It is called learned helplessness. Most liberal netgeeks don't comprehend the extent of criminality

[Leopolds Ghost]

How High-class prostitution rings organized by the Mafia and clandestine services are known to work.

They are called honeytraps. They are a primary political tool of the Mafia and
allied clandestine service, used, in this case, to benefit Wall St. and corrupt politicians in Albany.

Before the secret services used them to keep politicians in check, the Mafia used them
to keep politicians in check. It was called "machine politics." Wake up, DU.

"What will it take to make you happy, Senator? A live girl? Don't think we don't know about your indiscretions. I have friends in Washington who kee p track of this stuff."

"I don't think we have to reveal the identities of the other 100 powerful clients.
Why, that would be going go too far. Just like firing Rush and Glenn Beck would go too far.
Better to let them make an example of one of our own... a liberal... to show that we are pure.

But we don't want to open up a Pandora's Box by applying the principle fairly.
No, we can USE this to keep our own people in check. Better that we have access
to the info after the election, and not just the Republicans!"

There is info everyone knows about your favorite politician, but nobody will talk about. Why?
Because fools who don't work in Washington don't understand that knowledge is power only
when kept a secret. In a drawer, unused. Just in case.

Civil service whistleblowers call it their "emergency retirement plan."

Escort services like these service 1000s of politicians in Washington and
Albany, yet the sheeple on the liberal blogs do not demand them to be fired
any more than they want Rush to be fired for saying worse things than Imus.

It is called learned helplessness, DUers. Get over it.

It is very difficult for people suffering from learned helplessness,
such as liberal internet geeks, to ascertain when they are being made
a fool of by an organized blackmail/sting operation directed at all
political enemies of Wall Street using honeytraps and wiretaps.

Spitzer is merely the fall guy for this operation.

Remember the "Velvet Mafia" that kept the House Republicans in check?

Or Vitter with his unproecuted diaper fetish? (per the on-record testimony of his prostitute)

And Vitter is still in the Senate, blocking a bill to save NOLA public housing, another bill that some DUers and their favored candidates don't seem to care about. No similar single-senator blocks were permitted for the warrantless wiretapping bill.

Note how the government does not have to prove they used warrantless wiretapping of Spitzer to "set them on the trail" of this evidence. They just "stumbled upon it" after Spitzer angered an Albany crime boss.

[Demeter]

1. Then We Are Electing Idiots to Office

Of course, that goes without saying....

[damntexdem]

2. Well, unlike Bill, at least Elliot paid for it.

;-)

[Leopolds Ghost]

4. The only part I don't understand is why anyone would pay big money to sleep with these skinny models

Monica is much more attractive, to be quite frank.

[NashVegas]

3. I'm Really Shocked By the Reaction

Of people who think those of us questioning the methods used here are wearing our TFHs.

I think there's a lot of disconnection by people who don't want to see just how corrupt the machine really is.

[magellan]

7. That's the truth.

Until we put our silly flags down and start facing the facts, no matter how unpalatable, nothing will change.

[Hart2008]

8. Right. The same standards must apply to all, or to no one.

The sexual blackmail has to stop.

Personally, I Think that if Spitzer paid for sex he should resign, but so should Cheney.

If the pols aren't caught with prostitutes, then their marital problems shouldn't be news, as it was before, unless it involves an abuse of power, i.e., sexual assault, etc.

[NashVegas]

9. I Agree On That One Point

Until we legalize prostitution - and we should - Spitzer, Vitter, Cheney et al need to step down.

There's a reason why it's called the world's oldest profession and if we don't drop the puritan attitude on it, a lot of otherwise good people (I wouldn't accuse Cheney of that) are going to continue to fall into honey traps.

[BridgeTheGap]

5. Supposedly, J. Edgar Hoover was secretly filmed in bed with a boy

The film was then used to black mail Hoover, preventing investigations of high level people.

[soundguy]

6. Well Said n/t

[Seeking Serenity]

10. Tammany Hall? It's not like this is brand new to NY politics.

I remember seeing a documentary on LBJ and when they got to the part when he was Senate majority leader, they interviewed Bobby Bell who said, essentially, that it was common for the leadership to know what their colleagues predilections were and serve them in part to a) keep them discreet, and b) have something to hang over their heads when they needed a crucial vote, and that that was just the way things worked.

I remember seeing a similar scene in "House of Cards" where Urquart, as chief whip, counseled one of his back-benchers who had been caught with a prostitute to use one of the ones they had on file, "who know the meaning of discretion."

[pscot]

11. What stones me

is that a guy like Spitzer, who has seen it from the inside, would get caught out like this. He, of all people, should have understood that his phone calls and bank records were being monitored. This is what comes of letting your dick do your thinking for you.

[lonestarnot]

12. Mr. Penis is a bust.

Heh.