Politicians: What Could They Be Thinking?

Representative Anthony Weiner's skinny anatomy is now plastered all over the Internet, after he claimed he didn't know if the first picture was of him. Setting aside the idiocy of his disclaimer, he is now clearly an arrogant liar. The honorable course for him would be to resign from Congress and then, if he cares to, run for election and let the voters decide if they want him back in Washington. (Actually, many of the voters might want to send him back to the capital if only to get him out of their neighborhood.)

Weiner is only the latest among a depressing coterie of politicians who seem to think they are above the law and the normal conventions of behavior. A senator solicited sex from a man in a Minneapolis airport restroom and claimed he just had a "wide stance" on the toilet. Let me just say, when a man has his pants around his ankles he doesn't have a "wide stance." Another congressman posted an email proposition to an underage page, thinking the message would never see the light of day.

What was going through their tiny minds?

Which brings us to Sarah Palin's incoherent version of American history, her garbled explanation of Paul Revere's ride. At first she said Revere was riding to warn the British, ringing bells as he went. Then she tried to cover her original gaffe by explaining he wanted to warn the British that the Americans were ready for them. At best that would make Revere a time-server, and at worst a traitor. In either case he wouldn't in any way deserve the praise successive generations have given him.

So, we have an arrogant liar and an ignoramus. I think I'll spend the day looking at Loony Tunes.