Jon Stewart, Democrats Agree Weiner's To Blame For House Loss

The 9th District's new representative in Congress, Bob Turner, will be sworn in today, and his fellow Republicans are interpreting his special election victory as A SIGN that Obama is a one term president. Former Mayor Ed Koch, whose endorsement of Turner was pivotal, is also reading the tea leaves, and says Obama would have to be "pretty blind" not to get the message that the Jewish vote is up for grabs. "Now the president knows he cannot take the Jewish vote for granted," Koch told the Post yesterday, suggesting that Democrat David Weprin lost because of Obama's Israel policy. Jon Stewart, on the other hand, blamed Anthony Weiner's "self portrait."

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Other local Democrats agree that Weprin's loss is so totally NOT A SIGN that their Obama-enhanced hegemony is coming to an end, so shut up you guys. "The bottom line is it’s not a bellwether district," Senator Chuck Schumer told ABC. "Anybody that tries to extrapolate between what’s happened in this district and what would happen in New York City, New York state or the country is making a big mistake." And Obama spokesperson Jay Carney told reporters yesterday, "Special elections are often unique and their outcomes do not tell you very much about future regularly scheduled elections. [But] if you're asking me, are Americans in general anxious [and] not happy with Washington? The answer is yes."

What seems fairly certain is that Turner's district—which has been solidly Democratic for more than 80 years—isn't going to be around much longer because of census-mandated congressional redistricting. That will be decided in Albany at some point next year, when the state must get rid of two House seats. And in a neat bit of "sex" scandal symmetry, political analysts tell the Daily News that "Turner's seat and one upstate—likely the seat the Democrats won earlier this year after GOP former Rep. Christopher Lee resigned after posting shirtless photos on craigslist—would be chopped."

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By John Del Signore in News on September 15, 2011 9:45 AM

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rnrnys

I re-read this article.

So let me see if I got it staright.

The Jewish Jon Stewart claims that Jewish disgust over the actions of the Jewish Anthony Weiner led Jewish voters to vote against the Jewish candidate Weprin and the Jewish Debbie Wasserman Schultz agrees?

Whoa! Seems like you need the Catholic Bob Turner to sort this all out.

AndySydor

I blame Nancy Pelosi. When the GOP had a worse sex scandal with David Vitters, they held the course, supported Vitters right to run for re-election, (and his constituents right to decide whether or not he should continue to serve) and Vitters is still serving as Senator. When Larry Craig was caught tap-dancing in a public restroom, they let him serve out his term, which gave them time to get a better candidate. Pelosi put a seat in peril when she didn't have to. Frankly, both Pelosi and Reid are doing a lousy job as party leaders. I wish they would both resign.

rnrnys

Weiner's resignation set up the election for Turner to win. Weprin didn't even live in the district he ran in. How is that right? And I think Koch is correct because the jewish vote didn't go to the jewish candidate as you would expect.

The GOP will give up Turners seat and the Dems will give up the 26th, and all the incumbants on both side can rest easy.

But watch how the Dems in Albany carve up the 9th district so that the jewish vote will not be a factor in 2012 like it was on Tuesday. I can only hope that the local jewish politicians see this coming and act to head it off. Don't count on Schumer, Engel or Ackerman to help out here though.

jamieob256

The Dems, of which I am one, lost the seat because they had a weak candidate.

onceler

What a blowhard Ed Koch is. It really does not speak well of him that he fans the flames of the Israel/Palestine conflict over small electoral matters. His contention that Obama is anti-Israel is downright despicable. He is a small, hateful man.

rnrnys

I think Koch is absolutely right. Does anyone really believe that Obama will come to the aid of Israel in a crisis?

my2apples

weiner did not hurt anyone, only himself. we want politicians to be angels but they are not. they are humans like anyone else.

Spirit of 76

Actually, he also hurt his wife and family, but that's not for the voters to punish.

Guest

apparently it is, because that's exactly what happened.

Spirit of 76

That's what happened, but that's not what should have happened. Vote him in or out by what kind of political leadership he provides. It just proves again that the electorate is by and large a bunch of idiots, but we already knew that from the slew of Tea Party hardliners who were elected to change the system but who have instead settled comfortably in with the special interests.

Guest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

me4

unretrofiedforu,
I'm a townie from Kew Gardens, and I agree.

I didn't vote, but if I did it would be to slap the hand that took Weiner out of power.

He did his job and represented us townies well.

We need another townie.

SPsGhost

Too bad you didn't vote, jackass.

unretrofiedforu

Exactly.

The 9th district, I grew up there. All of my oldest friends are there. I've lived there for 20 years.

When you talk about people in this part of NYC only one word should come to mind: TOWNIE.

These are people that have been there many generations, with their 2 family homes, hanging out in bars from Myrtle Ave to Woodhaven Blvd. Hell, a lot of the kids my age still haven't left Rego Park yet.

They do not understand the many levels in modern life and politics. This was simply because the douche couldn't keep his dick in his pants.