Limerick Ode To Anthony Weiner
Needless to say, I’m disappointed in Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY).
Limerick Ode To Anthony Weiner
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Seems a lib’ral I favor, Rep. Weiner
Has committed a dumb misdemeanor.
Then he lied in the hope
He could fool us — the dope.
Progressives, our team just got leaner.
Tags: Anthony Weiner
A Democrat never resigns,
No matter how his hand catches behinds,
With a Republican its whether
to use both tar or just feather
As liberals scream for blood for such crimes.
David, Bill Maher sez you’re fulla sh*t.
I liked Anthony Weiner. Good politician, dumb shit!
Hansi, that about sums it up. (:
I pity poor Anthony Weiner:
It’s not that there’s no one obscener
In Congress. Sen. Vitter?
Career’s in the sh***er?
No way! If they’d keep their tweets cleaner…
LOL! Steve, I like it. By the way, Weiner sure isn’t gonna be helped by this Transcript of a series of Facebook chats between Weiner and Las Vegas Blackjack Dealer Lisa Weiss.
We live in an era more puritanical than the Puritans, and Democrats seem all too willing to play by Republicans’ rules. I mean, really… WTF is Nancy Pelosi doing, calling for an ethics investigation of Weiner? We might as well just arrange the Democratic caucus in a circle and pass out pistols…
Weiner no doubt understands this, and for whatever reason, was willing to take his chances by messing around anyway. Either, as people all say, he was not very smart… or maybe, as I tend to believe, he simply wasn’t interested in playing by Republican rules. Note that those same Republican rules have allowed David Vitter to stay in the Senate several years after his call-girl diaper transgressions. IOKIYAR. Maybe Weiner just got tired of abiding by that acronym.
Steve, I have to part company with you on this: I don’t think Weiner was being rebellious. I think he was being a stupid, careless, horny-dog guy who was too arrogant to worry about the potential consequences to the very causes he fought so hard for. And I say this as someone who thought extremely highly of him.
Fair enough, Mad, and in today’s American political world, fractured as it is, you are undoubtedly right from a practical standpoint. But as long as Democrats continue to throw Democrats under the bus while Republicans also throw Democrats under the bus, we are giving Republicans free access to a powerful weapon, one that has little if anything to do with good government.
Steve, that’s true. It seems to be a quandary with no solution short of stooping to the Republicans’ level, which I hate like hell to embrace.
By the way, ironically I’m much angrier at Weiner than I’d be at most Dems. Why? Because he was much more valuable to progressive causes than most Dems. So rendering himself ineffective was much more damaging than it would be if the average-Joe Dem screwed up in this fashion.
Nobody should really be awed
To learn that A. Weiner is flawed
But he crossed the line
And now should resign
So we can all stand and applaud.
I enjoyed your verse Observer.
A. Weiner exposed a short coming
By carelessly showing his plumbing
And some say his staff
Engendered a laugh
As he takes a well-deserved drumming.
Another fun one, Observer.
The congressman never had seen her
But he got the idea he would tweeter
So he stripped off his clothes
Then he snapped a quick pose
And she got a good look at A. Weiner
Thanks for your verse jesius!
The Gotham congressman favored a tweet
To showcase the state of his meat
But the weiners I’ve seen
both Kosher and unclean
Are seldom a sumptuous treat
Amusing how when people in politics misinform to get into wars go unnoticed while Weiner among others with private issues are forced to resign. In cases like this the only real victim was his wife while 1000s of troops have died abroad in wars we should not be in.
Thanks for your limerick Stuart and your insightful comment Rosalie.