Letters to the Editor
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Good riddance!
Spitzer may be the tough guy hero of many Dems, but he is as much of an authoritarian as Rudy Giuliani ever was. He is equally vindictive and self-serving in his prosecutions and showed as soon as he assumed the governorship that he couldn't be trusted with the levers of power when he used the state police to try to catch his political adversary (a complete scumbag named Joseph Bruno who is the leader of the State Senate and a republican, but that is besides the point) misusing government services.
Good riddance to him. He may not have to resign and he may even win re-election someday, but he's never going to be a serious presidential contender and that is a relief.
The rule of law is all we have as Americans to unite us. We're not culturally, racially, linguistically, ethnically, culturally homogeneous. We do however have a Constitution which says ( in essence) that this is the law and the law is king. Any assault on that law -- whether it is (obviously) George Bush's criminal regime, or Bill Clinton lying under oath, or Ken Starr's vindictive witch-hunt or Spizter locking up people for doing things that he is doing himself -- needs to be fought with all of our power.
Bye bye Eliot. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.