I think the delay tactics are what is dragging this whole thing out. Get Spitzer in and have him testify under oath, he wanted to in the beginning see if he still does. With his sinking poll numbers he needs to do something. 70% disapproval in Upstate.

GOP should slam coffin lid on boring, costly Troopergate

After six months, Troopergate has become not just boring, but increasingly an expensive annoyance.

Continued, hysterical pursuit by Senate Republicans is becoming more and more about them, and not about revealing some higher, or even lower, truth concerning a long-ago incident that was more embarrassing than anything else.

What’s the taxpayers’ running tab, I wonder, for the imported legal gurus guiding our esteemed lawmakers in their hounding of Governor Spitzer’s former communications director, Darren Dopp?

Because I’m confident that if it were up to the public, the Washington legal team behind Senate Republican efforts to keep this a hot political issue no matter what would be sent packing.

The simple truth is any significant point to the multiple inquiries still gasping for breath have already played out in the tabloids. Every innuendo, truthful or otherwise, has been teased out to infinity. So what’s the point anymore?

What more can we learn, or be instructed by, that the public has not already absorbed and adjusted to?

The very worst the Republicans could possibly pin on Eliot Spitzer is that he knew more than he said about the ill-conceived plan to get the goods on Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno’s inappropriate use of state aircraft for personal and political business. That’s the very worst of it, and chances are they won’t come close to that.

A month ago in a Siena College poll, a great majority of the public said they already believed the governor did know more than he said. So what more is there to gain by prolonging this expensive agony?

From their perspective, Senate Republicans have the best of both worlds at the moment, anyway. They’ve managed to poison the air enough so that most New Yorkers believe the blackest thoughts about Governor Spitzer and his administration, without ever having to actually prove anything. more–>

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