So, Eliot Spitzer is history. Gone because he apparently had a bit of a jones for high-priced hookers. Stupid? Yes. Tacky? A little bit. Hypocritical? Big time. But worthy of all this venom and feigned indignation? Hardly. If Spitzer can be drummed out of office less than a week after his involvement with hookers became known, why the fuck are George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzalez – just to name a few – not in prison? Invading a country a killing 4,000 Americans and perhaps as many as a million innocent Iraqis on false (and illegal) pretenses, torture, suspension of habeas corpus, illegally spying on Americans, stealing elections, outing a covert CIA agent, and outright negligence in their handling of everything from foreign affairs to domestic disaster relief and suppressing the science on global warming – and that’s not even a complete list – certainly have to merit impeachment and imprisonment. Certainly a helluva lot more than entering into a mutual financial contract to dip your quill in an expensive ink well.

We all know how twisted things have become in this country, but what’s telling is that NY Republicans demanded Spitzer resign or they’d impeach him, and there were enough NY Democrats ready to throw him under the bus that he really had no choice. For US House and Senate Democrats, however, impeachment of war criminals is “off the table.”