Scandal-Ridden Eliot Spitzer Posts 'Happy Talk' Blog On Daily Kos

NewsBusters ^ | August 7, 2007 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

Let's say you are a scandal-ridden governor looking for some love. Where would you find it? Well, if you are New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, aka Steamroller Spitzer, immersed in a scandal that threatens to destroy your political career, you go looking for love in the Daily Kos with a divorced from reality "Happy Talk" blog post that makes no mention any pending unpleasantries. Spitzer's "Happy Talk" love fest on the Daily Kos will have no effect in stopping the scandal investigations but perhaps it is temporarily therapeutic to brag about himself to his fellow leftists in his blog post titled, Congratulations on a Great Weekend :

While we are seeing a mounting reform movement at the national level, I would also urge you to be aware of some of the important developments that are occurring in statehouses across the country. There are some exciting things happening, demonstrating that your activism is also paying dividends at the state level.

Building a strong foundation for reform at the state level is especially important since this is where many of our nation’s most important reform efforts have gotten their start. As Louis Brandeis once famously noted, the states can serve as "laboratories of democracy."

Nowhere has this been more true than in New York.  From the Seneca Falls Convention to the beginnings of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal to Frances Perkins’ fight for better labor conditions for American workers, we have a proud progressive tradition in the Empire State.

If you thought that being mired in a sordid scandal would have induced at least some humility in Eliot Spitzer you would be wrong. The governor goes on to boast:

We have had some tremendous successes already and have laid the ground work for future progress.

We provided health care coverage for every child in New York. This initiative is the meaningful first stage of the plan we are currently crafting to provide universal healthcare coverage. New York is taking a unique, incremental approach that will build on the experiences of other states around the country.  In a nation as prosperous as ours, there is no excuse that every man, woman, and child does not have health care.

We are beginning the long overdue process of revitalizing New York’s economy and we are going about it in innovative ways. Investing in education is a key component of our economic development agenda. Our goal is to generate the highly skilled work force necessary to support and fuel our future economic growth and to allow us to compete in the global economy.  In my first budget, we implemented historic investments in education and created a commission to study ways of making our higher education system a world class institution.

Unfortunately for Governor Spitzer, even many Kossacks were unwilling to buy into his self-glorification "Happy Talk" love fest:

Used to be a fan Spitzer until Troopergate. I can't believe you would use taxpayer monies and the state police to try and set up a state Senator Joseph Bruno. Those are Nixon-, Bush-, Clinton-type tactics. You are above that.

Lawyers he needs, regardless of where he gets them. Our love he doesn't need, and he won't be getting any from me until he comes clean.

Your credibility is under serious strain (read the comments down thread on that last albanyproject link if you doubt me)- and that's saying something coming from folks like me who have touted you as an archetype of the good politician in this forum and elsewhere. At one time I thought you would make a great President. Please respond, Governor, and don't insult us with more dissembling.

To read more of the Daily Kos comments about Eliot Spitzer's search for web love as well as additional "dissembling" remarks from the governor, check out the DUmmie FUnnies.

[PJ-Comix]

The NY Governor is looking for some LOOOOOOVE!!!

[ConservativeMind]

You rock, PJ.

[Nick Thimmesch]

Blog this, Ellidiot:

August 7, 2007
It’s a Female Dog, or Worse. Or Endearing. And Illegal?
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
The New York City Council, which drew national headlines when it passed a symbolic citywide ban earlier this year on the use of the so-called n-word, has turned its linguistic (and legislative) lance toward a different slur: bitch.

The term is hateful and deeply sexist, said Councilwoman Darlene Mealy of Brooklyn, who has introduced a measure against the word, saying it creates “a paradigm of shame and indignity” for all women.

But conversations over the last week indicate that the “b-word” (as it is referred to in the legislation) enjoys a surprisingly strong currency — and even some defenders — among many New Yorkers.

And Ms. Mealy admitted that the city’s political ruling class can be guilty of its use. As she circulated her proposal, she said, “even council members are saying that they use it to their wives.”

Councilwoman Darlene Mealy
41st Council District

1757 Union Street, 2nd Floor
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11213
Phone: 718-953-3097
Fax: 212-442-0292

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[stm]

If it's on KOS I would say Hippy Talk would be more appropriate than Happy Talk

[sageb1]

This is news I can use. I didn’t know Spitzer had a diary at dkos, although I’m certainly not surprised.

[xcamel]

Daily Krass
Daily Kooks
Daily Kostic
Daily Kommunist

Blah.. Blah.. Blah...

[Red Badger]

Daily Kuss..........

[vetsvette]

That snake will feel right at home among the leftist Kos Vipers.

[Bruinator]

Well one reason we are so Prosperous GOv, is the lack of Universal health care and other entitlements that would suck up all resources. We have too many entitlement programs as it is. There is the truley needy, who should get help, and those that suck the system dry. Try reforming that and we would see even more prosperity.

[restornu]

Some us could see by his demeanor Spitzer was a Pit Bowl thug!

That he would rule with an Iron Fist!

even the person he appointed to run the health care is also a pit bowl!

if that Dr. had his way Nutrional supplements would be banned!

[marlon]

The real issue I think is that because he's a fellow Stalinist scandal will leave no mark on Spitzer. If anything my guess is that he will endear himself even more to the left wing voters in NY. After all the scandal is because he and his people tried to ruin the political career of a Republican opponent on trumped up charges.

Isn't that after all how their party's standard bearer and soon to be Presidential nominee made her name in politics? And certainly the Socialist Govenor next door in NJ hasn't been slowed in his political tracks much by his many scandals.

[Chode]

now that's just tooo damn funny...

[SamAdams76]

I think Spitzer found love in all the wrong places.