November 3, 2012 - 11:51 am
Fox’s Neil Cavuto nailed it this morning.
Check out this photo from Stamford, CT this morning. Stamford is about 45 minutes from Manhattan. That’s a line of cars for gas, and according to Melissa Steinberg, about a third of the cars in the line were yellow cabs from New York City. They’re having to drive a 90-minute round trip just to get the gas, never mind the waiting time to actually get the gas.
That’s Stamford, Bryan, not Stanford. Just over the New York State line.
My mistake.
You know things are really out of sync with reality when The New Yorker posts this:
November 2, 2012 “The Marathon is Cancelled—Finally”
Posted by Alex Koppelman
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/11/marathon-is-cancelled-finally.html
“The drinking water in Breezy Point, Queens, an area absolutely devastated by Hurricane Sandy, is no longer safe to drink. But as of Friday afternoon, Mayor Bloomberg was saying that the I.N.G. New York City Marathon was still on. For days now, residents in housing projects in the Lower East Side have been relying on fire hydrants for their water—and the elderly and disabled, who can’t get up and down the stairs, need their neighbors to go to the hydrants for them. But as of Friday afternoon, Mayor Bloomberg was saying that the I.N.G. New York City Marathon was still on.
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Around 5 P.M. E.T., the news broke that officials had, finally, decided to cancel the race—or, perhaps, to postpone it for later in the year. It was the right decision, but it took far too long to make.
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Sure, he has his crusades, some of which are worth supporting, but the job of a mayor, especially here, is far more about administration than politics, and the guy just plain knows how to run things. But in his policies, he’s always favored a certain kind of person—the rich, or at least the upper middle class—over the people who struggle with the costs of living in New York City.
Now there’s Sandy, and the response to it, both of which—because they come as his third and presumably final term is winding down—may end up defining much of Bloomberg’s legacy—as 9/11 did Rudy Giuliani’s. To his credit, Bloomberg has been a steady, comforting presence throughout this crisis. But what we’ve seen over the past week is the absolute worst of Bloomberg’s tendency towards favoring corporations and the well-to-do over people in need, which was epitomized, finally, in his stubborn insistence that the marathon would proceed as scheduled …”
Not sure Mayor Marathon is going to get a big hug from Obama, who might now be wishing that endorsement had stayed a secret
Natural disasters are disasters, first and foremost. People suffer and die.
The liberals spread untrue horror stories and politicized Katrina for short term gains. Theirs was a standard government could live up to. Now they are the government.
How you judged will be how you will be judged.