Timing is a Funny Thing

I got this note in my email yesterday:

Tax rebate use

As you may have heard the Bush Administration said each and every one of us would now get a nice rebate. If we spend that money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go to China. If we spend it on gasoline it will all go to the Arabs, if we purchase a computer it will all go to India, if we purchase fruit and vegetables it will all go to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatamala, if we purchase a good car it will all go to Japan, if we purchase useless crap it will all go to Taiwan and none of it will help us.

We need to keep that money here in America, so the only way to keep that money here at home is to buy prostitutes and beer, since those are the only businesses still left in the US.

When I read it to Mike, his immediate response was, "So, Eliot Spitzer is a true patriot?"

The Spitzer case makes me question -- not for the first time -- what has happened to this country. How can a public servant at the level of a state or federal legislator, governor, or president possibly think that their life is private? Especially after seeking private funds for their campaigns and personal endorsements for their office?

In the meantime, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates, the law firm who employeed Spitzer and his wife for years, sent an inter-office memo to its staff yesterday. The topic? Appropriate dress, which does not include jeans, t-shirts, and headphones. Hmmm.... Good to know where the priorities of the firm are.

As I said, timing is a funny thing.

[Update] Eliot Spitzer resigned as Governor of New York late Wednesday morning. He will be succeeded by Lieutenant Governor David Paterson, the state's first black Governor.