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Unsurprisingly, Republican strategist Roger Stone is critical of the feds not charging former governor Eliot Spitzer for soliciting a prostitute. Long before Hookergate, Stone may have called Spitzer a "phony, psycho piece of s---" (in a message to Spitzer's dad), and Stone has claimed he gave tips to the feds about Spitzer's hotel room activities. On "The Stone Zone", Stone writes Spitzer got off since he "is a former prosecutor and chief law enforcement officer of New York that he should have been prosecuted. When powerful politicians break the law with impunity, it only encourages official corruption. As Attorney General Eliot Spitzer prosecuted prostitution rings while he himself was patronizing one. Very clearly, he has violated federal money laundering statutes and the Mann Act by transporting a prostitute over state lines to engage in sexual acts. So, the central message of Watergate is wrong - some people are above the law."
Roger Stone on No Federal Charges for Spitzer
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Hasn't the message of Watergate always been that some people are above the law? Nixon never got in any legal trouble either now did he? Nor will Bushie when he finally leaves office, despite all the illegal and flat-out evil things he and his administration have done. I never expected Spitzer to get in any real legal trouble because yes - he IS above the law. There's two classes of people for law enforcement and there always has been. One is full of us plebs, and the other is populated by the rich, famous and powerful. The plebs go to jail for possessing a bag of illegal drugs. The powerful commit as many crimes as they like.
Don't fool yourself. Spitzer was taken out by the Republicans. The Sheriff of Wall Street and his questions about investment baking in NY had to be stopped. Send him to rehab and make his head of the SEC!
This past February, Spitzer testified before the House of Representatives Financial Services subcommittee and called out the Bush administration for creating an environment ripe for predatory lenders (and their investment bank enablers like Bank of America) after repeatedly hammering these same banking practices across the country using New York State laws.
Around the same time, Spitzer wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post called, “Predatory Lenders’ Partner in Crime: How the Bush Administration Stopped the States From Stepping In to Help Consumers. ” In it he charged that, “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 the federal government was turning a blind eye.”
On the very same day that Bush's Feds put the cuffs on Spitzer, Treasury Secretary Bernanke gave the go-ahead to give 200 billion in taxpayer dollars to bail-out the the “Predator Lenders’ Partners in Crime.” Think that's a coincidence? Nice work, Roger.
@Jerry Doodle
He did make some foolish choices and was not the most effective as governor but would deliver as SEC Chair. Let's get him working for us again!
WestVillageVintage
Like Gary Hart, Spitzer will have to wander around in the wilderness for a few years doing penance before he'll be allowed to resurface as an effective public advocate, I'm afraid.
At the same time I was stalked outside my apartment which was right as the Spitzer Op Ed or shortly thereafter and right during when the global economic crisis started hitting hard.
The alleged prostitute was claimed to have been transported over Amtrak. Now that Joe Biden has been elected VP, his son was appointed to Amtrack back in 2006 right before the Enron scandal and took over slightly thereafter. This incident brought memories of the blackout on the Northeastern corridor right before Ken Lay was said to have been found dead.
On May 16, 2006, Biden was nominated by President George W. Bush to the board of directors of Amtrak. He was confirmed unanimously on July 26, 2006 by the United States Senate for a term of five years, and is currently the vice-chair of the board. He is also a member of the board of National Prostate Cancer Coalition.[1]
Ken Lay was "Allegedly" found dead on July 5, 2006. To this date I think the incident was a coverup and fraud.
As for Spitzer and the cross transportation of a prostitute over state lines, I could never understand what happened.
Transportation blackouts or electrical grid blackouts can be used by a New World Order to sustain policies and to coverup wrongdoings.
:(
Barak Obama is now President, NY is more democratic, and the congress is more democratic.
Spitzer is also off! The pathological liar here is Roger Stone.
Long live Barak Obama! :-)
try another flavor of kool-aid mtauser... there's lots of colors!
How come no pictures on big tits in this story?
Welcome to Barack HUSSEIN Obama's Amerikka where criminals get of as long as you are part of the cult.
WTF is wrong with Spitzer's mouth?
I Want Spitzer back and get rid of Cuomo that made millions of HUD and the homelessness. Can't believe he is AG. what a joke
It's nice to see Roger Stone wasting everyone's time with this bullshit instead of resucitating that mouldering corpse of a Republican Party so we can all vote against them again. Keep up the good work!
"This past February, Spitzer testified before the House of Representatives Financial Services subcommittee and called out the Bush administration for creating an environment ripe for predatory lender"
All Bush's fault?
Democrats Were Wrong on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
October 06, 2008 05:10 PM ET | Michael Barone | Permanent
"Seventeen. That's how many times, according to this White House statement (hat tip Gateway Pundit), that the Bush administration has called for tighter regulation of the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Congress has cooperated only once.
"... Democrat Barney Frank, then ranking member and now chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said, "I want to roll the dice a little bit more in this situation towards subsidized housing"?
Isn't the fact that the ranking Democrat in charge of oversight of Fannie Mae was in a sexual relationship with a high-ranking Fannie Mae executive a glaring conflict of interest?
Isn't it worth noting that Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters insisted, "we do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and in particular at Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Mr. Frank Raines"?
Shouldn't the American people know that Democratic Rep. Gregory Meeks insist that "there's been nothing that was indicated that's wrong with Fannie Mae"?"
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/barone/2008/10/06/democrats-were-wrong-on-fannie-mae-and-freddie-mac.html
Yeah, it's all Bush's fault... NOT...
^ Since you're such an avid researcher and Finder Of The Truth, do tell us which Republican lawmakers received gifts and campaign contributions from the likes of Nationwide Mortgage, Washington Mutual, CTI, Household Finance, AIG, Wachovia, National City, KeyCorp, and any and all contributors to this wonderful financial crisis.
I'll make it easy for you, ALL OF THEM. (except John McCain who still prefers his relationship with Lincoln Savings)
Basically, both sides are at fault.
Let's be honest, here.
Elliott spitzer for U.S. Attorney's General....
Hell, let the first among politicians that have not sought out an illicit affair raise a hand....just as i suspected, no hands... we have crooks and thives, perverts, and other type sexual devients as public servents - yet the only thing wrong this man has done, in my opinion, is cheat on his wife....hell, the whole of new york watched - with the republican party - as a sitting mayor "whored" around new york, while still (supposedly) happily married! Please...leave Spitzer alone already...He is a great fighter of right, who made a bad moral error. I hope he returns to public service where he belongs.
Hey West Village - Spitzer was not taken out by Wall Street.
Do you think they'd let him get as far as the governorship?
Spitzer went down because he had created such an atmosphere of hostility at the capital that he had no allies, and they gladly watched him crash and burn.
NannyState - I'd say it's nice to see Roger Stone, a Republican, standing up for those of us who would never, ever receive the leniency that Eliot Spitzer did. What's bullshit is that you approve of a rich man skating on criminal charges.
Etheone - Spitzer was an incompetent governor. He was a moral crusader and moral crusaders cannot govern, let alone live up to their own moral crusades.
Had he governed in such a manner as to garner respect from the legislature, rather than acting like an imprudent child, he may not have brought down the wrath of his enemies.
I'm sorry, but did Kwame Kilpatrick walk?