NEW YORK -FOX- [1] New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has resigned.
The news completes a rapid and stunning fall from power following unchallenged reports linking him to a high-priced prostitution ring.
“I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me,” Spitzer said speaking to reporters in Manhattan, adding that he has “begun to atone for my private failings” with his family.
The resignation is effective Monday, according to the report.
As much as I rejoice in seeing this thug getting pulled down by his own devices, I can’t help but thnk there’s something missing. Both sopmething we don’t know, and something he’d be paying a high price for if we did know. After all, as David points out [2]this monring here, the guy [3]is a thug [4]and has been behaving like a thug [5]…albeit an upwardly mobile thug…for many years, now. Is this his only transgression? Clearly, not, even when measure by what’s already on record. What’s on record [6] clearly indicates someone abusing the power given them . What has he been doing that we don’t know about?
As a logical extension to that question, though, comes another: Where the heck was the press when these abuses of power were occuring? This would seem the most blatant of nexamples of the press running blocker for the Democrats, since Bill Clinton.
One gets the feeling this one’s going to take over a year to settle down… and interestingly, it’s right in he midst of an election cycle. The consequences, I suspect, will be large.