New York City has long been a baffling collection of boroughs. During the "secession winter" of 1860-1, when the Civil War loomed, NYC Mayor Fernando Wood proposed that New York City detach itself and become its own republic. This lead then-President Elect Abraham Lincoln to remark dryly that he had never before heard of the front porch proposing to set up in business for itself.
Things aren't a lot brighter now. After having years of good governance under Rudy Giuliani, and then years of nannyish but tough-on-crime governance under Michael Bloomberg, the "greatest city in the world" has elected a thorough communist, Bill DeBlasio, to be its mayor. DeBlasio is already declaring that the New York City Police, the greatest success story in the NYC revival, will have their policy weapons dashed from their hands, and that things will go back to the bad old days of the buffoonish David Dinkins and similar clowns.
The citizens of New York City have voted to become Detroit. Maybe we were too hasty rejecting that independence idea...
Isn't a one-size-fits-all, mandated, fine-you-if-you-don't-sign-up federal health insurance plan sort of an odd thing to receive from "the party of choice"? The "choice" offered under B.O.Care rather resembles that which Henry Ford used to offer his customers - "You can have any color you want, as long as it's black." HHS Secretary Kathleen "the Reaper" Sebelius absurdly claimed while testilying to Congress that "for the first time", people will be able to go to one website and pick the health care plan that suits their needs. Cruella, I do that every year when I sign up for my benefits. My employer always offers 6-8 medical plans, 2-4 dental plans, vision coverage, and Health Expense Savings Accounts as well. It's a pity you're a career politician -- things work differently out here in the real world.
New definition of futility -- making any member of the B.O. administration tesify under oath.
When he was running for the Senate in Nevada, when the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository was first being seriously proposed, Chic Hecht promised that if he were elected, "there will never be any nuclear suppositories in Nevada!"
Maybe so, but (or is that butt?) Obamacare is pretty close.
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