It’s hardly surprising that the mosque controversy has reduced some of the political world’s most notorious publicity hounds to a state of abject silence.
Like the normally verbose Sen. Chuck Schumer, who always has a position on something, especially on Sundays — but will only say, through a spokesman, that he “doesn’t oppose” the mosque.
And then there’s Schumer’s acolyte, the sometimes frighteningly volatile Rep. Anthony Weiner, who insists that it would literally be unconstitutional for him to render an opinion on the mosque.
“I don’t believe a member of Congress should be weighing in on this stuff,” he said on MSNBC last week. “How is that not a violation of the clear separation of church and state?”
Huh?
Maybe he should clue in the White House — a presidential spokesman yesterday insisting that his boss “thinks that it’s his obligation to speak out when . . . issues of the Constitution arise.”
Says Weiner: “This is a dangerous place for a member of Congress to be.”
Politically dangerous, anyway.