Author: Yoda

This was posted in the comments section of poltico.com in response to a story about Giuliani and adoption –

Rudy should ADOPT A CHILD WHO WILL SUPPORT HIS CANDIDACY

Monday’s Daily News is reporting that Rudy Giuliani is about to once again try to fool pro-life voters by claiming that he made increasing adoptions a priority of his Mayoral administration.

At the same time, he boosted adoptions in his eight years by some 133%, as compared with the eight years before he arrived, city statistics show.

Rudy has used many different numbers to try to show that adoptions increased by big numbers during his time as Mayor and these are new ones to me.

We New Yorkers know that Rudy Giuliani often has to worry about his nose growing when he speaks about the past. The problem is that too many reporters don’t know this.

The latest little white lie from Rudy is in Wednesday’s Washington Post.

Giuliani also brushed aside efforts by former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney to portray himself as the ultimate family man by releasing a video of a family vacation filled with scenes of giggling grandchildren.

"He has a right to emphasize the things he wants to emphasize," Giuliani told The Washington Post after a speech on energy policy in San Francisco. "I never emphasize those things."

Never emphasize these things?

Thank goodness for YouTube.

In the wake of his defeat on the issue of congestion pricing, Mayor Bloomberg called Senator Malcolm Smith and some pols gutless "I heard a lot of talk about the politics of congestion pricing … and all I kept thinking about was — some people have guts and lead from the front and some don't,"

I’d like to remind everyone that Bloomberg did not support congestion pricing in 2001 when he first ran for Mayor or in 2005 when he ran for re-election. He is now term-limited and can’t run for re-election.

Bruno spokesman Mark Hanson said his boss is so disgusted by the treatment he has been getting from Spitzer that he may never again use state-owned aircraft.

Yesterday wasn’t the best day for the New York Post’s Fred Dicker, who supposedly is the best-informed Albany reporter around.

Some may recall (though I’m sure Dicker hopes not too many) that he wrote a column in May predicting doom for Assembly Democrats if they tried to pass a bill legalizing gay marriage.

Here’s part of what Fred wrote –

Many insiders predict a significant number of the Assembly Democrats – and possibly a majority – will oppose the measure, led by conservative-oriented upstate and suburban lawmakers and a large number of African-Americans and Hispanics, many of whose constituents strongly oppose gay marriage.

Am I the only person who thinks there is something a little wrong about Councilman John Liu voting in favor of naming a street for Sonny Carson?

After all Liu represents the largest Korean community in New York and Carson led the infamous boycott of Korean groceries in Brooklyn.

Most of the political press in New York have apparently decided that they must interpret everything Mike Bloomberg does is part of a campaign for President.

In Saturday’s NY Times, a story about Bloomberg speaking in Houston began:

Sounding a lot like a presidential candidate, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg laid out the framework for a national energy policy on Friday and accused Washington lawmakers of “passing the buck” on meaningful energy reforms.

Am I the only one amused by the fact that the punishment for Assemblyman Michael Cole, who says the reason he slept at an intern’s apartment was because he was too drunk to drive was removal as ranking member of the Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Committee?

I had been planning to write about Jason West, the Green Party’s New York poster boy who in running for re-election as Mayor of New Paltz succeeded in knocking and independent opponent off the ballot. I was going to point out how hypocritical it was for a Ralph Nader supporter like West to do so considering how Nader’s followers always yap about ballot access and allowing more candidates to participate in elections.

But I didn’t get around to it and look what happened!

West was defeated for re-election and ironically it seems that he lost because he had only one opponent. Serves him right!