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Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi has not yet received any formal request yet from Rep. Anthony Weiner concerning a leave of absence.
Various aides have sorted out details on how this works and say that Pelosi would be required to sign the request. The Speaker's Office or Republican Leader would not be involved.
Weiner sources say they expect the request by day's end and referred to it as a "form" rather than a letter. It would be a perfunctory step rather than an explanation of Weiner's intentions.
Sources close to Weiner will not provide information about his location but did rule out Washington, D.C.
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Weiner is just out getting his "deny and lie, attack, admit a little, and then deny and lie some more" training from Clinton.
Something that all of you on the left celebrate so much because after Clinton "he got away with it" so he must have been a "great" President. Maybe Wiener can become a "great" Congressman, once he gets all the "how to's" corrected.
Cheryl: Clinton was about the worst POTUS in history. I would sooner take 10 more years of Bush than six more months of Clinton.
Clinton deregulated our economy into oblivion. Gramm-Leach-Bliley was the last straw on the camel's back that he signed into law. More Union members lost their jobs due to Clinton than any other president. Reagan had wet dreams about stuff like that.
Clinton was by far the greatest Republican president of our time. Economically, Clinton bought into the supply-side economics argument. He signed NAFTA, Most Favored Nation's status for China, GATT and got us into the WTO.
America has been bleeding jobs since. Who would know better than my state? It has taken us this long to start coming back.
Perhaps Weiner is out trying to hide or destroy additional evidence of his extracurricular activities, or maybe he is out and about trying to silence his female "friends" with hush money.
He's gone about it the wrong way by putting it out on Twitter to a bunch of cash-starved, giggly co-eds.
I find it fascinating that MSNBC spends quite a bit of time arguing that Fox News is run by the GOP and uses it to manipulate the country (don't get me wrong, it is and it does) but they - MSNBC that is, are the ones who, more than any other news agency, have spent more air-time than any other replaying and rehashing the Wiener story...ENOUGH ALREADY!! Let his family and his constituents be the ones to decide his fate. Move on to something worthy of everyone's time and energy. As always Fox has manipulated everyone into reporting what it "feels" the news is and you all fell for it AGAIN.