The man in the White House invades a nation that didn't threaten us, kills 4,000 Americans, hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis, destabilizes an entire region and it was all based on blatant lies and he gets to stay in office, while Spitzer wanted to have sex, admittedly in an unthinking way, and he has to resign?
I've seen people say he is a hypocrite because he prosecuted Wall Street fraud and now he's spent his own money on a prostitute. Should he not have prosecuted those on Wall Street because he likes hookers? Their crimes affected wide numbers of people, indeed the entire economy was threatened at the end of the 1990s. Who has Spitzer hurt besides his wife and kids? Spitzer's hypocrisy was not on Wall Street but that he prosecuted prostitution rings. Was he using their services at the time or only more recently?
If every politician had to resign because of hypocrisy there would be no one running government. He shouldn't go anywhere. The Republicans in the New York State Senate gave him 48 hours to resign or they will draw up articles of impeachment. Let them. How is going to a prostitute an impeachable offense? The real hypocrisy is American morality that says taking part in an activity that is legal in dozens of countries, even Islamic Turkey, is deemed a more serious offense than launching an illegal war.
These moonbats have extremely poor and/or selective memories.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM9lvNongXA
Honor counts, my friend!
And the Iraq and Afghanistan wars fall off of HuffPo's front page to be replaced with this Spitzer nonsense and the, now daily, T&A photos that would almost make Fox News blush! If I need to see naked French women or bulging bikini babes, there are better sites!
What next, "investigative journalism" pieces, with the obligatory salacious photos of hookers, taking up bandwidth here while Americans continue to die, and Bush continues to destroy our Constitution? If you want to titilate--pun intended-us, perhaps you should open a sister site and call if "BuffPo!" It might even lure the rubberneckers who prowl here away so that we can get back to real issues.
I tend to believe that if every "Conservative" could undertake successful therapy ... there'd be no more Conservatives." ;-)
The reality is that Spitzer was an unrelenting, unforgiving, remorseless prosecutor who delighted in ruining people, not just prosecuting them. He has made many enemies and few friends.
When one masquerades as Cotton Mather and is then caught in a venal sin, the level of the hypocrisy becomes unforgivable.
I voted for the guy, and I was disappointed by his terrible first year performance. He is a truly arrogant man who believes that he can do what he wants without consulting with the legislature (lousy as it is.) We have an executive in the White House who governs with the same philosophy. It doesn't work.
Your NSA targeted the calls of a public official that is a political opponent, as the story goes, his bank provided private information to the FBI on suspicious transactions of less than $5,000. Elliot Spitzer is a multimillionaire and his bank was suspicious of some small transactions. BULLSHIT! If anyone still believes the domestic surveillance program is not for political and commercial gain for the ruling junta they are naive fools. How do you think they keep most of Congress in line. Work it out with a pencil.
The timing of this scandel was exicuted as cover to for news cycle diversion from the torture bill veto released on the Saturday prior, and the Iraq waste and fraud hearings of the Senate Appropriations committee that concluded yesterday with no coverage from the main stream propaganda machine . The "leak on Spitzer" was the Monday Madness news screen, they have a bag full of "Pocket Scandels" ready to deploy as needed.
Now you know the rest of the story! Choose America, the Elliot Spitzer Sex Show, or Events that shape the entire world view of our country for generations to come. Let the Impeachments begin in oder of priority.
The Republicans that are going after him are most likely guilty of the same.
I want good men and women running this country and I'm not gonna accept the least filthy as good.
2) I was just looking through the New York constitution to see if they had a section dealing with impeachment, and they do (http://www.dos.state.ny.us/info/pdfs/cons2004.pdf) but it didn't say on what grounds the governor or lt governor can be impeached.
Anyway, I still think its a shame that he's probably going to lose his job over this considering the good work that he has done. However, at some point it would be nice to have politicians attempt to follow the law, or at least try and change the law if they don't think it is worth following.