The liability problem alone would dissuade most firms from hiring a jackass like Weiner: What if this married man sent a sexy photo to a much younger woman who didn’t appreciate it so much? Suddenly you, his employer, have to hire a lot of expensive lawyers to defend a sexual-harassment suit. Question No. 1 of the deposition: Given Weiner’s past history, didn’t you show reckless disregard for the expectation of your employees to be free from sexual harassment?

Yet politicians like Weiner know that with enough money and political shenanigans, they can fool enough voters to get into office. These people are in charge of decisions that involve millions (or, in the case of Congress, trillions) of dollars of our money, yet we shrug and say, “They’re all alike, aren’t they?”

As Mayor Bloomberg pointed out, “The average legislator who has to make policy on things that influence our lives, our kids’ lives, our future, would they ever get a job in the private sector making policy on big things? No, not a chance. And yet these are the ones we keep re-electing.”

Electing someone to represent us in high public office is something we, the citizens, should take a little more seriously than we do. Do we really want such a man of such weak character — such a rampant narcissist, such a pathetic liar — to stand up for us and be the face we present to the world?