David Wu Resigns from Congress

Rep. David Wu, D-Ore., has announced that he would resign from Congress after allegations of sexual misconduct with an underage girl. It could not come soon enough since his big spending voting record has helped put America in a financial tailspin.

Thanksgiving no-no

Wu’s resignation follows after reports emerged that the girls’s father, a friends and a campaign donor, had accused the congressman of a sexual encounter with is daughter during Thanksgiving. Wu might have been the cause for the family to have a bad Thanksgiving, but millions of Americans were suffering as they struggled to make their mortgage payments and had to deal with foreclosure lawyers. Wu, 56, is said to have confessed to his aides about the incident but denied that he had forced it in anyway (not a good situation).

7 Year Reign

The Congressman will also face a formal ethics investigation, as the House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, had called for it. Describing his post as a Congressman, “the greatest privilege of my life,” he ended his 7-year term. He cannot name one job that he brought to Oregon but he can list a lot of people who now benefit from his entitlement programs and have no reason to seek work because people like Wu and Pelosi will take care of them.

Family Troubles

Hinting that his resignation wasn’t a confession, he said that he couldn’t care for his family while fighting the allegations and serving in Congress. He said that the well-being on his children came first. Tragically, despite their parents best wishes, many children have experienced financial troubles having watched their parents deal with foreclosure lawyers and lose their jobs. Wu is the third Congressman to be hit by the allegations. Making it seem, almost the order of the day - like the mortgage crisis and the demand for foreclosure lawyers. Earlier in the year, Rep. Christopher Lee, R-N.Y., resigned after inappropriate e-mails and indecent photos of the Congressman sent to a woman on Craigslist were made public. The Weiner-gate Scandal is of course, infamous and will never be forgotten.