Joan Walsh, who defended Weiner for days and days now thinks he should resign, all because Huma is pregnant:

If Huma Abedin is pregnant, as the New York Times is reporting, I think Anthony Weiner has to resign — and I actually expect him to. That news changes everything.
I’ve resisted calling for Weiner’s resignation, even though I’ve deplored his reckless behavior. Since I’ve defended the “victim” of the mess all along, the 21-year-old college student who received the photo unwillingly on her account, and who was slimed by conservative bloggers, I have to acknowledge that Weiner brought about her sliming. And now he’s apparently done the lowest thing most of us can think of: Humiliate not just his wife, but his pregnant wife.
If that’s true, deciding to hang tough, weather an ethics investigation and fight the coordinated right-wing effort to run him out of office becomes an act of cruelty.

Welcome to the pro-life movement, Joan. Please let me know what types of pregnancies matter. Only wanted pregnancies? The position of the pro-abortion movement is there’s no baby there. Huma can head over to planned-parenthood and schedule a medical procedure and Dems can celebrate her access to health care.

Later in the day, Walsh added an update:

Update: I’ve heard several people suggest that Weiner shouldn’t resign if his wife wants him to fight. If that turns out to be the case, I might feel differently. Others have suggested that her pregnancy should change nothing at all; it’s a private matter. That’s all fine. I’m personally not capable of saying: Cyberinfidelity: fine. Tweeting naked photos idiotically recklessly. No problem. Lying about it, and making reporters complicit in your coverup? AOK. Doing all of that when you have a pregnant wife (who has rather conspicuously failed to come out in your defense)…I can’t go there. But if the details change, you won’t hear about it from me. I’m getting out of the muck. As many people are arguing, correctly, this is a lurid distraction from real news.

So after doing “the lowest thing most of us can think of,” now staying in office is fine just because Huma wants him to?

And I must take issue with this line, “Lying about it, and making reporters complicit in your coverup? AOK.”

No. No one who was doing this so-called reporting was acting as an actual reporter — with the exception of Dana Bash of CNN, who was the first to actually ask Weiner real tough questions. The rest of them were parroting Weiner’s inane “I was hacked” excuse, which never made any sense. Walsh is complicit in Weiner’s coverup because of her failure to act as a reporter: It would have taken Walsh 30 minutes on the phone with tech experts to know that.

But Walsh isn’t the only one doing a 180 on Weiner. Here’s former girlfriend Kirsten Powers calling for his resignation, too (emphasis mine):

In short, he was a friend whom I cared for very much, even if I thought he had issues he needed to deal with. It was because of this friendship that I believed him when he told me last week that he had done nothing wrong. In an email to me he wrote: “Why not to call the cops: Personal account, no federal case, we don’t know yet what they got, I didn’t send it, statements on sat, sun, monday, the girl said she doesn’t know me, I don’t know her. The people I follow are all people who ask. We’ve hired a law firm but not to protect me, to put together the team to figure out how we prevent and maybe civil or criminal next steps. We don’t know where this photo came from. We have theories. Until we know for sure we open up legal hornets nest if we say.”
He knew I was going on the show Hannity, where I would use this false information to defend him in front of millions of people. I did, and I regret it. The previous day I had reluctantly done an interview with the New York Post at his request to talk about what kind of boyfriend he was. In that story I didn’t address the controversy but talked about my experiences with him. Nonetheless, my friends were furious when the real information came out and they realized he had allowed me to become involved in his sordid controversy. I just felt sorry for him and his wife.

Again, here was someone in a position to ask tough questions to Weiner, and from the looks of it, did not. Kirsten is not a dumb person and the answer Weiner gave to her on why he hadn’t called the cops makes no sense. There’s no indication she followed up with any other questions which might have tripped a switch in her brain that he was lying. Later on, Kirsten calls for his resignation:

Despite my disappointment in his behavior and my concerns about his capacity to be in a leadership position, my heart still aches for him and his family. We are all flawed human beings, and this is not about meting out judgment. It’s about having some sort of standard for what the Democratic Party stands for — especially regarding treating women with dignity and respect — and Congressman Weiner has fallen far short of even the low standard to which we generally hold our elected officials. It’s time for him to go.

Puhleeze! Weiner is a scuzz, but he’s not worse than Senator Vitter, Eliot Spitzer, or the “Big Dog” himself, Bill Clinton.

Have all these Libs calling for Weiner to resign distanced themselves from the former creep-in-chief? Not that I know of — which makes them gigantic hypocrites.

And that, of course, is nothing new.