Wonkette
See the sad wife’s face. See her marriage, her family, crumble. Is this why she is mad? Maybe that is a small aspect of it, but maybe she just wanted to be the First New York Lady for a while longer. According to the New York Times, “In the two days since news of Mr. Spitzer’s involvement in the prostitution ring surfaced, he has been engaged in an intense legal and family debate about whether to resign or, as aides said his wife was urging, to stay on.” Think of all the fine minks and Scottish smoked salmons that a First New York Lady must have! Now it’s back to TJ Maxx and Philadelphia “smoked salmon cream cheese” (a.k.a. Alcohol and Cougar McCain Pills). [NYT]
We need MORE people like Eliot Spitzer, who give a damn who he screws.. oh yea THAT’S more important then keeping the crooks from looting Americas treasury, stealing grandma’s pension, and running ponzi schemes that put Americans in the poor house!
In 2003, during the height of the predatory lending crisis, the OCC invoked a clause from the 1863 National Bank Act to issue formal opinions preempting all state predatory lending laws, thereby rendering them inoperative. The OCC also promulgated new rules that prevented states from enforcing any of their own consumer protection laws against national banks. The federal government’s actions were so egregious and so unprecedented that all 50 state attorneys general, and all 50 state banking superintendents, actively fought the new rules.