Tag Archives: Eliot Spitzer

The Toilet Brush

3/13/2008 – 11:13 am

To Eliot Spitzer, the soon to be ex-governor of New York, I offer this thought: Consider the toilet brush. Mr. Spitzer, a millionaire and a millionaire’s son, may be unfamiliar with this useful tool. Contemporary toilet brushes are usually made of plastic, but I’m sure some high-end and eco-friendly hardware stores carry models with wooden […]

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Don’t Do the Crime….

3/11/2008 – 2:07 pm

Never mind about doing the time, just don’t do the crime. Eliot Spitzer was my kind of politician (past tense intentional). He went after corporate criminals, the criminal class everyone else ignores, he vowed to clean up corrupt government. I would have voted for him for president. That was then. Now his career is over, […]

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Why Are We All So Scared?

12/1/2007 – 11:27 am

Tom Tancredo, the Republican congressman from Colorado is running for president, but he’s not running for president. He has no chance of winning the nomination; he’s running to inject his racist, vindictive views on immigration into the debate. One-issue candidates seeking to shift the dynamic of a race are nothing new, but they’re rarely as […]

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