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Steamroller? Steamblower...



I guess it goes without saying that people should always be wary of the "squeaky clean" politician. Indeed, Mitt Romney lost among a core constituency of voters in the primaries because he was viewed as "too neat." After all, when politics is in question and someone is so clean, its usually too good to be true. Once again, that old adage has rung true with the professional demise of the governor of New York, Elliot Spitzer.

However, there's another old saying that comes to mind when watching this man's career come to an end, and its called "schadenfruede." Elliot Spitzer not only made a name for himself as an overly aggressive prosecutor in the state of New York, first as an attorney and then as Attorney General, he did so being known as one of the most arrogant and unsympathetic men in the history of the state. Giving himself his own nickname (an arrogant proposition in its own right) as the "steamroller" and once telling a fellow Republican legislator "I'm a f*#cking steamroller...I'll roll over you and anybody else," this man had few friends on either side of the political aisle due to his egotism. Aside from being a jerk, Spitzer has also ruined countless lives, over litigating hardworking people associated with Wall Street in what he saw his crusade against malfeasance in the corporate world all the while giving himself a boastful stance.

So, given the circumstances, any conscious soul feels for his wife and three daughters who are obviously going through an incredibly difficult time right now. That being said, it doesn't pain me in the least bit to point and laugh at a man who's career is now ruined because a federal wiretap exposed that he has been meeting with $5,000 an hour call girls in Capitol City's most exquisite hotel (that would be the Mayflower) for the past 6 years during his crusade against "wrongdoers."

Oh....and remember all those liberal blogs like Huffington Post and Daily Kos who yipped with glee over Sen. Larry Craig's evident liaison's in airport bathrooms? Yeah, the best they could come up with were generalized posts which collectively argued "Well, prostitution should be legal anyway." Congratulations on reaching new heights of hypocrisy Huffingtoners and Kosers, you've just joined the steamroller.

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