Hey Eliot! Phone Home.

New York's rootin'-tootin', hip shootin' governor, Eliot Spitzer, will leave office Monday after being caught literally, with his pants down in a prostitution ring. I'm no stranger to the pent up hatred we New Yorkers felt towards this governor. I wrote a diatribe against Spitzer back in October 2007 when he was steamrolling to give all illegal aliens in New York State drivers licenses. I also do not feel much sympathy for his down trodden looking wife, Silda. She may have looked beaten and pathetic standing next to the Love Gov while he made his exiting confession of $5500 an hour condom-less sex but sources say Silda begged hubby not to give up his day job. Obviously, Silda and Eliot deserve each other.

I'm not going to write a rant on our ex-gov. In fact, I am not even going to mention his name from this point on. What I want to discuss is the balance of good and evil and how it is affecting the world we live in today. When this story first broke, my first reaction was one of disgust. It's getting pretty hard out there to find anything to believe in anymore. Hope is becoming quite elusive. I was beginning to think that evil was winning over the battle between good vs evil. The housing mess has highlighted Wall Street's continual greed. The Federal Government has had their interfering hands in inflation, the falling dollar, job loss and huge budget imbalances. The Feds thought biofuels would solve our energy problems. Instead, we now face food shortages and higher energy (and food) prices. Nice try, guys. Too many days are passing by with stories of political corruption, sexual indiscretions and financial imbalances.

Enter: 'The People'. The Good People of these here United States of America. It was an employee at Capital One-North Fork Bank in Long Island who noted the frequent wire transfers from a bank account, alerted the F.B.I. thus uncovering Spitzer's web of deceit. It's the outcries from the people clamoring for the resignation and not forgiveness (as Spitzer and Silda were hoping for. After all, paying for sex is not against the law, so they reasoned) that finally led to Spitzer's disgraceful resignation from a powerful political post.

The point of this post is this: we the people still have our morals, our love and respect for the family, our country and our laws intact. What stands for one, stands for all. Our constitution was written for us. It is up to us to demand that our representatives and elected officials walk on the side of good. When they falter and lean towards evil, we should stand our ground and get them out.

As I watched 'you-know-who' read his goodbye speech this morning, with his ego-maniacal wife standing next to him, I actually felt quite happy. Evil has been outed and ousted. Now, New York can get back to business and work with Lt. Governor, David A. Paterson, who will be sworn in on Monday, and balance out our 5 billion dollar deficit and impending health care cuts you-know-who was going to address. If he ever got out of that Mayflower Hotel room.

And so it goes.

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