Dear Democratic Leader Pelosi, Re: Anthony Weiner

Unless it involves children, a sex scandal is as passé as a pot smoking scandal. I just fired this off to the Democratic Party's House Leader:

The New York Times just reported that you have called for New York Congressman Anthony Weiner to resign his position. In your career as a public servant, I think this is possibly the most asinine statement you have ever made. The Democratic Party has lost its way and Weiner has committed no crime, save for giving fuel to insufferable gossips and busybodies. This morning, CNN reported that Weiner's constituents are unconcerned about his dirty messages online. In fact, the only person who should have anything to say about this matter is HIS WIFE. You'd lose a progressive representative over what amounts to a non-issue for those he represents? I thought that was the modus operandi of the Republican party - do correct me if I'm wrong.

You have made the same mistake as so many so-called public servants, in that you have attached yourself to the media hyperbole over the matter and now see fit to make a statement so as to get your own headline; congratulations: mission accomplished.

Given that Weiner has done nothing illegal, and given that this has in no way impacted his ability to do his job as a congressman, the whole matter should be dropped. That such a big deal is being made out of it is ridiculous.

You and anyone else putting their worthless statements (I'm not generous, you're not even getting an appraisal of two cents out of me) need to invest in silence and allow the voters of Weiner's district to determine whether or not he should keep his job. Of course, it is overwhelmingly evident that you and the other talking heads masquerading as public servants have little regard for those little people known as voters.

This week's Savage Love has an interesting statement from Dan Savage regarding the diminishing returns of scandals which shouldn't be scandals. He uses pot as an example:

With pot, we went from exposure resulting in an instantaneous resignation in 1987 (Supreme Court nominee Douglas Ginsburg) to a tacit admission being a survivable mini-scandal in 1992 (Bill "Smoked, Didn't Inhale" Clinton) to a collective shrug in 2008 (Barack "I Got High" Obama).

With any luck, risqué exchanges between consenting adults will be met with a shrug when they make it out into the open.