State & Local Politics

Armstrong Williams compares Silda Spitzer's situation to that of Hillary Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

"It is 3 a.m. The phone rings in room 871 of the Mayflower Hotel in Washington. Something is happening. Who will answer that call? What will she be wearing?"

Mark that down as a political commercial you will never see, except maybe on “Saturday Night Live.”

And for that matter, you can take Eliot Spitzer off of everyone's short list for vice president. He is now about as likely for the Democrats as Larry Craig is for the Republicans.

Actually, both of them could help create that viable third party we have been waiting for for so long. It could finally offer that alternative to the S.O.P., the Same Old Parties. Read more...

Those of us who are players in financial markets know very well that the system is rigged in favor of those at the top and against those at the bottom and in the middle.

Because of a substantial body of work over a career, the market is a little bit fairer.

Because of Eliot Spitzer, average American investors in the market are a little more protected. Those most corrupt forces in the market are a little more investigated.

The guilty are a little more prosecuted and the potentially corrupt are a little more deterred because of Eliot Spitzer. Read more...

Here’s one thing I’ll never understand: Why do such smart men do such dumb things? Or maybe we should ask: Why don’t smart men use their brain instead of some other part of their anatomy?

It’s a bipartisan malady. Mark Foley and Larry Craig. Gary Hart and Bill Clinton. And now, Eliot Spitzer — caught by a federal sting operation in the middle of a high-class prostitution ring.

Ironically, Spitzer was trapped in a classic Spitzer-type investigation. As attorney general of New York, he was a relentless, moral crusader. Busting up crooked dealers on Wall Street. Fighting big insurance companies. And, yes, tracking down and exposing prostitution networks aimed at the big business and tourist trade. Read more...

Armstrong Williams shares his personal experience with a former police officer who was accused of murder.

Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore’s announcement this afternoon that he will seek the Republican nomination for Senate to run against another former governor has been expected for some time. The common wisdom is that he will face an all but impossible task if he really hopes to beat former Gov. Mark Warner (D).

He will, after all, be running in a year that most inside-the-Beltway observers expect to be a strongly Democratic year at all levels, and the interim signs in Virginia itself aren’t all that promising. Warner left office with a high approval rating and was, until deciding he wanted to move across the Potomac as a senator, considered a possible Democratic vice presidential nominee. Moreover, Virginia these days is widely believed to be changing color rather rapidly, from red to purple, and perhaps to blue by the fall of 2008. Read more...

In this town, political victories are measured less in miles and more in feet and inches, especially for the Republican Party. They’re still reeling from the lashing they took in 2006, and many believed the same cudgel would hit them again on Tuesday. Yes, 2008 is when the “varsity” comes to play, but keep in mind the Republicans have scored some noteworthy victories that Democrats should be mindful of: Read more...