"weiner won't quit."
associated press 6-6-2011
(bloggers photo uploader is down for maintenance so no iconic syndaclism til later)
why should he? christ on a bike, he fits right in...heir to a long and storied history of congressional psychosis and deviant behavior laced with delusions of grandure and giddy hubris...don't belive me? fanny fox...remember her? if that eludes you then all i should have to do is say ted kemmedy and the scales should fall from your eyes in a blinding flash of recognition of the absolute lunacy that drags down even the most solid members of the ruling elite after they have spent years doing "the people's business" and buying into the lame pr that surrounds the hamitonian third republic ( the second republic allowed teddy's older brother to indulge his taste for trashy blonds with a nudge and a wink...nixon screwed that all up for those that followed him...ironic when you think of how jealous he was of old jack...but nixon was a purely political animal...focused on power and his legacy to posterity and posessed of all the charm of a wart...tainted with a massive inferiority complex tempered by bursts of meglomania...kissinger thought he was crazy...i'm just glad the sick bastard is gone leaving me in peace)...as the end of economic growth and the irrational system of debt masquerading as an economy continue to manifest themselves in a declining standard of living the political cadre will become weirder and more shrill in its approach to assuming and maintaining power..weiner will either become a nonentity or be remembered as a brilliant political strategist who first discovered that underwear and social networking were the new tools of the political trade in the late empire...either way it shakes out...footnote or entire chapter in the great book of imperial decline...this sort of abberant behavior and the unreconstructed gibberish that spin doctors and political analysts use to try to explain or define it isn't going to leave the political landscape soon...wierd is the new normal...i am about to come into my own.
I bet the majority of people who are calling for his resignation have some uncomfortable skeletons in their own closets and/or have used work resources such as computers to send personal emails etc. Frankly I don't see this as the end of the world...famous (and not so famous) people do stupid stuff, the media plays it all like its really something, and then attention drifts to some other crap. Meanwhile actual real issues are ignored...
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