It looks as though Eliot Spitzer, the awful governor of New York, will be resigning after it was revealed today that he has been caught in a federal prostitution sting. Spitzer was the worst kind of abuser-of-power when he was the New York state Attorney General, and his governorship has been marked by allegations of serious corruption and ham-fisted attempts to ram unpopular legislation through the state assembly (for instance, driver's licenses for illegal aliens). I won't be shedding any tears for the (soon to be ex-) governor tonight, and Dean Barnett notes that this episode could have ended better:

Today would be a happier day if Spitzer were driven from public life because the public recoiled at his holier-than-thou prosecutions that were driven much more by a sense of ambition than a desire for justice.

Alas, we'll take what we can get.