The strange world of Curt Weldon, Pittsburg Post-Gazette

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The 10-term congressman from Pennsylvania just gets loopier and loopier, according to staff writer DENNIS RODDY

Curt Weldon's problems would be manageable if they were solely legal. Lots of congressmen are accused of trading on power to help their children, and in Washington, ethics is largely defined by whatever doesn't embarrass your colleagues into apology.

So when Mr. Weldon, a 10-term Republican from the Philadelphia suburbs who has made his reputation as a defense policy savant and well-wired player inside the party caucus, found himself publicly identified as the target of an FBI investigation last week, he did the usual: He called the timing suspicious, complained it was a political vendetta by the left and noted that he'd already been cleared by the inerrant House Ethics Committee.

But, in an interview with student reporters at the University of Pennsylvania, he also suggested that the goods against him were somehow tied to documents that former presidential adviser Sandy Berger smuggled out of the National Archives. It was a glimpse into what should have made voters in his district nervous some years ago: The Hon. Curtis Weldon, R-Pa., displays a worldview that just gets loopier and loopier.

In the span of four years, he has pinned an American flag medal on Moammar Gadhafi, declared the existence of a U.S. intelligence program that identified the 9/11 hijackers in advance but did nothing about it and sat with the Rev. Sun Myung Moon at a function that ended with the Rev. Moon being crowned "the True Parent" of the world. Mr. Moon expressed his gratitude for the accolade by revealing that he is The Messiah.

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1. Sure wish i had the green to buy the PG regularly

Articles like these give me hope that the brain-dead Trib readers won't take over this little piece of heaven.

BTW welcome to DU, our little safe haven of sanity