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Just hours before a last-minute deal was struck between Republicans and Democrats to prevent a government shutdown, CNN's Eliot Spitzer did some politicking of his own on Friday's “In the Arena.” The former Democrat governor of New York interviewed the wife of an army private and delved into the family's medical and financial information – a rather awkward spectacle – all to make the case against a government shutdown and cast a bad light on House Speaker Boehner's position on budget cuts. After playing the father's good-bye message to his own family as he was leaving for Iraq, Spitzer thought that “John Boehner would cry if he saw that, no doubt,” making an extra jab at the House Speaker's emotional temperament. “That's what he should be crying about, those army families not getting paid,” Spitzer added for good measure.