Posted on 12/22/2014 7:48:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Bill de Blasio, like his progressive political idol Barack Obama, is finding out that you can’t do the New Politics if you don’t pay attention to the old politics.
In Obama’s case, it was a failure to recognize the threat posed to him by Republicans who didn’t buy into his calls for a post-partisan partnership with Congress. For New York’s ambitious liberal mayor, it was an inability to keep long-simmering tensions with the city’s traditionally powerful police department from boiling over in the last few days.
Just over a year after sailing into office with 72 percent of the vote on a message of transformational change, de Blasio found his mayoralty subsumed by a torrent of anger, unleashed by the murder of two police officers in Brooklyn Saturday by a troubled gunman who said he was killing “pigs” to avenge the deaths of two men by cops in Staten Island and Ferguson, Missouri. By Monday, de Blasio was lashing out at the press corps that covers him, trying to paper over public divisions with his own police commissioner and coping with what friends described as the emotional blow of facing public rejection by many in the nation’s biggest police force. “He’s pretty badly shaken” by the murders, one told us....
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It wasn't "later." He said it right from the start.
And it wasn't just the officer saying it. He was backed up by the forensic evidence and witnesses. He was certainly attacked by the "unarmed" black man who was violent and going for the gun.
It ticked me off to read that.
5:17 Minutes - Dan Bongino
Unfit to lead…..Un-American ideology... Mayor told cops to stand down
NYC Mayor De Blasio Slams Media For Portraying Majority Of Protesters As Violent - Cavuto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UojEExzWZd8
What we have seen is simply that the mayor can cry on command like any two-bit actor and that he has no intention of abandoning his bashing of the police and his fawning toward Al Sharpton. And so nothing has really changed despite the cowardly murder of two police officers, except that any expression of disapproval toward His Honor is somehow mean-spirited and politically motivated. Were the authors capable of shame they'd feel it.
Pray for return of the “Black Spot”!
I am sorry, this cuts two ways, the police have isolated themselves from the people they are sworn to protect. They have a lot of fence mending to do.
You just edumacated me. Had to look it up otherwise I would think it was some sushi.
I puked right after I read this...
” In Obama’s case, it was a failure to recognize the threat posed to him by Republicans who didn’t buy into his calls for a post-partisan partnership with Congress. “
They were both flea ridden to start with.
Oh my goodness...yeah, Obama, along with Pelosi and Reid, and their agenda, just oozed with 'nonpartisanship', didn't it?
Unbelievable.
DeBlah, Blah is batting 1000.
Now he’s attacking his buddies in the media.
“He’s pretty badly shaken” by the murders”
He’s just another leftist ideologue who’s idiocy has again blown up in his face with real world consequences.
Leftists have been getting people killed for eons.
Hopefully this unpleasantness costs this piece of garbage reelection.
Wilhelm, I forgot that was his real name. This has gotta be the weirdest, most radical SOB ever. Marries a dyke, has a son with a ‘fro. He almost makes Obama seem normal.
She goes easy on DeB in this I think.
Stick a fork in, he is finished.
(born Warren Wilhelm, Jr.; May 8, 1961
“In a written statement, de Blasio spokesman Dan Levitan said, “Bill de Blasio took his mother’s family name because his father was largely absent from his life, a fact he has been open about throughout his time in public service. To suggest that there is anything wrong with changing one’s name for deeply personal reasons is absurd.” He declined to further comment”
(info from Wikipedia which in term cobbles info from various sources.”
The reason seems to be a divorce with a rejection of having anything to do with his father including keeping his father’s last name. De Blasio seems to be the family name of his mother’s.
I had that conversation with my FWPD brother in law a few weeks ago. He about blew a gasket but he is definitely part of the problem and has a string of internal affairs investigations to punctuate that.
absolutely!!! Dinkins redux.
Now that's funny.
De Blasio was supposed to be one of the leading lights of the Democrats who call themselves “Progressives.” Now their boy is in trouble - and they are getting very panicky and defensive.
“The protesters had absolutely nothing to do with the cop-killing,” “the cops’ union leaders are stirring up trouble,” “Republican partisans like Giuliani, Pataki, Peter King, Ray Kelly are stirring up trouble,” “the media is stirring up divisiveness,” yadda yadda yadda. That’s the spin for now.
When it turns out that the majority of folks aren’t listening to them, how soon before they start running away from De Blasio (the way they ran away from Obama on ObamaCare)?
By the way, what’s going on with those plans to bring the Democrat convention to Brooklyn?
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