Congessman David Wu decides to resign, in response to allegations of sexual misconduct with 18 year old girl.

Months ago, Wu sent the lead image above of himself in a tiger suit to a female staffer in his campaign using his congressional Blackberry. The message contained no text, just the photo of Wu dressed like a tiger.

Courtesy of the Christian Science Monitor:

Rep. David Wu (D) of Oregon announced Tuesday that he will resign his seat, after allegations of an unwanted sexual encounter with a young woman.

“The well-being of my children must come before anything else,” said Representative Wu in a statement. 

“With great sadness, I therefore intend to resign effective upon the resolution of the debt-ceiling crisis," said Wu, who was elected to Congress in 1998 as the first Chinese-American in the House.

On Friday, Wu's hometown newspaper, The Oregonian, broke the story about his alleged encounter with an 18-year-old over Thanksgiving weekend last year. Wu told his senior aides that the encounter was consensual, the story reports.

This is what the Oregonian reported over the weekend:

A distraught young woman called U.S. Rep. David Wu's Portland office this spring, accusing him of an unwanted sexual encounter, according to multiple sources. 

When confronted, the Oregon Democrat acknowledged a sexual encounter to his senior aides but insisted it was consensual, the sources said. 

The woman is the daughter of a longtime friend and campaign donor. She apparently did not contact police at the time. 

One person who heard the voice mail described the woman as upset, breathing heavily and "distraught."
 
In the voice mail, the young woman accused Wu of aggressive and unwanted sexual behavior, according to sources with direct knowledge of the message and its contents. 

Reporters could not verify the young woman's age. Notes on Facebook over the past 18 months indicate she graduated from high school in 2010. California records show she registered to vote in August. 

I got a lot of flack back when I was saying that Anthony Weiner needed to resign, because people were arguing that what he did was consensual and not even really sex.  I imagine this time everybody will agree that Rep. Wu simply needs to leave office as soon as possible.

Personally I do not think he will be of much use in getting past this debt ceiling crisis, but he is definitely giving his party a black eye as long as he stays around in his role as a Democratic Congressman.

I do not know the full story here, and of course everybody is innocent until proven guilty, but my instincts tell me that this girl is the more believable party. Which means to me that Wu is potentially a VERY bad guy, and he needs to not only leave politics but to face charges of rape or sexual assault.

When it comes to hurting young women, ideology does not even enter the equation. I don't care if you are a Democrat or a Republican, if you are a predator you need to pay for your crimes.

Keith Olbermann predicts John Boehner might be at the center of the NEXT political sex scandal.

(Video courtesy of Mediaite)

Just in case you are not aware of the scandal that Olbermann is eluding to, you can simply visit the National Enquirer to learn more.

Oh and this one involves ACTUAL sex.

Gee I wonder how quickly the GOP will call for Boehner's resignation when THIS starts receiving national attention..

Yeah, don't hold your breath.

Yesterday Sarah Palin stood in the middle of her glass house throwing stones like a maniac.

Yesterday Sister Sarah decided to double dip into the Roger Ailes goodie bag and made two paid appearances on Fox News as a "political consultant." Once on the Sean Hannity show, and then again, with her on Fox Business.

During the Hannity segment (which you can see in its entirety here, if you so desire) the Grizzled Mama was in a clearly agitated state. She went after President Obama with teeth bared, insinuated that Newt Gingrich only apologised to appease the "Lamestream" media (When in actuality it was the CONSERVATIVES who pressured him to do so), and called David Gregory a racist, and essentially left a circle of scorched earth behind when she finally stumbled off camera.

However it was perhaps this response to the trumped up allegation that Nancy Pelosi's district had been given unfair latitude when it came to instituting the Affordable Health Care plan where Palin got REALLY ugly, and also REALLY hypocritical. (H/T to Media Matters for the video.)



"Tight faced lie?"  Is that a shot at Nancy Pelosi's forays into plastic surgery?

Doesn't that smack of a certain tone deaf hypocrisy, considering Palin's own obvious cosmetic surgery procedures?  And how does that affect a certain ex-DWTS contestant's  self esteem?

 Or does Bible Spice Barbie now suddenly embrace the idea of evolution, but only as it applies to the evolving look of Bristol's face?

Yet just when you think that Klondike Kardashian might need some more plastic surgery of her own to remove that foot from her mouth, she appears on Fox Business, where she continues to chew up the furniture and drops a huge steaming pile of "opinion" behind for the Fox News janitors, and apologists, to clean up. (Video courtesy of Politico.)



Let me get this straight.  She "feels badly" for HIS children? What about how HER children felt when they learned about her affair with Todd's old business partner Brad Hanson? Or Todd's sex-capades with a prostitute? 

And it "is really a pretty disgusting thing that he did in pretty much denying that he had a child for ten years?" Seriously?

But what about Todd's love child? 

The boy is much older than Arnold's "love child," and the scandal has been kept secret for a much, much longer period of time. (Yes I realize that both of these stories are currently only covered by blogs and the National Enquirer, but fear not they might very well reach a much wider audience in the near future.)

All in all it appears that Sister Sarah was on hypocritical overload yesterday. I have to wonder if she realizes that these soundbites will live forever, and might very well come back to bite her on her wrinkled ass in the not too distant future?

What am I saying?  This is Sarah Palin, she literally has no idea the damage that she does to herself every single time she opens that lipstick saturated maw of hers.  And if she did, would she really be this entertaining to watch self destruct?