Comments on: More on not caring about Weinergate: morality in private and public life

By: Try Honesty

Try Honesty — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 03:08:20 +0000

What if we wake up one day and realize that the terrorist threat is a predictable consequence of our meddling in the affairs of others?

By: Don Carlos

Don Carlos — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 00:00:03 +0000

In follow-up on the theme of this thread, I refer readers to the Belmont Club’s Wretchard on “The Soap Opera World” today.

By: Beverly

Beverly — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 06:24:20 +0000

I just saw the rancid little git on New York 1 News this evening. He got snappish yesterday with a reporter who pressed him politely to answer a question, and really showed his nasty streak.

Apparently his PR people took him to the woodshed over that, and he appeared on NY1 again tonight, jaw clenched, feigning composure and declaring that he was ready to answer any and all questions to hasten the day when he could “get back to solving the country’s problems, like working on the deficit.”

He’s like Andrew Cuomo, the Knee-Capper. Everyone loathes him, but he’s such a knife-wielder that they give him a wide berth.

By: Donald Douglas

Donald Douglas — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 04:44:53 +0000

I just added your link, FWIW: 'Lawrence O'Donnell: 'Not all sex scandals are actually scandalous' Says the MSNBC host on Twitter'.

By: Don Carlos

Don Carlos — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 04:13:09 +0000

Those who choose to let Weiner slide because there are bigger, badder things going on in D.C. overlook the lesson of successful policing in NYC during the Giuliani years, the Broken Windows strategy, if memory as to its name serves. If the cops paid attention to minor offenses, e.g. window breaking, instead of ignoring them, it was theorized there would in time also be a reduction in major crimes in the same areas. It worked, worked well, much better than the previous policing approach, and still does.

By: RandomThoughts

RandomThoughts — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 03:03:29 +0000

Don Carlos, now you are just being juvenile and petty.

If Weiner broke the law, and the woman in question (she isn’t a child, she’s over 18 and in college) presses a charge of sexual harassment, then by all means he should pay the legal price. Otherwise, it’s politics as usual in DC as far as I can see.

There are far worse things going on in government, with far greater consequences, than the Twittering of someone’s bulging boxers. This is a stupid distraction from matters of greater import.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 02:26:40 +0000

Apparently, Roger Simon likes the falsus quote:

http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2011/05/31/anthony-weiner-don-juan-in-hell/

And stated an earlier point I stated: When they lie in public about sex, how do we know they are not lying about other things?

By: Curtis

Curtis — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 02:20:04 +0000

That it is the business of only family was Neo’s point. I don’t agree; I like the simplicity of Casca, but Neo’s stance is rational and the rational shouldn’t be dismissed without good reason. Hah!

By: Don Carlos

Don Carlos — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 02:12:46 +0000

RandomThoughts:
I quoted the Latin because I didn’t think most of us would have trouble in translating “falsus”, etc. False=falsus; perhaps a tad tough, eh?

My point is really that this idea has been around for Lo! perhaps 2000 years.

Neo will cut Weiner the slack she would not give her husband. Q.E.D. (with regrets to Random)

By: Casca

Casca — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 02:00:43 +0000

Jeez, does nobody here get it? His action shows a level of judgment and behavior that is defective and unworthy of a member of congress. Anyone who has observed him already knows this, but he has now revealed it to the world.

Neo, he’s a well known leftist liar of the worst sort. If you are to purvey political opinions, you should know who this guy is.