What a Weiner

Proof that it’s not just Republicans who can be major league assholes is Representative Anthony D. Weiner, as seen here:

WASHINGTON — It started as a routine conference call. But at some point during the call, Representative Anthony D. Weiner became furious, convinced that his scheduler had not given him a crucial piece of information.

His scheduler, John J. Graff, who was in the next room, suddenly heard the congressman yelling at him through the wall.

Then, Mr. Graff recalled, Mr. Weiner started pounding his fists on his desk, kicked a chair and unleashed a string of expletives.

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Mr. Weiner, a technology fiend who requires little sleep and rarely takes a day off, routinely instant messages his employees on weekends, often just one-word missives: “Teeth” (as in, your answer reminds me of pulling teeth) or “weeds” (as in, you are too much in the weeds). Never shy about belting out R-rated language, he enjoys challenging staff members on issues, even at parties.

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Staff members who go out of e-mail range for even a few hours sometimes risk rebuke. One described being unavailable once on a weekend afternoon and immediately calling the office after noticing a stream of increasingly exasperated e-mails among Mr. Weiner and his top lieutenants. A senior staff member curtly responded, “That’s why we have BlackBerrys.”

So this guy, who comes across as your typical asshole boss who thinks shouting makes for good management, has “no patience for bureaucracy” and expects you to be on call 24/7 whenever he gets a “brilliant” idea wants to become mayor of New York. It’ll be another Guliani style disaster.

Meanwhile, would it surprise you very much to learn that Weiner, according to Wikipedia, has been involved in some dodgy election fund raising, that he voted for the War on Iraq or that he tried to interfere with Columbia University about some of its staff’s opinions about Israel?