mistake. so will congressman weiner survive and stay in congress or will he be forced to resign? let s turn it over to our radio rumble. joining us from orlando, mark brunier, from san francisco robert thompson and here in new york, loose cannon. for you, is he going to step down or is this the end of this for weiner? he s not going to step down, the voters will decide in new york. i mean, he made a bad choice. the thing that bothered me was he never shows the regret that said he was going to get some help. this guy needs some help. he s got a major problem and he ll stay and the voters will end up deciding. probably survive this. don t forget, it s new york. there s an ethics committee, though, and that s congress. robert, what do you think? i think he needs to resign. folks are looking for leadership in congress, they re not looking for people wasting their time taking dunk shots and sending them off and tweeting them. they want people out there really focused in on getting
bottom. everybody is trying to concentrate on let s change the administration, let s change congress. let s get more ethical people in. no, let s start at the bottom. let s make sure our families are right. let s make sure our communities is right. our educational system is right. you change all those things and the top automatically changes. washington said be people of virtue. this guy is as far away as people can get. glenn, the job report came out on friday. the administration has been on its heels. he promised us it would never go over 8%. it s not over 8%. pay no attention to those numbers you re seeing. so my math is bad. having said that and i apologize that. you got the bad math from the last administration. 9.1% unemployment right now so the president sat down and essentially said this to struggling americans. we were on the verge of going into a great depression, i mean, the auto example was one example of what could have happened in the financial sector, what co
said i m going to stick it out. that s one option. it s a bad option. he s going to tough it out. this is the rangel rope-a-dope. the only one to talk to him in the congress is charlie rangel. he s a marked man. it s a pariah corner. that s a bad option. what s the second option? patrick kennedy did, you said. patrick kennedy, this is a modified mia copa, he crashed a car into a barricade on capitol hill. he said i suffer from depression, addiction to painkillers. he went to the mayo clinic and he came back to congress, stayed a little while. i think this guy has too much baggage. i mean, the media are on him. he s got other women in the woodwork. what he ought to do, it seems to me, what i would recommend is that he just get out. he take time off, he resign from the congress, he say i m sick. he does what tiger woods did, what david duchovney did and say i have a sex addiction, i m going to get treated.
look at senator david vitter who admitted to crossing interstate lines to patronize prostitutes, a felony. they re both sitting in congress. i don t think what he admitted to yesterday and what we know about him is sufficient to expel him but the political pressure for him to go could become enormous. the president has crazy dreams about taking back a majority in the house in 2012. they cannot afford to have someone like this running with them when the side show, this distraction will cause the voters to think about his personal behavior instead of his political views. so you ultimately believe that he will under pressure resign but some people are still talking about the criminal charges and one of the things with regard to using his government office phone. let s listen to his defense of that. i m going to try to tell you everything that i can remember was my blackberry is not a government blackberry. my home computer is usually where i did these things. i don t have the knowledg
but then and his explanation yesterday was as many people who are involved in cover-ups, i didn t want to disappoint my wife and my family and i was trying to keep them out of there. will there be an investigation now? remember when nancy pelosi was speaker of the house she made the call for having the cleanest congress ever. some people call that into question when she was actually speaker but she stepped up to the plate immediately yesterday and said this. i m deeply disappointed and saddened about this situation for anthony s wife, his family, his staff and his constituents. iep calling for an ethics committee investigation to determine whether any official resources were used for any other violation of house rules occurred. he said he saw nancy pelosi right before he went on and at which time he was going to go forward with it. word is they don t get along anyway and she s going to move ahead with an ethics investigation. don t see a republican in sight. this is democrat on dem