"Often powerful men crave more than love and admiration from The Good Wife. Sometimes they want risk, even danger. Sometimes they’re turned on by a power differential. They adore a fan reaction like the one from Lisa Weiss, the Vegas blackjack dealer, who flirted with Weiner on Facebook: 'you are sooo awesome when you yell at those fox news' pundits, and 'I bet you have so many chicks after you! you are our liberal stud.'"
Unlike Ms. Dowd, however, I am not interested in Weiner's motivation. Weiner should go for psychological counseling and attempt to save his marriage, if there is anything left of it. More important, he should resign from the House immediately, inasmuch as the U.S. Congress, seeking to avert an economic meltdown, need not be distracted by Weiner's antics.
Will Weiner voluntarily resign? No way. Weiner is consumed with self-interest, and is yet another poster boy for narcissism, the plague of the 21st century (see: http://www.voicelessness.com/narcissism.html). Surely Weiner must be asking himself, if Barney Frank managed to remain in Congress, why should he have to go? Good question.
Meanwhile House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is demanding a House ethics committee probe into whether official resources were mishandled by Weiner. This is the same Pelosi who labeled Syria's Bashar al-Assad a "model Arab leader." In my opinion, Weiner's miscreant conduct pales in comparison with Pelosi's indiscretion, but I don't imagine we'll be hearing a mea culpa from Nancy anytime soon.
Just another case of the pot calling the kettle black.
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