Wall Street’s self appointed watchdog gets caught using state resources for a private vendetta:
Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s aides, including one of his closest advisers, improperly used the State Police to gather information about the governor’s chief rival, Joseph L. Bruno, the State Senate majority leader, in an effort to plant a negative story about Mr. Bruno and damage him politically, according to a report on Monday by the attorney general’s office. Spitzer denies any knowledge of what his closes aide was doing, which seems improbable.
But hang on. Even he didn’t know, isn’t this the same guy who wants corporate executives held criminally liable for the mistakes of their underlings, even if they had no knowledge of those mistakes? Isn’t this the guy who wanted to make not knowing about those mistakes a crime in and of itself?
And if anything, shouldn’t someone who holds high political office ought to be more accountable than the executive of a private company?
And Spitzer is fully accountable — to Spitzer. That’s the consistent principle, that Elliot Spitzer is the ultimate arbiter of what is appropriate.
Liberals used to be the ones who argued that sending U.S. troops abroad was a small price to pay to stop genocide; now they argue that genocide is a small price to pay to bring U.S. troops home.
It’s a narrowing of world view, brought on by the abject failure in the real world of the basic political platform of modern liberalism.