Yeah, there is a whole bunch of voters' remorse going on in NYC these days. Mayor de Blasio's approval numbers are so low that his likelihood of reelection are about as good as his mentor one-term Mayor David Dinkins. Bill de Blasio's most aggregious mistake has been making an enemy of Gov. Cuomo. But then again, Mayor Bill is not that interested in his role as Mayor of New York. He's busy trying to become a national public figure. Every week he's flying somewhere not related to New York or the US spreading his far-left agenda. His fight with Gov. Cuomo has been very public and very vicious.
It has only been exacerbated by our latest near disaster in the South Bronx - an outbreak of a serious bacteria called legionella that causes Legionnaires' disease, a severe form of bacterial pneumonia. The first infections were diagnosed in July 10 and has now been 113 confirmed cases with 12 deaths. Mayor de Blasio took too long to take any kind of action to determine the source of the outbreak, so the Governor finally had to call in the CDC. The CDC quickly found that the source are cooling towers on top of buildings. But it just highlights how de Blasio is unprepared to actually to handle a crisis. Fortunately, Legionaire's disease is not an airborne bacteria and cannot be passed from person to person.
That's just this week. Since he has taken the helm, crime is up by over 40% and climbing, the streets are awash with homeless panhandlers, and it looks like we are sliding right back to the pre-Giuliani era faster than a NY minute (which is about 49 seconds in flyover state time - okay, I made that up). His answer to the rise in crime is entertaining. It's to decriminize some crimes. Yeah, that's a really good plan because as we all know, if there are less crimes on the books, then crime will go down. Now, crime is still very low because of the work done by the Guiliani and Bloomberg administrations, but not for long.
Hey, it's not all bad. He gets to take credit for getting the minimum wage raised to $15 for fast-food workers by 2018. This is a win for the workers until they find out they will lose those government entitlement programs like in Seattle.
Of course his real problem is that he really believes that he won a mandate with that 75% win and ignores the reality that only 25% of voters bothered to vote. He doesn't listen to anyone who doesn't agree with him and that includes the press and blaming others for his own leadership failures. Sound familiar? {{{cough, cough...Barack...cough, cough}}} Right now, people are actually waxing nostalgic for those annoying days of Bloomberg's nanny-state of 16 oz soda ban threats.
I said it at the time of his election and I will repeat it again - be careful what you wish for because you just might get it. More importantly, sometimes you just have to give liberals what they want so they can learn the folly of their agenda. But I must say, even I am surprised at the speed at which NYC has declined.
It has only been exacerbated by our latest near disaster in the South Bronx - an outbreak of a serious bacteria called legionella that causes Legionnaires' disease, a severe form of bacterial pneumonia. The first infections were diagnosed in July 10 and has now been 113 confirmed cases with 12 deaths. Mayor de Blasio took too long to take any kind of action to determine the source of the outbreak, so the Governor finally had to call in the CDC. The CDC quickly found that the source are cooling towers on top of buildings. But it just highlights how de Blasio is unprepared to actually to handle a crisis. Fortunately, Legionaire's disease is not an airborne bacteria and cannot be passed from person to person.
That's just this week. Since he has taken the helm, crime is up by over 40% and climbing, the streets are awash with homeless panhandlers, and it looks like we are sliding right back to the pre-Giuliani era faster than a NY minute (which is about 49 seconds in flyover state time - okay, I made that up). His answer to the rise in crime is entertaining. It's to decriminize some crimes. Yeah, that's a really good plan because as we all know, if there are less crimes on the books, then crime will go down. Now, crime is still very low because of the work done by the Guiliani and Bloomberg administrations, but not for long.
Hey, it's not all bad. He gets to take credit for getting the minimum wage raised to $15 for fast-food workers by 2018. This is a win for the workers until they find out they will lose those government entitlement programs like in Seattle.
Of course his real problem is that he really believes that he won a mandate with that 75% win and ignores the reality that only 25% of voters bothered to vote. He doesn't listen to anyone who doesn't agree with him and that includes the press and blaming others for his own leadership failures. Sound familiar? {{{cough, cough...Barack...cough, cough}}} Right now, people are actually waxing nostalgic for those annoying days of Bloomberg's nanny-state of 16 oz soda ban threats.
I said it at the time of his election and I will repeat it again - be careful what you wish for because you just might get it. More importantly, sometimes you just have to give liberals what they want so they can learn the folly of their agenda. But I must say, even I am surprised at the speed at which NYC has declined.
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Bev, I love the fact that his efforts are causing the city to fall apart. For one thing, it's always nice when people get to suffer the consequences for their own stupidity. But even more to the point, maybe people will finally start using their brains and start connecting leftist policies with the chaos they cause? That would be nice.
On Cuomo, I think it's interesting how quickly leftists start tearing each other apart and feuding.
Wasn't he Hillary's campaign manager in her run last time?
LL - Interesting question. I had to look that up. He was Hillary's campaign manager when she ran for the Senate (and won). Which makes his snub of her NYC campaign re-re-kick off even more snubbish.
Andrew - I am not so happy. It's getting worse and more dangerous by the week. The Cuomo-Blaz stand-off is entertaining tomread about in the papers. But then there's the City Council Speaker who accused them both of being sexists for not giving her credit for...oh, yeah, Imdidn't tell you about the Uber car service showdown. Fun times...
Bev, No doubt and I feel bad for people like you who are surrounded by idiots who keep doing things like this and never learn. It's too bad that the effects can't be limited just to people who voted for these clowns.
completely and totally OT: First there was powdered alcohol and now this...LINK!!
Inhaling alcohol? Huh. If word gets out I can see frats pouring grain alcohol into humidifiers.
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