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Michael Bloomberg Proves Himself to be a Fool and Should Resign

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  May 4th, 2010 at 07:35 AM  | 

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Michael Bloomberg should resign from office. He has proven himself to be a fool.

It is truly stunning that Bloomberg’s initial reaction to the car bomb in Times Square was to blame tea party activists, not Islamic terrorists.

In Bloomberg’s own words:

Bloomberg later told CBS Evening News Anchor Katie Couric that the suspect behind the bombing attempt could be a domestic terrorist angry at the government who acted alone.

“If I had to guess 25 cents, this would be exactly that. Homegrown, or maybe a mentally deranged person, or somebody with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill or something. It could be anything,” he said.

“There is no evidence here of a conspiracy, there is no evidence that it’s tied into anything else. It looks like an amateurish job done by at least one person,” he told Couric.

Let’s get this straight. New York has seen two terrorist attacks by Muslims — the original World Trade Center bombing and the September 11th attacks.

New York has never seen an attack by tea party activists.

But Michael Bloomberg’s initial gut reaction was that it the attempted bomber was probably “somebody with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill or something.”

It is stunning that the Mayor of New York City is more comfortable casting blame on Americans upset with government than with the most likely culprit — radical Islamists who, in fact, appear to actually be behind the bombing.

Michael Bloomberg should resign.

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  • partyof1

    between Michael Bloomberg and the Icelandic Volcano?

    One is an ashhole that used to be an icehole, and the other…

    Well I guess there is no difference.

  • reaganiterepublicanresistance

    He was very brave and noble in his war on French Fries!

    Seriously, this guy couldn’t hold Guiliani’s jockstrap, and you are correct… he SHOULD resign, nobody should feel safe with this guy at the top

  • txgho1911

    Between his group of mayors lobbying against gun rights and Richard Daily taking Chicago’s case to the Hague.
    Someone find him a cause that is not related to individual liberties.

  • blooch

    25 cents=1/2 clip

    http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2010/05/03/from-the-mailbag-copy-edited/#comments

  • elrayb

    In not only this circumstance but in the management of the entire city of New York.
    Can you blame him for his response if he is only following his very short sighted and quick to judge President who loves to blurt out idiotic comments before all the facts are in. They say the tabloids have no credibility but these two do? New York joins all of the other metropolitan areas that have fallen victim to LIBERAL/Progressive operating procedures that have proven to be failures time and time again.

  • RedBeard

    This latest development is just more supporting evidence.

  • cactusjack

    A transcript is now available of communications between Mission Control and our three glorious cosmonauts in space, on their unlimited quest to expand the bounds of interstellar progressivism and social re-engineering throughout the galaxy:

    Earth to Obama: Have you learned anything at all about national security from the Times Square bomber episode? If you have, for starters you will fire Janet Napolitano immediately.

    Earth to Napolitano: Stand by your station you may be receiving an important call momentarily.

    Earth to Bloomberg: Your mission tour has been extended indefintely. BTW George Washington was a tall, 6 foot 2 white guy too.

  • throwback59

    hoping for: that the terrorist was a militia member or someone sympatheic to the tea party activists. That the terrorist is a Muslim with possible ties to al qaeda is a big problem for them.
    The only thing worse would have been if he was an illegal alien from Mexico.

  • Leopard1996

    This guy is such a piece of crap. I mean he was the one that derided Guliani not to run again for the mayorship because it was term limited then turns around and gets the council to recind the term limit laws for him because he has got so much more work to do. Other than 9/11 Guliani handed him a city that was tons better than it was when Guliani received it, and he is working to take the city back to the days of, “The Warriors”.

  • earlgrey

    Released anything about his comment in light of the arrest. They haven’t. I don’t know New York, but that seems like a really dumb statement to make to a city and people that have already been victimized so much.

  • proudgop

    here and Bloomberg is a liberal democrat

    his words were horrendous the alternative for mayor although is even worse then him. THe WFP would be in charge of NYC thats horrendous thought

  • tngal

    News says the terrorist became a US Citizen one year ago. Congrats to him.

    In January, Bloomber told Reuters ” he favors more liberal laws on allowing immigrants into the country and legalizing those who lack documentation.”

    http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6000ZJ20100101

    Now, I don’t know in which manner Shahzad the terrorist became a citizen, as we have numerous ways. But maybe Bloomberg might want to re-think that whole amnesty thing.

    Who knows how many other would be terrorists are wandering around aimlessly over here just waiting for the day they become citizens so to have easier access to us.

    (There’s a story here. I hope someone picks it up. )

  • jmadisonfan

    If these fools don’t stop turning up the heat with their reckless rhetoric, many innocent people will end up getting hurt. This is all quite insane and quite purposeful: Ramp up the rhetoric, ramp up th rhetoric, RAMP UP THE RHETORIC in order to demonize the people exercising their God given and constitutionally protected right to free speech and demonize the states which choose to take steps to protect their sovereignty through enforcement of existing Federal law with. All of this provides the kindling which just needs the spark to set off the conflagration. It is becoming increasingly clear that the Dims are intent on creating that “crisis” that will allow them to do the things they wouldn’t ordinarily be able to do. Scary times indeed.

  • WarEagle01

    http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/05/pelosi-jost-and-bloomberg-need-to-apologize-to-conservatives-after-pakistani-american-democrat-arrested-in-nyc-car-bomb-case/

    What is it with the Democrats and their violence lately? Those libs love them some violence.

  • tngal

    “I want to thank the men and women of the NYPD, the FBI, the US Attorney’s Southern District of New York, Customs and Border Protection, and the many other agencies in New York, Washington and Connecticut whose focused and swift efforts led to this arrest after only 48 hours of around-the-clock investigation. I hope their impressive work serves as a lesson to anyone who would do us harm.”

    That’s it. Just a thanks to law enforcement and a “lesson” to bad guys, who are probably quivering in their shorts right now. Provided those shorts aren’t wired up to bombs.

    www.nyc.gov/mayor

  • johnt

    You can’t fool a liberal. Now let’s sit back and watch Napolitano and Holder in action. And how long before O uses the word, terrorist?

    Katie of course just ate up Bloomberg’s stupidity, loving it.
    Just more proof that islamist murderers matter less to them than American conservatives.

  • Tbone

    has advanced her “career”.

  • RedBeard

    Of course, the working system here was an alert NYC citizen and some brave NYC cops, not Janet’s little ivory tower cadre.

  • http://www.americanconservativesthink.blogspot.com Steve

    As much as I share your disgust in King Michael’s comments, he is the sovereign of a territory outside America, so we can only go so far in dictating to foreigners with respect to their chosen leaders.

  • indyjohn

    Oh, those darn Islamofascists, once again reinforcing the sterotype!
    Open-minded lefties have presumed, for the last twenty years or so, that the greater threat to the United States has been so-called ‘Domestic Right-Wing Extremists’ and not Islamofascists. Bill Clinton made the targeting of white separatists a high priority early in his administration, while Al Qaeda was plotting the bombing of the World Trade Center.
    The fact is that lefties like Bloomberg have a deeply ingrained paranoid delusion that conservatives hate them and want to harm them. This is a classic case of projection. They think that their adversaries are as loathsome and despicable as they know themselves to be.
    Bloomberg will not be criticized by the LWM for his bizarre, illogical leap. The attitude of the LWM, and lefties in general, is as follows: ‘OK. It wasn’t a conservative wackjob THIS time, but we know, eventually, one of them is going to crack, and commit the act that we know is in all of their black hearts. It’s just fine for Muslims to target the U.S. Hell, the country deserves that for electing Bush. But those damn conservatives, they want to get US, the wonderful, enlightened members of the annointed class, and we don’t deserve it. We deserve adulation, no matter how many mistakes we make.’

  • raydawggie

    It pains me to say this. I supported the guy three times, and I think I made the right call to do so. New York Republicans are a different breed from national ones, and a successful businessman was exactly what looked to be needed to keep the Charles Barrons of the city in check. There wasn’t another Giuliani in the wings, unfortunately.

    But something happened to Bloomberg since he started his third term. He’s become a partisan leftist hack, as flaky as any of his Dem opponents. First the salt idiocy, then his dithering in the face of Obama’s disgraceful plan to turn lower Manhattan into a war zone, and now this. Just about the only good move he’s made lately is standing up to Obama on his Wall Street witch hunt.

    Although I disagree that he should resign. In a just world, he should – but the odds are that whoever took his place would be even worse.

  • mikerazar

    how well NYC does once Wall Street is totally destroyed. Talk about terror!

  • chuckie

    …person…..”…….

    ….as opposed to at least one fish…..at least one cow……at least one tree….

    …hey, i would have bet on THE ARREST of a rightwingnut myself….but not on this being the work of one…. :)

  • http://www.redstate.com/tnjim TNJim

    ?somebody with a political agenda that doesn?t like the health care bill or something.? he’s really just carrying out his marching orders like the good little leftist soldier he is. Robots are robots, and he’s following his programming to a T.

    And yes, he should resign.

  • hickorystick

    the so-called domestic terrorist has a name

    “a domestic terrorist angry at the government who acted alone.

    ?If I had to guess 25 cents, this would be exactly that. Homegrown, or maybe a mentally deranged person, or somebody with a political agenda that doesn?t like the health care bill or something.”

    He’s an old crackpot who lives in eastern Washington, who would get tanked up on alchohol, and call Patty Murray’s office and yell at her about the healthcare debate. He might have been bitter about just reaching retirement age, 63, and the The messiah raid medicare for 1/2 a trillion dollars, and raid social security for the ‘make work pay’ for young brats.

    http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011536876_threats07m.html

    It’s an old trick of politicians to gin up a reason that it’s safer for voters to vote for them than the opposition, because of some distant threat. WA senators play the damage the pristine environment card on Alaska, McCain plays the corruption card on Boeing tankers, Obama plays the Nazi-like round-up card on Arizona. It’s distant enough to safely assume voters will be ignorant of the facts, and shielded from local news. now Bloomberg has his cause-celebre based in Washington State.

    By the way, the man was so dangerous, a federal judge released him on a minor bond. He’s confined to 36,000 square miles, and not allowed to drink whiskey, or carry a gun.
    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iQsVYi9_rmtJd2DjX20Q-v4wPYIgD9EVLU100

  • ksting

    “It looks like an amateurish job done by at least one person”

    Well, he was right about one thing.

  • hickorystick

    not a firecracker. I don’t know what an M-88 is.

  • hickorystick

    A FARC terrorist is no big deal. It’s the Free-traders from Columbia that are the real threat.

  • irishgirl

    plus factor in the cowardice involved. Not only PC but fear keeps him from calling it like it is. Gee, don’t want to offend the one religious group that might retalitate.

  • victorbarney

    Michael Bloomberg is NOT like the forefathers who started this Nation! He is exactly what went wrong with it! Another rich autocrat who is actually the opposite of our founding fathers! He’s what they rid themselves of and we(Americans?) voted them back in to rule us again! How tragic!!!

  • sly311

    If “I had to guess 25 cents” (and what exactly does that mean?), I would venture to say that the Upper West Side can rest assured that they are now safer and can continue to swill their chardonnay and lattes. New York voted him in and New York deserves him.

    Don’t worry, it is coming. Practice indeed makes perfect. And how did this guy become a naturalized citizen, mmmmmm?

  • hickorystick

    the corruption will continue to snowball. We need to speak out in anger, while at the same time exercising restraint. They are baiting us for an incident. We all need to stay focussed and on point, that it’s there governance, not the Peoples reaction, that is the problem.

  • rightstuff4

    Why is it that elected officials can say such stupid things? Are they trying to be so politically correct that they begin to sound disconnected? Shame on Mayor Bloomberg.

  • earlgrey

    off it must have been a tea party person. I guess he thinks opponents of Obamacare could only be stupid enough to fail in their attempt.

  • http://www.barrypopik.com barrypopik

    Bloomberg should resign because he pledged to support the two-terms-and-yer-out term limits. He legislatively overturned what the people twice voted for.

    As you all may know, I was on a ticket with the guy in 2005 when I ran a thankless Republican race for Manhattan Borough President.

    I said many, many times that the GOP could not possibly endorse Bloomberg (who left the Republican party) for his illegal third term. The GOP took the money. There was no one in NY interested in honestly representing taxpayers, so I left for Texas.

    New York’s public unions have been out of control for some time, but Bloomberg never really took them on (except the brief TWU strike). The teachers union got an incredible deal; a teacher can retire in his or her 50s with gold-plated, tax-free pensions.

    The TWU got matching salary increases, even though the MTA is bankrupt.

    Bloomberg can’t be entirely blamed for the hole at the World Trade Center, but still, it’s a lingering embarrassment.

    There’s never been a tax increase that Tax Hike Mike didn’t want to pass. He’s not called “The Nanny” for nothing.

    I’ve long thought that he’d be jockeying to replace Joe Biden for the VP spot. If not, I’ve predicted that he’d “go Rush Limbaugh” and leave high-tax NYC entirely.

    People have said that his Democrat opposition would have been worse, and no doubt that’s true.

    But maybe you have to hit bottom.

    Twelve years of Bloomberg is too much.

  • http://www.barrypopik.com barrypopik

    Check out today’s Greg-alogue. Gutfield destroyed Bloomberg over this.