No Shame

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Whatever happened to “shame”?

June 10th, 2011 | Author: Bruce McQuain

I suppose, as with most people, you’ve been at least peripherally following what has become known as “Wienergate”. I’ve avoided it like the plague here – I just don’t particularly care to push those sorts of stories.

But as it has evolved – risqué picture, claim of a criminal act, modified to claim of a prank and then finally admitted that all was a lie – I’ve figured at some point Anthony Wiener would feel shame and resign. Especially when he finally admitted to sending the picture and it was revealed he had a pattern of doing so with young women.

Had that been a Republican we all know that feeding frenzy the fairly silent women’s rights movement would be involved in. We also know we’d see the Democratic women in Congress up in arms ala Bob Packwood, right?

Weiner? And yes, I’ve watched and enjoyed the many times juvenile plays on his name, but I can’t imagine him staying in office. Or can I?

What finally compelled me to write about this shameful fiasco was this:

In the poll, 56% of registered voters in Weiner’s NY-9 district think he should remain in office, while only a third (33%) think he should resign. That result comes as further salacious details about the Twitter scandal have come to light.

Really? So conduct in office that would be condemned in the corporate world, an rightly so, is okay in the political world? Because that’s what Weiner’s constituents are saying.

It’s easy to say “that’s none of my business” and ignore his actions while he was supposed to be representing you. But ignoring this means or saying he should stay, if he’s your Congressman, is saying you have absolutely no standards of moral conduct you expect from elected officials or those standards are so low that almost anything is acceptable.

In this case, if I lived in NY-9, I’d be ashamed to have Weiner as my rep. And I’d be even more ashamed of the 56% who claim he should stay on regardless of his shameful conduct.

Whatever happened to shame in this country?

~McQ

[Doug Loss]

Shame requires moral judgment, which requires both accurate self-knowledge and acceptance of a moral code. These people (and I use that term in its broadest sense; I don't really consider them fully adult people at all) have neither.

[twinder]

He should be gone. He committed a crime. If I went to the police and claimed that someone hacked my account and did this and then it was found that I was lying, I'd bet that I would be charged with filing a false report.

The man has no integrity. Our elected leaders should be held to the highest standard.

[Ritty77]

If he stays, then the next time a GOPer has a "tickle fight" or a "wide stance" or is "hiking the Appalachian trail," they can stay, too.

But you're right, Todd. They all should go. If you can't control your primal urges, then you have no business writing laws and setting policy for those who do.

Is there any place on this Earth where logic and reason and common sense are the rule rather than the exception? I want to go there.

[Ritty77]

More Weiner pics: photos.tmz.com/galleries/anthony_weiner_at_the_congressional_gym#tab=most_recent

Dude's a perv.

[twinder]

I don't have a problem with him sending the pictures. I also don't know if the pictures were sent to an unwilling recipient or not.

What I do have a problem with is the fact that an elected representative of our government lied on national television and fabricated the story that he did about someone else doing this to him. Trying to plead his innocence in it all when it was a lie. For that, he needs to go.

You guys have heard me say it for years, our elected leaders should be held to the highest standard. When they don't meet that standard, they should be gone.