Who doesn't love a good Washington politician scandal? They are classically intriguing. Nothing gets the country going like a good case of a congressman having a crazy affair, taking naked pictures of themselves, or disappearing for extended periods of time. No matter what the scandal Americans love to follow their trials and tribulations. The most recent: Anthony Weiner. Unless you are living somewhere with no internet, phone, or TV access you know the story. New York Representative sends tweets of his private parts to some girl out in cyberspace. He obviously gets caught, lies, tells the truth, then apologizes for lying to the public, his wife, and even Bill Clinton. Now the plot thickens. He REFUSES to resign.
Currently on http://thevotereffect.com 89% of the users believe that Weiner should resign from his position in Congress. Some of the comments include his pure stupidity as a reason for his resignation, while others believe that Bill Clinton didn’t resign, so why should he? Another issue on The Voter Effect is that recently three other Congressmen have been involved in indiscretions and they have all resigned. Lee, Ensign, and Sanford were all forced to resign so why isn’t anyone forcing Weiner’s resignation?
The facts are that once a political figure participates in an act of indiscretion they lose their party affiliation. Once Weiner was busted sending the lewd photos the Democrats didn’t want to touch him with a ten foot poll. The same thing happened with Lee, Ensign, and Sanford. Once they were caught red handed the Republican Party dropped them like a hot potato. The reason being that there is nothing partisan about an affair or sending of genitals in a picture. Once you do that, you are on your own. Completely on your own. The Democrats are working their tail ends off to get Weiner to resign as much as the Republicans are calling for it. Let’s face it, he’s making everyone look bad.
Weiner is known as a DC outsider anyway. He’s never really done what everyone expects him to do. He’s often known as a media hog, outspoken, brash, and not really one to walk party lines. For someone with a vast group of online friends, in DC he really is surrounded by himself. According to the NY Times he ultimately is being advised by himself, which is dangerous in itself. As of late he hasn’t made the best decisions. He has been belligerent in his decision to not resign and although he initially lied to the public stating that he was the victim of a hacker, he still really seems to think that he needs to be forgiven and keep his position. Resign or not Weiner is politically changed forever. He probably won’t be elected mayor of New York which was his next endeavor.
In the end it is completely mind boggling that these men spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to get elected into office. They spend countless hours convincing their constituents that they are the “right” person for the job. With all of this time and money spent on becoming elected one would think that it wouldn’t be thrown away with some ridiculous decision. Now, I’m not a political mastermind, but I would know enough to not send pictures of myself in compromising positions to a young woman, who is a stranger. Let alone send the pictures via the INTERNET creating digital record that is hard to delete or deny. Maybe someone needs to encourage these men to communicate with these women via snail mail and pay phones. That would at least be significantly less blatant and traceable.
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