Good Riddance

March 11th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m shocked, shocked to learn that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was caught doing something illegal.

Prostitution, of course, ought to be legal. (He says as if that’s not controversial at all.) While ordinarily I would lament someone’s career being ruined by doing things that should be legal, in Eliot Spitzer’s case I am happy to see this thug who has done great damage get a dose of his own medicine. Also, it seems that he will actually be charged for some kind of payment structuring intended to obscure how he was paying his prostitute(s) rather than for the fact of hiring them.

In my opinion Eliot Spitzer was among the most abusive politicians on the national stage and I am relieved that he’s on his way out. …
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