Backlash Against de Blasio

mayor23n-1-webCop-bashing New York mayor Bill de Blasio seems genuinely surprised at the ferocious backlash against him in light of the execution-style weekend killing of two local cops.

After spending the past year in office attacking police, the mayor is now scrambling to put the pin back into the grenade he threw into the local body politic. His crusade against the police goes back at least to his election campaign last year when he caustically criticized then-mayor Michael Bloomberg’s stop-and-frisk policy.

De Blasio is appealing for calm and for a temporary suspension of the ugly anti-police protests his incendiary rhetoric has spawned.

Strangely, this far-left radical who, like his ally in the White House never puts politics aside for the benefit of the community, is now asking New Yorkers to do precisely that.

So far the New York Police Department isn’t in a mood to forgive de Blasio who has teamed up with racial arsonist Al Sharpton to lay waste to what’s left of civil society in the Big Apple. Before the two murders Sharpton had been leading marches where the demonstrators chanted, “What do we want? Dead cops.” Taking cues from the Westboro Baptist Church, Sharpton followers showed up at one cop memorial service chanting and heckling the mourners.

NYPD union leaders have asked de Blasio to skip police funerals and a large gathering of cops turned their backs on the mayor as he showed up Saturday at the Brooklyn hospital where the lifeless bodies of officers Rafael Ramos, 40, and Wenjian Liu, 32, had been taken after they were shot dead by an adherent of the Religion of Peace.

The shooter, Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsleywas a Muslim apparently upset at what he believed were the racist killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. and Eric Garner in Staten Island. He indicated he was planning to kill “pigs,” and as Robert Spencer notes, Brinsleys Facebook page featured a photo of the Quran open to the eighth chapter, where Allah exhorts the believers to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah (8:60).

Since de Blasio was sworn in last New Year’s Day, New Yorkers have, in fits and starts, begun to realize that they elected a dangerously erratic Sandinista-loving radical as mayor. Although de Blasio’s reaction to the cop murders strikes many in the punditry as incompetent, they are being charitable. De Blasio’s behavior reflects his pathological,  hateful, profoundly anti-American ideology. He can’t conceal his contempt for those whose job it is to promote law and order.

This is what happens when a small-c communist becomes mayor of the nation’s greatest metropolis. 

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who helped turn New York from a crime-infested urban jungle into the relatively crime-free city his successors inherited, said it was “shameful” for politicians to drive a wedge between police and the communities they serve.

“Police misconduct is a minor part of the problem. Community, serious violent crime is a much bigger part of the problem,” Giuliani said. 

“The people who are saving black lives in the city are [you] the New York City Police Department. I’m not doing it. President Obama’s not doing it. Mayor De Blasio’s not doing it. He’s not out at night walking down housing developments and trying to save children from being killed. Police officers are doing the most, right now, in these very very poor communities and sometimes they’re white communities, but where there are black communities and police officers are doing the most to save the children that are at greatest risk. The politicians with this propaganda separating the community from the police, are doing something that’s shameful and they have to stop doing that. The vast majority of police want to help and the politicians’ rhetoric should reflect the truth, not propaganda.”

But de Blasio isn’t anything like Giuliani or even like Bloomberg, his immediate predecessor, a micromanaging Big Gulp-grabber who now seems like an exemplar of common sense compared to the current mayor.

De Blasio is in many ways President Obama’s “mini me,” except unlike Obama, he has loud critics in the media who for the most part has not been giving him a free ride.

But de Blasio hasn’t generated all of this racial hostility and antipathy toward cops on his own. He’s had a lot of help from President Obama who has been trying to kickstart a wave of civil unrest since even before he took office. The president’s policy of trying to foment violent civil unrest is finally paying dividends.

Attacking the police, as Obama has been doing for years, isn’t exactly a courageous act. The police are easy targets for leftist agitators. Riling up minorities over real and imagined abuses is child’s play. Even Al Sharpton can do it.

On the 2008 campaign trail, the president belittled small town Americans, implying they were racist, a time-honored leftist smear of conservatives. “And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Not too long after his inauguration in 2009 the new president mocked Cambridge, Mass. police by saying they acted stupidly” by arresting Obamas close personal friend, black liberal academic Henry Louis Gates Jr. This led to the seemingly pointless public relations event known as the so-called beer summit between James Crowley (the arresting officer), Gates, and Obama. There was never any evidence that Gates’s arrest had anything to do with his skin color. Arrester and arrestee agreed to disagree yet Obama succeeded in scoring points with his radical base. 

Campaigning in 2010, Obama demonized non-Latinos.

“If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re gonna punish our enemies, and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us’ — if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election — then I think it’s going to be harder. And that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on voting on November 2nd.”

The same year he invoked Rosa Parks and segregation in order to ridicule Republicans. We dont mind the Republicans joining us,” Obama told the faithful. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

In 2012 Obama suggested if he failed to win reelection minorities would suffer. 

The notion that were all in this together, that we look out for one anotherthats at stake in this election,” he saidDont take my word for it. Watch some of these [Republican] debates that have been going on up in New Hampshire. Later that year he added Republicans “want to take us back to the policies more suited to the 1950s than the 21st century.

In 2012 he needlessly inserted race into the Trayvon Martin saga by saying, “if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon. Although the shooter who was eventually acquitted, so-called white Hispanic George Zimmerman, wasn’t a police officer, he was an authority figure of sorts as a neighborhood watch volunteer.

Working with Sharpton, the Obama administration sicced the left-wing community organizers of the Justice Department’s Community Relations Service (CRS) on the unsuspecting people of Sanford, Fla. after the death of Martin. Evidence established that Martin attacked Zimmerman, who avoided legal liability because he acted in self-defense.

Even after the acquittal Obama insisted on meddling. He said that Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago,” and gave yet another lecture on race.

Obama vigorously milked the August death of Michael Brown at the hands of white Ferguson, Mo. police officer Darren Wilson. 

Brown, an 18-year-old black male, was killed after he beat Wilson and tried to grab his handgun. Browns defenders characterize him as a gentle giant even though a few minutes earlier he was captured on video committing a strong-arm robbery at a convenience store, roughing up a much smaller clerk in the process. At autopsy Browns height was 6′ 5″ and his weight was 289 lbs. The autopsy results were consistent with witness accounts that Brown reached for Wilsons gun during their fateful altercation.

Obama dishonored his country by giving a speech at the United Nations citing Brown’s killing as something Americans should be ashamed of. After the grand jury refused to indict Wilson, Obama ramped up his rhetoric, claiming that racism is deeply rooted in American society.

A major difference between de Blasio and Obama is that the mayor doesn’t have the president’s silver tongue. Serious calls for de Blasio’s ouster are now coming from civic leaders throughout New York.

But don’t hold your breath waiting for de Blasio to resign. Radical leftists rarely give up power without a fight.

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  • Yehuda Levi

    Obama was wrong about the Harvard police officer, wrong about Trayvon Martin and wrong once again about Michael Brown. He is zero out of three.

    Obama and Sharpton have made their careers on convincing other people that they are discriminated against and others need to pay for it in one form or another.

    These cops have died because Obama and Sharpton refuse to admit they were wrong because it works for their agenda. Obama, Sharpton and de Blasio all have blood on their hands.

    • PI by Nature

      That is not why those cops died. Those cops were victims of jihad…planned independently of any events in NYC. You buy what Patrick Lynch says so easily…I am not as fooled.

      • duke00

        You ought to pay attention to what’s occurring around you – the shooter sympathized with Black Nationalist groups; Obama, Holder, Sharpton and de Blasio incited Black anti-police sentiment with their vile rhetoric and rushes to judgement, leading to the dangerous atmosphere of threats and chants of death against police; and now the two assassinations. Could not be clearer – at least for those of us with objective intellect…

    • laura r

      they werent technically “wrong”. they knew the real story & lied to the public. dont give them any benefit of the doute.

    • Alvin Chipmunk

      Actually, out of all policies Obama strikes 0 out of 100.

      • Jack A. Napes

        He makes Bob Uecker look like a Wade Boggs or George Brett.

  • UCSPanther

    De Blasio: The codling moth caterpillar of the Big Apple…

  • EileenRight

    I cannot wait for these people to be flushed out with the tide in the next elections.

    • DavidBastable

      Don’t count on it. The electorate, generally, does not have the wit to do what’s right. They are mostly unaware of what is going on around them.

      • Glen Herbert

        You hit the nail on the head.

      • Dimart45

        The left only sees what they want to see, and block out everything else. The only thing that will turn the tide in NYC is if the people who didn’t bother to vote, come out and do what’s right.

        • kiwi41

          Do you believe that the elections were not rigged ?

          Are there more of the low life vermin, than people with a modicum of common sense and decency ?

          How is it that a communist gets elected ,after two mayors who had cleaned up the crime rate and restored civilization to NY ?

          • Dimart45

            If you mean do dead people vote in NY – for as long as I can remember, however the fact that only 25% showed up to the poles indicates that the right simply opted out which was an asinine thing to do – but then again that is how Obama got elected the last time too. The right has to stop thinking they are too good to swallow some pride if we are to stop this nonsense.

          • kiwi41

            WTF is wrong with these people ? !

            Then that’s ANOTHER enemy ; apathy.
            Unbelievable !!

            Maybe the Australian law that voting is compulsory has a lot going for it.

          • Dimart45

            Sad, isn’t it. We have a country and one of our most important cities being destroyed because people can ‘t take the time out of their busy lives to vote.

          • kiwi41

            They say ” You can’t fix stupid ”
            I’d hope in this case they are wrong….

          • PI by Nature

            Crime is still decreasing in New York, last I checked. The fear of increasing crime is being driven by out-of-towners.

      • http://libertyandculture.blogspot.com/ Jason P

        But don’t count it out either. New Yorkers fired Mayor Dinkins. De Blasio worked for Dinkins and is actually worse. De Blasio thought appointing Bratton would be a PR coup and blind people to his hostility towards the police but his anti-cop bigotry came out, again and again. The Bratton trick didn’t last long. De Blasio is Dinkins on steroids.

        Giuliani, who lost to Dinkins the first time, edged Dinkins out the second time. But once sane blacks and Hispanics realized that lower crime rates benefitted them the most, Rudy got reelected with a larger majority. Many of the blacks aren’t American born and don’t identify with the Sharpton types.

        Let’s remember that NYC had a nominal Republican mayor for 20 years after Dinkins. De Blasio may be the medicine the city needed to jog it memory.

        • JDinSTL

          For the life of me, I cannot believe Bratton hasn’t resigned.

        • JDinSTL

          Giuliani won the re-match because he got 85% of the catholic vote on Staten Island.

        • His Excellency

          Nominal? More like one real Republican and one RINO who switched from the Democrats and later switched to independent. The latter was a supporter of the nanny state.

    • PhillipGaley

      China figures that, they’re far in time from invasion, . . . suppose, there’s not to be a next election, . . .

  • Bamaguje

    “De Blasio is in many ways President Obama’s “mini me,” except unlike Obama, he has loud critics in the media who for the most part has not been giving him a free ride” – Mathew Vadum.

    De Blasio isn’t black so he doesn’t get the same pass like Obama.
    Blasio cannot deflect criticisms with accusations of “racism”… His black wife notwithstanding.

    • angry fred

      Unfortunately,people dont realize that we elect these assholes to serve us.funny how its turned around and we have become the servants to their sick agendas and are losing our freedoms to our masters.
      Our choices of candidates are all from the bottom of the political slime barrel. We need common sense from common people who will perform a function as their duty, and not a way to accumulate vast amounts of money. We must not allow the thieves access.
      Sharpton , obama, holder and their ilk need removal.
      Holders resignation doesnt mean much. The agenda is already shaped and we dont know where holders ugly head is going to pop up next.

      • Alvin Chipmunk

        This is New York City…the same city that probably as a percent wore less NYPD shirts after 911 compared to the rest of the country as a whole. This city is crawling with liberals of one stripe or another. So, thus I don’t have much hope for a major change.

    • Sheik Yerbouti

      I’ve wondered about this. In most of my encounters I have seen that black American men are violently revolted by the idea that a black woman would sleep with a white man. So I wonder how blacks in NYC really feel about him. Sure, he’s dug in well for the leftists, he’s a virtual poster child of leftist perfection. But I doubt black men look at him with any sort of respect and I doubt many actually voted for him.

  • http://johnnyangel10.WordPress.com JohnnyAngel Advocacy Group

    There’s a time coming for these leftists to face the music

  • Dimart45

    By the time de Blasio is through, NYC will be back to the cesspool it was before Giuliani.

    • Daniel

      No…..when he and his pimp, Obama, get done……..ISIS will have destroyed NYC.
      Obama won’t bar the return of ISIS fighters to the US. And de Blasio won’t profile them.
      Boston paid for that kind of thing last year at the Boston Marathon. But ISIS will make a much bigger bang than the Tsarnaevs.

      • Sheik Yerbouti

        I can’t get over the full steam ahead rush the left is in to bring about all this change they want. Any project manager will tell you that a huge punchlist will result from this sort of effort.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/JLarson-ZombiePortraits/100000104873314 Jack Larson

        The Boston Bombing was a hoax. The democrat media complex put it together along with the DOJ. Nobody died. Nobody got hurt.

  • Hard Little Machine

    New Yorkers voted for him. He’s their dog and they can housebreak him.

    • Pete

      Not all dogs get housebroken.
      One got sent back to the store, one, a purebred with papers, got sold at a huge loss, and another …
      The best thing that could happen to De Blasio is for him to get well. The second thing swould be for

  • http://www.apollospeaks.com/ ApolloSpeaks

    hhhhhhhhhhh

  • vonrock

    Give him and Obama a badge and a squirt gun and put them on street patrol.

  • cree

    So far mostly political, but a civil war of sorts is in the stage of potential. If none, the leftist ilk in this country will finish its ruin. That is worth the fight.

  • joshuasweet

    “Warren Wilhelm, Jr, ”
    “De Blasio was an ardent supporter of the ruling Sandinista government, which was at that time opposed by the Reagan administration.[15] ” this is his history so now why would you expect anything else from a minion of the democratic Communist.
    “De Blasio was sworn into office on January 1, 2014 by former President Bill Clinton. In his inaugural address, he reiterated his campaign pledge to address “economic and social inequalities” within the city.[74]”
    the agenda of Obama and his ilk

  • laura r

    radical black nationalist group behind PD killings. same group who killed almost 40 police in the early 70s.

    • Sheik Yerbouti

      It would be interesting to see who has been released from prison from that group recently.

  • JDinSTL

    DeBlasio is being exposed because he’s white. Obama’s skin color still gets him a free pass.

  • Pete

    “Obama dishonored his country by giving a speech at the United Nations citing Brown’s killing as something Americans should be ashamed of.”

    I missed that. It was at the UN, so there should be video.

    The video needs to be replayed often.

  • Lassiefaire
    • PI by Nature

      Always someone else’s fault according to her. How about blaming—only the gunman and seeking to get members of his gang arrested? No one else forced the BGF to organize this act of jihad. If this woman were my wife and she said this, I’d divorce her because she does not understand personal responsibility.

      • Sheik Yerbouti

        I agree. I also see she is a lot further along in understanding this than most blacks. Her refusal to recognize the need for responsibility has been driven into her since she was born. She has been raised to believe that blacks can’t be racists and that all of their problems originate externally. NEVER could it be the fault of blacks. So for her to think this far out of that sort of box is quite remarkable. She can see that the standard narrative is flawed.

  • Peter Castle

    De Blasio and the others who are anti-cop, anti-America are really out-of-touch with Americans. But their words and actions lead to violence and death.

    See “Propaganda Kills” at http://wp.me/p4scHf-6n.

  • PhillipGaley

    From the first paragraph, “execution-style weekend killing”, more correctly, it was rather, a “gang-land style execution”.

  • stringman

    In college, 40 years ago, I was an ignorant white kid who foolishly signed a petition for some inane communist cause when it was pushed in my face by a student radical. He may or may not have been a dupe of the leftist radicals back in the day. The point is that they frame their rhetoric with fine sounding words that can fool the ignorant into believing their cause to be legitimate or at least benign. That is how the likes of Obama and de Blasio get elected. Real Americans are so busy earning a living, raising their kids, and trying to live a good life that they can’t see (and especially can’t understand how) these radical politicians want to tear down the system that brought us the american dream. It doesn’t make any kind of sense to most of us and, therein, lies the means to deceive.

  • ModeratelyDisorganized

    Everyone in New York City had the opportunity to research DeBlasio before the election. Now some are surprised that he’s as much leftist as his rhetoric indicated. There are consequences to electing someone you know nothing about and don’t care to know. Unfortunately, the entire country is paying for NYC voters’ apathy.

  • Pericles

    “And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or
    antipathy toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment
    or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.“

    In other words, those who support the first and second amendments, who don’t want an invasion of illegal immigrants, or to lose more jobs overseas, are bigoted and stupid. He expressed his true ideology and beliefs way back in 2008 but not enough people were paying attention. That’s why we have a monumental mess on our hands, which is getting worse by the day.

  • Pericles

    “But don’t hold your breath waiting for de Blasio to resign. Radical leftists rarely give up power without a fight.”

    The police need to keep turning their backs on him and to avoid any confrontations with black criminals that might cause them to use their weapons. Their top priority from now on must be to protect themselves, not the communities which are assaulted by black criminals. As usual, the progressives have made a bad situation into a very disturbing and dangerous one. We must find a way to stop letting them get away with it. The momentum is with the police. They must keep it with themselves.

  • Hank Rearden

    De Blasio ran on ruining New York and he is on track. He was overwhelmingly elected so you gotta wonder what people were thinking. But nothing de Blasio has done is a surprise. He was always knocking the police, implying that policing itself is illegitimate.

    De Blasio is an admirer of the Sandinistas who looted Nicaragua and tried to collectivize farming about which they knew absolutely nothing.

    Liberals hate what works. They hate the free market where the people who provide the goods and services get the incomes, not a ruling class which Libs are always trying to build. Libs hate the people they rule, which is common for totalitarians – Stalin came to hate the Russian people, Hitler the German people and Mao the Chinese people. You think they respect that the people bow down to them and flatter them out of fear? No! They scorn them and come to hate them.

    De Blasio is in that tradition. Even he is not so stupid as not to know that the communities that benefit most from good policing are poor communities. Rudy proved that if anybody ever doubted it.

    As a Leftist, de Blasio hates normality. Don’t ask why. That is a mystery. But it ia also true without exception. Find a nicely functioning city or neighborhood and the agenda of the Left is to ruin it. As de Blasio is doing with New York.

    • Sheik Yerbouti

      He rode a wave of resentment for Stop & Frisk, a wildly successful program that intercepted illegal guns, drugs and fugitives. He was elected on a negative platform that was spun to sound positive.

      • Hank Rearden

        Leftists hate normality. It took me a while to work this out, but now that I have it, it works everywhere. A Leftist doesn’t walk through a successful community and rejoice in it. He thinks “how can we locate a crackhouse here?”

        I know you know this, but just sayin’ de Blasio didn’t cancel stop and frisk because it WASN’T working but because it WAS. He hated that Rudy had made New York livable. I was there. New York has not been a hotbed of racial strife except in some neighborhoods, but still, race relations really improved under Rudy as everything calmed down.

        When you think about it, how much resentment does stop and frisk REALLY generate? Suppose you are an 18 year old, a 20 year old, a 25 year old and you are a cool dood. So maybe once, you are stopped and frisked. Doesn’t that make you baaaad? Isn’t it a bit cool to be such a threat on the sidewalk that you are stopped? Doesn’t that impress the homies? Think of the opposite. Suppose you are such a nerd that you are NEVER stopped and frisked by the police? Does NOT having been stopped get you respect in da hood?

        I don’t want to overdo this, but my point is that the Al Sharptons and the de Blasios are making an issue where none exists. I have been pulled out of line at the airport. A bit of a thrill to think that I look that threatening (which I don’t – probably a statistical search). Am I “humiliated?” Nah. That is b/s. That is a Leftist fantasy. That is not how people really think. It’s cool to be singled out as a baaaad dood.

        btw, great pic. I could never get into the Mothers’ music, but Frank was a great character.

        • Sheik Yerbouti

          I get the free massage every time I pass through Paris or JFK.

          • Hank Rearden

            Just so you don’t start to look forward to it!

  • Martin Preib
  • Tradecraft46

    De Blasio has very strong support outside the Black community: why is that not better noted?

  • El Cid

    “A major difference between de Blasio and Obama
    is that the mayor doesn’t have the president’s silver tongue. Serious
    calls for de Blasio’s ouster are now coming from civic leaders
    throughout New York.”

    No, that is not the major difference. That is not why the mainstream media protects Obama and does not protect de Blesio. It is because Obama claims to be “black” and no one will attack him for fear of being called “racist”.

    I suggest that each time we have a picture of Obama, we should also show a picture of his mother so that everyone can get over it already. Obama is just a demagogue using racism as a convenient means of controlling the public.

    If Obama were a true leader, he would use his mixed background to heal rather than to divide.

    • joe kulak

      He is not a leader; he is a media-saavy agitator in the tradition of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Castro. Instead of an overt, violent revolution, we experienced a covert one in 2008, the groundwork having been laid in the media and academia years before. However, violence has been and will yet be used, as needed. The Dear Leader, having taken power under the guise of an election, has plausible deniability for any involvement, even as he speaks from both sides of his mouth.

  • s;vbkr0boc,klos;

    “Obama dishonored his country by giving a speech at the United Nations citing Brown’s killing as something Americans should be ashamed of.”

    If I were the exonerated Wilson, I would sue the Traitor In Chief.

  • steve b

    THE POLICE ON DEBLASIO’S PROTECTION DETAIL SHOULD ALL ASK FOR A TRANSFER. IF THEY ARE ORDERED TO BE ON THIS DETAIL THEY SHOULD, IN THE EVENT OF AN ATTACK ON COMMISSAR DEBLASIO, GET OUT OF THE WAY TO AVOID BEING INJURED BY THE ATTACKER, AND ALSO TO AVOID DOING ANYTHING TO THE ATTACKER THAT WOULD CAUSE SHARPTON TO GATHER HIS RENT-A-MOB OR THAT WOULD GET THE COP IN TROUBLE. THE CITY CAN ALWAYS ELECT ANOTHER MAYOR.

  • Alvin Chipmunk

    If there’s a fight against the policies of the radical Left, I’m ready to fight. Where do I sign up?

  • Peter Castle

    De Blasio’s rhetoric – and his ideology – kills.

    See “Propaganda Kills” at http://wp.me/p4scHf-6n.

  • DontMessWithAmerica

    The piece is about DeBlasio but he is small potatoes. Obama, however, is the first head of state in any country in history who is a scofflaw and who incited the rabble to go to war against the laws of the land and the law enforcement agencies. He suffers from a complex psychological condition, an identity problem and paranoia. Deep down he may have great feelings of inadequacy which have made him an anti-establishmentarian. His latest move, the overture to Cuba is not surprising. He probably envies Castro because he would be a much happier man running a small, totalitarian state in which there is no Congress or Senate or Constitution to constantly get in his way. Coups are traditionally brought on by Generals and armies but because of our present circumstances it would be appropriate and delightful to see police departments from all cities descend on Washington to arrest the President and the Attorney General and impeach them.

  • AnneM040359

    The NYC mayor is pretty much finished. Once the NYPD have started to stop supporting Mayor DeBlasio, stick a fork, he is done.

  • AnneM040359

    Are you sure about that?

  • verneoz

    “…De Blasio’s behavior reflects his pathological, hateful, profoundly anti-American ideology.” New Yorkers are getting what they did not vote for. By staying at home not voting, most New Yorkers surrendered their city to America-hating radicals, and anarchist thugs. Street crime, murders, and tax-and-spend city government are coming back. Paraphrasing the Bible: Ye who sows the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

  • Daniel Rubio

    Lots of comments and articles can be written about the (mis)adventures of these two clowns, 0bama and Warren Wilhelm Junior (“De Blasio”s real name, a sordid character who even has a bogus name). The real, troubling, sore questions still remain: How is it that the world’s largest and longest-running democracy elected these two, one to the country’s topmost position, not once but twice, the other as the US largest city’s “king of the hill”? What is it with Americans? Are they deaf, dumb (sic) and blind? Are these two really the best-suited persons Americans could find amongst its 300 million citizens?

  • pfbonney

    “Radical leftists rarely give up power without a fight.”

    Unlike gentlemanly Republicans (e.g., Nixon, Trent Lott, Rep. Mark Foley (FL) etc.) who step down too easily. Not to mention the weird power sharing agreement on Senate committees, several years back, when there were 50 R & 50 D sitting congress, until one switch parties to Democrat. Democrats, much less, radical leftists, would never have made that accommodation.