update: reader sDee brings this to my attention:
word is hitting the cybernet that anthony weiner intends to resign from congress. (no, barnie frank is "holding fast" to his grip on his "seat." as bugs bunny once noted, "it is to laugh, it is to cry.")
good.
and, now begins the rehabilitation of anthony wiener as a legitimate voice of the left.
not so good.
a little public contrition, but no so much as to be "unseemly." then, some treatment and therapy, the successful result of which will be the reappearance of body hair upon his previously shaved body. (not to put too fine a point on it, but the famous picture of weiner's wiener taken from below his scrotum reveals the absence of pubic hair, e.g., he either has none, or else it was shaved to make his cock and ball set more photogenic. hey, i was a lawyer. we notice things like this, for what that is worth.) then, he will take a discrete leave of absence from public view, say, about 4 months.
and, then, just like elliot spitzer who is well along the path to his complete behavioral rehab and political redemption, anthony weiner shall take a job as a political analyst on one of the news networks, and he shall appear as a controlled, disciplined and restrained commentator on the affairs of the public, if not his own. he will be scrubbed clean, as a new born penny, his penance well along the way to having been paid, and served.
"hey, he did his time." this shall be the refrain. and, once again, as elliot spitzer shall have done before him, he will reenter politics: and, perhaps even huma. (just weiner's wiener, not spitzer's wiener, ... , thought i would make that clear.)
he will once again run for office, from his old congressional district, is my guess. in the interim, no one of any consequence from the democratic party shall occupy his seat. count on it.
now, i did my time on the "perv patrol" both as a prosecutor and a defense attorney. once during that tenure of plying applied human behavioral psychology, i asked a psychiatrist what was the chance that a client of mine might actually cease being a pedophile as a result of psychiatric care and counseling, during and after incarceration. she replied to me, and i was probably about 55 years of age at the time, "john, how successful do you think that i would be in talking you out of your sexual orientation, how successful would counseling and treatment be in changing your sexual preferences and appetites at this time?"
it is not necessary, is it, for me to pass "sentence" at this juncture on the success of anthony weiner's rehabilitation, is it, really?
john jay @ 06.16.2011
p.s. maybe his first network gig could be called, "the view -- from the wiener." hey, just thinkin' out loud.
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