Elliot Spitzer - Head of the Securities Exchange Commission..

[kentuck]

Just watching him on Fareed's show on CNN, the guy still has a lot to offer in public service. His experience would be of great value in over-seeing the stock market and regulating the greedy manipulators on Wall Street. I would like to see him considered for this position. He would be an asset for the Obama Administration.

[graywarrior]

1. Yea I just watched him

He's a smart guy.

[marketcrazy1]

2. I would be thrilled

by that appointment!! to much to hope for though.................

[malaise]

3. Good idea

Excellent interview. Spitzer will command the news this week despite the nasty job done on him by Bush's Justice Department.

I can't wait for Vitter, Craig or any Rushican to comment.
Welcome back Eliot Spitzer.

[lurky]

4. Bwa ha ha ha ha!!!

That would be hilarious! Just to see the disbelief on the faces of all the Santellis on Wall Street.
:rofl:

[Taverner]

5. I'd love to see it, but some of the puritains on this board might have a problem

HE SLEPT WITH A HOO-HOO-HOOKER!!!!

[philly_bob]

12. Maybe it's time to stand up to the puritans! n/t

[Sebastian Doyle]

16. It's not that he fucked a hooker

It's that he didn't realize it was a goddamn setup. Not to mention the price she was charging. Wasn't it like $5000/hour or something like that?

I've seen this chick. No way in Hell she was worth that price.

That alone calls Spitzer's judgment into question.

[Taverner]

17. Do not question a human and their sexual organ

Unless you have said sexual organ attached to your body, you cannot judge... :)

[originalpckelly]

6. He knows a lot about people screwing their clients for money, so he'd be the best candidate.

:P

[acmavm]

7. Are you kidding? 75% of this hypocritical country would be too damn busy

monitoring his crotch to pay attention to any of the good he might accomplish, including putting an end to all this criminal activity by Wall Street.

[JDPriestly]

15. He would not be running for office. People would like him better than they

Geithner. (I realize he would not be replacing Geithner. I'm just using Geithner as an example.)

[acmavm]

24. Yeah, this is an area that I think is perfectly suited for Spitzer. And maybe

people could/would be sensible and just figure that he's the right man for the job. But I don't have that much faith in the people. I am certain that they would allow certain segments make Spitzer's personal pecadillos a source of constant uproar and diversion and that's all anyone would hear about.

But he would be a welcome change to Geithner & Patterson & Bernanke & Paulson and the rest of the Wall Street Boys.

[monmouth]

8. And let us watch Krugman's head explode if that were to happen...LOL.

[stillcool]

9. He'd have to go in the back door...

and avoid any confirmation hearings. The public would chew him up, and spit him out, on the cue of the media. I bet that's the reason many don't want to work in any official capacity.

[Bozita]

13. "on the cue of the media" kinda says it all.

David Vitter is a respected Republicon senator once again, thanks in large part to his treatment by the MSM.

[Medusa]

10. No.

Yes he's smart. Yes he was a gifted politican. But Obama does not need to associate himself with someone with that kind of baggage. That is all the media and the right-wing would focus on.

[Waiting For Everyman]

11. Yes.

That would be guts and a smart move. Spitzer is the one who blew the cover on Bush blocking all 50 governors from taking action on this long before it blew up. If the RW complains, that's all that needs saying.

They wouldn't dare. And if they did, they'd be toast.

[progressoid]

14. Only if you want to see 24 hour news coverage of his sex life again.

And RW talking heads flinging mud for days, months & years to come.

[malaise]

18. If anyone of the RW talking heads took that route

Dem talking heads would just mention Vitter and Craig.

[Odin2005]

19. Won't happen, he screwed himself by screwing a fancy French "escort".

He knew that the forces of Wall street would use any means to bring him down yet he went ahead and gave them skeletons to find. Same with John Edwards.

[rvablue]

20. Won't happen. Not now. But I think you can bet on it

that Spitzer will be in the 2nd Obama administration.

It's just not politically wise to do it now, whether we like it or not, that is the reality.

But, rest assured, if our President is re-elected I think we can count on seeing Spitzer included somewhere.

[McCamy Taylor]

21. Since Dems are in power and Dems do not care about sex scandals, I say do it.

Here is the story about all the bankers who used their corporate credit cards to pay prostitutes.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Wall_Street_CEOs_investment_bankers_charged_0206.html

[anigbrowl]

22. I'm down...when the people he put in jail for prostitution get out

I really don't care whether he hires hookers or not, that's between him and his family. But I do care about the fact that he made political capital out of busting vice rings and used his public position to condemn the same service he liked to spend his personal money on. Makes me wonder why some people got busted and others didn't. I don't like the hypocrisy, and think it verges on corruption.

[stillcool]

23. Funny that...bringing up prostitution ..

as 'corruption' while talking about global corporations that defraud the American people of billions, and billions of dollars. I guess if he'd been caught driving drunk, and you would feel the same way?

[anigbrowl]

27. Tell it to the people he put away for selling a service he liked to buy.

Maybe you don't remember he busted a 'vice ring' in operating out of Staten Island in 2004 and made a big deal out of how immoral it was. The possibility of corruption I refer to is not prostitution itself, but whether the operations he patronized were spared his scrutiny as DA.

[stillcool]

30. It would be hard for me to forget that...

as it was used to take him down. I see it as hypocritical. I guess corruption is in the eye of the beholder?

[anigbrowl]

31. Hypocrisy + legal power = corruption

Talking about it is one thing, prosecuting some people while giving others a pass (because you do business with them) is quite another.

[Raine]

25. He's tainted

he screwed himself and ruined his reputation and career, Obama doesn't need an anchor like that hung around his neck. x(

[Starlight]

29. Spitzer is a hypocrite with questionable ethics. Besides, the new SEC chairman was just confirmed.

And Mary Schapiro was an excellent choice. :)

[SoCalDem]

26. He'd never be confirmed

he's been naughty:)

[lonestarnot]

28. K & R, but he pooped his nest.