iowa. but when you re in new york, you better mr. chairman, you better control that. well, i thought the whole thing was surreal from the very beginning but more importantly i thought yesterday shouldn t have happened. he should have just issued a statement, saved himself the embarrassment. but doesn t he owe it to the people that supported you? that s what i was wondering. when you have stood before them and lied so boldly and so forcefully for so long, at that point, owing them something, you ve already thrown that away. so the reality of it is, issue the statement, close your office down, and sneak into that goodnight as a soldier should. that s a very good point. house leader nancy pelosi welcome weiner s decision in a statement saying, congressman weiner exercised poor judgment in his actions and poor judgment in his reaction to the revelations. today he made the right judgment in resigning. meanwhile, president obama expressed optimism about weiner s future in an