It will be interesting to see Eliot as the girl friend of Big Tyrone, upstate in the Big House of Many Doors.....!!

Spitzer must face the music. And there are at least eight other nervous people out there....Client 1 to Client 8......

This can be a developing story in deed......

Mr. Spitzer knew that he is committing a criminal breach of the law. He must be punished to the full extent of the law and to the maximum limit because he was 100% aware of the law. No exemptions or soft handling here. Since it is an interstate matter, the FBI has the OBLIGATION and the DUTY to investigate the crime.

I am more concerned with the issues of law and the duty of a governor to uphold the laws than Mr. Spitzer's personal morals. I do not like prostitution, but I believe it should be legal. I have read that Mr. Spitzer broke up 2 prostitution rings in his days as a prosecutor. I do not know of any personal crusade by him to have prostitution legalized or even decriminalized. And there is the interstate issue, but I have no idea if that is used as anything more than a tool to lock people up when the evidence against them in other crimes is too weak to prosecute.

I do not like the laws giving the IRS and other government agencies the power to root around in one's bank account without a search warrant. By all indications, Mr. Spitzer used these laws to prosecute others in his rise to power. I do not see him as a crusader for privacy.

Current practice seems to be that customers of prostitution rings are not charged with crimes (while customers of drug rings may be. This is likely due to distinctions of race and class, and is an issue worthy of discussion elsewhere). However, Mr. Spitzer, by his own admission, is connected to criminal activities based upon current federal and NY state laws. This is quite different from having an affair with a woman who is not his wife.

He probably should not be prosecuted, given that others in his position are not, but it's time for him to go.

How can Eliot Spitzer become our country's first jewish president if he resigns in disgrace and shame???
I ask you!

Yes, He need to be held to the standard that he himself set. It's not about the sex. It is about Spitzer being a hypocrite.

Probable cause came from the bank reporting. That's exactly the kind of thing, by the way, that Spitzer used when he was a prosecutor. He has no grounds to complain about that whatsoever. He didn't think he would get caught because he thought he knew too much about how investigations work, and that he could getaway with it by being smarter than the investigators. But the very kinds of laws he supported as a prosecutor -- like banks having an affirmative duty to raise suspicious transfers with the authorities -- have come back to bite him in a rather spectacular fashion.

It's the classic case of someone getting hoisted by his own petard.

The police didn't stumble upon Spitzer's name, they had it when the bank reported the transfer.

Yes, the case is reported to have originated as an investigation of cash movements. And why are doing that again, monitoring cash movements? Where's the probable cause? Where's the due process?

This is a man who built his career to a significant degree on the backs of the sex workers whom he prosecuted and sent to jail. For him to now turn around and claim that his own indulgence is a private matter is an outrage and should be dismissed out of hand.

Spitzer was a relentless, merciless, ruthless prosecutor who showed no mercy to his targets. He should be treated the same way he has treated countless others who found themselves in the situation he does now.

My wife, the therapist, would say that this is about power, not sex. I mean, the guy has a beautiful wife. It is sad, but human, that powerful men seem drawn to this sort of thing - like Clinton, JFK, Haggard, Craig and any number of world leaders. It is said that even Martin Luther King, Jr. sought such services, may peace be upon him.

It is not a personal issue. This man Spitzer signed up for public office and he is a smart man so he knew what it meant. I have to wonder at what point does the desire to exert power over another outweigh the risk of being caught...

I agree with your analysis. I think what I find shocking is that people say "its his personal business". WHAT?!?!?! Are you kidding me??? I have to wonder sometimes, what planet some Americans are on. This guy is supposed to create and enforce the law. Its like a dietician who tells people how to lose weight all the while she is 500 pounds scarfing down a Big Mac in her closet.

Same with Ole' Bill Clinton. You dont do "the deed" other than your wife. If you want to dabble, then for the love of god and country-resign and get a divorce.

These are greedy people who I believe in their childhood didnt "score" with the girls and now that they have power,they want paid hookers and interns.

It wil be interesting to see H.R.Clinton in all of this. Will she be hard up for that super delegate or not.