"There is such a thing in politics," said Martin Van Buren (D., N.Y.), "as killing a man too dead.".(The Week)(Eliot Spitzer's aides' mudslinging at Joe Bruno)(Brief article)

"There is such a thing in politics," said Martin Van Buren (D., N.Y.), "as killing a man too dead." Eliot Spitzer (D., N.Y.) is learning that lesson. Spitzer, a headline-grabbing liberal attorney general, won the governorship last November with 69 percent of the vote. Lone obstacle to his political dominance was Joe Bruno, Republican state senate majority leader. Bruno is an old pork-barrel pol who last met a principle in the disco era. Not content to play on such themes, three Spitzer aides, including his communications director, asked the state police to compile records on Bruno's use of state ...