Posted on 03/10/2008 6:03:07 PM PDT by melt
Will Eliot Spitzer resign in time for this evening's network newscasts? I wouldn't if I were him. I'd wait until right afterwards, so that my smiling face wouldn't appear simultaneously on every TV set in the Western world.
This is not New York provincialism. Spitzer is practically the most prominent and powerful Democrat in a huge state — Hillary Clinton's state, Wall Street's state, the state of millions of Democrats.
Spitzer's boner really sticks out, even in this day and age. He didn't just get some on the side. He violated the law, if the federal complaint and published reports are true.
Yes, it will be more important to the country when Citigroup finally collapses. That will be a real disaster.
Still, there's some meat to this Spitzer thing. In any case, the way it went down was a case of exquisite timing, coming on the heels of last night's final episode of HBO's The Wire.
My buddy and former colleague Adamma Ince just texted me:
Looks like Lester got Spitzer on the wire too. She's referring to Lester Freamon, the ace detective on that ace investigative entertainment series about political corruption. Lester, adept at tapping and taping politicians, lawyers, and drug dealers, was the shining cop of all "murder police" on that instantly legendary series.
Judging from the complaint that apparently involves Spitzer, there was some pretty good bugging going on against him too.
Lost in the babble over the Spitzer story are the dubious prostitution laws. Why exactly is prostitution criminalized? However, it is, and Spitzer just got finished with a long stint as attorney general, where he hounded others for breaking laws. And now he's governor.
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What does the junior senator from NY think about this?
He shouldn't have stuck it in to begin with.
Dude, for $4,100, you stay in as long as you can, dude!
The Jersey way — resign immediately effective at the end of the elected term.
According to the VV, Spitzer is really in trouble because of the Mann Act violation. He can scream about prostitution should be legal, but he crossed state lines to arrange this.
Why should Spitzer resign?!!
We’re talking about a Dem for cryin out loud!!!!This is a resume enhancment in thier eyes, I seem to recall a certian pervert getting his saber polished in the oval office. Did he resign ?!! Hell no!!What did he do? , he had his wife send the goons after any and all who opposed him.
Sptizer resign?, don’t make me laugh.
ROFL....I had to look...
At $4,000 plus per hour I'd stay in for as long as it takes.......
When you start every day stating that your primary goal in life is to keep infanticide legal and teach homosexual acts to preschoolers, how does getting caught with a prostitute make you look bad?
She is on her knees praying that this does not effect her campaign.
now that it’s out in the open, the ladies should report directly to the governor’s mansion.
If Spitz was involved with a boy, all this would need to be “understood” by today’s realities...
What will probably piss them all off, will be that he was probably snared because of the Patriot Act.
From her expression, I bet she's a little less "carboner neutral" tonight, wouldn't you agree?
Client 9 and the Cover-Up of 9/11 (AbleDanger-Dietrich Snell)
Client 9 panders to potential customers at his ?DNC Whorehouses
That could take decades! Nothing but backslapping and payoffs happen in that City.
(thinks) "He told me they all looked like 'butchers', and I should trust him"
“When Will Spitzer Finally Pull Out?”
What a headline. Take it away folks.
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