Jaki Jean & Oscar Mayer, aka Anthony, Weiner

So, about Oscar Meyer, aka Anthony, Weiner.

I have read the incessant, omnipresent, continuous coverage of this man, his fall from grace, his bid for forgiveness, his attempt at redemption, his second (less humble) bid for forgiveness, his insistence on redemption.

It is insistence that his propensity for sexting & sharing himself with women not his wife has nothing to do with his bid to be the mayor of the country’s largest & most prominent city: that insistence irritates me

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Really, Weiner?

During Anthony Weiner’s tenure in Congress, he missed 5.5%. of rollcall votes.  Significantly more than the median of 2.6% of the lifetime records of representatives serving at the same time (govtrak.us). 

During Anthony Weiner’s tenure in Congress, he sponsored a number of bills.  All but one was sent to committee.  Death, in the life of a bill.

The lone bill on which he was the lead sponsor, signed into law, a 2010 measure aimed at reducing cigarette sales-tax evasion, hardly gives me confidence either he or his image would be good for the city New York. 

Or any other city or the nation.

It seems to me that Anthony Weiner did not resign from a successful or productive Congressional career.  While I am sure that identifying & prosecuting cigarette sales tax evasion must be profitable, it was hardly the stuff of which dreams & political careers are made.

His predilection for sexting & texting & sharing (his vision of) seductive photos of himself clearly took up his concentration, not to mention his time.  And, apparently, continued to take up his concentration & time after he resigned from Congress.

If Anthony Weiner does not understand why his behavior, combined with his less than stellar performance in Congress, might give New York voters concern about his ability to lead the most populated city in the country, he is delusional.

As is his much admired wife.  Her protests that his behavior is a matter confined to their marriage rings disingenuous.  Clearly her husband does not respect that marriage, or his wife.

How can voters expect him to respect & remain faithful to a much more demanding partner – the city of New York?

As more & more revelations about Anthony Weiner are touted by the tabloids & the mainstream press, as Mr. Weiner continues to appear in public & attempt to talk about issues while defending his own lack of decorum, the situation is beyond embarrassing.

For the voters of New York, for the country, for this man’s wife.

And I am reminded of a tune that all of us of a certain age know my heart, a tune I have paraphrased for this particular occasion:

His Baloney has a first name,
A-N-T-H-O-N-Y
His Baloney has a second name,
W-E-I-N-E-R
Oh it is time for him to go away
And if you ask me why I say,
Cause' Anthony Weiner has a way with B-A-L-O-N-E-Y.

As someone who loves the city of New York, I do hope that Anthony Weiner does go away.

Really, Weiner.

R-E-A-L-L-Y.