The Real Weenie

Roll Call's Daily Briefing had an interesting take this morning after the scheduling of scumbag Anthony's Weiner's press conference for this afternoon to announce his resignation. It reveals a little more about this pathetic figure:

"IT’S OVER: Anthony Weiner will face the cameras in Sheepshead Bay at 2 to officially announce his resignation, effective immediately.

Last night he finally bowed to the great truism of his three-week sexting scandal: When your president and your favorite porn star agree that it’s time for you to go, then it’s long past time for you to go. He called Pelosi to tell her he was ready to face the music, and word leaked out at about 9:15 today. The most telegenic sign this morning that the big New York tabloid sex-and-politics feeding frenzy of 2011 was coming to its climax: A couple of box-toting Weiner interns emerged from 2104 Rayburn, turned off the reception-area lights and closed the door behind them. Then came the Daily News web headline, “Weiner’s Cooked,” and the New York Post crawl, “Randy rep tells members of Congress that he will quit.”

Weiner — who, for the record, is a 46-year-old married man, an expectant father and until a few days ago one of the most articulate liberal voices in the House — has never delighted his Democratic colleagues more than he will by leaving them. The lobbyists who had to visit with him because he was on the Energy and Commerce Committee, likewise. His in-your-face style, long on confrontation and short on subtlety, may have worked to make him an effective rhetorical warrior in the well of the House, and that stereotypical New York affect helped keep him popular in Brooklyn and Queens.

But he wasn’t in any way personally popular in the cloakroom, where even his genuine defensive prowess and aggressive base running in the annual Roll Call baseball game were derided as so much showboating. And lobbyists in the past days have told myriad tales about having to hold their tongues in combustible meetings with Weiner — only to be solicited by his political aides for a big campaign donation just a few minutes after the meeting ended. (Ask around and you’ll soon hear tales of the Juniors Most Fabulous Cheesecake shakedown.)

Gov. Andrew Cuomo will now get to call a special election to fill the seat — probably with a placeholder because the other Democrats in the city’s delegation will move to gobble up parts of the 9th District in redistricting. And, no, Weiner won’t be able to pull a fast one like resigning and then running to get his old job back. Not even he has that much chutzpah left."