If I was a Congressman, you were my wife or girlfriend, and you were interested in BDSM...

...I can't say that I wouldn't at least try a little something involving handcuffs or a playful spanking. We're all human beings here, and when it comes to sexual expression, everyone is different. I accept that. We all have limits, but we all have fantasies, too.

As long as it stays between the two of us, then it doesn't belong on anyone else's radar, especially if our little diversions do not affect either my performance as a legislator or her performance at her chosen calling. Even if it's building dog houses with fluffy cushions for rescues from abusive or neglectful homes.

But this is where Weiner made his big mistake. He involved others in his little escapade. His wife, I'm certain, would not have approved of this behavior had she known. And that means his business became our business, whether we wanted it to be or not. And that also affects his ability to represent the folks who entrusted him with that office in the first place.

Public office, like a BDSM session, requires trust. If that trust gets broken either way, people get hurt. And that's just downright unacceptable.

and filmed his "scene"? In my nek of the woods, we don't like the peepers much either. It aint no one's biddiness what happens under the covers until you make it our biddiness as Andy B. decided to do.

Can't wait to see when that asshole's day comes.

It's not like a peeping tom saw him; it's more like he just went and flashed someone for all the world to see.

His career ain't going to survive this.

"sent them out?"

It was sent to designated private recipients, not posted on his public page.

You are being a peeping tom, so long as you feed the meme that this hack was somehow legit and anything other than an invasion of privacy.

The last thing that Weiner should do is apologize (except to his wife).

That's how it got out. Screen grabs before he hastily pulled it down.

Hard to believe, really.

It's going to take a generation for the rules of New Media to really sink in.

Everybody could have potentially seen it, had the photos not been pulled down.
And if he did it from government computers,he will double his trouble.

He is a blight, and left unchecked, the blight is only going to spread.

Bake

Stop trying to pretend that he didn't bring this upon himself. Shit, even HE admits that he brought this on himself.

Maybe she approved of this. Maybe she encourages this.

The point is, until someone makes a formal complaint, this is STILL a personal matter.

Such experiences being Bill Clinton, Eliot Spitzer, Ohio AG Marc Dann, etc. Sorry, I can't help it.

But it seems Weiner has bitten the big granite cookie, Washington-style.

One day, this kind of stuff won't matter. Until then, he's toast, it seems.

I agree 100%. And I think he's a fucking idiot.

and the MSM shouldn't even pass this on - this is just serial Peeping Thomism.

Or that he should step down or lose his seat. But it's the ONLY thing we're talking about. And we wouldn't be if he hadn't been such a fucking fool. His credibility is shot. He clearly has ZERO sense of judgement if he thought his actions would not get out.

scandal or controversy. Anything to keep people from talking about the really bad stuff that's been done with true malice by real sociopaths.

Where have I been all day? Uh. Work? We don't peep at anyone's junk there!