Step Down Kwame

The good people of Detroit have been feeling a kinship with the people of New York recently since the advent of Textgate. Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick had an affair with his Chief of Staff, then lied about it last year in a whistleblower trial which was then exposed when the steamy text messages between the two were revealed. So that's a proud trifecta of prejury, obstructing justice and misuse of power while in office all of which he was charged with this week. (Wouldn't it have been fun trying to reach him then,"I'm sorry the Mayor is being indicted now, may I take a message?") But still he hangs on, saying he's innocent.

Step down Kwame. It's over. Go slink away back in the dark like the lowdown dirty snake you are.