Speaker Emerita: Nancy's iPhone

Washington Post has a new profile on Nancy Pelosi's difficult transition back to Minority Leader and ambitions to win back the Speakership. It's basically just an update about a political personality that we already know well. And if the anecdotes about Pelosi's storied personal touch in politicking and her aggressive defense of her record sound familiar, it's because they're vintage Pelosi. The only real news is buried at the end of the story: Pelosi got an iPhone and plays Angry Birds. That, and DCCC fundraising completely dried up during the scandal over Anthony Weiner's predilections for hot, raunchy, and gratuitously political cybersex.

Weinergate

House Minority Leader (our Speaker Emerita) Nancy Pelosi has called for a formal ethics investigation into Anthony "Aptly Named" Weiner's after he owned up to the tweet depicting his throbbing hard penis . Ethics panel investigations have traditionally been used to buy time for embattled members in hopes that a serious scandal blows over by the time the committee issues its report. However, for Weenie's own floor leader to fan the flames at such a difficult moment really ramps up the pressure for him to resign immediately, and suggests the Democratic leadership considers it cleaner to nip this scandal at the bud.

The Weiner story has legs, and the Dem leadership is giving him a little nudge in front of a barreling bus.

Belated Non-DILF News

By now, anyone with an internet connection has gotten wind of Congressman Anthony "Aptly Named" Weiner's (D-NY) Twitter flap. A suggestive image of his bulge was broadcast from his Twitter account to a young girl. Weiner says his account was hacked by someone giving him a hard time for his name. Even though he's not a DILF in the strictest sense of the word, and I initially dismissed the whole episode as a non-story, this thing has picked up steam as Weenie's explanations went from opaque to downright suspicious. After refusing to comment on the Weinergate scandal, he inexplicably made a 180 and hit the press circuit. Asked by Rachel Maddow and Wolf Blitzer if he could deny that he was the man in the photo, Weenie dug himself deeper and deeper, ducking the question and then suggesting that the photo was doctored.

Bizarre behavior for a veteran spokesman of the national Democratic Party and a NYC mayoral aspirant.