Spitzer: Shot across the bow?

March 11, 2008, 3:11 am · 0 comments · Filed under: Politics

The revelation today of Eliot Spitzer’s involvement with high-priced prostitutes constitutes a shot across the bow to politicians tempted to get cheeky this election season. Who’s in the cross-hairs next?

I don’t usually blog about politics, but today I’m making an exception because I haven’t seen this angle discussed anywhere.

The Bush administration routinely spies on Americans. Surely then, they routinely spy on every politician in America. It would be silly not to, if you aren’t morally opposed to spying in the first place.

Today, it was revealed that Eliot Spitzer was caught — by a wiretap — visiting high-priced prostitutes. Consider that the timing of this story is just as we enter an election cycle. Might this not be a shot across the bow to every politician who’s running in November to “Mind your Ps and Qs or you’re next!”?

If I’m a politician with anything to hide (and, really, ain’t that pretty much all of them?), I’m on the phone right now ensuring I’m in the good graces of Bush, Cheney, and the rest of the overlords of darkness running the U.S. government.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m thoroughly disappointed that this happened. Eliot Spitzer was one of the “good guys.” He has fought his entire career against corruption. I think he was both wrong and hypocritical to break the law. I think his actions were incredibly insensitive to his wife and daughters. I also think his pedigree of fighting for the public interest is exactly why he was targeted.

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