Stumping for the Mayor4Life

Mayor4Life Bloomberg, apparently not content to outspend his Democratic opponent Bill Thompson by a 16 to 1 margin, has enlisted the help of Rudy Giuliani to help boost his cause. Giuliani immediately set about helping Bloomberg by implying that a Thompson administration would bring a return of violence and crime to NY. The Times reports that Rudy spoke to a group of Orthodox Jewish leaders:

“You know exactly what I’m talking about,” Mr. Giuliani told the group, in what many people in Mr. Thompson’s camp have interpreted as a reference to the days of unchecked violence during the 1991 riots in Crown Heights that started after an out-of-control car driven by a Brooklyn Hasid struck and killed a 7-year-old black child.

Apparently, Mayor4Life shrugged off the comments of his predecessor, which seems to me like tacit approval of possible race baiting by the last mayor who tried to extend term limits.

Giuliani, who is about as polarizing a politician as NYC has ever known, is apparently out to get the "I'm still afraid of Crown Heights and 9/11" vote. He has the added attraction of inspiring hobbyist transvestites to go to the polls.

In order to further support his flagging campaign, Bloomberg is enlisting the help of some other famous NYers:

Eliot Spitzer is drumming up the "Hooker and Johns" vote.

Anne Coulter is courting the "Horse faced pundits with huge Adam's apples" vote.

Bernie Madoff is stumping for the "Greedy Amoral Wall Street Banker" vote.

David Berkowitz is aiming for the "Psychopaths who Take Orders from Dogs" vote.

Mayor4Life is truly leaving no rock unturned, however slimy it may be underneath.

Hubris

Hubris seems to be the new national pass time. Banks run the economy into the ground and pay their employees huge bonuses at the expense of the taxpayers. Governor Sandford cheats in Argentina while Larry Craig taps dances in the third stall to the left at an airport. Eliot Spitzer thinks he's making a comeback. Sarah Palin runs for Veep. Paris Hilton.

Sometimes hubris catapults people to the top, and sometimes it throws them to the bottom of the pile. Right now, I'm betting on the pile when it comes to Mike Bloomberg.


The mayor said he would refuse to sign any changes to the mayoral control law, and as a result, the State Legislature has decided to poke him in the eyes, Curly style, by adjourning for the summer. Bloomberg spent most of the morning at his press conferences after the sunset of mayoral control calling the state senate a bunch of jackasses, and then he dug in and told them exactly what he did not want to see in the new law. His incredible hubris led him to believe that the senate would whimper and give in, but instead, they did what they usually do when the going gets tough. They disappeared.

They will not be back in session before September, when the new and incredibly bogus BOE is scheduled to meet again. Let's see whether the mayor learns some humility by then and does a bit of groveling. If not, the senate my decide to take a bigger step, such as grabbing the mayor's nose with a pair of pliers.

UDATE: No sooner had I posted this than I ran across an article in the Daily News that talked about the mayor's reaction. Besides calling the whole thing "bull" and accusing the senators of trying to create a slush fund, the mayor compared the senate to Hitler: "If you remember Neville Chamberlain, no matter how many times you said yes, that's the starting point for the next round," Bloomberg said on his weekly WOR Radio show.

Way to go, Mayor Mike! (Cue the Three Stooges theme)