Bloomberg, billions, and bipartisan blovation

By Michelle Malkin  •  January 7, 2008 02:15 PM

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The Associated Press is panting over Nanny NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s appearance at some sort of bipartisan summit in Oklahoma today. Chauncey Gardiner plus billions of dollars = Michael Bloomberg:

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg turned up the volume on a possible independent bid for president on Monday, participating in a bipartisan summit that stole a bit of the spotlight from the announced candidates in New Hampshire.

Amid talk about Washington riven by partisanship, Bloomberg gathered with Democrats and Republicans — some current elected officials, others out of office for years — to discuss bridging the divide between the parties. The summit came on the eve of the first-in-the-nation primary.

“People have stopped working together, government is dysfunctional, there’s no collaborating and congeniality,” Bloomberg said to applause from the crowd.

Bipartisanship brought us McCain-Feingold, No Child Left Behind, and almost rammed through the McCain-Kennedy-Bush-Reid shamnesty. Bipartisanship is vastly overrated.

I’ll repeat the question I asked in March when the Michael Bloomberg for President trial balloon was first floated: Aren’t there enough pro-abortion, anti-gun, open borders candidates running for president?

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  1. #211477
    On January 7th, 2008 at 2:18 pm, malkin_fan said:

    You can put an R next to his name or you can put an I next to his name or you can put a D next to his name….

    …In fact you can put any letter next to his name but no matter what letter you put there, he is a LIBERAL.

  2. #211480
    On January 7th, 2008 at 2:20 pm, malkin_fan said:

    Ask the people that worked for him and you will also find out that its done EXACTLY his way…..

    …..or it’s the highway for you. He is a control freak.

  3. #211490
    On January 7th, 2008 at 2:27 pm, 30 pcs of silver said:

    Candidates like Paul, Huckabee, Dodd, Kucinich and potentially Bloomberg, must smell something in the air. There is no way these chums should have ever be seriously considered for POTUS. Surely, the list for unqualified candidates can go on but it is those listed above who surprise me. Has America changed that much over the years that we would accept these people as viable candidates for the highest office in the land?

  4. #211495
    On January 7th, 2008 at 2:32 pm, meatpieandtatters said:

    Bloviating Bloomberg, the blowhard billionaire bungles his way to become the beloved Big Apple’s Baby Kahuna By Bestowing Boatloads of behemoth liberal band aids to the bloated bureaucracy liberal policies begat!

  5. #211502
    On January 7th, 2008 at 2:33 pm, tre said:

    It’s being held at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, which is a suberb of Oklahoma City. Several other
    RINO’s, like Chuck Hagel, and some Democrats are attending. It’s being hosted by OU President David Boren, who’s a liberal former OK Senator.

    It’s alleged purpose is to promote a “bi-partisan, non-divisive” committee, or something like that.

    My experience is, liberals idea of “bi-partisanship” is, “do it our way”.

  6. #211511
    On January 7th, 2008 at 2:39 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

    LOL meatpie! Bang-up Brother!

  7. #211515
    On January 7th, 2008 at 2:40 pm, ACHefty said:

    Not only is bipartisanship over-rated…it’s a farce! Pure and simple, Bloomberg is a mini-socialist. Taking this person seriously is not a smart thing to do.

  8. #211517
    On January 7th, 2008 at 2:41 pm, gandolphxx said:

    Bloomie has always been a liberal, his lack of principles let him use the R label to sneak in the Mayors office.

    The list of attendees in OK is like a ‘has been, would like to be’ list – yuch.

  9. #211524
    On January 7th, 2008 at 2:44 pm, neo-connette said:

    Well said, tatters!

  10. #211528
    On January 7th, 2008 at 2:46 pm, TexasTiger said:

    Outside of a 25-mile radius of New York City, is there anyone who knows about or cares about this guy?

  11. #211547
    On January 7th, 2008 at 3:04 pm, BlameAmericaLast said:

    This guy is a flaming liberal democrat of the worst kind. He will nanny us to death if elected.

  12. #211570
    On January 7th, 2008 at 3:16 pm, J S Ragman said:

    Chauncey Gardiner plus billions of dollars = Michael Bloomberg

    Brilliant!

  13. #211580
    On January 7th, 2008 at 3:21 pm, deepdiver said:

    I have no problem watching Mr Nanny spend millions of dollars siphoning off liberal votes to find out how much flyover America hates people like him. That he would even consider a run for president shows how absolutely out of touch he is with the people living in the majority of the nation’s landmass.

  14. #211591
    On January 7th, 2008 at 3:24 pm, MrVIBEMAN said:

    I think he’s just jealous of Rudy’s popularity. Are his eye’s green in that picture?

  15. #211592
    On January 7th, 2008 at 3:25 pm, DesertLover said:

    tre

    David Boren is also a former Governor of Oklahoma 1975-1979) …

  16. #211599
    On January 7th, 2008 at 3:30 pm, tre said:

    Desertlover,

    David Lyle Boren was a Governor, true, but he was also a Senator.

    His nephew, Dan Boren, is a Blue-Dog Democrat Representative, now.

  17. #211693
    On January 7th, 2008 at 4:37 pm, bloghooligan said:

    i do believe if Bloomberg does this, he’ll be a pariah the rest of his life.

    hey, speaking of pariahs…where’s Perot?

  18. #211753
    On January 7th, 2008 at 5:22 pm, war9093 said:

    I’ll never understand this mans appeal, he wants to tax you for driving in his city.
    http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/04/bloomberg_nyc.php

    he fired a city worker who had a game of solitare on his computer
    http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1139575778.shtml

    but refused to fire his head of ACS who had 10 childern die who were under his agencies care.

    http://acsmustbestopped.blogspot.com/2007/08/in-face-of-damning-report-by-new-york.html

    he also seems to have a grudge against Mr Softy trucks
    http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/issueoftheweek/20040712/200/1034

    and cooking oil
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16051436/

    I can’t imagine life in this nation after 4 years under his leadership.

  19. #211818
    On January 7th, 2008 at 6:45 pm, nbarry said:

    The great political scientist Richard Hofstadter wrote, “Third parties are like bees. Once they sting, they die.” If Bloomberg finds an issue that differentiates him from the major party candidates, he might influence the subsequent agenda of the next administration even though he is almost certain to lose the election, just as Perot pushed Clinton into balancing the budget. As for becoming a pariah, Bloomberg will be crying all the way to the bank.

  20. #211898
    On January 7th, 2008 at 8:25 pm, brooklyn red said:

    TexasTiger #10… I am a Newyorker and no great fan of Bloomie, and I have thought a lot about the implications of his possible 3rd party run. And I LIKE it.

    True outside the NYC area no one even knows him… but those 25 miles could mean NY, NJ, Conn & Penn going red if he can pull enough votes away from the Dems.

    That is enough to tip the scales, especially if Rudy is the R ticket (Ew)

  21. #211955
    On January 7th, 2008 at 9:17 pm, BlameAmericaLast said:

    war9093, you forgot the smoking ban too.

  22. #211969
    On January 7th, 2008 at 9:30 pm, BlameAmericaLast said:

    That he would even consider a run for president shows how absolutely out of touch he is with the people living in the majority of the nation’s landmass.

    Yep, it’s called Horse Blinder Syndrome.

    He ain’t got a chance.

  23. #211998
    On January 7th, 2008 at 10:10 pm, deepdiver said:

    On January 7th, 2008 at 9:30 pm, BlameAmericaLast said:

    Yep, it’s called Horse Blinder Syndrome.

    He has Horse Blinder Syndrome? What do you know … I always thought that he was part of the other end …

  24. #212039
    On January 7th, 2008 at 10:51 pm, rightisright said:

    Let’s see who would he take votes from…oh yeah, that’s right…McAmnesty, Chuckupaboo, HRotten, Obama some from Rudy…he!! let him run…can’t hurt.

  25. #215832
    On January 11th, 2008 at 11:17 am, meatpieandtatters said:

    Billionaire Bloomberg can pay for the best media coverage money can buy.

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