Spend Little, Lose Big
link IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn feared political enemy would pay woman to allege rape | Mail Online.
This guy must have some talent. In advance of his arrest for assaulting a hotel maid, he predicted that his political enemies would ensnare him in just such a scenario. Not a bribery scandal, which would be more likely for a man in charge of the ‘world’ bank, but in a sex scandal. Hmm. When the dust settles after this scandal is all over, he will likely be out of a job, so perhaps he can set up a booth at a circus where he can guess people’s weight for a dollar.
As to why Dominique still has a job is also bizarre. People are pressing him to resign. Resign? Why don’t they bring in the Donald to pass the news on to him? You’re fired! Predictably, the French are all in a huff about the treatment of poor Dominique, claiming entrapment and abhorrent treatment of M. Strauss-Kahn. Yes, the hotel had sent up a young female chambermaid to clean his room on purpose, fully knowing that this would inspire Strauss-Kahn to jump out of the bathroom naked to attack her. In fact, at Rikers prison, where he is being held, he has an area all to himself, away from the rest of the riff raff, so he actually is getting preferential hospitality. Of course, at Rikers, his room will be cleaned by a burly janitor named Zeke.
While the media are moralizing over the regrettable behaviour of Dominique, who was acting like a sex tourist in the Philippines, his biggest faux pas is that he is cheap. Even though a member of his country’s Socialist party, the one that is for egalitarian distribution of wealth, he is probably paid more money in year than he can possibly spend on champagne and caviar. In addition, his travel and living expenses are all picked up by the people so that staying at The Sofitel in New York at $3000 per night is no hardship. The fact that he would rather try to cop a freebie from the chambermaid rather than spend a few hundred bucks on a professional is not only stupid and criminal, it is cheap!
A guy who makes a living spending other peoples’ money and is supported by the state couldn’t bring himself to pay for a service which he obviously needed. Fo’ shame. In honour of M. Straus-Kahn, we’ve penned an ode to his adventures in New York, to be sung to the melody of Dominique by the Singing Nun of ’60’s fame:
Dominique-a nique-a-nique
Loves to chase the hotel maids
He flaunts, his gallic charm,
But they do not like his ways,
So he has to run away
Dominique has lost his charm…