Spitzer

It just gets uglier. From the Miami Herald, this choice bit of information, via dday at Hullabaloo:

Almost four months before Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned in a sex scandal, a lawyer for Republican political operative Roger Stone sent a letter to the FBI alleging that Spitzer ''used the services of high-priced call girls'' while in Florida.

The letter, dated Nov. 19, said Miami Beach resident Stone learned the information from ''a social contact in an adult-themed club.'' It offered one potentially identifying detail: The man in question hadn't taken off his calf-length black socks ``during the sex act.''

Stone, known for shutting down the 2000 presidential election recount effort in Miami-Dade County, is a longtime Spitzer nemesis whose political experience ranges from the Nixon White House to Al Sharpton's presidential campaign. His lawyer wrote the letter containing the call-girl allegations after FBI agents had asked to speak to Stone, though he says the FBI did not specify why he was contacted.

In case you've forgotten who Roger Stone is, he is probably the most vicious political hit-man ever. He seems to have a particularly hard woody for Eliot Spitzer. I wonder who his handler in the administration is?

It's a symptom of the damage that the Bush administration has done to this country that the first reaction to something like the Spitzer mess is "politics." It's even worse because it starts to look more and more like it's generally true.