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As more portraits of the artist as a young Weiner appear on the Web, the body politic becomes increasingly frustrated. President Obama said he would retire under the circumstances. Nancy Pelosi can’t get rid of him.

McClatchy Newspapers reports that a majority of voters in Weiner’s Queens-Brooklyn congressional district think he should stay in office. But Weiner’s New York is not the New York City where Grant rests nor where the Roosevelts shook the world for more than 100 years. Nor is it Isaac Bashevis Singer's or even Yogi Berra’s or Ralph Kramden’s. It is Mick Jagger’s and Jean Genet’s and Bill Clinton’s.

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