Weiner’s Weener’s Saga

I know what you're thinking. ' Haven't we talked this to death enough already? Why can't he post about something else?' Well, the answers are, definitely, and, because I have something to say. This guy is no doubt an idiot when it comes to his preoccupation with his own anatomy, with pretty women, and women who are way too young for him. He made mistakes, yes, for sure, no doubt. But really, give me a break. I think it says something about our national culture when we can fein a huge outcry at a politician's personal indecencies, and we can have him out of office, form bipartisan support for his quick removal, and tar and feather him so that he never will see the light of day again. We can do all this, but we can't pass a budget, find a way to end another military escapade in Libya when our time is constitutionally up, and when we still can't stomach the thought of imposing restrictions on wall street boneheads whose greed got us in an economic ditch. I hate to burst everybody's bubble, but the whole Weiner thing, it's a big charade. Republicans want to make a huge deal out of his tighty whiteys, and democrats are too scared of seeming light on family values to say, "Who really cares?" Charlie Randall stops paying taxes, another guy gets caught with $90,000 of somebody else's money in his freezer, and the politicians proudly wipe their hands after 3 weeks of outcry and a speedy removal from office for a wiry guy with hormone issues. Really? All the wasted money every day, the no-bid contracts going unquestioned, foreign aid into deep pockets, people dying in unjustified battles to keep the military machine humming, and this is our preoccupation? None of the politicians care about this. Behind closed doors, they probably joke about their idiot friend who sent stupid pictures, but it's all a game. When we're spending time on this trash, having press conferences to talk about his sex addiction rehab, when the president is talking about the Weiner weener issue in interviews instead of the real stuff, our infrastructure and tax dollars sit idly by, waiting for some attention. From where I'm sitting, our government seems locked into a chess game, moving pieces to assert power over the board, but without sight of the issues that led us to play the game in the first place. I am confident that the vast majority of politicians in our government get into it because they feel that they can be part of the change, effecting real progress, but when they get into the game, and start playing the pieces, they are like farts in a whirlwind of beaurocracy.

I digress. I guess my point is, we elected Weiner to do a job. It wasn't to be a good husband, or father. It was to be a politician and make good policy change. If a construction worker lied on his taxes, he should be punished for sure, but I don't know if it would be logical to fire him from his job. There's no relation. I would like to think that we hire politicians for the work they can do for their constituency, and not for their propriety in social networking circles. We need to get back to the issues that actually matter, and this doesn't.