{"id":5043,"date":"2011-06-08T03:13:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T10:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5043"},"modified":"2011-06-08T03:13:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T10:13:21","slug":"republican-hypocrites-on-weinergate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/08\/republican-hypocrites-on-weinergate\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Hypocrites on Weinergate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether or not you think Weiner should resign, I hope you are as disgusted by the flood of Republican hypocrites calling for his resignation as I am.  As scandals go, Weinergate doesn\u2019t hold a candle to many Republican examples, but when they do it, they don\u2019t seem to think it\u2019s the same, as I shall demonstrate.<\/font><\/p>\n

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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) is now calling on Democratic New York Rep. Anthony Weiner to resign, in the wake of Weiner’s admission on Monday that he has engaged in online sexual exchanges with younger women, and that he had lied about the matter for the past week after accidentally posting a public Tweet, intended to have been a direct message to a college student, of a photo of his underwear-clad crotch.<\/p>\n

"I don’t condone his activity. And I think he should resign<\/strong>," Cantor said after a Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Louisa, Virginia, the Charlottesville Daily Progress<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Cantor sang a completely different tune following Republican scandals.  <\/font>Rachel Maddow compares Republican responses to Weinergate and to more egregious Republican sex scandals.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

In my opinion, whether or not Weiner should resign will depend on the revelations that follow.  We can be sure that Republicans will plant women to come out of the woodwork and make claims.  There may also be authentic claims.  Everything should be investigated.  Nevertheless, Republicans must be exposed as the vile hypocrites they are.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whether or not you think Weiner should resign, I hope you are as disgusted by the flood of Republican hypocrites calling for his resignation as I am.  As scandals go, Weinergate doesn\u2019t hold a candle to many Republican examples, but when they do it, they don\u2019t seem to think it\u2019s the same, as I shall […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}