No Cause For Alarm In NY Rep. Posting, Lying About Lewd Pictures On Internet?

As even more of her fellow Washington Democrats join Republican calls for disgraced U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner’s (D-NY) resignation, liberal U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) disagrees, instead insisting that Weiner’s decision to post a lewd photo of himself on a publicly accessible internet site is just “a personal problem.”

So far, according to Politico, a growing list of top Democrats – including former DNC Chairmen Tim Kaine and Ed Rendell, U.S. Senators Pat Leahy (D-VT) and Mark Pryor (D-AR), and U.S. Reps. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA), Mike Ross (D-AR), Larry Kissell (D-NC), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Niki Tsongas (D-MA), Michael Michaud (D-ME) and Joe Donnelly (D-IN) – are all calling for Weiner to resign.  But McCaskill disagrees.

Notably, McCaskill declared just a few months ago that “[t]here’s nothing that irritates Americans more than the fact that some members of Congress think they are entitled to their own set of rules. And it’s true – too many people in Washington live in an alternate reality. It’s time for that to stop.”

“What happened to the Claire McCaskill who demanded high ethical standards from public officials?  Is she changing her tune after failing to pay more than $300,000 in taxes on her private plane?” asked National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Chris Bond.