Weiner Will Resign

Stick a fork in DEMOCRAT Anthony Weiner.

Representative Anthony D. Weiner has told House leaders that he plans to resign his seat after coming under growing pressure from his Democratic colleagues to leave the House, said a top Democratic official and two people told of Mr. Weiner’s plans.

...The top Democratic official said Mr. Weiner called Representative Nancy Pelosi of California and Representative Steve Israel of New York last night while they were at the White House picnic to inform them he had decided to resign on Thursday.

He's done.

Rep. Anthony Weiner intends to resign his seat in Congress after a scandal spawned by lewd and even X-rated photos the New York lawmaker took of himself and sent online to numerous women, relieved Democratic officials said Thursday.

"It's my understanding that later in the day he will have a news conference," House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said without elaboration. Weiner's office said he would talk to reporters at 2 p.m. EDT in Brooklyn.

Weiner, 46, has been at a treatment facility at an undisclosed location since last weekend. He has not been seen in public since telling reporters on Saturday morning he intended to return to work.

One official said Weiner telephoned Pelosi and Rep. Steve Israel of New York, the head of the party campaign committee, on Wednesday evening to tell them of his plans to quit.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity, citing the private nature of the conversations.

Weiner's decision to give up his House seat marks the end of a nearly three-week sex scandal without the sex — an event that resulted from the brash New Yorker's use of social media such as Twitter and Facebook.

"Sex scandal without the sex"?

Yeah, that seems to be the victim card some Democrats and assorted Leftists are playing to defend DEMOCRAT Weiner.

Does virtual sex mean it's a virtual scandal?

When a U.S. congressman, a married man, sends multiple lewd photos of himself to multiple women, engages in multiple sexual conversations with multiple women, and then denies and lies multiple times for a week about his actions, stating that he was hacked and the victim of a crime, it's a sex scandal with sex, replete with denials.

Sex, lies, and cyberspace.

What's so incredible to me is that Weiner and the Democrats could have avoided so much of the fallout from this scandal by just admitting that the first crotch shot made public, the one in the gray underwear, was of him.

Instead of insisting he was the victim of a hacker, he could have told the truth.

Instead of claiming he was unable to say with certitude that the photo was of him, he could have simply gave a truthful identification.

He chose to engage in a cover-up. That was a mistake.

When it was clear that the scandal wasn't going away, he should have quickly resigned.

Instead, DEMOCRAT Weiner said he was going to stick it out.

This seemed like death by a thousand crotch shots.

It could have been less painful if DEMOCRAT Weiner had owned up to his flawed character.

He did it the hard way.