Except...he was not 'suddenly' a powerful man when he did these things. Weiner has been a U.S. Congressman for 13 years and has seen many a colleague fall because of stupid behavior related to sex. You would think he'd have learned from the likes of Tiger Woods among others that photos/messages like this do not go away and can someday come back to haunt. Not only that, but phone sex in his office at the Capital and offering to use his office to help Ginger Whatshername handle the press. Blatantly attempting to ruin the reputation of others while denying what he knew was true, until there were suddenly too many pics out there. Weiner is an idiot. Always has been, but has now managed to top himself. Let him keep refusing to resign; we'll see how seriously he is taken in Congress and how his constituents feel in November 2012...if he can last that long. Let's see him try to run for NYC Mayor in 2013. If he really believes he can come back from this, then let's see him try.

Unless of course, he cannot bring himself to give up that 'power' he's held for 6 consecutive terms. It's probably easy to get used to. I pity him if he did not prepare himself for life after politics.