NY's Bloomberg: Democrat in Republican Suit

Thousands of city eateries may have to revise their recipes for French fries, doughnuts, cookies, and other baked goods under a proposal by the Bloomberg administration to ban the use of trans fats in all restaurants across the five boroughs....City Wants to Ban Some Fatty Foods In Restaurants, Russell Berman, The NY Sun, 9/27/2006

Sanctimonious buffoons dominate the airwaves, Leftist politics, and New York City. The suit that the Marx brothers used to put on a pompous, WASP hotel manager in their comedies has become the standard cut for liberal politicians and their cohorts, such as Bill Gates, among businesspeople. Mayor Bloomberg, the billionaire who flies his own helicopter to work on occasion, is a perfect example. His disdain for working people, revealed by a housing policy that favors the development of million dollar condos but not affordable rental apartments, suggests that he thinks a typical income is in the high six figures. His various public morals campaigns against cigarette smoking have sponsored the highest level of bootlegging (and associated crime) since the 1920s, not to mention cigarette prices almost double what they are in adjacent states. He publicly admits to disobeying federal law on illegal immigration, saying not quite the truth when declaring that enforcement would wreck NYC's economy. What's actually true is that people at his level would have to pay competitive wages to Americans for such services as nanny, gardener, chef, driver, nurse, etc. It's clear that Mayor Bloomberg's friends would rather fly helicopters than pay service people competitive wages, or pick up the employer tab for Social Security. His campaign to bar all citizens from 2nd amendment rights is well-known. His latest moral progress to bar what his class of people consider unhealthy food is just another slice of Waiting for Lefty Pie, a confection cooked by an arrogant chef. This is not a Republican's entree, except in New York. It's not surprising, coming from Bloomberg, who was a big money man in Democrat/liberal politics for years before he discovered the Republican light (i.e., he would be electable). Given a lot of money and considerable power, he's showing his roots, with a signature and vastly expressed sense of superiority, seemingly unable to understand why everybody isn't just like him. This kind of sanctimonious jerk is the paradigm of Left/liberal politics, the perfect personality for a politics that prefers controlled populations over free citizens. Why anybody would consider this person, or anyone like him, as a Republican candidate for President in 2008 is beyond me. Condi Rice would clean his clock in a primary or a general election. So would John McCain, if he would just let go of his fondness for George Soros's money.

Luther