The president of the United States has spoken. So have all the top leaders of the Democratic Party.
Their message, delivered loud and clear: Anthony — it’s time to go.
So what exactly is Anthony Weiner — now safely incommunicado in an undisclosed rehab facility — waiting for?
The return today of his humiliated wife, Huma Abedin, from her trip abroad with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton?
What could Abedin possibly say beyond what President Obama, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, et al. have already said — that is, that Weiner has lost all the respect and credibility necessary to remain in office?
“I can tell you that if it was me, I would resign,” said Obama, who also happens to be the nation’s top Democrat.
Nothing ambiguous about that.
“I hope that with the president having spoken and some leaders in Congress speaking out that Congressman Weiner will . . . know that it’s in his best interests to leave Congress,” added Pelosi.
Nothing ambiguous about that, either.
Pelosi and other Democrats are clearly fretting about the political paralysis Weiner’s sexting scandal is causing them — even if she pretended yesterday that they were motivated by their “responsibility to our country to uphold a high ethical standard in the Congress.”
Please. They want to rid their party of a national political embarrassment — and who can blame them?
(Actually, Americans who’ve seen the damage Democrats have wrought — ObamaCare, persistent high unemployment, mushrooming debt — might prefer they were politically paralyzed.)
But Weiner’s continued service in Congress is also shameful for the nation at large.
And, as Obama himself made clear, the congressman’s days as a useful legislator are simply gone for good.
“When you get to the point where, because of various personal distractions, you can’t serve as effectively as you need to . . . then you should probably step back,” he said on Monday.
Anthony Weiner long ago passed the point of no return.
He should end the misery for the rest of us — and quit. Now.