Anthony Weiner: “I tell my colleagues that the ultimate decider of this issue is not going to be the three of us. The ultimate decider…”

“I tell my colleagues that the ultimate decider of this issue is not going to be the three of us. The ultimate decider will be the numbers of people sending e-mails to [email protected] and who contact their elected officials who say, before you go anywhere on this, you should all understand there are some issues that still unify a country that is 50-50, and Social Security is one of them. The endearing beauty of the Social Security system is that across demographic lines, across political lines in all parts of this country, just about every American has a story within their family about how the Social Security has worked for them. Now, some of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle are famous for standing up in March against something and then meekly, no pun intended, in June, voting for it. We saw that with the Medicaid bill. But at the end of the day, if we get a sufficient number of calls or e-mails to [email protected], we are going to have the ability to say, you know what, this is pure politics now.”