let tweeting dawgs lie

i used to have some sympathy for this idea that there's a difference between private lives and public functions, at least within limits (like: no fair being head of the imf and also an actual rapist). and i have admired weiner from time to time, patriot act vote among them. (and really the liberal dems had no more articulate spokesman.) but i think ultimately the leadership and the rest of the person are of a piece. you have to ask yourself: why does this person want power, and ought he to be entrusted with it, and what will he do with it once he has it? it's no use pretending that people do not come whole to their jobs.