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Jul 30 2007 12:00am EDT

Spitzer Twists In the Wind

Eliot Spitzer's long slow bleed continues.

His failure to simply fire the aides involved in the effort to smear Republican State Sen. Joe Bruno just keeps the scandal going.

Each concession that Spitzer makes now only makes the whole mess worse.

Spitzer probably did know of his aides' actions. It just seems implausible to me that he wouldn't.

He needs to come out and admit it.

Matthew Cooper's full Capital blog post on this subject can be found here.


Laura Rich is a co-founder of Recessionwire, which provides news, advice, perspective and humor about the recession and the recovery.

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