Exhibit A...Weiner
The Founding Fathers understood that men are imperfect creatures, a key reason they deliberately limited the reach of the federal government.
In support of the Founders' concern about the tyrannical impulse, I give you Exhibit A...Weiner:
November 5, 2009--[Weiner writing in Huffington Post] We pay too much for health care, and, as a result, millions of Americans either can't choose the quality coverage they want, or can't afford health care at all. Millions more simply pay higher premiums each year, slowly eroding their financial stability.
The only way we can truly contain these skyrocketing costs is by providing real competition to an industry starved of it. A public option, with less overhead and free of the profit motive that plagues insurance companies, could do this.
March 23, 2011--Rep. Anthony Weiner said Wednesday he was looking into how a health law waiver might work for New York City.
Weiner, who is likely to run for mayor of New York, said that because of the city’s special health care infrastructure, his office was looking into alternatives that might make more sense. Weiner is one of the health care law’s biggest supporters; during the debate leading up to reform, he was one of the last holdouts in Congress for the public option.
June 1, 2011--ABC News' Devin Dwyer (@devindwyer) reports: Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York says he "cannot say with certitude" whether or not the photo of a man in gray boxer briefs posted to his Twitter account Friday night is him.
First, Anthony Weiner, to the left of the president throughout the healthcare debate, decides he needs a waiver from socialist nirvana when it might help him become mayor of New York. Then this genius, dedicated to providing profit-free healthcare to Americans too stupid to manage their own needs, finds he "cannot say with certitude" who owns the crotch-pic that somehow tweeted itself to a college student from his Twitter account.
Why, oh why are we willing to cede so much authority over our lives to goofballs like A. Weiner?
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May '10
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Weiner is a putz. Can I say that here?
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PP, I just looked the term up in Webster's and--guess what?--Weiner's picture is there. So I think we're safe.
Aug '10
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Very had not to read the title of this post as "Exhibit A... Wiener", under the circumstances.
Anyhoo...
I do wonder how compelled he thinks an institution without the profit motive would feel to constrain its own costs (rather than simply shifting the costs around from one person to another). If an institution without profit motive doesn't feel compelled to be efficient with its own costs, why should we suppose it will offer "real competition"?
And if an industry is starved of real competition, why is the remedy to offer fake competition?
Feb '11
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"Goof balls" is fine.
Dec '10
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Hell, I'd tweet a pic of my johnson if that's what it took to shut that guy's noise hole.
When Alan Grayson was still there, it was a dead heat between the two of them for the title of Biggest Jackass in the House™, but since Grayson was forcibly retired last year, ol' Frankfurter now holds the title unopposed.
I hope he ends up getting the full Spitzer before this is all over with. He deserves it.
Oct '10
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If this is a hacking incident, the FBI should investigate--and within 5 minutes we'll know if it's true or not.
Mar '11
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I'm surprised at you people. Clearly, Rep. Weiner is a genius, and we are lucky to have such a man making all of our important life decisions for us. He is able to determine that the entire country needs Obamacare, but that the people of NYC may best be served by being exempt from it. It is little wonder that the mind of such a man might occasionally lose track of some of the more mundane details of existence, such as how many pictures of his crotch there might be, or how many of those pictures might be digitized, or whether a individual picture purported to be of his crotch have been altered in some unspecified way.
Ok. That concludes my daily effort to think like a liberal. This circle cannot be squared.
Someone at Twitter undoubtedly checked the IP address of the outgoing tweet within five minutes of hearing the term "hacked." Shouldn't Rep. Weiner recuse himself from every vote that might involve them?
Aug '10
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Putz doesn't go nearly far enough, but it will do for now.
How about Obama? He said the same thing, and has - so far - granted almost 1,400 waivers for ObamaScare.
Three bases for impeachment of Obama and his minions: 1) Reckless Endangerment; 2)Implied Malice; 3) Depraved Indifference.
Still, the American people sleep. Almost 50% (and 56% of women) say "Good job, Barack!" He'll be re-elected at this rate.
Edited on Jun 3, 2011 at 3:59amRe: Exhibit A...Weiner
River: [edited] doesn't go nearly far enough, but it will do for now.
How about Obama? He said the same thing, and has - so far - granted almost 1,400 waivers for ObamaScare.
Three bases for impeachment of Obama and his minions: 1) Reckless Endangerment; 2)Implied Malice; 3) Depraved Indifference.
Still, the American people sleep. Almost 50% (and 56% of women) say "Good job, Barack!" He'll be re-elected at this rate. · Jun 3 at 3:58am
Edited on Jun 03 at 03:59 am
[Editor's note: I had to delete it, River, too many of us know what that means in English. However, this editor agrees.]
May '10
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Not a P-z, but certainly a Schmuck (in the German sense of the word, not the Yiddish version of course) in the jewel-box of Congress....
Meanwhile in the real world, where wiener(dogs) are haraam...
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/bahrain-police-open-fire-on-protesters/story-e6frf7jx-1226068976316
May '10
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I had the "pleasure" of being on a date in Queens when, last summer, a Weiner campaigner tried to hand-out campaign literature to me. Keeping from going into blog/commenter mode took a lot of self-control (you just don't do that around hot liberal women...)
Edited on Jun 3, 2011 at 8:53am