-women, anti-poor and anti-immigrant legislation. [David Vitter]

You get to stay a Senator (@ least for awhile until your criminality is so obvious even the rest of the Senate can't ignore) even if you force your married staff person (and wife of your best friend) to fuck you, and then get your parents to bribe the harmed family with $96,000 in cash; and to break the law by setting up the cuckolded husband in a lobbying firm. [John Ensign]

Or you don't have to resign the Senate if you get caught by an undercover cop trying to solicit a blow-job in a public men's bathroom in a Minneapolis airport. [Larry Craig]

Or resign as a Congressman because you committed serious tax and ethics violations; or get caught with $90,000 stuffed in your freezer. [Charlie Wrangel] [William Jefferson]

But do some stupid shit like sexting lewd pictures of yourself via Twitter and engaging in adolescent prurient talk with young women over Facebook; and get caught by some Right Wing prevaricating fuck as Andrew Breitbart, and it's all over.

Congressman Anthony Weiner was an idiot for engaging in such stupidity. But he broke no laws and did not have sex with any of the young women with whom he corresponded.

But he made a BIG MISTAKE -- as a vocal Progressive, he allowed the Right Wing to target him and get his own party to turn against him, because they labeled him a "distraction." What he was was one of the few who spoke out on the floor of Congress about the horrible injustices being inflicted every day by the extreme Right.

I do not believe Weiner should've resigned. Him sending stupid shit over the Internet is not reason to get rid of one of the few voices who called the Right Wing on their shit.

But what's done is done. And as Rachel Maddow said tonight on her show, throwing Weiner under the bus will only embolden the Right Wing to do even more evil shit as this.

Not good. Not good @ all.