Rep. Chris Lee resigns
Well, two out of three ain’t bad (hint: scroll down for photo).
Also rather dumb. What married member of Congress would, in this day and age, send shirtless pictures to an unknown woman on Craigslist and use his real name?
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An idiot incapable of fidelity?
I think we’re living in an age similar to the one in which Rome declined. I can think of no other reason to explain this.
Yeah … I thought he was hot, but c’mon….
What a dumbshit!
It’s kind of flattering in a way. This is, in my meager memory, the fourth “Sex” scandal on the Republican side that had no sex. As to your question, well duh. A Democrat. You don’t think Teddy had time to burn through a thousand to ten thousand women and be the least bit subtle, do you?
The late senator from Massachusetts drowned his bimbos, problem solved.
Wow. A scandal because a man exposed his bare chest??
No doubt I’m missing some context here — the CraigsList conversation that went along with the photo, say. But I’ve been hearing this on the radio all day, and I wonder how the newscasters can keep their faces straight. “Shirtless” — have these people been to the beach lately?
covered in confusion,
Daniel in Brookline
I agree Daniel…is this really a resigning offense?
So?
-Richard B. Cheney
(National Treasure)
1. What married member of Congress would, in this day and age, send shirtless pictures to an unknown woman on Craigslist and use his real name?
This is another example of the political class’s cocooned sense of entitlement. Not that another example is needed.
2. I can’t help but wonder whether this incident was a sting.
3. I haven’t made up my mind, but it does seem possible that Lee compounded his stupidity by his apparently impulsive resignation. Maybe this wasn’t his only indiscretion.
Further proof that men can be dick heads; they let their dicks override their brains. I think it was John Steinbeck who said the biggest trouble makers in America are Jack Daniels and John Thomas. Maybe that’s apocryphal.
Of course, a Democrat dick head is always excused and a Republican dick head is always excoriated as a hypocrite, or worse.
Any woman who is online dating is GOING TO GOOGLE your ass. Why did this not occur to him?
And why do so many politicians have this fatal flaw? JFK, Clinton…
All I have to say is the damn Republicans better keep it in their pants for the next two years. I don’t really care after that, go back to being human, but right now, we don’t need any more fodder for Media Matters.
A flaw it do doubt is, but fatal? JFK didn’t die from his trysts (although there are apocryphal tales that Marilyn Monroe and her Mafia connections had something to do with it), and Clinton is still very much the Big He.
But otherwise and meanwhile, where do they dig these guys up, anyway?
OK, so, men have two heads, but only enough blood to operate one at a time. Not news.
Across the blogs, I have enjoyed the jokes Republicans and Conservatives have made about this incautious narcissist. Sure, a Democrat would have gotten away with krep like this, while Republicans use him as comic relief. This is not injustice. This is a very healthy reality.
Forty six eh? Sounds like a big “mac” attack ( middle age crazy).
It is obvious that this guy has worse judgement than Elliot Spitzer. Too many politicians are clowns who have lost touch with reality.
Look, no great loss, right?
If this guy was this dumb, and so clueless about how likely he was to be spotted advertising his wares on Craigslist in our glorious Internet age, it is better that he resigns and hopefully–I say hopefully because this is New York State politics after all–he gets replaced by someone who has an I.Q. higher than the number of heads this guy was thinking with.
I suspect he resigned because there are more embarrassing pics out there. Maybe, like Brett Favre, he thought it would be a good idea to send pics of his weiner to women.
My understanding is that the Speaker was already after him for ‘lapses.’
This scandal would be a camel breaker.
Also rather dumb.
I live on a small island where one can only really leave by car. We have almost no crime — but when someone does do anything unpleasant and try to run, they’re nearly always caught in the ferry line. This is often amusing, and we locals always get an old lesson reinforced: don’t assume crooks are very smart.
When politicians get caught in this kind of idiocy I can’t resist seeing the parallel.
When will these clowns ever learn? Sexual peccadillos in a Republican are the kiss of death. In a Democrat they are resume enhancement.