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The Current Crisis
Bill Clinton Syndrome (BCS)
It pre-dates the sexting era.
WASHINGTON — They call it BCS, Bill Clinton Syndrome, and it has broken out anew in New York City and Washington, D.C., where it was first discovered. As elaborated upon at scholarly detail, in the now famous Starr Report: The Official Report of the Independent Counsel’s Investigation of the President, BCS strikes powerful figures, usually male, who experience lewd compulsions of an overpowering nature, generally in the presence of technology, often the telephone, occasionally a smart phone or even a computer, and usually when they are alone or behind closed doors with a woman of inferior rank. The first victim of the syndrome was, of course, President Bill Clinton, but it has struck a growing number of powerful individuals, most recently Congressman Chris Lee, International Monetary Fund chieftain Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and now Congressman Anthony Weiner (pronounced, vi´ ner) — at least by him.
Clinton was the first known sufferer of the syndrome, hence his eponymous relation to it. It struck him in the mid-1990s, though for him it was not so bad. He was impeached but later he was glorified. MSNBC did a documentary on him, “President of the World: The Bill Clinton Phenomenon.” He was also spoken of as a possible candidate for mayor of New York City and secretary-general of the United Nations.
Seized in the presence of a telephone late at night, he called a young lady repeatedly to exchange with her lascivious thoughts. As reported in this column recently and elaborated upon in my book The Clinton Crack-Up: The Boy President’s Life After the White House, foreign intelligence agencies were unfortunately listening in on the calls. It was a high-tech telephone but not that high-tech. He used an unsecured telephone. Now tapes of those calls are lying around intelligence offices world-wide. Possibly the spooks dust them off from time to time and have a good laugh. Though possibly the tapes can still be used to compromise Bill, in the event that anyone in official Washington is stupid enough to trust him with anything of a confidential nature.
More recently, Strauss-Kahn was struck down in the posh Sofitel Hotel in Manhattan when a Guinean chambermaid entered his room to clean it. What he did with her is in dispute — and far be it from me to compromise legal proceedings with my mere speculations. There is, however, no doubt that he suffered some uncontrollable romantic seizure, and now we know that the arresting officers when they accosted him on his Air France getaway flight confiscated his mobile phones (he apparently had more than one), Apple computer, and iPad. His lawyers claim that, as the Wall Street Journal put it, the devices may have “contained information that may be legally sensitive.” The lawyers are asking prosecutors to return the devices and not to read their contents. I am sure they will cooperate.
Now along comes the ill-starred Congressman Weiner (alternate pronunciation, wine´ er). He apparently suffered at least the underpants version of BCS. He served as the moral scold to Republicans in Congress. Let one even belch in public, and the Hon. Weiner was on him/her with an inimitable shrill rebuke. Now his voice will fall silent, save for an occasional “I’m sorry. I want to apologize. Especially to my wife,” who is an aide of some sort to Hillary Clinton.
Apparently, the Hon. Weiner suffers BCS when alone in the presence of his smart phone or computer, and begins sexting madly to women whom he does not know and who are not his lawful wedded wife. He takes pictures of himself in various stages of déshabillé and includes the pictures in his messages. The ladies somewhat virginally reply. A couple of weeks ago, he sent a picture of his underpants containing what looked like a large Idaho potato. The picture fell into the hands of the conservative philosophe Andrew Breitbart who brought it to the attention of the omnivorous press corps, one of whose members prevailed on the idiotic congressman to say that he could not “with certitude” say it was not his underwear. This week he held a press conference and admitted that he does indeed suffer BCS, though he did not use those exact words.
What will become of these wretches I do not know, but for Weiner there is hope. The press has reported that his recent marriage to the Hillary Clinton aide was “officiated” over by none other than Bill Clinton. I advise that Bill counsel Weiner and Hillary counsel the wife. Then let all four retire from public life. Along with them they can take any other public official suspected of suffering BCS. This nonsense has gone too far.
About the Author
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is the founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator. He is the author of The Death of Liberalism, published by Thomas Nelson Inc. His previous books include the New York Times bestseller Boy Clinton: the Political Biography; The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton; The Liberal Crack-Up; The Conservative Crack-Up; Public Nuisances; The Future that Doesn’t Work: Social Democracy’s Failure in Britain; Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House; The Clinton Crack-Up; and After the Hangover: The Conservatives’ Road to Recovery.
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Paul| 6.9.11 @ 7:07AM
There were many things to hate about the Clintons. If I had to pick one, it would be that they were the death of shame in this country - and the country was cheapened because of their behavior. I do not think people have an appreciation of how this damaged the moral fiber of the country.
Of course there is also the gall of a coward liar draft dodger being the Commander in Chief, till this day I can not think about that turd as commander of our brave service members. Truly disgusting that he was in a position to send men into combat.
Alan Brooks| 6.9.11 @ 8:24AM
No, it was LBJ, he was a MONSTER worse than Godzilla, Gorgo, and Rodan rolled up into one..
Alan Brooks| 6.9.11 @ 9:18AM
LBJ: worst president.
Carter: second worst.
James Buchanan: third worst.
Warren G. Harding: 4th worst.
Harry the Horrible| 6.9.11 @ 10:22AM
Sorry. FDR gets top billing for worst president. So what if he managed to help win WWII? His policies gave us the Cold War and his programs STILL drag on this country like concrete galoshes at swimming match.
JimH| 6.9.11 @ 11:38AM
I think Hoover has to fit in there somewhere.
Patrick| 6.9.11 @ 3:10PM
Yes, the guy who gave FDR some of his best material...
Frisbee| 6.9.11 @ 5:52PM
Isn't Andrew Breitbart a homosexual? So isn't the real question how did he get the photo, and when will he turn against his conservative buddies?
Steve A| 6.9.11 @ 10:23AM
Alan, Keep your pencil handy. Obama is on deck.
W| 6.9.11 @ 10:41AM
Alan, agree that LBJ was worst, but Obama will be by end of his first and only term.
Jeremiah| 6.9.11 @ 11:42AM
Obama: worst
Buchanan: 2nd worst
Carter: 3rd worst
Poor LBJ was suckered by idiot Kennedy aides who Kennedy was on to and getting ready to shed. Harding was a pathetic mope who, thankfully, didn't have much in the way of real crises to deal with.
Buchanan's dithering eliminated almost all chance of avoiding a bloody civil war.
Obama's self-absorbed preening is steadily eliminating the chances of avoiding a bloody global war AND a global economic meltdown.
Patrick| 6.9.11 @ 3:12PM
Poor LBJ? Seriously, he was not some idealistic neophyte to Washington. He was the top cockroach.
Oldefarte| 6.9.11 @ 11:44AM
Wrong, as usual! Worst ever, no competition is, and forever will be, BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA. Of course, that MISTAKE will be corrected in November of next year!!!!!!!!!
Alan Brooks| 6.9.11 @ 2:40PM
We shall see:
"Obama holds big lead over Republican 2012 rivals"
In 1994 professor emeritus Charles L. King told me Clinton would never be re-elected, but even then I sensed the good professor was peremature in his estimation. So we SHALL see.
Alan Brooks| 6.9.11 @ 2:44PM
Here is the lowdown:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama retains a big lead over possible Republican rivals in the 2012 election despite anxiety about the economy and the country's future, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll on Wednesday.
Obama's approval rating inched up 1 percentage point from May to 50 percent but the number of Americans who believe the country is on the wrong track also rose as pricier gasoline, persistently high unemployment and a weak housing market chipped away at public confidence.
Obama leads all potential Republican challengers by double-digit margins, the poll showed. He is ahead of his closest Republican rival, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, by 13 percentage points -- 51 percent to 38 percent.
"Obama's position has gotten a little stronger over the last couple of months as the public mood has evened out, and as an incumbent he has some big advantages over his rivals," Ipsos pollster Cliff Young said.
"Until Republicans go through a primary season and select a nominee, they are going to be at a disadvantage in the head-to-head matchups in name recognition."
Obama, who got a boost in the polls last month with the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, is amassing an election campaign war chest likely to be larger than the record $750 million (457 million pounds) he raised in 2008.
Sarah Palin and Romney lead the Republicans battling for the right to challenge Obama in the November 2012 election.
Palin, the party's vice presidential nominee in 2008, had the support of 22 percent of the Republicans surveyed. The former governor of Alaska has not said whether she will run for president next year.
Romney, who failed in a 2008 presidential bid, had 20 percent support.
Representative Ron Paul, a libertarian Republican from Texas, and former pizza executive Herman Cain were tied for third with 7 percent each.
REPUBLICAN RACE STILL FORMING
The Republican candidates are just starting to engage in their slow-starting nomination race. Young said Palin and Romney had a clear advantage at this stage over other challengers in name recognition among voters.
Other surveys have shown Romney in a stronger position. A Washington Post-ABC News poll earlier this week gave Romney a slight lead over Obama among registered voters.
In the Reuters/Ipsos poll, the other Republican contenders fared even worse than Romney's 13-point gap in a match-up with Obama. Palin trailed Obama by 23 points and former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty was behind by 19 points.
The survey was taken after weak jobs and housing figures released last week showed the U.S. economy is recovering slower than expected. Unemployment rose slightly to 9.1 percent for the month.
The poll found 60 percent of respondents said the country is on the wrong track, up from 56 percent in May but still below April's high of 69 percent. In the latest survey, 35 percent said the country is going in the right direction.
Obama's approval rating has drifted in a narrow range between 49 percent and 51 percent since January, with the exception of April when the first spike in gasoline prices drove his rating lower.
With Congress battling over a Republican budget plan that includes scaling back the federal Medicare health program for the elderly, the poll found a plurality of Americans, 43 percent, oppose the Medicare cuts and 37 percent support them.
The poll, conducted Friday through Monday, surveyed 1,132 adults nationwide by telephone, including 948 registered voters. The margin of error is 3 percentage points.
(Editing by John O'Callaghan)
Oldefarte| 6.9.11 @ 3:48PM
BS! Reuters? Talk about the BS of the MSM! Why don't you just go for the juglar and quote the NYT????????????????????????????
Alan Brooks| 6.9.11 @ 4:33PM
Doesn't matter: until you run a candidate who is as good as Reagan, the fish wont bite. If George F. Will were to run for president, I wouldn't hesitate to vote for him-- but someone such as he is too GOOD for us.
So Obama will almost certainly win next year.
Alan Brooks| 6.9.11 @ 4:38PM
... during early to mid-1996 you might have very well thought Clinton would be defeated that November--
but if you thought so, you were shown to be wrong. And you might very well be wrong next year.
Douglas Fletcher | 6.10.11 @ 9:27PM
Thanks for that no doubt entirely unread article.
Occam's Tool| 6.9.11 @ 8:06PM
Buchanan almost lost the Civil War before Lincoln was elected and he isn't the worst?
No. Sorry.
Buchanan: worst.
Hoover: second worst.
Carter: third worst.
Obama will be number 3 or 4 when he is done.
Occam's Tool| 6.9.11 @ 8:07PM
Sorry---almost lost the Civil war after Lincoln was elected but before he was inaugurated. My apologies. Still go with Big Jim as the Worst. He was also, I believe, the only bachelor President.
Douglas Fletcher | 6.10.11 @ 9:25PM
Alan Brooks: worst comment poster.
Lawrence Boccardi| 6.9.11 @ 7:15AM
Yes, and all of that not withstanding, Paul, they are still god-like to the dems!
TrueBlue| 6.9.11 @ 12:25PM
Which says something about the quality of that group...
Dr. Benway| 6.9.11 @ 7:41AM
It figures that Bill Clinton presided at the wedding of the Congressman and his bride. I thought he was just a disbarred lawyer and neither a judge, justice of the peace, or a Ship's Captain at sea. But apparantly ex-presidents can perform marraiges like the liege lords of old. I just wonder if ol' horn toad Billy excersized "le droit du seigneur" on the lucky couple's wedding night.
Patrick| 6.9.11 @ 3:13PM
No, she isn't fat enough for Bill's tastes.
Alan Brooks| 6.9.11 @ 4:40PM
But sveldte enough for Joey Buttafuoco!
("shut up, Brooks")
Herb| 6.9.11 @ 8:01AM
Out in the blogosphere Weiner has now been appended with the charming sobriquet, "Pee Wee Herman".
Why did it take so long? The conduct is similar in sheer lewdness, and the physical resemblance is uncanny.
It is hoped that this will stick to him like glue and that he is permanently P.W.'d
fred| 6.9.11 @ 9:24PM
His much closer resemblance is to Bevis or Butthead. I can't remember which was which.
W| 6.9.11 @ 8:21AM
What did Clinton do to "officiate?" Can he do weddings because he was president?
Teaghan| 6.9.11 @ 11:01AM
No, because he's a lawyer.
Groad| 6.9.11 @ 11:03AM
A disbarred lawyer no less.
Ken (Old Texican)| 6.9.11 @ 8:22AM
Emmett, character still matters.
simon templar| 6.9.11 @ 8:39AM
It is all that matters in a Republic. Otherwise it is dead.
Jason| 6.9.11 @ 9:01AM
This republic IS dead. LBJ killed 58,000. Barack Obama killed America.
R Martin| 6.9.11 @ 8:24AM
Of all the writers of all the blogposts on all the internet Mr. Tyrrell, Jr. is certainly among the most erudite. Well written, sir.
BackToBasics| 6.9.11 @ 8:37AM
All true but it will soon pass, thankfully. Don't get me wrong, it's good to get this news out but it could easily become too much of a diversion from critical issues already here. I wouldn't say this if exposing this would truly effect the voting public to vote for more trustworthy individuals but I do not see much evidence that it does.
It's possible that in a few more years, things could get so bad that such stories will be so small by comparison that they will not merit any reporting at all.
Mimi| 6.9.11 @ 8:38AM
We have some wonderful and HONORABLE men and women who serve this country in elected office. This is an anomaly....and that makes it newsworthy. Also it is just this kind of " STUFF"
that most likely cause and call for "RESIGNATION"....Weiner will do this SOON...He cannot survive this scandel. Hope all will learn a lesson...You start jumping over your own line of CONDUCT....Your secrets will be found out...seems like PROVIDENCE works like that!!!
simon templar| 6.9.11 @ 8:40AM
Very good point, Mimi. We have to remember that there have been some descent men and women and still are in our government.
Nunya| 6.9.11 @ 12:18PM
The sad part is that they are so few and far between.
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. "
John Adams
TrueBlue| 6.9.11 @ 12:27PM
I had actually forgotten about that quote, thanks for reminding me!
C Smith| 6.9.11 @ 8:43AM
A letter to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott during the Senate impeachment trial of President William Jefferson Clinton:
The Honorable Senator Trent LottThe Senate of the United StatesWashington D.C. 20510Date. Jan 1, 1999
Dear Sir,
On the first Tuesday in November, 1992, I went to Republican Headquarters. My wife was there making calls on one of many phones. I recognized others too. Surprisingly, every phone was manned by someone from either my church or the Christian school my children attend. Even the woman coordinating the entire affair was a dear friend who worshipped with us. I remember reminiscing as I contemplated what the coming hours would determine: I recalled how my children had in the preceding weeks carried campaign literature door to door. I remember how my wife flawlessly hand addressed literally thousands of letters for local Republican candidates. I wondered what would come of the Saturday after Saturday I had spent with so many others of conviction in platform committee meetings, addressing the spiritual direction of the party. And I remembered the flyers in plastic baggies that I distributed in the rain the night before. Senator Lott, this was typical of the passion and conviction that believers once had for the Republican Party… passion and conviction that has all too often been replaced by feelings of violation, abandonment, and betrayal.
Over the last six years, the Republican Party has proven that conviction and courage are a rare commodity: Republican leadership allowed a pro-abortion governor to deliver the State of the Union response. Republicans failed to oppose the nomination of a Supreme Court justice whose opinions often resemble those of early 20th Century anarchists. The 96 Republican campaign was little more than a "going away party" for a nice old man who reportedly bragged that he had not even read the Republican Platform. I could go on Senator Lott, but I think you can see why I didn’t even bother to go to Republican Headquarters this last election… AND I WASN’T ALONE!
We now stand at the crossroads Senator Lott. The House has HONORABLY determined that it is the rule of law, not public opinion, that must be followed. The house has resolved that there IS to be a trial. And you also have said: "We [the Senate] need to go forward and do our CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY to hear the evidence.'' (emphasis added) Yet, a day or two later, you proposed the means for terminating the implicit constitutional mandate for a full Senate trial! Senator Lott, how can you take what you have called your "constitutional duty" so lightly, the "constitutional duty" you swore in an oath with your hand upon the Bible? Senator Lott, have you forgotten that it is the "oaths" that we honor or dishonor, that is the substance of the matter that now confronts the Senate?
The Constitution gives the Senate "the sole Power to try" the President. No other authority on earth has that Power and no other individual has greater Power and responsibility in holding this man accountable then you do as Senate Majority Leader. Our President has forgotten his oaths…Senator Lott have you forgotten yours?
Your leadership in this matter will determine the future of the Republican Party. It will determine whether it is the party of conviction or merely the "moral" equivalent of its opposition. If you take a stand for a full Senate trial with witnesses and the admission of all relevant evidence, it will cost you something. Courage and conviction always cost something. The coliseum in Rome is still stained with the blood of those who refused to betray their convictions… and their contemporaries will not betray them now. Your leadership will determine whether those who have made the most significant contributions to the Republican Party will remain part of it or will consider it an abomination. Sadly, if the latter, the Republican Party literally "WON'T HAVE A PRAYER"!
http://popularapostasy.blogspo.....rayer.html
Hillel| 6.9.11 @ 8:50AM
Last night I saw a montage of clips of Weiner in attack mode criticizing Republicans. He was so ad hominum that it was difficult to take him seriously. He seemed to be Don Rickles with hair.
Steve A| 6.9.11 @ 10:33AM
Weiner is nothing more than the pansy from high school who never got a date, seeking revenge on society.
doolittle| 6.9.11 @ 9:26AM
Mr Tyrrell's comments are always so beautifully sarcastic and to the point...and of course the libs can't abide sarcasm or humor. Thank goodness we conservatives are blessed with the ability to appreciate both. Now let's allow mr wee-ner to remain in congress where we can daily point to him as a prime example of what our opponents really are.
Ken (Old Texican)| 6.9.11 @ 9:38AM
Another thought;
Newt suffers from BCS as well.
RCV| 6.9.11 @ 4:23PM
It will be interesting to learn why his entire campaign staff resigned en masse today.
W| 6.9.11 @ 7:25PM
The top aides will probably work for Rick Perry
Douglas Fletcher | 6.10.11 @ 9:30PM
Need for future employment.
Petronius| 6.9.11 @ 10:36AM
What will Weiner campaign on next year? He should just rent a few billboards sporting a huge pair of tidy whiteys with the caption "watch this space."
Of Clinton's BJ security breech, memories have faded. He was on the phone to the Pentagon refusing support to the Rangers under attack in Somalia as he was getting honked off. I pointed this out to an erstwhile friend who was a Marine at that time with a security clearance. His response was "yeah, but he's cool." He never rose above Corporal. But anyone who can't make the connection between that kind of malfeasance and GI's getting killed in action and their bodies desecrated due to the sexual conduct of their CinC, one wonders how this nation survived this long. Well, we are still here. And if we are not successful in taking out the liberal Trash next election we should not call this country the United States anymore. It's been turned into a Roman circus. Welcome to Perversia.
CharlieEcho| 6.9.11 @ 10:42AM
Four more years, then four more. After that it will no longer matter.
Bob K.| 6.9.11 @ 10:38AM
Put the blame where it belongs. On the Media. Television and the Press and the Internet which like a great amorphous Cronkite from on high decides what is news and how long it will stay news.
It is Publicity and Celebrity that sells. And our media will keep these sins, great or small, before the public until it get bored with each incident
and they, individually, stop selling. The public, much to the media's dismay, is not getting bored with Weinergate as fast as it would like.
Too bad the media makes it's decisions based on it's politics and the miscreant's politics first. And because it does this sometimes the public comes back and bites it on it's collective butts!
Frisbee| 6.9.11 @ 5:57PM
The media would have no power over the electorate if the electorate had not first sold their souls for porn.
CharlieEcho| 6.9.11 @ 10:38AM
Newt? Isn't that a character in the "Lonesome Dove" series? It appears difficult for true leaders to lower themselves to a position in Washington.
TrueBlue| 6.9.11 @ 1:08PM
I've always said the best people to send to Washington are people that don't want to go.
Anyone that actually WANTS to go to D.C. only wants power, which means they'll be trying for more government power the entire time, regardless of any other promises they make.
chris haynes| 6.9.11 @ 11:01AM
Warren G. Harding: 4th worst president?
Carter, 3rd worst?
What did they do that was worth 5 cents?
How about barabrain Truman? Hiroshima Nagasaki Operation Keelhaul, Morgenthau Plan. Or Nixon? His judges, Roe vs Wade. Doesnt mass slaughter count?
Or FDR? Wages war in the Pacific , result Communist China. War in the ETO, result, the Soviet Empire.
Or Wilson, didnt make the world safe for democray. He made sure Europe would have WWII.
FTM| 6.9.11 @ 11:13AM
Youuse guys are leaning on dis Weiner guy a little too hard. Now it's true that he should have hired a couple nannys on his staff, you know, to hold his hands as he took those first awkward steps into cyberspace.
Actually I think that he ought to not resign, this guy is apex entertainment. We could start a pool to see who can best guess what dee unterkind will do next. I gots dibs on the skinny chick in the thong with the sign telling how much time dee unterkind has left to explain himself there in the senate.
summer brands | 6.9.11 @ 11:38AM
It is very wonderful article. Good Post!And our media will keep these sins, great or small, before the public until it get bored with each incident
and they, individually, stop selling.
Craig Smith| 6.9.11 @ 11:57AM
Since klowntoon doesn't know what the meaning of is is how do they know they 'is' married?
Oldefarte| 6.9.11 @ 12:12PM
Bob, I'm not so sure what the "C" stand for, but I sure as hades positive as to what the "B" and the "S" refer to; and am also fairly certain that Clinton, Weiner [and most other liberal Democrats] etc are FULL OF SAME!!!!!!
Louis Jenkins| 6.9.11 @ 12:15PM
The Senate and House are full of homosexuals, perverts, tramps, and thieves. It has one of the lowest ratings ever. They steal our hard earned monies for budgeting allottments, and tell us they're saving America. They're saving America so they may remain in power. God save America, those fools certainly will not.
Oldefarte| 6.9.11 @ 3:54PM
Hey, LJ, now don't go disparaging Barney, Anthony, Nancy etc like that. Also, the biggest FOOLS that I'm aware of are the American voters who elected this president on 11/2/08 !!!!
Mike | 6.9.11 @ 12:16PM
BCS? Please. Emmett, this is simply as case of men acting badly. The media cares nothing about the ones who have no wealth, power or status so we rarely hear about them.
To write about Kenneth Starr, a lawyer, talking about a "syndrome" in "scholarly detail" suggests to me that it is time for you to take a vacation.
Willis| 6.9.11 @ 12:41PM
You too, Mike, clearly merit some time off. Starting now would be about right.
Mike | 6.9.11 @ 12:56PM
Sorry if the divergent view offended.
Clint| 6.9.11 @ 12:39PM
Weiner is The Democrats' Tarbaby.
House Republicans may wanna step back & let The House Democrats get stuck with dealing with This Exhibitionist Laughingstock.
Franco| 6.9.11 @ 12:45PM
""Look At My Wee-Wee Syndrome" afflicts many politicians. Makes sense: See Johnny. See what a charismatic people-person Johnny is--run for office, Johnny. Run! Run!
See Johnny eternally run for office by charming potential voters. See the voters love Jonny--love Johnny, voters! Love! Johnny loves them too. They must want to see his penis! So Johnny shows them his penis.
You know what happens next.
Anthony| 6.9.11 @ 1:32PM
Bill Clinton is the Pied Piper of the morally and intellectually bankrupt Democrat Party.
Anthony's Weiner is just one of many followers of this corrupt bastard, sociopath and reprobate.
This is the face of the Democrat Party, rotten, vicious, nasty, amoral, dishonest and arrogant to the core.
I can see 2012 from my house!!!!!
Oldefarte| 6.9.11 @ 3:56PM
Come on now, don't talk about Nancy's/Harry's army like that!!!!!!!!
Mike| 6.9.11 @ 6:22PM
Is David Vitter on the BCS list?
Rachel, The Manhater| 6.9.11 @ 6:45PM
You Are.
Mike| 6.9.11 @ 6:55PM
Your moniker says it all.
Rachel, The Manhater| 6.9.11 @ 7:05PM
Larry Flynt told me about you, micro-meat pole.
Mike| 6.9.11 @ 7:41PM
As your moniker suggests and this post confirms, you are very childish.
fancy free| 6.10.11 @ 1:11AM
For PETRONIUS: Isn't that TIGHTY WHITIES?
Petronius| 6.13.11 @ 11:06AM
"Tidy" as in not stained; (re, Clinton's suckmess on that blue dress) , can't be compared to a mere exhibitionist who failed to get it up.
Over and out
WillofLa | 6.10.11 @ 2:57PM
And for the fact that Muslim's do not see the people of America do anything about this syndrome is the very reason why we are going to be attacked, which is punishment for not having the moral character to do anything about it. Instead we leave our job up to the other members of the Democrat Party, who many are suffering from the syndrome themselves and due to that cannot throw the first stone, always dismiss the one amoung them who gets caught. And they do this with the knowledge that we the people have been left out of the loop, as we have the protection of our own land South of the border, and being that way just forgive the erring member and let him go back to doing what he was doing before he was caught.
Do you think for a second that Nancy Pelosi is really going to hold a real investigation into Weiner's offence? No. She has already declared that this investigation is only about whether or not he used government phones or computers to communicate with his victims. She is not concerned about the transgression itself and whether or not he has violated his moral oath of office. Of course there is nothing in his oath about not becoming involved with women he doesn't know for sexual reasons, so he's off the hook there. That is why Pelosi isn't going to fool around with finding Weiner unfit for office because look at Barney Frank. He's been busted twice, once for having a boy friend who was running a male prostitution ring out of Franks basement, and this last time Frank's boy friend was busted dealing dope out the back door of Frank's house. But Franks was found "innocent" on both counts by a Democrat investigation committee, and I guess the cops were in there somewhere, because there was a $50,000 fine for something, I don't remember what. Frank was also not found guilty for wreaking the economy with his cover up of the condition of Freddie/Fannie to and nothing happen to him.
But all this is the reason why Muslims hate our guts and want to kill us and that is because we aren't a moral country. Of course the real underlying reason they want to kill us is because they hate everyone who doesn't want to be Muslims. The saying "I'm not a racist, I hate everyone equally." applies to them.
Weiner will be found not guilty(of using government phones or computers to carry on with women he doesn't know for sexual reason's) and will be sent back to the Congress so he can take up where he left off being the attack dog for Pelosi and Company.
shipley130| 6.11.11 @ 3:28PM
Glad to hear that problems are no longer GW Bush's fault. Now it's Bill Clinton's fault. Yeaaahhhh!
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mzk| 6.14.11 @ 5:55AM
Well, one thing good came out of this. Turns out Weiner isn't Jewish, after all.
YAY!
Christian Louboutin | 6.23.11 @ 5:39AM
Clinton was the first known sufferer of the syndrome, hence his eponymous relation to it. It struck him in the mid-1990s, though for him it was not so bad.
joseph | 7.21.11 @ 4:52PM
Anyone who can write a book called Social Democracies failure in Britain , must be your typical ignorant stereotypical American.(sorry, I'm British:)--so, I'll be deleted because I'm "Bigoted" I guess..