It's official -- or it will be at midnight on Tuesday: Soon-to-be-former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) has sent his resignation letter to New York's governor and secretary of state. A copy of the letter also was delivered today to House Speaker John Boehner and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
In the letter, Weiner states:
I hearby resign as the Member of the House of Representatives for New York's Ninth Congressional District effective at midnight, Tuesday, June 21, 2011. It has been an honor to serve the people of Queens and Brooklyn.
Since House legislative business has finished for the day, it cannot be entered into the record until -- at the very earliest -- tomorrow. When that happens, the clerk will announce Weiner's resignation, as well as the new number of members of the House of Representatives.
Currently, there are 433 Members in the House.


Was it too much to ask to go a week without hearing about Weiner?
He was gone as of last Thursday!
How about a thread on all the JOBS legislation the GNOP has intoduced since wasn't that a major campaign promise?
Wait - guess it would be difficult to do a story on that since there have been ZERO!
Best to stick to 'old news' like Weiner....
Exactly, Feisty, zero is what we got from republi/clowns. All that "CARNIVAL BARKING" has to go. How cares about Weiner anymore? Wait republi/clowns want their seals to start barking. Great distraction.
Wouldn't it be great to read Clarence Thomas's resignation letter? Seems to me, his political activism, in conjunction with taking thousands of dollars in gifts from a wealthy friend whose legal issues come before the court, is a better reason for resigning than being a vain little internet addict.
Must be a slow news day. Tomorrow we should get the final chapter of the clerk reading the resignation and changing the numbers.
Amy, that would be a reason to celebrate.
Yes, AMY, If Abe Fortas had to resign his seat, so too should Clarence Thomas and that black robe he masqueraders in as a strait jacket.
Justices Have Been Forced to Resign for Doing What Clarence Thomas Has Done
http://www.truthout.org/justices-have-been-forced-resign-doing-what-clarence-thomas-has-done/1308576677
Feisty - Is a week without Weiner like 12 plus years with Bill Clinton and his Presidential and political escapades and dalliances all of which were so well covered in the media and again just recently because of Weiner (ad nausea) and so frequently that it makes you physically ill just to see it again and again and again?........We feel your pain!
Aw, shuck I was just positive that this would be the Gun Walker article.
Huh, maybe tomorrow?
Sure. I suppose Melson will have to be officially thrown under Obama's bus for it to be newsworthy here.
Good times.
But yes libbies do keep barking up the Clarence Thomas tree. I think you got it in for him cause he's black.
Anyone heard anything about Ginsburg's health?
Spanky....I think we should just be grateful they stopped their "Carnival Barking" about Vitter, a.k.a ...or otherwise known as the DEMOCRATIC exercise in futility! Talk about beating a dead horse! Interesting though, all that barking about Vitter as a distraction was going nowhere and they ended up just letting Weiner just slip through their fingers and into oblivion!
Funny thing is- they just can't seem to put the Weiner away.
Hey Feisty....It's been THREE YEARS since Obama promised all those jobs, and all those shovel ready jobs just waiting to get filled. The GOP has held the majority for a whole 5 months! NOW you get impatient? Where you been girl? Don't tell me...lost in all the smoke and mirrors. Yeah, that's the ticket...
But... but... but... I could of sworn the Teapublicans ran on 'if you elect us our #1 priority will be job creation'!
Maybe I was wrong... lmao!
Seems like they've focused on EVERYTHING but JOB creation.... who would of guessed?
As for your comment about 'shovel ready' - ONLY 9% of the stimulus was allocated for infrastructure - try doing a little research sometime before you start throwing around something you heard on Faux Noise! ;o)
Nice try Feisty but the simple fact is Obama was all about touting the shovel ready jobs in '09. We didn't learn about the actual allocation - that most of the money wen to temporarily employee teachers and government workers until much later, and only after Fox jumped on the story.
So now the money is gone. Unemployment is at 9.1% and climbing. Yet here you are Feisty highligting how sadly wrong you are. But it is great for you to admit and even highlight Obama's false claims. Thanks.
[Now remember all - she can't see me, I'm invisible to her. So don't say anything. K?]
FATTY REDHEAD:Just like your boy obama, who wants to pass HIS health care package regardless of how many Americans it kills? Get your nose out of lib-bc,lib-bs, and lib-nn and look at what is happening to this country instead of spewing your paid libby blog propoganda.
Biteme-3470275
FATTY REDHEAD:Just like your boy obama, who wants to pass HIS health care package regardless of how many Americans it kills? Get your nose out of lib-bc,lib-bs, and lib-nn and look at what is happening to this country instead of spewing your paid libby blog propoganda.
Nitwit
The PRESIDENT is NOT your boy or anyone"s. RESPECT!!! He is the PRESIDENT and leader of the most powerful country in the world.
I suggest if you have a job you thank your PRESIDENT. If McCain and PALIN were in office you wouldn't.
Ummm...not on FOX, I heard it from Obama's mouth while he laughed about it. HOW did YOU miss that? Oh, I KNOW, you were reading Palin's e-mails. It's nice in Alaska this time of year, isn't it?
Also, hasn't it been Obama's #1 (he's said again and again and again) priority to create jobs? Well, AFTER his HCR, and AFTER his back slapping tours, AFTER going to Brazil to bolster his buddy Soros, and promise Brazil our patronage of their oil wells, that he helped pay for, (make that WE helped pay for) and AFTER his vacations, and AFTER his photo ops in the Gulf, and wherever he could be seen looking "Presidential and concerned", and AFTER his rock n roll parties and dinners and shows at the W.H, and AFTER his golf games., and AFTER putting back some beers in his ancesters native Ireland, and tea with the Queen, again. His priority #1 HAS ALWAYS BEEN campaigning, pandering to various groups, Hispanic, "evolving" on his stance to garner, potential voters, big contributors. Name one, he'll be kissing up to them, making them all sorts of promises, for now... and rounding up a Billion Dollar war chest. That takes TIME and TRAVEL ya know.
I guess you don't think it's extremely important that they keep Medicare from going bust, or cut spending, or prevent defaulting on the gazillion dollar loans, or reducing the deficit.
The Obama administration has been blaming everything and everybody but themselves. It's time they owned where they put us.
Ummm Aggie - you forgot to toss in -Kobe beef, teleprompters, birth certificate, Reverend Wright & palling around with terrorists... LMAO
Thanks for playing - I ALWAYS enjoy a good giggle! ;o)
Care for some *popcorn*?
Speaking of Medicare/Medicaid - get your Groupons here...
At this rate...it might not be true in the near future. We need to elect someone who will keep us the most powerful country in the world and it is definately not Obama.
Nice job Aggie, but pay Feisty no mind. Not like she has one anyway.
Feisty are you now saying Obama did not promise "shovel ready jobs?" YOu do recall him admitting there is no such thing.
I know it's hard for you old gal, but the truth is the truth, even here in land o' the libbies.
Oh and I hear too much popcorn is bad for you.
My, my, is feisty having a hot flash?
Beverly...At the rate things are going under PRESIDENT Obama, we won't be the most powerful nation in the world for long. Heck, we're in a fast skid now.
Were you so indignant when people were "disrespectful" to PRESIDENT to Bush???
Maybe if McCain and Palin had won, unemployed people could have gotten jobs in Right to Work states and not had the Unions dictating to the government where and whether or not a company could build or do business there. If the Unions don't collect dues, the administration doesn't get big bucks for the campaign.
Oh Feisty...You are SO 2008! I don't have to bring those things up....you just did. Good to see you're catching on.
Feisty, get real. You say you've heard enough about weiner yet you have been bashing Palin for over a year.
Your problem is that one of your little liberal doobees got himself in a bind. If it was a republican you would still be carrying on for another six months.
Keep posting. Your comments are always good for a laugh.
Have I mentioned how good it is to hear Keith Olbermann's voice AGAIN?
Tear then a new one my friend!
The stuck on stupid crowd got NOTHING!
Keith Olbermann?
What channel is he on again?
Oh yeah, WGAS - "Who Gives a Sh!t".
Enjoy obscurity Keith.
Spanky,you said unemployment is at 9.1% Maybe true but that is the people that are able to collect,there are at least that many whose unemployment has run dry and they are just not counted anymore, thank you obama,pelosi and frank and reid,they all should be tried for collaborating with the enemy and punished.
Feisty Redhead Roselle, Il. - The GOP held the majority for 5 months - where are the jobs? You are asking the wrong person. You should be asking the President of the United States - Barack Obama!!! He promised Jobs! He promised that unemployment would not go below 8% and yet the stituation is MUCH WORSE! BAD. Mr. President - what are you going to do to fix this problem that you PROMISED you were going to fix. You better all start working together or nithing will get done. People need jobs and people need to get their houses back and their lives back. So Washington - You better get moving and you better work all the overtime needed to find a solution to this problem and get it started NOW! Or Mr. President Obama - YOU WILL BE A ONE TERM PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now that the Democrats are done slapping their Weiner around, maybe they can come up with a budget?
Why? Does the GOP need help?
Coming up with a budget? The GOP? No, they passed one months ago in the House. No help needed at all.
Thanks for the offer though.
JAS 1 - at this point do we call this ignorance or just a conscious decision to ignore the facts?
Surely our boy Noid is aware of the House's budget? You think?
Sure he is. So Noid, did you really mean "do the Dems in the Senate" need help? That has to be it, right Noid? The alternative is too ridiculous for someone like you. I hope?
The GoP can come up with a million jobs bills, budget plans or anything else they like but until Harry Reid brings it up in the Senate, nothing moves.
If you want to know where are the job plans from the GoP ask Harry Reid. They are in his desk drawer rotting because he doesn't give a shi* about you or a job for you.
JoAnnaSmith1
Now that the Democrats are done slapping their Weiner around, maybe they can come up with a budget?
Lady Sniff
Your detective skills are lacking. It would be so much better if you, the baggers, and the GOP slapped a J-O-B-S plan on the table and not what Anthony Weiner is doing.
Or better yet, let us know how the "Summer of Recovery" for 2010 is coming along?
Weiner.
Weiner-licious.
See Bev. Weiner sells. First Read is a business.
Oh, wait, never mind.
Bev. Obama is going to sign off on a new payroll tax holiday - for the employers this time. Yippee!
Why does he continue to forsake you and your libbie causes? Taxes are good, right?
alwaysfaithfull
Or better yet, let us know how the "Summer of Recovery" for 2010 is coming along?..
Thats wreck-overy!
That was done along time ago, the house fully passed it BUT!!! "THE DEMOCRATIC SENATE" UNDER HARRY REID!!! has deflected ALL BILLS that stop the dem's spending!!! And you harp on the republicans when it is ACTUALLY the DEMOCRATIC CONTROLLED SENATE that is screwing with the AMERICAN PEOPLE!! Get your head out of oblowholes ass long enough to take a breath of fresh air and learn the truth!! It might just surprise you!!!
hey Bev, If obozo had a job plan he would not been elected,people like you thought there would be free money and that is all the community organizer had to BS the people with,so he did not know @!$%#
Uh....Heh...Heh.
....the righties said ....'Weiner'.
(again)
Feisty - Is a week without Weiner like 12 plus years with Bill Clinton and his Presidential and political escapades and dalliances all of which were so well covered in the media and again just recently because of Weiner (ad nausea) and so frequently that it makes you physically ill just to see it again and again and again?........We feel your pain!
tiny weiner....the face of the democrat party....just like bill clinton
Don Ho version....
"Tiny Weiner...
In the water...
Making bubbles....
Make em feel fine...."
Demsuk (c)
(a division of Hillary! *(c))
Is it true he's already inked a deal to be the new spokesperson for their "Lil Sizzler" brand sausage?
Frankly, do any of you think the government can come up with a jobs bill? These politicians don't have a clue of what it takes to come up with ideas that will work in the markets, then to start companies and create jobs. If you think they can do it keep hoping! By the way, I would like to know how you would create jobs. When you have a good idea call your congressman and senators and tell them about it and see how far your ideas will get.
And here I thought we wouldn't have to her about Weiner's weiner again
Good, good, good-bye Weiner!
Also, NBC is a horses ass. If your going to broadcast the US Pledge of Allegiance at a golfing event, then do not edit and have audio on the entire time. Just an ass move NBC.
Huh?
Did you miss this one Noid? US Open in Bethesda yesterday. NBC thought they would get all patriotic and start the show off with the some kids saying the Pledge of Allegiance, edited with some flag photos from one of the 3-5 wars Obama has us in now. Trouble is, they edited out "Under God" and "Indivisible". Twitter and Facebook went nuts. Seems most of America didn't like that.
Now you all go ahead with the history lesson of how Under God wasn't in the original POA and Ike added it 1954 and blah, blah, blah.
Really WCA: let me add this to the history lesson you seem offended by. The Pledge was written by one Francis Bellamy in 1892. He was a Baptist minister that was drummed out of the church for espousing the Socialist beliefs of his cousin, Edward Bellamy. He wrote it as an "advertising jingle" for a popular magazine he was associated with They Youth Companion. I never say it on principle. No loyalty oath is required of a US citizen, nor was one contemplated by the Founders and I am not a Socialist.
But it provides no END of amusement for me that you right wingers do.
I wonder, if they had gotten Weiner to resign on otter nonsense, who is next. There has to be better sexcapades going on than this chicken crap. Unless they have gotten better in getting out the stains.
Has anyone seen Abe Vigoda?
Good riddance to the perverted turd.
Weiner pulls out and zips up - more at 11.
Skank.
Perhaps NBC and Mr. Weiner needs to formalize their lack of spelling skill, too - HEARBY. Did he represent the voiceless or the illiterate?
Isn't it great to see the libs yelling, "What about him resigning or her resigning"? "If Weiner resigns, so shouldn't (fill in the blank) resign".?
I'm laughing..........I'm laughing some more.............
I find it laughable...when the GOP stomp their feet and point their fingers demanding that Weiner resigns while they covered up for Mark Foley and said nothing about Ensign and Vitter.
Hey there you are Noid.
What's the matter can't defend your silly little statement about the GOP and it budget?
Focused on Weiner, eh?
How about it Noid - just when is Reid going to get a budget passed?
Man. Wasn't it the "DUTY" of the democratic controlled "HOUSE" and "SENATE" to pass a budget under the law of the land??? Hmmmm! People, WTFU!!!! It is not the fault of the republicans, and you people that persist to bash the "Tea Party" forget that our country was formed by a "Tea Party", Boston Harbor for those that only read "LIBERAL RE-WRITTEN HISTORY" Taxation without representation!!! That was the problem then under King George, and the problem now under king oblowhole!! and the democrats!! When ARE YOU IDIOTS GOING TO WAKE UP?? I implore you to do so as to seek the truth as written in history and not the MSM history that is being projected by the liberal agenda.
It might hurt you, but the "TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE", try it, you might just like it. No more mascarades, or charades, try it, it's soothing to know the REAL TRUTH!!
Like little Children in Denial
What ever happened to the rule that a politician can recover from anything except a dead girl or a live boy? And since you want to laugh, Bernie, laugh at all those guys on your side of the aisle who survived the second part of the saying! Mr. Wide Stance?
You mean like Barney Frank and his home based "escort" service?
I believe you mean David Vitter and the DC madame!
You're familiar with David and his penchant to have his a@@ diapered by his hookers right?
Sure Barney prostituted himself out for his boys. But it's what he did to us as a country with Fannie and Freddie that is truly obscene.
Even Feisty agrees on that.
I, Anthony Weiner, will resign from my position as congressman, when seanator David Vitter also resigns from his legislative position. Any further questions posed to me on the subject of my "sexting" scandal will be met with rhetorical questions about David Vitter's undeniably CRIMINAL activities and the MSM's free pass being awarded to him.
Was that too difficult for this savvy democrat and Nancy Pelosi to come up with on their own? There's still time to change your mind, Anthony. ............FIGHT!
Still tilting at windmills.
How cute. Ginormous waste of time, but what ever floats your boat.
Jealousy is a terrible thing. Come on 2012. Lets drain the Senate and send Harry Reid packing yo the minority so we can do the legislation needed to save this great country. The voters made a mistake in 2008 and will correct it in 2012. Let's send Barrack packing. Not only has he derailed this country for a number of years he threw the Entire Democratic party and the African American Movement under the bus. He will go down in History for sure and be in the history books.
A deflated Weiner resigns due to electile dysfunction.
Wasn't it you Forrest who said:
Erections have consequences? lol
Yes I did, because they always do. I stand firm on that statement.
OMG, please stop,...I can't catch my breath. You two are cracking me up!
Markos M. just said better than I ever could Feisty,...the arrows come with the territory.
PS. Don't get pricked by them,...
Yeah but he fell on his own sword.
He stabbed himself in the foot!
It's funny how this Weiner story broke a week after he came out in support of Israel and against Pres. Obama's quote about their borders. Could this have been a warning to liberal Democrats not to step out of line or we will expose your dirty little secrets? He had been doing this for years. You don't think the string pullers didn't know about it. It sure took Israel out of the news real fast.
Dumcrat Redhead, why don't you ask Obooba where all the jobs that the 800 million he blew that was supposed to create jobs. While you at it ask the loser Pelosi why most of the Oboobacar healthcare waivers 20.6 percent to be exact are in her district in California? It the plan was so great why are ther waivers in her own district? What a f--- hyporcrite, oh thats right we have to pass the law so we can read it Peloser.
Robert--So what's your plan to create jobs and make America better, genius--or do you just specialize in right wing rants?
It appears that Robert, as so many writing in, are not literate nor are they able to articulate their thoughts in any logical manner. So they resort to calling President Obama "boy", along with other derogatory names. They claim people are calling on Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from cases, due to his color. Both of these statements are intolerable and unacceptable in 2011 in this country. We are not in the deep south, owners of plantations and slaves. We are so beyond that, supposedly. Any member of the legal profession will tell you that just as doctors take an oath which begins, "First, do no harm...", attorneys also take an oath. It is an oath espousing ethics and promising to avoid "the appearance of impropriety..." Not just impropriety, but even the appearance of that. As a prosecutor in the largest office in this country, I am held to the highest standard. And, if there is doubt in my own mind, I disclose. Better to disclose and have it be deemed by a court to be of no consequence, than to retain information wrongly, be found out and have it appear to be worse. That is the problem that Clarence Thomas, who walks in Alito's shadow, has. Alito himself has refused to recuse himself even when he shared a duck blind with a party who had a case pending before the USSCT. Thomas deliberately withheld information about his wife's substantial income and other unsavory financial dealings of his own.
It is a quirk of the legal profession that, once named to the bench, judges are no longer deemed attorneys. But ethics of a bench officer are foremost, along with their legal background, ability to form opinions and relate the law to the facts at hand. Unfortunately, a number of the people--specifically Justices Alito, Thomas and others--are unable or unwilling to perform their duties and responsibilities in an ethical manner. They denigrate the offices which they hold. For those of you who do not comprehend this, they lower the standard. Clarence Thomas has written one opinion in all these years. ONE. He is known to never question anyone arguing a case before the Supreme Court. He just sits there. If I were to guess, I would think it is his clerks who sum up the case and give him a heads up before the actual vote. As an attorney, I would be ashamed to have clerked for him and have that on my resume. I would be a laughingstock.
So, for those of you who have been quibbling over jobs, name-calling, nit-picking, jabbing at each other: You remind me of dung beetles, fighting over the most stupid topics and veering off the subject, quickly ending up at the lowest common denominator. And all your mindless quibbling does not matter one whit. Because people of color are the majority. And once we start voting as a block, we call the shots. Fight over your dung, go for it.
Your votes won't matter, much, when "the whites" declare an "emergency" imposition of Martial Law, and suspend the Constitution "Temporarily".
Good for him! Now the rest of Congress, the President, and the entire Supreme Court should follow his lead and resign. We should ban all political parties, including the "Tea Party." Require everyone who runs for public office to run as an independent. Ban all private political donations, fund all election campaigns with public money with strict spending limits, and limit all political campaigns to the day after Labor Day until the day before Election Day during election years. The first line of business for the new Supreme Court should be to rule that corporations do not have the same rights as individuals.
Best part is, under such scrutiny all of a sudden, he puts a halt to waivers so they won't look like political favors!!!. To late a-hole oblowhole!!! We've all seen your game and it's over! Your days are numbered, we are taking back AMERICA, and kicking your dead weight ass out!!!!