While Governor Spitzer’s decision to dabble in the illegal and immoral was a career crushing move, similar acts escalated former President Clinton and his sidekick, Monica Lewinsky, into never to be forgotten fame and/or fortune, particularly for Ms. Lewinsky.

Governor Spitzer, taking his cue from the former commander in cheif, found out the hard way that what’s good for the goose, insn’t necessarily good for the gander. Click on the link below for a quick summary of today’s events. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23561606?GT1=43001

In the story above, Spitzer is dinged for violating the Mann Act of 1910 for crossing state lines for the purpose of prostitution. While I don’t condone this behavior at all, I do wonder how this effectively applies since the Mann Act’s purpose is prohibitive of white slavery and transporting females for immoral purposes. Spitzer didn’t transport anyone. According to reports, the prostitute was already in Washington, and he was the only one crossing state lines.

Given this, I wonder how Spitzer and this prostitute were any different than Lewinsky traveling from California to act as intern in the White House, gaining access to the Commander in Chief and performing sexual acts on him, even as the President conducted business conferences by phone. The only difference is the compensation package. Sptizer’s prostitute is reported to have “earned” $4300 for a couple of hours. For Lewinsky’s indiscretions, she was made more famous than she could have dreamed at that moment in her life. Her fame led to television interviews, television shows, books, her own products and one spoiled young woman being the center of attention for a period of time, that she likely would never have had otherwise.

One might say that Spitzer’s mistake was that he paid in cash, but his mistake was actually that he betrayed his family, instead of working on the problems that led to this behavior in the first place. Then, again, the former Commander in Chief did set the stage for this being acceptable behavior. Nonetheless, I’m happy to see his resignation. My only hope is that his replacement isn’t hanging out with Emperors Club VIP “employees” as well.