"TRAGEDY," MY ASS...

Couldn't have happened to a nastier guy!! A filthy, lying, vicious bullying egomaniac, he got a lot less than he deserved!!


Let's let the great Fred Dicker put the stake thru this slimy bastard's heart:

BULLY GETS HIS COMEUPPANCE
By FREDRIC U. DICKER


March 11, 2008 -- ALBANY - A disgraced Gov. Spitzer has been publicly and privately de scribed for more than a year by New York's top political figures as a ruth less, sanctimonious, amoral man whose righteous public persona was regularly contradicted by the realities of how he conducted his political life.
Talk about confirmation!

Whether it was Spitzer's involvement in the Dirty Tricks and Internal Revenue scandals that targeted Senate Republican Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, his threats against Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and other Assembly Democrats, his undermining through rumor and innuendo of Lt. Gov. David Paterson, or his seemingly paranoid hostilities to Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Spitzer's style struck many as so far out of line with his public claims of righteousness that many started using the jargon of abnormal psychology to describe him.

When Spitzer described himself as a "f- - -ing steamroller" to Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco after less than a month in office, Tedisco - a muscular, one-time, star college athlete - confided to an associate, "This guy scares me."

"There's something wrong with Spitzer, something wrong in his head," Bruno, who was cleared by Cuomo of any misuse of the same state aircraft that Spitzer may have used for a liaison with a prostitute, has told friends.

"He's a liar, he's a hypocrite and he cannot ever been trusted," Bruno continued in a recent conversation.

Bruno, 79, who was allegedly called a "senile piece of s- - -" by the governor, has even claimed Spitzer threatened him physically.

While many in state government have been privately critical of Spitzer's behavior, few thought that an assessment as harsh as Bruno's could really be true. Until yesterday afternoon.

Even friends described Spitzer as a man whose mood can swing in seconds, as a once pleasant cast undergoes a frightening - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-like - transformation after a perceived personal slight or policy disagreement.

If you were his enemy, you were in danger.

One of the state's highest Democrats recently described how Spitzer had - ironically - had a hand in spreading sexual rumors about one of his well-known critics.

If you were his friend, you were in danger, too.

Spitzer was widely described - even at the highest levels of his own administration - as having thrown former top aide Darren Dopp to the law-enforcement wolves in an effort to make it appear that Dopp, and not Spitzer himself, was the moving force by the Dirty Tricks Scandal assault on Bruno.

Spitzer was often described as an Ivy League bully whose take-no-prisoners style was gussied up with $50 words and the affect of an accent.

But underneath lay a spoiled rich kid - his family is worth close to $1 billion - who wanted to run with the political toughs.

Spitzer's hypocrisy became apparent to many in state government years before he took office.

In 1994, fresh from the office of Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, Spitzer apparently violated state election law by failing to disclose huge sums lent by his megamillionaire father - who was said to be bent on seeing his son become the first Jewish president - to his initial unsuccessful campaign for attorney general. He then repeatedly lied about the loans when he ran successfully for the post in 1998.

Spitzer, as attorney general, was repeatedly accused of improperly threatening Wall Street investment bankers - not to mention their firms and other related businesses, such as insurance - with legal actions if they didn't admit to alleged wrongdoings and pony up hundreds of millions of dollars in fines.

While few initially doubted the legitimacy of Spitzer's charges, serious questions began to be raised after John Whitehead, the highly regarded former head of Goldman Sachs, wrote an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal describing a harrowing confrontation with a menacing attorney general.

Author Charles Gasparino, in "King of the Club," gave additional insight into Spitzer's hard-ball tactics.

He described interviewing Spitzer about an investigation of a well-known Wall Street executive and having Dopp interrupt him to say the individual "was boning" his secretary.

Gasparino responded, "Where's the evidence, and why does it matter?" He noted that Spitzer "just sat there before changing the subject."

The alacrity with which Spitzer turned on scandal-scarred state Comptroller Alan Hevesi, a friend whom he called "spectacular" even after it was revealed that Hevesi had misused his office, left many scratching their heads weeks before the governor took office.

Spitzer's claim last year that he was selflessly setting an example by voluntarily limiting his campaign contributions, even while setting up back-door channels so that those limits could be easily circumvented, proved too much for even his much-beloved - and almost always apologetic - New York Times, which delivered a sharp rebuke.

Powerful union leaders have been openly bragging about their growing special influence with Spitzer.

Spitzer's hypocrisy took more minor forms as well.

He regularly claimed to have been "raised in The Bronx," when in fact he was the product of the rarified wealthy world of Scarsdale, elite private elementary schools, Princeton and Harvard.

The governor also claimed to be a regular-guy-type NASCAR racing fan, but one associate privately claimed that Spitzer would spend more time watching his BlackBerry than he would watching the races.