{"id":10639,"date":"2011-06-10T12:48:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T12:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/06\/10\/why-doesnt-anthony-weiner-quit\/"},"modified":"2011-06-10T12:48:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T12:48:05","slug":"why-doesnt-anthony-weiner-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/06\/10\/why-doesnt-anthony-weiner-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Doesn’t Anthony Weiner Quit?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or:  Why does he stick it out?  One reason is that he's a Dem and Dems as a group, when compared to Republicans as a group, are shameless.  But the main reason is very simple<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Weiner has also complained to friends that he wasn\u2019t sure how he would make a living if he were to leave Congress and its $174,000 annual salary. "He\u2019s worried about money and how to pay his bills," said a Democratic insider. "He\u2019s very concerned about that."<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

$174,000!  To do what?  Basically to perpetuate a system whose main goal is the protection of its members' own power, privileges, and perquisites. For far too many pols these days government is nothing more than their hustle, a hustle like any other.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet another argument for limited government. <\/span><\/p>\n

When it comes to Weiner's 'sexting' of his love engine, bigger is better.  But when it comes to government, bigger is not <\/em>better.  Wise up, liberals.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or:  Why does he stick it out?  One reason is that he's a Dem and Dems as a group, when compared to Republicans as a group, are shameless.  But the main reason is very simple: Weiner has also complained to friends that he wasn\u2019t sure how he would make a living if he were to … Continue reading “Why Doesn’t Anthony Weiner Quit?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}