March 12, 2008
By Now, We’re All Undoubtedly Aware…
…of New York Governor Eliot SPITzer’s liberal do as I say, not as I do moment. Or, I should say, many do as I say, not as I do moments.
ALBANY, N.Y. - Gov. Eliot Spitzer has decided to resign, completing a stunning fall from power after he was nationally disgraced by links to a high-priced prostitution ring, a top state official said Wednesday.
I posted about one or two of the witch hunts in which he engaged as the Empire State’s attorney general a couple or so years back, all in the name of furthering his political career at the expense of any company or individual he could find to prosecute, guilty or not. His most high profile targets were Wall Street based, though he also added to his resume by crusading against organized prostitution.
The recurring theme of his campaigns has been ethics “enforcement”, and, well…
The scandal erupted Monday when allegations surfaced that Spitzer, a 48-year-old married man with three teenage daughters, spent thousands of dollars on a call girl named Kristen at a swanky Washington hotel on the night before Valentine’s Day.
Client 9 apologizes:
“I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my — or any — sense of right and wrong,” the governor said at a news conference with his wife, Silda, at his side. “I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.”
Yes, you have, Eliot, you weasel. Now be a good chap and see if you can arrange pardons for all those you successfully prosecuted for the same thing and volunteer to do all their time for them.
Calls for his resignation came immediately. Republicans began talking impeachment if he didn’t step aside. Meanwhile, Spitzer stayed holed up in his Manhattan apartment, where he was reportedly weighing his options, including waiting to use resignation as a bargaining chip with federal prosecutors to avoid indictment.
Laying low, huh? Good luck with that! I hope the federal prosecutors indict you to hell and back, your inevitable resignation notwithstanding. Leaving office isn’t an option for you, resignation is simply a less messy way of arriving at that destination than having to be kicked out.
Since your wife’s not seeking a political career and yours is at its end, Eliot, what do the future prospects of your marriage look like? I only ask this because your wife’s name isn’t Hillary. What have your three daughters had to say about all this, knowing that their father not only cheats on their mother (paying tens of thousands of dollars to prostitutes, no less!), but is also a hypocrite of the first order?
Of course, Eliot has long been a hemhorroid on the political landscape, anyway. His anti-family policies and his aborted attempt to issue driver’s licenses to criminal aliens were in anything but the best interests of his constituency.
So, as they say, the riddance will be good.
Bye bye, you schmuck!
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March 12th, 2008 at 10:04 am
“hemhorroid on the political landscape,”….LOL Great line! I just can’t beleive it. Another Democrat caught up in a sex scandal. (I hope you can feel the drool of sarcasm here!) The idiot should have learned that if he had just contacted Bubba out on his, “wives, ” campaign trail he could have got all he wanted FOR FREE!!
Seriously, this guy has been a problem waiting to erupt since elected and now he is paying the piper for all that he has been involved with. Let’s see NJ fell to a gay scandal and now NY falls to a prostitute scandal. Is Mass. next ? We’ll see it seems to be moving up the coast!
March 12th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Ken –
When people get busted, they almost always say that it was the first and only time they’d ever done whatever it was they got caught at. I wonder how much other, related vice activity Eliot has indulged in that he’ll never be forthcoming about, or whether anyone will come out of the wood work to add more chapters to the life and times of ol’ Spit.
One thing that strikes me is the difference in the expressions of Silda and Hillary during their husbands’ respective scandals:
Hillary merely looked pissed off (how dare Bill get caught!) — during his SOTU back then, whenever the camera caught Hillary, she was glaring homicidally at Bubba.
Silda, however (in the news photo with her husband), looks seriously hurt, as though she had no clue that her husband Eliot is unfaithful (and paying for it, to boot). Any politician who sneaks around behind his wife’s back like that will most certainly sneak around behind his constituency’s back as well.
Massachusettes already has a built-in, self perpetuating scandal. It’s called Teddy K.
March 12th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
well said my friend..good riddance to bad rubbish!
NY wont miss ya a bit!!
March 12th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Angel –
He should never have even become attorney general, let alone governor.
Good riddance is right!
March 13th, 2008 at 7:12 am
Unless Spitzer’s wife is some sort of screeching, castrating bitch, why would he look elswhere? I simply don’t get it. He’s such a loser! And his past was full of that self-righteous, “I am the Law; what I say goes!” crap that I still wonder how he was not fired years ago.
‘Bout effing time!
March 13th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Benning –
Another hypocritical, self seeking, lying, prophalactic liberal politician bites the dust.
It’s interesting to note that the liberal media, while always right there to blare a Republican’s party affiliation when he has any kind of scandal have been mostly neglecting to identify Spitzer as a Democrat, not even the usual D beside his name.