Bill de Blasio’s 2nd Big Screw-Up
Posted on February 13th, 2014 in Uncategorized | 5 Comments »
I have mixed feelings about this new mayor of New York, one of which is that we don’t really know him, another of which is that he comes across as arrogant and imperious. Which, you can sort of understand when someone’s a billionaire, but when you’re supposed to be a progressive…
Anyway: First big screw-up was not plowing the Upper East Side—not coincidentally, an area he wants to hit with tax hikes—during the season’s first big snowstorm.
Second big screw-up: Calling the cops after midnight to get a political supporter out of jail.
How stupid can you be? And I mean that: A newly elected mayor who makes a personal phone call to the police to spring a political ally who’s been arrested for repeatedly breaking the law?
That is asinine, and cause for worry….
5 Responses
2/21/2014 12:33 pm
Which, you can sort of understand when someone’s a billionaire, but when you’re supposed to be a progressive…
No, it is something you might forgive in a very accomplished and capable man but not in a man who has been ensconced in political positions all his life (including the idiot’s job of ‘public advocate’), had an unserious education (‘metropolitan studies’), and has manifested deficits of common sense throughout his adult life. The maraschino cherry on top was changing his name and marrying a middle-aged bisexual. He’s not a real person; he’s an amusing sketch concocted by Joan Didion: one of Sen. Harry Victor’s more obtuse aides.
2/21/2014 5:44 pm
Art Deco: Just to be clear, you’re claiming that “marrying a middle-aged bisexual” is evidence of a “deficit of common sense”?
2/21/2014 9:22 pm
No, that’s the maraschino cherry on top, the extra dollop of comedy. Nothing he’s done generates much respect.
Why does that concern you?
2/22/2014 12:07 pm
Well, it seems to me that there’s nothing funny about someone else’s sexuality. But I suspect you already knew that.
What’s really funny is that you think “Metropolitan Studies” is an “unserious” course of education for someone who’s job is being the political leader of a metropolis.
2/24/2014 3:40 pm
Well, it seems to me that there’s nothing funny about someone else’s sexuality.
Well, it seems to me you ought to grow a sense of humor.
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What’s really funny is that you think “Metropolitan Studies” is an “unserious” course of education for someone who’s job is being the political leader of a metropolis.
You have not looked at their course list. (And he wasn’t the ‘political leader of a metropolis’ in 1981, and that’s a bad aspiration to have when you are 20).