Bloomberg, billions, and bipartisan blovation
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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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.
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.
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?
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!
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”.
LOL meatpie! Bang-up Brother!
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.
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.
Well said, tatters!
Outside of a 25-mile radius of New York City, is there anyone who knows about or cares about this guy?
This guy is a flaming liberal democrat of the worst kind. He will nanny us to death if elected.
Brilliant!
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.
I think he’s just jealous of Rudy’s popularity. Are his eye’s green in that picture?
tre
David Boren is also a former Governor of Oklahoma 1975-1979) …
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.
i do believe if Bloomberg does this, he’ll be a pariah the rest of his life.
hey, speaking of pariahs…where’s Perot?
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.
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.
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)
war9093, you forgot the smoking ban too.
Yep, it’s called Horse Blinder Syndrome.
He ain’t got a chance.
He has Horse Blinder Syndrome? What do you know … I always thought that he was part of the other end …
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.
Billionaire Bloomberg can pay for the best media coverage money can buy.