March 12, 2008...5:59 pm
HASTA LA VISTA, SPITZ
Eliot Spitzer resigned as governor of New York effective Monday. The only questions remaining surround just exactly what deal he made with the FBI.
“I look at my time as governor with a sense of what might have been,” Spitzer said, with his expressionless wife Silda standing at his side. “There is much more to be done, and I cannot allow my private failings to disrupt the people’s work.”
His wife took deep breaths as hundreds of photos were taken at close range. Each of Spitzer’s words was accompanied by a rush of camera clicks.
The U.S. Attorney says no deal has been made with Spitzer regarding future prosecution.
“There is no agreement between this Office and Governor Eliot Spitzer, relating to his resignation or any other matter,” said Michael J. Garcia, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Of New York.
And for those of you who continue to say this was no big deal and it was just about sex, that everybody cheats and lies about sex, and yada yada yada — just like during the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, doesn’t it occur to you that all the free passes we give sleazy politicians on abhorrent, amoral behavior simply because we agree with them on the issues sends a dangerous message to our children? They watch and observe and see what we do and what we excuse and don’t excuse.
This is not about George W. Bush, or Dick Cheney, or Iraq, or anything else. This is about a politician who violated moral standards and committed federal felonies. He is facing federal indictment for tax evasion and money laundering, among other things.
Why do some on the Left want to overlook that and say it’s just about sex and there’s nothing wrong with a guy getting a little extra? There is a lot wrong, for no other reason that because he’s a married man with children, but the fact that the governor of New York is facing indictment by the feds for tax evasion and money laundering is also a huge deal and you say it’s just about sex? Get over yourselves.
To quote Joseph Welch from the Army-McCarthy hearings: “Have you no sense of decency?”
Michelle Malkin observes:
The words did not match his still-defiant attitude. The continued emphasis on “private failings.” The continued lack of humility. The continued emphasis on his commitment to the “public good.” He’d best serve the “public good” by staying out of the public eye and quit his do-gooder crusading.
The only thing Spitzer is sorry about is getting caught.
There’s even more potential trouble for Spitzer, by the way. Investigators are checking to see if the soon-to-be former governor used taxpayer dollars to finance his 10 years worth of visits with practitioners of the World’s Oldest Profession.
A practitioner of the World’s Oldest Profession cavorting with a practitioner of the World’s Second Oldest Profession. As Ronald Reagan once said, the latter bears quite a bit of a resemblance to the former.
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