Why Bush Watergated Eliot Spitzer

[PerfectSage]

Found this interesting article at one of my favourite geopolitical websites.

In his article Spitzer charged, "Not only did the Bush administration do nothing to protect consumers, it embarked on an aggressive and unprecedented campaign to prevent states from protecting their residents from the very problems to which he federal government was turning a blind eye." Bush, said Spitzer right in the headline, was the "Predator Lenders' Partner in Crime." The President, said Spitzer, was a fugitive from justice. And Spitzer was in Washington to launch a campaign to take on the Bush regime and the biggest financial powers on the planet. Spitzer wrote, "When history tells the story of the subprime lending crisis and recounts its devastating effects on the lives of so many innocent homeowners the Bush administration will not be judged favorably."

With that article, some Washington insiders believe, Spitzer signed his own political death warrant.

http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/Financial_Tsunami/Watergating_Spitzer/watergating_spitzer.html

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[ingac70]

1. Eliot Spitzer fucked himself. n/t

[Demeter]

2. Every Word Is True--And You Can't Speak Truth to Corrupt Power

and emerge unscathed. Unless your power exceeds it.

[roody]

4. And you have avoided prostitutes.

[seriousstan]

3. Cut me line of what ever you are snorting.

[ShaneGR]

5. Spitzer paid $80,000 in one year for hookers..

Don't bring him up anymore. Pisses me off.

[peacetalksforall]

6. I can't see why a man who was doing his job gets smeared by DU for sex, paid or not..

If he had remained faithful, they probably would have concocted something.

Rove, Stone, Cheney, Bush and the other criminals win twice.

The got him out.
They got some in his Party to discount his good works.

[mattclearing]

11. Spitzer was a hypocrite, and an arrogant one at that.

He screwed himself and New York.

That said, I've always wondered why more Dems haven't been targeted since the illegal wiretapping started. I guess he just ran afoul of an ongoing FBI investigation? Or did the investigation start because the White House already knew he was doing it? These are the kinds of questions that illegal wiretapping raises.

[orleans]

7. well, if that is true

"Spitzer was in Washington to launch a campaign to take on the Bush regime and the biggest financial powers on the planet" then someone needs to take that up--spitzer needs to pass on whatever he knew to someone who will pick up the baton and go with it.

[Slagathor]

8. Spitzer is a pathetic hypocrite psychopath who felt he was above the law

and who spent 80,000 dollars at least on hookers. He deserves prison.

[hifalutin]

9. It was his sad pathetic

wife I felt sorry for, parading her out in front of all those cameras so the world could see she was standing by her man. He's a creep, not man enough to stand alone and 'take it like a man'.
I hope he gets 10 years at least, in the meantime, I just want him to go away, period.

[acmavm]

10. Yeah, somebody else made Spitzer so arrogant that he flaunted the law

and did stupid shit. And somebody else MADE him hire hookers. He's not at fault at all, he's just the proverbial INNOCENT BYSTANDER. He may have screwed 'em, he may have told everybody else how to live, he should have known that he would/could get caught, but hell, that's someone else's fault.

[Life Long Dem]

12. Why is everyone missing the point?

Condemn Spitzer for his illegal activities but don't dismiss Bush's activities.

"Spitzer was the target of a White House and Wall Street dirty tricks operation to silence one of its most dangerous critics in handling the current financial market Tsunami crisis."

[no_hypocrisy]

13. I agree. Spitzer being right on this issue of outing the * administration on

this financial crisis has NOTHING to do with his personal foibles, other than he should have been watching his back.

[Blecht]

14. It may be because we live in America, and

we still haven't been able to shake our puritan roots. Everybody likes a good witch hunt, whether it has something to do about sex or not.

[madokie]

15. As I was saying a few days ago there is more to this story than spitzer buying pussy

of which I could care less. What I want to know about it why he was brought down the way he was when he was. In finding that answer the rest will be shown. So far what I am seeing is he crossed bushco and that he apparently didn't go the being a 'victim of a blackmailing' route.

[Life Long Dem]

16. That sounds deep.

This is raising suspicions over any blackmailing in congress.

[madokie]

17. I've been advocating its blackmail for a long time now

nothing else explains what is going on with Nancy or Harry or Conyers or any of the others soft shoeing around impeachment.

[Octafish]

18. Blackmail and threats of sudden death to go along with it.

It's the NAZI way.

It's the Bush way.

KR for an excellent post and replies.