Mike Bloomberg’s new goal: Changing the GOP
“Somebody got them the way they are now,” the mayor of New York said in a recent interview as he sat in the bullpen offices of City Hall, surrounded by a buzzing staff, blinking Bloomberg terminals and clocks telling the same time in each of the five boroughs. “Why can’t you change them?”…
“Oh sure,” Bloomberg said, he would blame Republicans if they blocked new gun-control legislation in the House. “But having said that, I won’t let the Democrats off the hook.” He added that when Democrats “were in power, they didn’t do it,” and President Obama “campaigned on an assault-weapons ban and he didn’t do it, so spare me.”…
“I’m going to prove a counterweight” to the NRA, said Bloomberg, who spent about $10 million in five congressional and statewide races against NRA-supported candidates last year, winning four of those contests. “It seemed effective, and I’m certainly going to take a good, hard look at next time. . . . You can organize people, I can write checks.”
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That, for some reason, makes me laugh.
BallisticBob on January 14, 2013 at 1:25 PM
May he spontaneously combust, the absolute scum of the Earth, for hypocrisy.
Schadenfreude on January 14, 2013 at 1:27 PM
Bloomberg is a 55-gallon drum of duck vomit.
Mr. D on January 14, 2013 at 1:27 PM
I’m sure Bloomberg will get plenty of supporters for his new GOP thing — as long as just he and Jon Huntsman count as “plenty of supporters.”
apostic on January 14, 2013 at 1:27 PM
I imagine all this gun grabbing talk beats the donks having to deal with the lousy economy.
Blake on January 14, 2013 at 1:28 PM
Doesn’t he have to go back and join the lollipop guild already?
Illinidiva on January 14, 2013 at 1:30 PM
LOLz
Good Lt on January 14, 2013 at 1:31 PM
Billionaire town Mayor fascist’s know what’s best for everyone in the entire country.
They do. Really.
And they have billions of dollars to expend at their
leisurediscretion to prove it too.Yup. They do. Really.
SD Tom on January 14, 2013 at 1:32 PM
Democrats are already revised to totally foreign entities, so they need no work.
astonerii on January 14, 2013 at 1:32 PM
It was funny in The Incredibles.
Kraken on January 14, 2013 at 1:37 PM
This insufferable azzhole wants to be president, Nanny of the State.
After Obama he’d be a ‘perfect’ next chapter. He thinks he can buy the office too.
Schadenfreude on January 14, 2013 at 1:38 PM
Nice when a plan works.
Dr. Frank Enstine on January 14, 2013 at 1:38 PM
I wish he would just go away. Who really gives a $hit what a mayor has to say other than the people of the city he is mayor of. All these big city mayors get far to much face time and have far to much power over national events.
Dr. Frank Enstine on January 14, 2013 at 1:40 PM
I hear George Soros is jealous.
Rocks on January 14, 2013 at 1:44 PM
What makes him think anybody in the rest of the country cares who he blames for gun control legislation being blocked?
supernova on January 14, 2013 at 1:46 PM
Where are all the loser liberals to cry about big money ruining the elections?
Flange on January 14, 2013 at 1:46 PM
GO AWAY!
gophergirl on January 14, 2013 at 1:47 PM
Anyone listening to Rush this AM? He has been great breaking down the current full court press to “change the GOP”. In his view Powell being trotted out yesterday to call conservatives racists was part of it.
Kataklysmic on January 14, 2013 at 2:08 PM
So, the same mayor who wants to “protect” us all from the dangers of guns, has no problem telling patients in hospitals that they’ll have to suffer because he wants to limit their access to pain medication.
Right Mover on January 14, 2013 at 2:10 PM
Why would he change the best minority partner in the bipartisan Party-In-Government cronyism can buy?
Steve Eggleston on January 14, 2013 at 2:27 PM
Better he should change his underwear – it’s keeping all his thoughts bottled up.
Marxism is for dummies on January 14, 2013 at 2:36 PM
No, Obama didn’t campaign on any such thing. To the contrary, in 2008 he specifically said he wouldn’t try impose any bans on firearms. These lefties just invent their own reality as the go – whatever fits at any given time and place.
tommyboy on January 14, 2013 at 2:37 PM