politician who spoke in defence of the downtrodden
fairly often.
Well, in SMSs, this fella, Weiner, tended to show his
eponymous member to young ladies. So, boom goes
the career.
Now, he has a lot of guts for trying again, but he's a
wise player and what you'll read below is an indication
of just how wise he is.
His profound idea, that a middle class is necessary,
for an economy, for bankers and for government, it is
the way that he puts it across that has garnered
respect from none other than Joshua Brown,
the Reformed Broker. Josh is jokingly pushing for
a political ticket in 2016 of Weiner and the Justice
Blind Guy, Eric Holder. Paired as Weiner Holder.
Holder has shown himself good at holding his
own weiner and that of criminal bankers, so why not?
Checkit: Joshua
M Brown
The
Weiner Doctrine
June
4th, 2013
I'm
no longer a Manhattanite - after a decade of inflicting that upon myself, I packed
up the family and escaped to the suburban nightmare I grew up in rather than
pursuing the claustrophobic keeping-up-with-the-Upper-East-Side- Joneses nightmare I had adopted in my twenties.
So,
no, I don't get to vote for NYC's next mayor...but I am interested.
Anthony
Weiner would be my candidate (if I had one). Don't get me wrong, I know he's an
unprincipled social climber and a poseur
who will be photographed with anyone and
pretend to care about anything if it makes him look good. Riding the subway, rolling up his sleeves
talking to the deli guy, shaking hands with ethnic people in all the boros,
riding a Citybike, etc - it's like a montage you see in a movie about political
campaigns.
But
I don't mind, I kind of like rooting for guys in his position to make a
comeback. After all, he wasn't an embezzler or a drug addict or taking bribes,
his penis never did anything to me...
Anyway, he did nail the current New York City economy this week at a candidates'
debate moderated by Fox News' Sally Kohn. Listen to this quote:
When Kohn asked the candidates to address
their views on economic equity in the city, Weiner was the last to speak, and
notably directed his response to the
audience in the room — a group of professionals on the 50th floor of Manhattan’s
Citigroup Center, a midtown skyscraper home to top hedge funds, consulting
shops, and law firms — rather than his colleagues on stage.
“Can I just pause at the idea that the average
New Yorker is poor today,” said Weiner. “So why should you care? You’re
successful people. You’re professionals. You’re doin’ okay. Your firms, your companies, cannot sustain
themselves just dealing with other rich people. You’re gonna run out of them
sooner or later — there’s only so many oligarchs who are gonna buy our apartments,
there are only so many millionaires who are gonna sue each other.”
Which is probably the most honest thing he
could have said in that room and something Bloomberg would never admit to out
loud. he could probably win with that concept as his doctrine, although there's
pretty much no solution for it given the way the national economy now works (trickle-down on steroids).
