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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” absolutely!!! Dinkins redux.”
Why did you steal my post long before I posted it?
Does NYC have a recall provision, for the mayor?
No, but as I understand it, the governor can remove him.
” This guy is an idiot AND a professional ideologue, and that makes him much more dangerous.
However... NYC voted him in. He’s their problem.”
Reason # 2,126,000 why you don’t live in NYC.
I understand NYC is now Hispanic and Black majority.
I could never stand to be in NYC more than 2 days at a time. These days never!
I’ve never been there and have had no desire to go at all. IMO it’s vastly overrated.
“Historic figures that have often had the worst behaviors associated with them have often had major disconnects with their fathers.”
What has always amazed me is how LIV idiots are drawn to POS like DeBlasio, Clinton and Obama. They all came from disfunctional families and yet they appeal to the masses.
And that is a nightmare for him how?
It is also very expensive for a visitor. Double about anywhere else.
Was NYC ever a good place to live?
How an you say NYC is vastly overrated if you’ve never even been there????
Makes no sense.
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News and entertainment media
Not for me, I hate big cities.
I understand.
Great minds think alike. I look forward to having you steal one of my posts long before I post it as well. Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New year!
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