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If this trangression were in the distant past I would forgive him. It is unfortunately a recent criminal act. Governor Spitzer should resign and make amends for this problem. No excuses. No blaming the republicans. Take responsibily, be the man and step down. He can concentrate on healing his family. He can run for office later after settling this problem.

I really shouldn’t care since he’s the governor of NY, not Virginia, but he’s a democrat and republicans love making political hay out of how democrats can’t keep their pants up. Let’s ignore for a second that this is just plain hypocrisy, as this type of bedroom shenanigan is an apolitical in nature and practice (well, except for the current crop of ultra-rich people who form the core of the republican hate machine) and more attracted to power and money than anything else. And it’s power that concerns me the most here.

It’s not that he has power but that to my computer security mind this is a terrible security risk. Imagine the types of secrets someone can learn. Of much more concern, imagine the type of blackmail that could be used against someone by the nefarious, such as many wall street corrupts would have loved to use against Spitzer. “Elliot, it looks like I might be investigated for securities fraud. Can you do something about it? NO?? Well, let me tell you that I know about your little secret! You’d better get me off the hook or else!”

You can see the problems that arise from this. For this reason alone, he needed to resign. And he did, perhaps proving he is above some types of pressure. Too bad for us. For if his actions hadn’t been a real crime, say, he just got together with this girl and there was no money exchange - a routine affair, he could have stayed in office, no matter how much of a dog he was in his personal life. It’s the potential power he gave his enemies and potential enemies of NY and the US that give me greatest pause here. He gave them a weapon to use for all sorts of horrible crimes. That’s inexcusable.

So, he should have resigned as he did. But viewing his past, I’d also like to state that it appears someone dropped a dime on him and set him up for a fall. I think either the enemies in Wall Street had a hand in his downfall (likely) or someone in the Shrub administration did (much less likely, however vindictive they are, they tend to be clueless in many areas). As always, it wouldn’t hurt someone to follow the motives and follow the money. I think his lawyer may bring some of this out if/when he is prosecuted.

Lastly, let’s compare Spitzer’s actions with Bush’s. Spitzer got off with a beautiful woman but paid to do it and used an illegal business to accomplish this. Bush and his entire administration, lied, created “facts” and as a result, threw the entire US from profitability (trade surplus and positive budget balance) into debt (recession, trade deficit, budget deficit) while giving money to his friends under the table (KBR, Halliburton, oil and defense industries et. al.) destroying environmentally sensitive habitat, purging defense officials who didn’t cow-tow to his every whim and destroying the professionalism of the armed services, turning them into a praetorian guard, and took actions which resulted in increased poverty to millions of people (a new deadly sin according to the Vatican and resulted directly in the deaths of 100s of thousands of people. WOW! Spitzer would have to go a long way to do that with just one hooker!

So, why then, aren’t there consistent, loud outcries for Bush and his staff to resign or be impeached? The answer, my friend, is two-fold. 1) Neo-cons run most all media services right now and they are profiting from Bush’s actions, even if they don’t agree with him or like him and 2) Timid, possibly corrupt democrats in the house and senate can’t figure out pointing out Bush’s evil actions are destroying this nation, which, by the way, no longer exists if you feel that a nation must exist only under its constitution, which we’ve broken and ignored for the last few years (no habeas corpus for just one).

Geesh. I did it again. I’ve run on about boring stuff anyone who thinks has already figured out. Ah well, no one will read this anyway…

Cheers!

There you go again, William. Instead of sticking to the relevant issue of Spitzer’s follies you get off task and take shots at republicans. The fact is Spitzer did something pretty bad and he should be condemned. He did the right thing by resigning. I don’t think it is fitting to implicitly excuse his behavior by promoting this idea that everybody does it, especially the republicans. I hope that makes sense.