The closer you look the worse he looks

From ABC:

More questions emerged Thursday about a report that Rudy Giuliani misused public funds when he was mayor of New York to pay for secret trips to the Hamptons with his then-girlfriend and now wife, Judith Nathan.

New York City Comptroller Bill Thompson told ABC News that Giuliani's administration billed obscure city agencies for his security detail's travel expenses during his visits to the Hamptons.

Late this afternoon Giuliani told ABC News this story was a "hit job."

"This was really done to try to focus on my personal life," Giuliani said.

He said the New York Police Department always reimbursed city agencies for his security details' expenses.

OK, let's try to wrap our minds around all of this. Giuliani takes the woman he's having the adulterous affair with (we'll take the high road and not call her his whore) to the Hamptons for a little weekend getaway and charges various city agencies for the expenses. Presumably he does it this way so that he A, won't have to pay for his whore's, I mean girlfriend's, transportation and housing out of his own pocket and B, won't have to start a "Mayor's nookie expenses" account on the City's books.

BUT this is all fine because the NYPD reimbursed the city agencies for the expenses.

So Julie Annie has some taxpayer funded city agencies pay his girlfriend's expenses but doesn't think that is a problem because he had the police department, another taxpayer funded city agency, pay those agencies back - with taxpayer dollars.

It's all so clear to me now!

What's clear to me is that Giuliani is a corrupt big-city hack politician who doesn't deserve to be dog catcher let alone president.

What is truly frightening is that he may genuinely not understand why all this makes him a scumbag. Leprosy, as we've discussed before, is a disease which takes away the bodies ability to fell pain. Without the warning which pain gives us the leper literally rots away from infections caused by the untreated injuries that he cannot feel.

Guilt and shame are the moral equivalents of pain in that they warn us when we have wounded our soul by transgressing the boundary between right and wrong. The moral leper cannot feel the warning guilt and shame when he does wrong and so his soul rots away.

If you want to see an advanced case of this you need look no further than Bill and Hillary Clinton. It would seem that Rudolph Giuliani is well on his way to matching them for depravity.