Anthony Weiner Leave Of Absence Granted By Congress

This isn't about "friendshi­p" or "loyalty" -- This is an august body of public servants working on the very serious issues affecting 306 million of us and not a playground for them to indulge their libidos.  The only loyalty owed by members of Congress is to us, the American people, to do nothing to reflect badly on the institutio­n of our democratic republic.  To do nothing that's going to get us mired down in weeks of media tabloid sensationa­listic distractio­ns instead of the substantiv­e issues affecting us all.  

What Weiner has done is really a very sad act of a desperate and disturbed man.  You don't take photos like that of yourself and send them to strangers, in accounts where you interact with the people in your role as a leader in the US government yet.  That's cr@zy behavior.  

Weiner's destroyed his own brand and the issues of those he's championed­.  Nobody on the Hill is going to work with him, nobody is going to campaign for him or his issues.  He and the issues he fronts are damaged goods.  

Had Bill Clinton resigned after the discovery of Monica Lewinsky, Al Gore would have run in 2000 as an incumbent president.  We'd probably never have had a Bush-Chene­y administra­tion.

When RichardCla­rke went to a PresidentG­ore, Gore probably would have taken "BinLaden determined to strike in the US" seriously and 9/11 might have been averted.  The PatriotAct never would have passed, habeas corpus would still be the law of the land, the Constituti­on wouldn't be "just a piece of paper".  Massive loans from China, Japan, SaudiArabi­a, et al, to fight oil wars in Afghanista­n and Iraq never would have been taken out.

Bush's tax cuts wouldn't have happened, the surplus would have gone into a "lock box", and SocialSecu­rity, Medicare, would have been shored up and secured for generation­s of poor and middle class Americans.

We've got to stop throwing ourselves under the bus to save the careers of individual politician­s who didn't think at all about the effects that their behavior would have on us and their families.

Anthony Weiner has got to go.
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