Matthews: Weiner in Trouble Because His Behavior Offends 'Culturally Backward' Christian Conservatives

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527023043927045763760210023665… Peggy Noonan

Of course he should resign—or, better, and as a statement, the House should remove him. I speak as a conservative who wishes to conserve. If I were speaking as a Republican I’d say, “By all means keep him, let him taint all your efforts.”

But sometimes all of Washington has to put up its hand up like a traffic cop and say no. It has to say: That doesn’t go here, it’s not acceptable, it’s not among the normal human transgressions of back stairs, love affairs and the congressman on the take. This is decadence. It is pornography. We can’t let the world, and the young, know it’s “politically survivable.” Because that will hurt us, not him, and define us, not him. So: enough.

But I guess he would have a hard time earning an honest living:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/can_afford_to_quit_the_dc_d…] Weiner can’t afford to quit the DC day job

Unlike many of his peers in the House, Weiner doesn’t have a business or even a law degree to fall back on.

Weiner, 46, took home $156,117 in 2010, according to his federal tax returns released by his staff.

His humiliated wife, Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, earned $154,000 in 2009, federal records show.

He owes between $10,000 and $15,000 on his American Express card, according to his most recent financial-disclosure forms.

If he steps down, he could grovel to cable TV execs for talking-head “analyst” gigs that hopefully pay more than the $825 he gets for appearing on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.”

But with Weiner’s reputation in ruins, other lucrative jobs may be hard to get.

“He would most likely have to go to friends in the business sector, but he doesn’t have a financial background,” said political consultant Joseph Mercurio.