He Who Is Without Sin

I call b.s. on Ross's opin that Anthony Weiner needs to resign.

A confession is just words, so much sound and fury, without an act of contrition, and the act of contrition appropriate to Weiner’s offenses is the resignation of his office.

I'm trying really hard to imagine what offenses Ross is talking about. Certainly, if Representative Weiner has broken the law then he should resign. But if extra-marital shenanigans is the extent of Weiner's tomfoolery...well, if every politician who was guilty of the same or worse resigned...government would effectively shut down. Were his offenses his repeated lies to the press? If every politician who has lied to the press subsequently resigned...see above.
I'm not defending Rep. Weiner. Sending random twitter followers pictures of your weirdly hairless chest and pictures of your junk is really dumb. And the idiot is probably dealing with the consequences at home. He's probably facing a divorce, not to mention being immortalized for this on the internet. His career may have suddenly found a glass ceiling.
But it seems presumptuous and reactive to suggest the appropriate act of contrition is resignation. He's done nothing that politicians don't do every day already and America stands by.

Wheras Ross' proclamation for Vitter's resignation was predicated on the idea that Vitter had almost certainly committed an illegal act, in this case Ross has no illegal act to use as leverage. Just his gut feeling that a sleazy guy from New York should resign for turning out to be a sleazy guy from New York.


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