SCANDAL!

Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York was liked to a prostitution ring yesterday. Now, the GOP is calling for his resignation or impeachment.

It's unfortunate because Spitzer has been such a model for liberalism in domestic politics in his career. He has combated white-collar crime, fraud, stood up for consumers' rights, is for pro-choice in abortion, supports gay marriage- he's the whole package when it comes to modern liberal ideals in domestic politics. All this marred by a sex scandal. Kind of reminds me of another prominent politician- especially if there are impeachment proceedings.

Now I have a question: given the strong reaction against Gov. Spitzer and President Clinton about 10 years ago, where was the public moral outrage against figures like Larry Craig (R-Idaho) and Bob Allen (R-Florida) for their solicitation of gay sex with a police officer? Where's the moral uproar against the corruption unearthed by the Jack Abramoff scandal? Where's the outrage over David Ritters' (R-Louisiana) and Randall Tobias' (President Bush's "AIDS Czar") connection to a prostitution ring in Washington DC? Where was the outrage over Mark Foley's (R-Florida) gay pedophilia? Notice something? Those letters and states- more particularly the letters. The GOP is full of hypocrites.

If they do get to impeachment in New York over this thing, I hope it turns out that James Tedisco (New York's Republican Minority Leader) and Peter King (R-NY) were having monthly gay orgies together involving prostitutes and drugs. (Disclaimer: I'm not implying that Representatives Tedisco and King are gay and/or immoral. I'm merely implying that they are incredibly myopic and superficial and do not give two shits about real issues.)