Mayor De Blasio's February Blahs

NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio's first hundred days aren't going so well. From his political fumblings over universal pre-school, to getting rebuffed by his liberal colleagues about tax increases on the rich, the liberal chief executive may find himself snowed under before his first term is up. Just a reminder: the rich can afford to move out, Bill. How will you tax NYC expatriates? Hire Obama's tax-drones to take down those tax-dodgers?

Mayor De Blasio February Blahs

Three February media fails may assure a failed first term for the new, left-leaning Big Apple's Mayor, and perhaps his one and only.

1. Groundhog Day: Not just a great movie (Bill Murray reliving the same day until he changes from within to accept what's without) but also the yearly holiday where a fluffy, flabby rodent in Punxsatawney, PA predicts by his shadow whether there will be six more weeks of winter or an early spring. De Blasio posed with NYC’s own groundhog (Staten Island Chuck), but the chubby creature ran away. Maybe he’s worried about the taxes, the spending, or maybe he was shocked because De Blasio was using stop and frisk on him, even though De Blasio had campaigned to end the practice.

Speaking of shadows and reliving the same day over and over, De Blasio is stuck in the shadow of liberals and socialist before him. You know what they say about insanity: doing the same thing over and over, hoping to get different results. Six weeks of winter will hit the world, and four years of failed liberalism will cover New York City.

2. After that, reports this week share that DeBlasio intervened on behalf of a jailed yet politically connected clergyman, Bishop Orlando Findlayter, who was pulled over for failing to signal on a left turn. NYPD ran his license plate, and found that the pastor had two outstanding warrants against him, all relating to his failure to appear in Court following arrests at political demonstrations.

While Findlayter should have gone to court sooner, and would have paid his fine later, he faced staying in the jail cell overnight, since night court had called it for the day. Clergy friends called the mayor, the mayor stepped in, then Deputy Inspector Kenneth Lehr showed up to let the pastor out. Findlayter vowed to go to court the next Tuesday.

The next morning, pastor and mayor were laughing it up over breakfast in Bed-Stuy. Sgt. Ed Mullins railed against this double-standard. Everyone should be held to answer for outstanding warrants. There's holy orders, and there's unholy pulling of strings. Findlayter’s prayer was answered sooner not later, and De Blasio had pledged to end NYC’s “Tale of Two Cities”?

3. Last of all, De Blasio got blasted by the weather, and the Weatherman Al Roker. Keeping the schools open, despite Roker's accurate forecast, De Blasio claimed (or rather, blamed) inaccurate weather predictions for his "goofball" policy. Roker raked the mayor over the coals:

I knew this am @NYCMayorsOffice @NYCSchools would close schools. Talk about a bad prediction. Long range DiBlasio forecast: 1 term

then

How dare @NYCMayorsOffice @NYCSchools throw NWS under the school bus. Forecast was on time and on the money


and finally

Mr. Mayor, I could never run NYC, but I know when it's time to keep kids home from school
From groundhogs and jailed pastors to Roker's ravings, Mayor De Blasio may be learning the hard way that leadership in the Big Apple entails a whole lot more than raising other people's taxes and playing the class warfare card. Maybe he should have joined Staten Island Chuck and hibernated for six more weeks.