Ethics Case for Weiner? Maybe One of Psychiatry

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The matter of Anthony D. Weiner, unclothed congressman, is being lodged by Democratic Party elders with the House ethics committee, a holding room where it will remain until either it, or he, goes away.

Those elders must be hoping to heaven that Mr. Weiner departs before the machinery of investigation is gassed up and rumbles toward the Internet Protocol addresses where he composed his epistles.

By some schools of thought, if he wrote these personal messages on government equipment, this could be seen as unethical behavior.

Still, ethics hardly seems the right discipline for this affair.

Psychiatry might help.

Any reckoning of the craziness of his behavior must take account of his role among Congressional Democrats.

Mr. Weiner was his party’s id.

Full: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/nyregion/punishment-or-therapy-for-a-fool-in-queens.html