Maybe Next Time He'll Think Before He Tweets
I was reading some Democrats lamenting the loss of such an obviously great guy as Anthony Weiner as a public servant just because he cheated on his wife. But wait, they say, he didn't even cheat; he just flirted. And I had to ask myself whether what he did was worthy of losing his seat in Congress. (Whether we are talking about removal by Democratic leadership or by his constituents is immaterial to me; I just want to establish whether we would want someone in Congress who did what he did.) Weiner has made it easy on us because of his reaction to the affair's discovery: not only denying it (that is natural, albeit wrong), but actively accusing Andrew Breitbart of smearing him. Anybody who can lie so baldly definitely deserves to be out of Congress, Republican or Democrat. Then there is the question of whether he knowingly flirted with underage girls, as it appears he may have come on to a high school student that he met at a rally. Then there is t...