The morning papers all have accounts of yesterday's Spitzer-Bruno dustup over efforts by the governor's aides to get Senate Democrats to send a letter to the IRS asking for a probe of Bruno's official/political flights on state aircraft. The most interesting new piece seems to be Christine Anderson saying Spitzer did not want to "personally" refer the case.
Isn't this kind of the nub of the problem? The tax issue itself (imputed income from the political percentage of an official flight?) looks kind of thin. But if Spitzer thought this was so all-fired important, he could have fired off a letter to the IRS, released it to the press, cc'd Bruno, and cut out the rhetoric about how important it is for state leaders to stop bickering and start governing.
Instead of doing it in the open, he seems to have settled on a course of saying publicly that it was time to stop the backstabbing and do the people's business while his aides privately and secretly continue his little knife fight with Bruno. Now, revealed, he looks like a hypocrite.
The next time he says 'Let's get back to governing,' who's going to believe he really means it?