Eliot Spitzer, George W. Bush And "Ethical Perversity"

Outrage and calls for impeachment. For Eliot Spitzer, not for George W. Bush. Why? This is the “Ethical Perversity” of our troubled times. I have posted about this previously, specifically in My Thoughts On The Eliot Spizter Prostitution Scandal and in I Plead Guilty. Now, thanks to Rabbi Michael Lerner we have a name for it: “Ethical Perversity.”

I learned about Rabbi Michael Lerner and “Ethical Perversity” from alias Bruce. I like Bruce’s blog more and more with every new post from him. Here is Bruce on “Ethical Perversity”:

What else to call it when one politician is brought down in national disgrace for the hypocrisy and illegality of his dealings with a high-priced prostitution operation, while another politician lies the nation into an illegal war that kills tens of thousands, condones torture, and shreds the Bill of Rights, all to nary a peep about high crimes and misdemeanors?

Years ago George Orwell noted in Animal Farm that “some are more equal than others.” Unfortunately this is all too true in the real world as well as the fictional world of a novel. We desperately need accountability to be applied equally. The most powerful and rich among us should not be spared.

And speaking of the most powerful and rich among us. Why are they allowing the Bush administration to basically abolish the Fourth Amendment? They are the ones who could most effectively put a stop to things like immunity for telecom companies and revisions of the FISA laws. Did Bush go after Spitzer for political reasons? If he did, what’s to say that you won’t be next?