Skewering Spitzer

It's not that difficult to do given the wealth of material he's provided. In addition to the Troopergate kerfuffle where members of New York State's Democratic Gov. Eliot Spitzer's staff had State Police investigate Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno (R-Rensselaer), Spitzer has come under fire for his inane drivers license plan that would extend the privilege to illegal aliens.

Add to those two problems, the delicious possibility that Spitzer's top aide, Darren Dopp, wanted another Spitzer aide to lie about his involvement in the Troopergate mess.

Dopp wanted now-demoted Spitzer homeland-security aide William Howard to join him in denying there was anything unusual in their months-long effort to use the State Police to gather evidence purporting to show Majority Leader Joseph Bruno (R-Rensselaer) misused state aircraft for political purposes, said the source, who knows many of those involved in the scandal.

Dopp sought to have Howard, whose job involved overseeing the State Police, back up his initial public claim that the information gathered on Bruno was merely the result of a "change in State Police policy" designed to keep better track of the use of state aircraft, and was not part of a complex conspiracy aimed at damaging or destroying Spitzer's chief Republican opponent, the source continued.

The state Public Integrity Commission last week asked Albany District Attorney David Soares to examine possible perjury by Dopp before the commission.

Spitzer has been an unmitigated disaster thus far as governor and all of his problems have been self-inflicted. The GOP couldn't do more harm to Spitzer, and Spitzer's mess has found its way into national politics with the Clinton gaffe in the last debate where she spun herself into a knot over whether she supported the Spitzer plan to give illegals drivers licenses.

It's an issue that splits the party, and Clinton quickly took heat for her trying to have it both ways, only to later claim that she does support Spitzer and a plan to give illegal aliens drivers licenses.

Jammie has more. As Instapundit snarks, "[you'd]... have to wait 'til the second term for this kind of thing, except maybe in Louisiana."

Spitzer waits for no one. His arrogance will be his undoing.