…is good enough for the rest of us.  It has been a day or so, and I’m already tired of the GOP’s calls for Governor Spitzer of New York to resign.  I’m tired of hearing Limbaugh’s fanatics calling for him to resign.  Sure, we can all agree that what he did was sleazy, reprehensible, disgusting, dishonest, etc.  What gets me is for Republicans, that’s par for the course.  They want the Democrats to hold themselves to a standard that the Republicans themselves don’t live up to.  They don’t even expect it of themselves.

Politicizing the DoJ.  Pre-emptive war.  Violating the Geneva Convention.  Advocating the use of torture.  Suspension of Habeas Corpus.  Completely ruining the credibility of the United States throughout the world–completely conceding our moral authority.  The list goes on and on.  I could fill a small encyclopedia with the crimes of the Bush Administration.  Hell, anyone who’s paid attention during his presidency could.

That’s basically my case for it.  Not a single Democrat should resign for any reason as long as Bush and his administration continue to stay in office.  If we’re going to hold politicians accountable for their crimes, we can’t pick and choose.  Moreover, when you consider the weight of the crimes committed by Bush & Co., Spitzer’s crime is a drop in the bucket by comparison.