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Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 October 2007 01:42 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 30 October 2007 09:58
In this column, Bill Hammond opines a few things that will make those who follow the life and stylings of Eliot Spitzer chuckle:
1) He says Spitzer the unshakable caved to popular opinion on an issue he’d been on the wrong side of New York and national opinion on
2) He outs Spitzer for flip flopping when Spitzer himself refuses to acknowledge even a shift from his original policy
3) He catches the Democrat governor in a whopper of a fish tale – Spitzer says his plan to give licenses to illegals was approved by the Bush administration and Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff – in truth Chertoff said Federal law allows it, but he does not endorse giving licenses to people in the U.S. illegally
4) He reminds his readers that Spitzer was less than forthcoming on an investigation conducted by New York’s Dem A.G. Andrew Cuomo
5) And finally reaches back to Spitzer’s first for A.G. in New York in ’94 “…when he skirted the law to accept millions in campaign loans from his father and lied to cover that up.”
This column is a must read.
New School President and former U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.) once described Bill Clinton as “an unusually good liar.” Well, Gov. Spitzer is an unusually bad one.The hedges, half-truths and howlers Spitzer is spouting to explain his U-turn on driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants are fooling no one – except maybe the governor himself.