Dear Congressman Weiner, people in glass houses should not take pictures of their junk and then tweet them...

As the lapdogs in the corporate media drool all over themselves in their prurient and salacious 24/7, wall-to-wall (perhaps 'ball-to-ball' would be more accurate) coverage of a NY congressman's staggeringly poor method of trying to pick up a bit of fluff on the side (by sending them twitter pics of his John Thomas), I just sit here and shake my head in weary disbelief.

I mean, don't these idiots ever learn? Has everyone forgotten the names 'Bill Clinton' and 'Monica Lewinsky'?

Look, Anthony Weiner is (was) one of the 'good guys'. Apart from his knee-jerk defense of Israel and it's anti-arab policies, there were very few things I disagreed with him on. He didn't take any of the right-wing shit that was thrown his way, he wouldn't tolerate the hypocrisy of the rethuglican noise machine, and he was one of the few Democratic members of Congress that would actually go onto the floor of the House and call out the bought-and-paid-for corporate prostitutes that are the modern republican party. His take-no-prisoners attitude pissed off alot of republicans. That made him a target. And he knew it. Did it stop him from acting like a randy teenager? Hell no.

Elliot Spitzer was another Democratic pitbull. When he was New York's Attorney General he want after corporations and banks that got too big for their britches. That made him a target. And he knew it. Did it stop him from acting like a randy teenager? Hell no. After he was elected Governor of the State of New York it came to light that he liked to bang a very expensive (and admittedly highly tasty) escort on the side. In this case "escort" meant high-priced prozzie, i.e. she has all of her own teeth, an expansive collection of expensive lingerie, and has had the word 'no' surgically eliminated from her lexicon. End result? Spitzer resigned in disgrace and she did a spread in a skin-mag, which meant that just for once she took her clothes off and he got fucked..

Anyway, those are just two of the most recent high-profile Dems that have been hoisted on their own petard. Yes, there are a shitload more that are republicans, John Ensign of Nevada and David Vitter of Louisiana come to mind as two of the most recent misogynistic "family values" politicians caught with their members in someone other than their spouses, but then again I always expect a republican to lie. The fact that these two particular republicans were caught bumping uglies with members of the opposite sex rather than yet another 'closeted gay republican scandal' came as great relief to the religious right who sponsor their party, but I digress.

Here's the bottom line, I don't care if you cheat on your wife or partner, that's between you and them, but do me a fucking favour, if you are in the public sector, and you want to represent me, for fuck's sake keep it in your pants, yes? I mean really, what are you, an Inbetweener? Oh, and if you absolutely must screw around with someone other than your betrothed, you might want to consider doing the decent thing like serial-adulterer Newt Gingrich did, at least he wound up marrying the women he was cheating with...

Both of them...