Ed was NEVER a big Obama supporter.
To be fair, many Republicans continued to toe the party line when its members were pushing for amnesty for illegal aliens.
Ed’s speeches and editorials during the Dubya era show a guy who wasn’t ideologically paralyzed in the face fo Islamic incursions.
Pat Buchannan thinks Obamas plan is great. How do the Joos here like that?
Ed Koch may be a Democrat (although I consider him more “old school”), but even more so he loves his city,and this country. He backed GWB in 2004 because his city was attacked.
I don’t agree with Ed on a lot of issues. He is however not a Kool Aid drinker, thus I refer to him as an old school Democrat. An adult, unlike the petulant child act of Upchuck Schumer. Thus Ed Koch gets my respect.
I have to give him credit when he served as mayor. He took the job when NYC was a basket case, and he got the city back on its feet financially. He made some cuts that made his fellow liberal constituents howl in protest - but it was part of getting the city’s financial house in order. Now maybe Guiliani might have had better organizational skills, but he had another job at the time. Guiliani also did not inherit such a bad situation as Koch did, although Dinkins did his best to screw things up during his four years in office, thus Guiliani essentially continued the recovery work of Ed Koch. No, I am not a Guiliani for higher office fan, I just think that both mayors were the best people for the job at that time given the situation. Now Blooming Idiot is undoing it with his nanny-statism.