House Democratic leadership privately push Weiner

Weiner’s dream of becoming mayor of New York is finished. As a New Yorker, I’m very pleased about that because he’s always been a socialist prick from the beginning.

Weiner has no friends in congress. Even Dems don’t wanna be seen with him in public anymore.

Like I wrote yesterday, I don’t see how he isn’t at least given a reprimand by the House. Both #2s in the House, Cantor and Hoyer have sent warnings to Weiner to come clean. That’s heavy duty pressure that’s not going to just fade away.

However, Weiner is an arrogant brat, always has been. And he just might think he can get away with sexting a young college coed half his age.

After all, the rules are different for Democrats.

CNN

Members of the House Democratic leadership have talked repeatedly to Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-New York, to try to get him to end what several Democrats call an unwelcome political distraction, a member of the party's leadership tells CNN.

"It's frustrating because we'll talk to him, and say clean it up, and then he goes out and does stuff," said the member of the House Democratic leadership, who declined to speak for the record about private discussions with Weiner.


"He's got to put the period at the end of the sentence," said the Democratic source, "it's painful."

On Thursday, Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer, the number two Democrat in the House, was less blunt, but told CNN he had spoken to Weiner.

"I told him that he needs to handle this and he needed to give the facts accurately to the public," Hoyer said.

Weiner initially released two written statements saying he was the victim of a hacker and a prank, when a photograph of a man in bulging underwear was sent on his Twitter account.

He then refused to answer questions in a testy press conference about whether the photo was him, and why he hadn't asked law enforcement to investigate. The following day, in a series of interviews, he said he couldn't say with "certitude" if the photograph was of him.

"We'd like him to speak clearly to clear it up or quit talking about it if it's not going to solve anything," said the House Democratic leadership member who said he and others spoke to Weiner.


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