Thinks We Need Detectives To Find Out If Weiner Disgraced Office

As even more of his fellow Washington Democrats join Republican calls for disgraced U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner’s (D-NY) resignation, liberal U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy (D-CT) disagrees, instead demanding that taxpayers fund a lengthy, costly investigation of Weiner’s lewd online behavior.

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 not Murphy…

As the Associated Press reports, Murphy disagrees, instead backing “an ethics probe into Weiner’s admission that he posted a lewd photo of himself on Twitter,” a public website.  Meanwhile voters in Murphy’s divisive Democratic primary battle against Susan Bysiewicz (D-CT) are left wondering where the liberal former Secretary of State stands on this issue.

“Does Chris Murphy really think taxpayers should have to foot the bill for a costly investigation into whether his friend Anthony Weiner disgraced the Congress?” asked National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Chris Bond.  “And since Murphy wants Weiner to stay in office, at least for a while, where is Susan Bysiewicz on this issue?”