Here’s the latest in kids’ superhero costumes for Halloween:  Weinerman!  Belt accessories include a cell phone with optional prophylactic cover for safe sexting.

Last week began disastrously for Weiner with the Breitbart disclosures and groveling apology on Monday, yet appeared to have ended on a positive note just in time for the Sunday talk shows.  Starting Thursday night, Chris Matthews labeled Weiner critics “backwards Christian conservatives”, and then on Friday came the Make-Believe Media’s PR blitz of no fewer than three upbeat articles affirming that Weiner’s constituents supported him, that history supported him, and that Democrat leadership supported him.

But then the story broke of an underage Weiner correspondent - a 17 year old girl.  Oh my, what a difference a year makes.  And what an embarrassment to CNN’s sanctimonious scolding of Andrew Breitbart for earlier suggesting such a possibility.  The underage girl, who referred to Weiner as “my true love”in a message, was told by Weiner  “I came back strong.  Large.  Tights and cape.” This superhero imagery surfaced in an email with yet another woman who asked Weiner if he was “busy saving my country from this f****** tea baggers”, to which he replied, “Yep.  Cape.  Tights.  Looking for my sidekick.” He apparently even has his very own fortress of solitude:  the congressional gym complete with requisite mirrors for self-portrait snapshots.

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Charlie Rangel (D, Tammany Hall), under a long-gathering ethical storm, knows the game is just about over:

It doesn’t even sound like MSNBC, asking these dumb questions.

We’ll miss Cholly, the owner of one of the great Manhattan accents, now almost extinct. But as long as we’re on the subject of how Charlie got his job in the first place… (more…)

Third of a series.  Find parts one here and two here.

Martha Coakley is caught making false statements on financial disclosure form, does not report  $262,000 in assets.

Now this is a story that only Charles Rangel could love.  One of Coakley’s selling points among the plutocratic liberals of the greater Boston area is that she’s honest, since unlike a lot of other politicians, she doesn’t seem to have enriched herself unduly while “serving” at the public trough.  As proof, she’s offered her financial-disclosure statements.

Oops!  From the Boston Globe last November:

Coakley admits to federal filing error

Attorney General Martha Coakley, the state’s top lawyer, acknowledged yesterday that she improperly filled out a federal financial disclosure she submitted to the US Senate as part of her candidacy in the special election.

The Globe reported yesterday that Coakley was the only candidate, in disclosures due to the Senate by this week, to report that neither she nor her spouse had any reportable financial asset worth more than $1,000.

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