“.@RepWeiner told hold presser today at 4 pm ET in NYC… Response to Ryan Medicare proposal?” Jake Tapper tweets.
This should be fun, no matter how it breaks.
Update: At the Tatler, Bryan Preston notes, “ABC News has interviewed the woman who handed the pics over to Breitbart. So yeah, it may be end game time.”
Update: Video at Weasel Zippers: “The View’s Barbara Walters thinks maybe Anothy Weiner took the crotch sot to send to his wife to show her how much he misses her.”
You went full Rosie, Barbara. Never go full Rosie.
Update: While we’re waiting for Weiner to emerge, Allahpundit speculates that he’s not going anywhere:
Most people on Twitter think he’ll resign. I don’t. He’s too ambitious to fall on his sword this early, too arrogant to believe he can’t survive it, and too beloved by the left not to think they’ll rally behind him if he refuses to bow before the Evil Wingnuts. As Matt Yglesias recently noted, plenty of politicians have survived sex scandals and thrived afterwards; the key is simply to hang in there, endure a week or two of humiliation, and hope your partisan pals come to your aid. The one hitch for Weiner is that there could be tons more pics, sexts, and e-mails still out there and waiting to surface. If he hangs on, he simply invites more revelations. In fact, as I write this, ABC is apparently getting ready to broadcast an interview with the woman who received the bare-chested pics of Weiner. If he lies low for, say, a month, maybe he can hang on. That’s how I’m going to bet — that he walks out there a half hour for now, admits to “lapses in judgment,” and asks for privacy while he seeks “counseling” and tries to rebuild his marriage.
We’ll know in about 20 minutes.
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