After months and months of dealing with his lies, Ohio State finally got fed up when the news of an incredibly incriminating Sports Illustrated piece was about to be released and forced Tressell to resign last Monday.
Not only Tressell fell (or was forced) onto his sword, but news broke last night that starting QB Terrelle Pryor, one of five Ohio State starters facing a five-game suspension for the 2011 season for their role in the “Tat Five” scandal, announced he was leaving Ohio State immediately.
On the other hand, we have Congressman Anthony Weiner. The seven-term Democrat from New York has admitted that he has been engaging in various degrees of sexting and phone sex relationships with random women he met on the internet.
Weiner’s main defense has been that he has not broken any laws (which is still to be seen if he actually has, not exactly giving him the benefit of the doubt at this point) and that he has not failed to uphold the oath of office he has affirmed the seven times he has been sworn in as member of the House of Representatives.
When your only defense is, “Hey, I did not break the law and my actions were not unconstitutional,” you know you are in trouble.
That oath, which all members of the House and Senate, Federal Judges, Military and the Vice President are sworn to uphold is:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
The Congressman is correct; there is nothing in there about tweeting pictures of your crotch to a total stranger and then lying about it, being that this oath of office was written during the Civil War.
But when your only defense is basically a loophole using a 150-year old pledge, it is time to go.
When serving the public, elected officials take a moral stand to do better, act better and better than the rest of us.
Anthony Weiner has not been better.
Nobody will know why Weiner did what he did, probably not even him. Men can just be stupid.
But someone as smart as him knows right from wrong and knows that lying for days on end is wrong.
Weiner did all of that.
He lied after the initial tweet, he lied to any media outlet that would listen while belittling reporters and even when his story was crumbling and the cracks were starting to show, he still lied when asked if the picture in question was him.
“You know, I can’t say with a certitude.”
What does that even a mean? A certitude?
Is it that hard for politicians to tell the truth?
When you are a bald faced liar that we now know Anthony Weiner to be, he is unfit to serve in Congress. Why should anybody believe a word he says?
Why should anybody given any weight to his next smart-assed, sarcastic comments that are aimed to demean Republicans on the floor of the House?
Nobody should and that’s why he should not serve in Congress.
If Weiner doesn’t do the right thing and the House Ethics Committee fails to act, it is up to the fine people of New York’s 9th Congressional District, send Anthony Weiner home.
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