Could Spitzer Have Done More than Paterson to Avert the Financial Meltdown?

I liked Eliot Spitzer. He's real smart, he knows Wall Street, he went after some parts of Wall Street. I like David Paterson but I've never been that impressed by his intelligence. Innocent questions: Could Spitzer, who was brought down by the vice squad last March for a victimless crime, have done something, anything, to forestall the tremendous financial meltdown, or to have eased its magnitude? Is it possible that he might have been on this, as NY gov, in a way that Paterson wasn't? Just askin…