Hubris and grace in Albany

So “Client-9” is Eliot Spitzer, and “Kristen” is Ashley Dupre.

Oh, dude. Seriously?

This chick is thousands of dollars per hour?

Ultimately I didn’t expect this to make sense on a strictly carnal level, and it doesn’t. Sheesh, she’s not even as hot as his wife. She’s got that cookie-cutter shape about her that (apparently) says “sexy” to a lot of Western civilization, but that to me has always said “bulimia,” or perhaps “heroin addiction.”

Yeah. So.

Now that we know the motivation must be beyond the copular, it’s unambiguously a Good Thing that Spitzer will soon be out of office. ‘Cause if it’s not about the bonking, it gets to be about heinous excesses of all sorts of nasty things like power, manipulation, and entitlement—the stuff that (by definition) we know must compose politicians to some degree, but that we try not to think about.

Ah, the voyeuristic joys of hubris.

So get your ass home, Eliot. Silda’s apparently going to take you back, and with a Harvard law degree and looking like she does, she damned sure doesn’t have to. That’s grace. Appreciate it.

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4 thoughts on “Hubris and grace in Albany”

  1. I can’t begin to understand what makes people cheat on their spouses – especially when there’s no “love” involved in the cheating.

    I also can’t begin to understand how a spouse could get over such a blatant breach of trust.

    Of course, I have no idea how other people run their marriages, so I’m certainly not passing judgment; I’m just sayin’, I don’t think I could take him back.

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  2. And under the heading of “Oh, the Irony”:

    This was the quote that came up when I opened this entry:

    Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. – Ronald Reagan

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  3. Yeah, I dunno. I’m with you on the infidelity thing; I’ve made an ass of myself before on that topic.

    But if you’re inclined to grade on a cheating curve, this isn’t a drunken dalliance at a high-school reunion. This is high-dollar hookers, eight different times.

    And Silda Spitzer really is smokin’ hot. She’s about exactly halfway between Laura Linney and Mary McDonnell.

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