New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s political career has reached its climax, so to speak, brought down by a sex scandal that in any other country would not be a scandal at all.

Spitzer announced his resignation effective Monday without actually addressing any of the allegations against him, allegations reported by the New York Times based on unnamed law enforcement officials.

The soon to be ex-governor may be the first politician to apologize without ever saying exactly what it is he is apologizing for!  How strange.

Sex and the State

Sounds like a new HBO series, doesn’t it?

The allegation is that Spitzer got caught with his hand in the cookie jar–or, in this case, several cookie jars, by paying for the sexual services of $1,000 an hour prostitutes over several years. By one news account, he actually managed to spend some $40-60 thousand dollars on his sexual practices. That’s a whole lot of sex.  Most politicians spend their time f–king the voters; at least with Spitzer, he apparently spent most of HIS time f–king the Washington whores.

At his news conference, Spitzer said : “In the past few days, I have begun to atone for my private failings with my wife Silda, my children and my entire family. The remorse I feel will always be with me…I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.”

Is he talking about not living up to sexual standards or political ones?

The Times has reported that Spitzer , in court papers, is only identified as “Client 9” which has already become a T-Shirt for sale on the Internet. How perverse is that?

Come out, Come out Wherever You Are

Now, the media must focus their attention on who clients 1 through 8 are. I can only imagine.

In any other nation, politicians are expected to have sex with lots of people other than their wives or husbands. They’d have it no other way.

Even in this country, politicians have a long history of having sex with women other than their wives–Washington, Franklyn, Jefferson, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Clinton….see what I mean?

Now, in this case, of course, Spitzer, when he was a prosecutor, went after prostitution rings…and, if the Times account is right, he was doing this at the very same time he was paying for sex.

So, Spitzer, who might have been President one day, is history. A climatic end to an obviously sexually frustrated career.