From Yahoo News:
NEW YORK — Anthony Weiner admitted that he exchanged sexual messages with at least three more women after a sexting scandal forced him out of Congress two years ago.
The revelation came as a new poll found the Democratic mayoral hopeful’s popularity has plummeted after he admitted that he continued to send salacious online messages to women who were not his wife as late as last summer.
A Wall Street Journal/Marist/NBC 4 New York poll found Weiner’s favorability number among registered Democrats in New York dropped from 52 percent in June to 30 percent in a poll conducted on Wednesday after the latest messages were made public. Fifty-five percent of Democrats now say they have an unfavorable impression of Weiner, compared to 36 percent last month.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi also weighed in on Thursday, calling Weiner's behavior "reprehensible" and "disrespectful to women." Pelosi and other party leaders pushed Weiner to resign from Congress in 2011 after evidence of his sexting behavior first surfaced.
"If they’re clueless, get a clue. If they need therapy, do it in private,” Pelosi, a Democrat, told reporters on Thursday.
The poll and Pelosi's criticism came as Weiner desperately tried to turn the page on the scandal that has enveloped his campaign since Tuesday, when he admitted at a press conference that he had continued to send sexual messages to strangers.
Huma must be Arabic for doormat. Weiner is a dick and the people of NY will get the shanking they deserve.
ReplyDeleteMany of these political wives are as ambitious as their husbands. Politics is a dirty game and the idea of putting on the "happy mask" is very common. In this case all is out there to see. It is amazing as to the price people put on their souls and self esteem ...
ReplyDeleteI've grown tired as well of seeing the wives paraded out there while their asshole husbands stand there taking questions about a sex scandal. When you are a guy like David Vitter, you can claim you have asked for forgiveness from God and your spouse and then effectively say, "Suck it, I ain't leaving". When you are a Godless Democrat, you just take the abuse.
ReplyDeleteIn Weiner's case, I wish he would just go away. He had his chance to change the world, and he blew it, just like Edwards did. Hit the bricks Anthony.
In my opinion Anthony deserves to be mayor,,
Deleteof Detroit.
Or governor of Florida, which is the dick of America.
DeleteHey, wait a minute, I live in Florida and it is not as crazy a place as people seem to think. Sure, our Governor is a looney and possible arch criminal, but his approval rating has soared to 23%. And there was a political cartoon in this mornings paper where two Floridians are chatting and one says "The Governors 'Day of Prayer' was a failure." "Why is that?" the other asks, The first guy replier, "Because he is still Governor." Topping it all, some of the political correctness crowd are suggesting that Florida should be ousted from the U.S. because it is shaped like a gun.
DeleteFormer Rep. Anthony Weiner's wife Huma Abedin -- already under the microscope because of her husband's lewd behavior -- is facing tough questions from a senator concerned about the nature of her employment at the State Department.
ReplyDeleteAbedin, a longtime aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, worked for a little under a year as a "special government employee" for the State Department. During that period in 2012, she was also working as a consultant for a private firm called Teneo, giving private investors information about the government.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, last month sent the State Department a letter inquiring about Abedin's two jobs.
This time, Anthony Weiner's wife steps out to defend him
Oscar de la Renta: "Very, very sorry" for Huma Abedin
It has been reported that Ms. Abedin earned approximately $135,000 from the State Department while receiving $355,000 in consulting income for representing outside clients, as she remained a Federal employee and a trusted advisor to Secretary Clinton," Grassley wrote. "This raises important questions about whether her dual role was adequately disclosed to government officials who may have provided her information without realizing that she was being paid by private investors to gather information."
Grassley asked the State Department and Abedin to respond to 17 questions, as well as a request for all documents relating to communications between the State Department and Teneo, or clients represented by Teneo. The State Department and Abedin responded, giving the specific dates of her employment and confirming that she read State Department ethics guidelines before becoming a "special government employee." They also explained that Abedin, as a State Department employee, "advised" Clinton and supervised the operations of her travel and schedule.
Nevertheless, Grassley said in a statement Friday that neither the State Department nor Abedin has handed over any of the documents he requested.
"The purpose of my inquiry is to shed light on whether the program is being used as intended, not just by Ms. Abedin, but more broadly, as well," he said. "The State Department and Ms. Abedin should be willing to show the documents involved in administering the program to demonstrate good stewardship of tax dollars and the public interest... Putting up a stone wall raises a lot more questions about how the program is being used than it answers."
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Stephanie Condon
It is not enough to analyze Huma Abedin as a “political wife.” Abedin is also a veritable Muslim Brotherhood princess. As such, the ideological implications of her actions – plus her long and privileged access to U.S. policy-making through Hillary Clinton – must be considered, particularly in the context of national security.
ReplyDeleteBut talk about paradoxes. In an era when the most minute and lurid descriptions of her husband’s anatomical and sexual details are common talk, Huma Abedin’s familial and professional connections to the world of jihad are unspeakable.
In a nutshell – quoting former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy writing at National Review this week – Huma Abedin “worked for many years at a journal that promotes Islamic supremacist ideology that was founded by a top al-Qaida financier, Abdullah Omar Naseef.” That would be for at least seven years (1996-2003), by the way, during which Abedin also worked for Hillary Clinton.
Let this sink in for just a moment. The journal Huma worked for – which promotes Islamic supremacism and was founded by al-Qaida financer Naseef, who also headed the Muslim World League, a leading Muslim Brotherhood organization – is called the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. It was edited first by Huma’s father, Syed Abedin, and now by her mother, Saleha Abedin. Saleha is a member of the Muslim Sisterhood. Mother Abedin also directs an organization (the International Islamic Committee for Woman and Child) that comes under the umbrella of the Union for Good, another U.S.-designated terrorist organization. As McCarthy reminds us, “the Union for Good is led by Sheikh Yusef al-Qaradawi, the notorious Muslim Brotherhood jurist who has issued fatwas calling for the killing of American military and support personnel in Iraq as well as suicide bombings in Israel.”
Given these alarming professional and family associations, it is hard to imagine how Huma Abedin ever received the security clearance necessary to work closely with the secretary of state. But she did, and from her powerful post, she undoubtedly exerted influence over U.S. policy-making. (In his National Review piece, McCarthy lists specific actions that bespeak a shift in U.S. foreign policy to favor the Muslim Brotherhood.)
http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/huma-abedin-muslim-brotherhood-princess/
Congressional investigation into her term of service with U.S. Department of State[edit]
ReplyDeleteSenator Chuck Grassley has headed an investigation into Abedin's work as a State Department employee, specifically concerning the fact that she held two jobs from June 3, 2012 to February 1, 2013.[2][3][18][4] One of her jobs with a part-time aide to Clinton and the other job was a full-time job with a private company called Teneo Holdings, where she provided private investors information about the government.[2][3] Grassley sent a request to Abedin and to the State Department to explain the circumstances under this arrangement.[2] Grassley stated: "This raises important questions about whether her dual role was adequately disclosed to government officials who may have provided her information without realizing that she was being paid by private investors to gather information."[2]
Craig Holman of Public Citizen, a government ethics watchdog group, says Abedin's holding both a private sector job and a public sector job raises serious questions.[18] Holman has stated: "If this story pans out that Huma actually had access to inside information while serving as a government official but at the same time serving as a strategic consultant to a firm that actively trades in the stock market, this could be quite a problem.[18]
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Despite claiming allegiance to lofty ideals William, you always revert to spam and smear. Whereas the founding fathers spoke of what is the best in man, you pander to what is the worst. When the Tea Party fails like every other shit disturbing radical group, remember this.
ReplyDeleteDon't hold your breath Max.
DeleteContest that Huma held two jobs Max.
In the right of center world, the burden of proof is on the accused to endlessly defend themselves against whatever flavor of outrage the right throws at them. Like Issa's bullshit investigation of the IRS, this will fade.
Deleteto your point, however, I'm not going to contest it. It looks like she was a part time employee. If Grassley believes there was insider trading, he should bring a case. But he won't. In conservative circles, fact is not important, scoring points is. As long as Chuckles can keep people like you outraged, he's doing his job of energizing the base.
To me, that's a lot of freaking money to get paid for part time work, but that's not what Chuck is interested in. As for his "worry" that information was passed, this is what legislators do when they retire, they go and sell their access for millions of dollars. What Cheney did while he was in office appeared even more ethically challenged then this. But, like you say, this isn't about Cheney, it's about Clinton's perpetual lack of support for Israel. Let's hope Chuck saves Israel by finding dirt on Huma. If that's what you live for William.....wow.
It's not dirt Max it's called conflict of interest.
DeleteAs far as your opinion that the IRS investigation is phony, well,,,
Send it in Max, send it all in. The IRS needs your money so they can stay on their Cadillac federal health care plan.
If people like Grassley ever became truly serious about ending conflicts of interest William, I would become a life long Republican and I'm not F'n kidding. On any given day, however, we could go up and down the line of Democratic and Republican congressmen and find conflicts of interest. This is why I mock it. It's ridiculous.
DeleteAs for the IRS, what Issa and others claimed was that the IRS was on a jihad to target the Tea Party. He utterly failed to prove his point and suppressed testimony that didn't support what he was saying. He's quietly walked away. We both know that if there was something there, he would still be venting his outrage in the limelight. Your response to me here doesn't refute what I'm saying, it's just another empty epithet to "send all MY money in".
In my humble opinion Max Issa and his committee are using the Chinese water method, drip, drip, drip, drip,,,,
DeleteThe IRS targeting will remain an issue right up until the 2014 elections. Why would they want to truncate it when the DEM's are doing such a good job of swinging in the wind?
What you mean is the method of fling fling fling in the hopes that something eventually sticks, like Ken Starr spending millions to investigate whitewater to ultimately catch Clinton lying about a blowjob.
DeleteSorry to say again William that you are just one side of the coin. A true patriot would demand accountability from Issa for running such a sham investigation wherein he thoroughly abused his power to both steer it to gain a political outcome and to outright suppress testimony that disproved his claims. AT best, you are the mirror image to the far left. No matter political sphere people come from, if they can't be honest, they can't be trusted.
WASHINGTON -- Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) vigorously defended top State Department official Huma Abedin, who is Muslim-American, against allegations by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and other conservatives that she is part of a Muslim Brotherhood conspiracy to infiltrate the U.S. government.
ReplyDelete"These allegations about Huma and the report from which they are drawn are nothing less than an unwarranted and unfounded attack on an honorable woman, a dedicated American and a loyal public servant," McCain said in a speech on the Senate floor on Wednesday morning.
Mr. McCain also wants us to distribute weapons to terrorists in Syria. This is not about Ms. Bachmann this is about Hillary and her disdain for Isreal and surrounding herself with Muslim influence.
DeleteThe mid east is completely on fire, civil wars exist everywhere. All a result of the failed tenure of our former sec of state and her inept boss.
"All a result of the failed tenure of our former sec of state and her inept boss."
DeleteI'm sure that our decades of supporting dictators had nothing to do with it.
Alas, William, the attacks on Hillary will continue as long as there is a chance she will run for the Presidency. Not because she is unqualified, and not because of her alleged stance on Israel, but because she is a 90 to 10 favorite over any republican candidate.
ReplyDeleteYou may be right about the odds of her victory Mick. America remains a nation of takers and Hillary will certainly load up her quiver with promises aplenty to harvest the well trained proles.
DeleteI was astounded that Obama beat her to the pole and am not convinced that she will be the standard bearer next time. Three years is forever in politics.
What remains is the utter failure of this administration and everyone associated with it. She was smart to bail out when she did.
My bet is that the electorate will be tired of fad category leaders. But who knows?
"My bet is that the electorate will be tired of fad category leaders"
DeleteI'd like to hope this is true. But whether we are talking about Democrats, Republicans or Teas, too many people still vote with emotion instead of objectively assessing the candidates.