I should go see Taegan's work more often, he is a very good guy.
The GOP must be frantically desperate for this to happen.
Posted by paradox at December 20, 2007 03:17 AMa billion dollars? and with the corporate media lending a hand, to make him seem moderate? this is one of the few possible ways that the goopers might actually have a chance- scary!
Posted by Turkana at December 20, 2007 03:22 AMWhatever he's ACTUALLY done, he sems to be widely popular with all the NY politicos, a significant number of voters and, of course, his base: Wall Street vultures and all of the "serious" journalists in punditworld.
He represents an extreme danger to progress in the body politic. Ther is no way the crafters of our system of government would ever countenance a single citizen who happened to be "rich as a Lord" to crassly buy power over us all.
The worst aspect of this abominable idea is that he can just whistle past the polls until the national party candidates are chosen and then strike with far more money that either of them could muster until the final months of the campaign. It is a truly repugnant scenario.
Please help us Obi Wan Algore! You're our only hope! (/snark)
Posted by DeminNewJ at December 20, 2007 03:40 AMI can't help but think of these rumours are a product of Rudy's latest national poll numbers taking a dive. Is the New York press that determined to see a hizzoner in the White House?
Posted by idiosynchronic at December 20, 2007 04:50 AMI know nothing about him...but anyone who says they "trust" Bush is either in on his scams or a fool. Reading this post, it looks like Bloomie may be part of the problem, not the cure. Who does he hurt if he runs? The GOP canidate or the Dem? I'm thinking the GOP.
Posted by T2 at December 20, 2007 06:15 AMa couple other comments this am: news that Justice has "backed down" and will cooperate with congress on the Torturetapegate only means that BushCO has scrubbed everything and is sure there is a firewall in place in front of the two people who authorized the burning...Bush and Cheney.
Secondly, news of Rudy=Bush's plummet in the polls can't be good news to the GOP Back-Roomers promoting him as the only guy who is as tough as George W. Bush. How they'll turn the situation around will be interesting. Or will they even try? Huckababy is NOT their guy.
Bloomberg must explain why there is still this big empty hole in NYC.
Posted by tin foil at December 20, 2007 07:26 AMT2,
Who does he hurt if he runs? Do you mean besides the country? I believe he will hurt both national parties. There is a huge desire in the Republican electorate to vote for none of the above, so he obviously hurts the Repub. However, there is also that vast, unwashed "independent" crowd that the DLC believing, (cough*Hillary*cough) Rahm Emmanuels keep barking about, who are also not sold on any of the Democrats, yet.
Then there is the pissed-off liberal, Democratic wing of the Democrat Party, who, like me, are already refusing to support the ever-quick-to-capitulate, Beltway spelunkers who might flock to Bloomie as a way to teach them a lesson.
We can bet that the so-called news corps(es) will obfuscate his real positions; cover him as a bold Maverick with "new ideas" and "new blood" who "gets things done" etc. etc. ad nauseum. That will also hurt the eventual Democratic candidate as well. In an election in which the dynamics strongly favor a Democrat to win, Bloomberg's uber-monied candidacy CANNOT be a good thing!
Hell! if the corporate masters like him well enough, he could actually win. At heart, I think he's a true-blue corporatist. Large elements of both parties could live with THAT.
Posted by DeminNewJ at December 20, 2007 07:32 AMBloomberg must explain why there is still this big empty hole in NYC.
There isn't a big empty hole. There's a very active construction site. Last year many of 'the victims families' were complaining because the commemoration ceremonies were being relocated because of the danger of holding them on an active construction site. Big empty hole? Construction is going full speed ahead on a massive fortress of an office building called "The Freedom Tower" which no one wants to work in and which is going to be largely filled by federal employees forced to relocate there by the agencies they work for who will be paying well below market rent just to fill the monstrocity with tenants. Empty hole? The World Trade Center site is a major transportation hub in lower Manhattan. God forbid the parties involved take the time to make sure they rebuild it in a way that will best serve all New Yorkers for generations to come, not just those looking for a place to mourn the horrific events of the past. Big empty hole?
Sorry, but I'm sick of hearing about how it's agonizing for 'the victim's families' to have to wait and wait for 'their memorial'. Completion is now scheduled for 2011. Ten years! Dear God! Making these poor people wait ten years for a memorial! It's inhumane! Tell that to the thousands upon thousands who died for this country, and the world, in World War II. They waited 60 years for a national memorial.
The sense of entitlement many of 'the victims families' project is sickening.
Posted by snark at December 20, 2007 07:54 AMI've posed it before and I'll make the wacky prediction again:
Obama will lose the Dem nomination, pull a Lieberman and jump the party to run as VP on a ticket with Bloomberg.
If this less-unlikely-than-one-might-think scenerio unfolded I think Hillary (+Clark?) will still beat them though. Bloomberg would split the right and all of Obama's deluded progressive base would see him unmasked - he'd barely dent Democratic solidarity in the general once people see his naked no-party-loyalty corporate opportunism.
Posted by PanMetron at December 20, 2007 02:57 PM