New York governor Elliot Spitzer’s fall from grace has all the elements of a good farce – delicious irony, overweening ambition, self righteous piety and above all hubris. He made his name as an assistant district attorney in Manhattan, specializing in labor racketeering , then as New York attorney general, zealously prosecuting Wall street mavens and contributing to pop culture the infamous perp walk, a public shaming of a high profile individual – a modern day pillory.
The irony lies in the fact that the very methods he used to bring down fraudulent executives and prostitution rings alike were used to bring about his own downfall. The authorities did not uncover Spitzer while investigating a brothel – they were investigating him on suspicion of corruption and found the brothel because his financial activities had been flagged by software he had insisted on being installed while employed as New York’s top cop.
As attorney general, he was a steamroller. As governor, he was uncompromising and unyielding. Little wonder that he finds himself with few backers now that the tables are turned. Unlike Bill Clinton, who survived impeachment for his peccadillo, Elliot Spitzer is about to discover how fast the public can turn on a hypocrite.
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I’ve heard he has some ideas for continuing to help the country with his intellectual prowess:
AMENDMENT & DECLARATION OF CLIENT 9
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Whereas all men are
created with lust
without love
all male politicians
with anxiety
and the burdens of office
are endowed
by their Creator
with inalienable rights
to a mistress
who shall call on him like
a legislative body of beauty
“uncomfortable, and distant
from the depository of their
public records … “***
In petition to Divine Providence
and the Crown of hypocrisy
in the “rectitude of our intentions”***
we do as the creatures
of our Creator
proscribe that
Congress shall make
no connubial law
prohibiting the free exercise
of inter-body intercourse
across state-
-of-consciousness boundaries
As adequate food
is the right of all men,
“they are absolved from all
allegiance to the … Crown…”*** of marriage
when the sexual bread
is unlike cake
But, my wife,
I am an idiot
not to diet in
the abundance
of your love
with a simple request that
you would have granted
gladly like giddy children
in play,
if only my
arrogance hadn’t
stood so tall
***A Declaration by The Representatives of the United States of America in General Congress Assembled July 4, 1776.
— Douglas Gilbert
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