Spitzer aka Client 9 Another Victim Of GOP Justice
I hope FOX is right, and that Eliot Spitzer will be resigning after he apologized once he got caught making arrangements to meet with a high priced hooker.
The sooner this is off the front pages, the better it is for all democrats, especially a certain Senator from New York.
Mind you, this is just getting some on the side, not accepting bribes from defense contractors. It’s enough to ruin a political career, especially if the guy is a former prosecutor, but hardly deserving of the lengthy jail sentence so many Republicans are facing and what others should be facing once we get a functional justice department. I am convinced that if Spitzer’s name had an “R” after it instead of a “D” he’s still be referred to as “Client 9.”
I don’t think for a minute it’s merely a coincidence that the Republican controlled federal government was tapping the phones of a Democratic Governor, or that they’re clueless who is bombing recruiting centers in Manhattan but are intimately aware of the sexual proclivities of rival politicians in Albany. They targeted Spitzer to find dirt. Guess what? He’s dirty — and may have been hoisted on his own petard, at least these guys would want you to see it that way.
I feel so much safer knowing that the 1910 Mann Act is being so fiercely enforced, justifying Federal Tax dollars being spent to expose someone crossing state lines to pay for blow jobs. I guess there are no employers to investigate for hiring undocumented workers, or contractors to examine whether they are bilking the government out of more billions, or ah … any terrorists to watch maybe.
No Halliburton employees have been indicted lately, have they? Has anyone brought any Diebold employees before a grand jury to answer some hard questions? But making a date with an escort service and instead of spending cash on flowers, candy, dinner, hotel and a movie, Eliot cuts to the chase and pays cash (hey, he’s a busy guy) — damn him for all time.
He got caught, and he has to go — only because the GOP has this whole “culture of corruption thing going against them and I’d like to keep that alive for a bit. But geez, is this really how the FBI should be spending their time?
What bullcrap. After seeing what they did to Alabama Governor Don Siegelman this sad affair seals it for me. The United States Justice Department is a wholly own subsidiary of the Republican Party, and that ain’t right.
It wasn’t even gay sex with an underage page. What a shame. I hope she was good.
March 10th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
You are a moron. Spitzer made a career out of filing bogus lawsuits and pressuring companies to fire their chief executives (same companies that are now bleeding money because of poor management). It is sweet poetic justice.
March 10th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
And thank you for that brilliant example of non sequitur in action. Had Spitzer actually been indicted for any of the things Fox News?? hates him for, there might be some symmetry here resembling justice. As it is, this tawdry affair hardly seems poetic, or even good prose. I think all you’re left with here is schadenfreude.
March 10th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Just why … are they wiretapping hookers? I’m reminded of the Marion Barry affair.
Remember when the FBI sold him cocaine, filmed the transaction, and then sent him to prison?
If it smells like shit, it probably is.
March 12th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
I voted for Siegelman twice and let me tell you that there is far more to that story.
Siegelman was a party insider, beholden to the bosses, and his tragic flaw was being so much of a shill to the party bosses that he had no spine in his body.
Which is why he only lasted for one term.