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These are poisonous snakes. They are to be eradicated when and where we find them, lest they muster up enough energy to bite our ankles with their last gasping breath.

So, out with that snake!

And in response to the last piece of your tag line: STILL with Fred!

Kill the terrorists
Protect the borders
Punch the hippies -- Frank J

newred, personally I don't give a farthing about political calculations in this thing.

He has to go - it's a necessary act of social (and political) hygiene....

The NYGOP has nothing. Absolutely nothing. Right now they need something positive to run on - meaning something that isn't "we'll stop Spitzer." This whole situation gives the NY GOP the chance to reclaim a "reformer" mantle and put themselves on a footing to be the guys to clean up the government for real (rather than just talk about it and bully law-abiding business ala Spitzer).

This also puts Democrats in an awful position. No impeachment can happen without the Democrats - they control the Assembly and in total number of Legislature seats held have a large majority. But, with the GOP calling for Spitzer's ouster the Democrats will have to either go along and "pull a Nixon" (basically tell Spitzer that they cannot or will not save him), or they have to take the politically damaging position that they will stand by the governor if he chooses to stay in office.

Either way, the GOP gets something to run on going into some tough November elections - they can run on a platform that real change and real reform needs to happen to prevent this sort of thing from happening, or they can run against a Democratic party that is willing to support a man who has admitted to breaking the law by paying a prostitute.

All of that is in addition to the simple point -Spitzer is a potent politician - if we let him get out of this one then he will come back to haunt us again and again. If he doesn't recover enough to run for re-election he can just move on (possibly into a position in a Democrat White House) and re-emerge later to run for something else. We need to mark him with this permanently - make his future endeavors come with the tag "the former governor who was forced to resign after being linked to a prostitution ring." As the announcer would say in the Mortal Kombat video game: "Finish Him."

where the emperor, er, held court.

BTW, blackhedd, I totally agree that Spitzer is the poster boy for prosecutorial overreach.

"Where is the audacity of hope when it comes to backing the success of our troops all the way to victory in Iraq? What we heard last night was the timidity of despair. - John McCain

This must be why the New York TImes can write an entire article on the topic and omit the fact that Spitzer is a ....DEMOCRAT!!!(Whoops, was that too partisan?)

"I believe we must adjourn this meeting to some other place." - The last recorded words of Adam Smith.

I'm not defending the NYT, just observing that both sides of the aisle have had their sghare of seedy sex scandals lately. It's pretty hard for either side to claim any moral high ground here.

"I believe we must adjourn this meeting to some other place." - The last recorded words of Adam Smith.

We boot our cretins, Dems defend theirs even if it means lying about what is an impeachable offense or what perjury is.

of ports of call for the traveling penis, one with potentially fascinating financial arrangments.

McGreevey gave a top security post to his inamorato, who fled the country.

The GOP trio you cite simply do not have the panache:
Vitter-routine John
Craig- misdemeanor
Foley- to date, not even an indictment. If he had been straight hitting on chicks once they became of age, no one would have batted an eye.

When it comes to sex, the GOP is the pedestrian party.

Soliciting gay sex in the bathroom is "pedestrian"?
Cyber stalking underage boys that work for you is "pedestrian"?

What about Bob Allen, who offered $20 to perform oral sex on a man in a bathroom (according to him, he just did it because he was intimidated), is that "pedestrian" as well?

I think you and I have a different idea of what that word means.

Again, Sptizy is a hypocritical sleaze who deserves all the derision he's getting. But for Repubs to act like this is a Democrat problem suggests a bit of selective amnesia.

Its not a news flash to anyone here that there have been and I'm sure still are plenty of scumbags on the R side of the aisle.

But this is a conservative website and Spitzer is the epitome of the East Coast know-it-all, control your life, anti-capitalist liberals. And now he is totally imploding. So go away and let us enjoy it.

We had to suffer through plenty with Craig and Foley. Now its our turn to enjoy a little schadenfraude. If that's too petty for you, I think there's a lot of other websites out there.

That is a completely honest take on the situation.

First Clinton, then McGreevey and now Spitzer.

And yes, it is quite pedestrian to seek sex in toilets. Or going en flagrante with hookers in a no-tell motel. (BTW, Craig never pleaded guilty to seeking sex in toilets. He pleaded guilty to creating a disturbance in a public place)

Foley went after young men who were of age. Immoral, yes, but legal.

And how's that case with Deval Patrick's aide going again?

But let me not divert you from the damage control assignment.

The triple pillar of the world, transformed into a strumpet's fool! - Antony and Cleopatra

I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree about what is "pedestrian" behavior in a public toilet.

But you're getting me wrong. I'm enjoying this as much as anyone. This story has everything, $5,000/hr hookers imported from NYC, secret trysts in a DC landmark (not 3 blocks from my office)...and that it was all orchestrated by Mr. Law and Order himself is just the cherry on top.

His arrogance is without limits, and his resignation can't come soon enough.