NYT: Weiner to step down

Weiner Tells Friends He Will Step Down
By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ

WASHINGTON — Representative Anthony D. Weiner has told friends that he plans to resign his seat after coming under growing pressure from his Democratic colleagues to leave the House in the wake of revelations of his lewd online exchanges with women, said a person told of Mr. Weiner’s plans.

The news comes as Democratic leaders prepared to hold a meeting on Thursday to discuss whether to strip the 46-year-old Congressman of his committee assignments, a blow which would severely damage his effectiveness.

Mr. Weiner, a Democrat, came to the conclusion that he could no longer serve after having long discussions with his wife, Huma Abedin, when she returned home on Tuesday after traveling abroad with her boss, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Pressure on Mr. Weiner to leave the House has been building for days, with top House Democrats, including Representative Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader, coming forward over the weekend publicly urge him to spare himself, his family and his party any more embarrassment.

But that pressure intensified earlier this week when President Obama publicly suggested that he should step down and Ms. Pelosi told reporters that she was prepared to strip Mr. Weiner of his committee assignments if he did not leave.

At the same time, the House ethics committee had formally opened an inquiry into Mr. Weiner’s conduct, including trading private messages with a teenage girl in Delaware. The investigation raised the prospect that he would face formal charges and sanctions, including expulsion. But with his decision to resign, the investigation is expected to end, since the committee has jurisdiction only over the actions of members of Congress.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/nyregion/anthony-d-weiner-tells-friends-he-will-resign.html?_r=1

any benefit out of this. FUCKING COWARDS!!!

thank goodness.

Their lack of support reflects their lack of balls to get real progressive government in place.

The rest of the Dems...the DLC "New Dems", not so much.

What Vitter did was just as bad, if not worse, so why hasn't he stepped down yet?
And what about Speaker Boner, who cheated on his wife with two women?
I guess it's okay to do, if you're a RepubliCON!

He's doing the right thing. He realizes he's become a distraction from all the important issues on Congress' plate right now, and is stepping aside for the greater good of the Party.

He just needs to take a few years to re-examine his life, then he can come back and make a big splash in politics again like Tweety said, maybe run for NYC mayor like he's always wanted to do.

He may be down, but I doubt he's out.

Godspeed, Anthony.

lol

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Exactly what progressive ideals did Weiner accomplish besides giving great speeches. I am so sick of the people who speechify for the cameras getting credit for the work real progressives do behind the scenes. Perhaps if Weiner were more concerned with getting actual progressive work done he would not have found himself with enough time to engage in foolishness. Blaming Obama, DU or Republicans won't change that fact.

:thumbsup:

Perhaps if Weiner were more concerned with getting actual progressive work done he would not have found himself with enough time to engage in foolishness.

Dayum! :rofl:

I think it was the tweets to the 17-year old girl that did it for him. Even though the tweets were completely innocuous, with all of the other tawdry goings on, ANYTHING would look bad at that point.

It's too bad. But I have to say that anyone capable of being so goddamned stupid needs to be scooping up 31 flavors at Baskin Robbins, not a member of Congress.

If he hadn't tweeted his junk, this nefarious plot never would have worked.

Kudos to all!

:eyes:

in politics but hopefully not so progressive in online sex activities.