Every morning when he wakes up and stares out of the window of his ritzy New York apartment, Eliot Spitzer sighs and tells himself, not today. The former governor is still atoning for wearing socks during his affair with prostitute Ashley Dupre, but he has so much to say about what's happening in our country right now. Since we broke the news that Dupre's interview with Diane Sawyer would air this Friday, Spitzer evidently decided to poke his head out of his apartment. In his sermon from hell in this morning's Washington Post, he provides a naughty prescription for restoring America:
If he had just waited a year or so, Spitzer could have gotten a lower price on his fun jaunts with paid women. As his one-time paramour Dupre chose ABC for her "consulting" fee and first televised interview since the scandal, Spitzer has followed up a bland interview with Time Out New York with an editorial in today's Post.
In the essay, Spitzer renews his call for a unified regulatory agency instead of an expanding bureaucracy. The piece is mostly an analysis of the ongoing situation in the financial sector, although it does give a shout-out to his former lifestyle:
Although mistakes I made in my private life now prevent me from participating in these issues as I have in the past, I very much hope and expect that President Obama and his new administration will have the strength and wisdom to do again what FDR did.
You just know Spitzer will be back. If it takes forever, he'll wait forever. And as alert reader Chileno notes, between "capital infusions," "explosion of leverage", "ability to probe", "invisible hand" and all that "self-regulation," Spitzer will be plenty busy with his favorite subject when he does.
How to Ground the Street [WaPo]