Normally, we wouldn’t waste our time digging into the sordid details of this debacle, but some liberal lunatics have forced our hand. According to Liz Benjamin of the Daily Politics, “There seems to be a small, but vocal, and growing feeling in certain left-leaning cornersthat Gov. Eliot Spitzer shouldn’t resign and also might have been a target of the Bush administration’s DOJ. ”
Before we allow Client 9 to be portrayed as a victim of the Bush administration, let’s briefly review what we know about this scandal so far (we’re basing this on the federal affidavit and several news reports):
1. Governor Spitzer arranged for a high priced prostitute to travel across state lines to have sex with him in Washington D.C. the day before Valentines day.
2. Governor Spitzer had used this particular prostitution ring previously, and had a credit of at least $400 on his account.
3. Governor Spitzer gave his prostitute extra money (well over $1,000) to be credited to his account for future use.
4. The manager of the prostitution ring knew of Spitzer, and considered him to be “difficult.” I’m not really sure what you have to do to be considered difficult by a pimp, but I don’t think it has anything to do with requesting red M&M’s and Fiji water.
5. The manager of the prostitution ring was concerned how the prostitute would react when our governor “would ask you to do things, that, like, you might not think were safe.” I’m not going to touch that one.
6. This was not a spur of the moment transaction, where the Governor looked at the fat stack of 100’s in his wallet and decided to find himself a whore. The investigation started when banks notified the IRS of some suspicious transactions. According to the New York Times, these were ”transactions by a governor who appeared to be trying to conceal the source, destination or purpose of the movement of thousands of dollars in cash, said [IRS] officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.The money ended up in the bank accounts of what appeared to be shell companies, corporations that essentially had no real business. The transactions, officials said, suggested possible financial crimes — maybe bribery, political corruption, or something inappropriate involving campaign finance. Prostitution, they said, was the furthest thing from the minds of the investigators.” Based on my extensive experience with watching mob movies, the IRS only pays attention to transactions that exceed the $10,000 range. Which leads us to our next sordid detail.
7. According to the L.A Times, Governor Spitzer used the services of this particular prostitution ring on 7 or 8 previous occasions.
Governor Spitzer is toast, and the longer he holds out before resigning, the higher the likelihood that we are going to find out what a prostitute considers to be “not safe.” Liberal apologists need to save their righteous indignation for some other cause.
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