Silda Spitzer

I feel for Silda Spitzer. Her husband, rightly so, is resigning today. Late night TV shows will not be airing in the Spitzer household. One can only imagine the joy Leno and Letterman are having at his expense. Saturday Night Live looms ahead.

I feel for the public humiliation Silda Spitzer is now enduring. Eliot Spitzer's tryst with a prostitute (or others) was not a one time deal. He paid at least $80,000.00 for escort services. That is a mind numbing amount of money.

Eliot Spitzer made a career out of pursuing the likes of, well, Eliot Spitzer. His favorite targets as a prosecutor were high profile people and sex and large amounts of money were right up his alley. Mr. Self -Righteous, Mr. Law and Order himself got caught doing that which he had built a career and a reputation on doing.

The list of wives seems to be growing. Larry Craig's wife, Suzanne, is dealing with his closeted homosexuality and the many, many jokes about his wide stance. Each day she wakes up and looks at him she just has to wonder.

Dina Matos McGreevey's facial expression as her husband, the former Governor of New Jersey, is still a classic. One had to feel for her because the announcement he was making was not only telling the world that he was no longer going to be the Governor but she was recognizing that she was soon no longer going to be a married woman. He, at least, unlike Larry Craig, was honest enough to actually address the fact that he was, in fact, gay, and thus allowing his wife to go on with her life.

Wendy Vitters has had to endure her husband's Senator David Vitters affairs, also with an escort service. He, like Craig, has stayed in the Senate.

As for me, right now, I'm not going to make fun of these men. Their lives have an element of tragedy to them that, frankly, is not very funny. And there are the women, at their sides, deeply betrayed, and severely wounded. And there is no humor in that.