Might Eliot Spitzer have made himself the sacrificial lamb for ethics reform in Albany? Is his ouster what's required to achieve, as Davidson Goldin argues, "the seminal event that brings about the changes he promised on Day One but failed to deliver while in office"? Perhaps.

And in fact, he may have forecast it.

Writes Goldin, the former MSNBC daytime programming head:

Before Client no. 9 had any idea he'd one day become Client no. 9, he told an interviewer his wife didn't think it was worth being governor of New York State if his family had to endure the personal pain of the Troopergate scandal.

"She looks at me and says: 'Do you really want this stuff? And do you want this for your kids and do you want them to see this stuff?'" Governor Spitzer lamented. "She says, you know: 'What was wrong with going into the family business? That wouldn't have been so bad.'"

The state legislature is having an open house on power. And now Spitzer, born into a real estate development family, may be hosting his own in the near future. Job prospects!