Not sure that this is going to go down very well with the good women of PA. I feel like this takes the story into campaign fodder territory.
Oh, so you’re saying she asked for it?
Well, that explains everything.
Not the way you think, but it does explain everything.
Zip it, resign, and start counseling with your wife if you value your marriage, pal, because talking is not your friend. This kind of victim-blaming has gone out of fashion a bit and you’re making your situation much worse.
I haven’t been following this all that closely. Has this guy decided he wants to spend more time with his family yet?
That’s the best advice anyone could give him.
Can you imagine this guy’s wife, hearing that?
I sure hope she’s moved out and taken all the valuables with her. Or at least changed the locks.
Oh, well, here we are again at the GOP game book: if bluster doesn’t work, start the slut shaming.
“But we were soul mates,” Meehan said. “I think that the idea of soul mate is that sort of person that you go through remarkable experiences together.”
Geez, that's what doing peyote and jumping out of an airplane satisfies. Benign office flirtations are so passé.Sure she did. And we are to believe this because you are in Congress? Sad.
I say hand him a shovel
Let him keep digging if he’s so stupid as to not know when to STFU
Absolutely. But I agree with @mattinpa. I just don’t think this works like it used to. He’s actually reproducing the kind of behavior that landed him in trouble in the first place.
Victimizer plays victim, after payoff. “The serpent beguiled me…” Hilarious!
Good grief. Your story is “She was asking for it?”
Yeah, how’s the view from that hole, anyway?
Yeah she didn’t scream and run away right off the bat. I always that that as an invitation.
Wow this dude has some issues.
It is one thing to be bitter and frustrated and feel that things were not entirely your fault and that there was some chemistry that helped to propel this situation along …
BUT - If you are so stupid that you say this out loud at this point - you need to pack your things and go away - now - before you make an even bigger fool of your delusional self.
“…and reacted badly when she told him she was in a relationship because he was stressed about the Obamacare repeal effort.”
Everything really IS Obama’s fault!
ETA:
Meehan said he “developed an affection” for the aide but told her that he was “happily married” and “not interested in a relationship, particularly not any sexual relationship” and remained loyal to his wife.
“But we were soul mates,” Meehan said. “I think that the idea of soul mate is that sort of person that you go through remarkable experiences together.”
Wha?
He apparently thought that voting against repeal would help cement his relationship with her. It wasn’t because it was the right thing to do in his seriously blue leaning and yet very gerrymandered district. Yes, I agree, he should stop talking because everything he says just makes it look worse and worse.
This here’s a man who should stop explaining.
Apologize to the woman (if she hasn’t already filed a restraining order against him).
Apologize to his wife and kids (if they haven’t already filed a restraining order against him).
Then shut up about it and hope like hell.
He said soul mates in one email and “complete partners” in another. He said he used those terms because he thought they were a sign of respect. If I lived in his district I would be wondering if he suffers from early dementia at this point.