Notice how Jimmy Hoffa didn't apologize

[bluestateguy]

And the matter went away. Nobody is talking about it anymore.

The alternative is that he could have been like Richard Durbin crying on the Senate floor.

[RegieRocker]

1. Worked for him

[RegieRocker]

15. Well now

This is what they understand and Jimmy knows it.

[FarLeftFist]

2. Wish Weiner did that.

[TheWraith]

3. And I wish Weiner hadn't lied his ass off for a week.

The two are hardly comparable, are they?

[FarLeftFist]

4. SHOCKING, a politician who lied.

Weiner was 99.9% incredible at his job and his entire legacy will come down to 00.1%.

[TheWraith]

5. How was he incredible? He had a terrible track record for legislation.

Okay, he was loud. He could have been loud as a pundit. What made him a good legislator?

[FarLeftFist]

14. How so? Since 1999 he's only missed 5% of the votes of over 8000 casted.

[TheWraith]

18. So he showed up to work. Big deal. Show me what he accomplished.

Policy shaped, bills passed and signed into law.

Again: Weiner was loud, but he wasn't a very useful Congressman. Beatifying him is absurd. I don't see a tenth of the angst here about Feingold not being in office anymore, despite the fact that Feingold was worth a thousand of Anthony Weiner.

[sabrina 1]

20. BS, he worked for his district. Where did this idea that

a Congressman must constantly be writing bills to be effectgive, come from? As if that is why we elect them? We have far too many laws as it is. He was a very effective Congressman who did incredible work for his district, who sponsored good bills other Democrats needed help with, who worked on a personal level always with the people who elected him. Which is why they kept electing him.

I am sick of this DC thinking which demonstrates a total lack of understanding of what a good Congressmember is and who decides that. His constituents reelected him over and over again because he WORKED FOR THEM. He worked for Gays and poor people, and helped families in need and was a hands on Congressman who knew his constituents by name.

I am getting so turned off party politics to the point it sickens me at times. It seems to have absolutely no understanding of real people and what THEY want, which is obvious by what goes on in that disastrous town.

How many bills did Marcy Kaptur write? Hint, Kucinich has gotten more through Congress than Marcy. Is she ineffective too?

Most members of Congress are lucky if in 20 years they get two or three bills to the floor. This crazy idea popped up somewhere a few years ago out of the mind of some idiot in a think tank somewhere to use as a weapon when they wanted to go after someone. The problem was, when people started looking at records, it back-fired.

[nomb]

13. “It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it”

a quote known for generations....

[sabrina 1]

8. I wish we weren't lied to every day about things that actually matter

I don't give a shit if someone lies about their personal sex lives, in fact they have every to when Freepers are peeking in their windows and stalking them every day for months, they have a right to do way more than lie. Too bad our Party is too afraid of them to stand up for one of their own and expose their criminal behavior wrt to stalking a US Congressman.

But since like you, the Dem Party's priorities are insignificant little sex lies on which they place all their focus and act all outraged over, while they 'look forward' on the big ones.

To each their own, I guess. But what a disaster those priorities are for this country.

[TheWraith]

19. Right, the "he was being stalked and intruded on!" defense.

No--he posted a picture of his crotch on the internet for a hundred million people to see, not to mention sending unwanted lewd photos to college girls half his age. He didn't have his privacy violated, he tossed it away along with his senses of decency and restraint. When you post something on the internet, it getting seen is not "being stalked," and all the apologia in the world doesn't change that.

[unblock]

21. oh ffs. a man named "weiner" let images of his "weiner" become public.

there is simply NO WAY a politician can be taken seriously after that in america.

there are NO words, strategies, or counter-measures available to recover from that short of buying up the media and killing the story, and the republicans already own THAT tactic.

[theoldman]

6. Maybe Hoffa told the truth.

Telling the truth does not make the news when you have all the other people lying their ass off.

[RegieRocker]

7. That is good

[EC]

9. You mean James?

The right likes to conflat the Jimmy with James to make people think "union thug".

[nobodyspecial]

10. Notice how he's not a politician

and only answers to a select group who put him in the position to say exactly what he said?

[chill_wind]

11. He kicked butt and stood his ground. Then he stopped talking and stared them down.

They blinked. Very effective.

[Riftaxe]

12. Wouldn't you have to find him first?

or are your referring to Junior?

[Brigid]

16. Why did Jimmy Hoffa not apologize? It's simple:

He said nothing to apologize for.

[QC]

17. k&r

[lonestarnot]

22. Funny how that works!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

23. Nor should he have.

He's shown just how Fuck's Noise should be treated.