It's amazing what will happen to a man when you invite him to the White House. I mean, it's gotta be a neat experience. Just ask newly elected New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. He got the invite from Obama and came out of the White House drinking the Kool Aid.
“You can’t have a room full of mayors–literally every corner of the country–all spontaneously saying to the president of the United States the same exact things from their own experience: Something’s going on here … So what we have to do is organize it and amplify it,” he told Politicker.
Wow. His basic comment was that liberalism was "sweeping America". And how wrong can a guy be that just kicked his GOP opponent in a landslide? Real wrong. Sorry Bill. New York ain't the rest of the country. Hell, it's not even the rest of the state!
If de Blasio is right, and all of these "big city mayors" are espousing liberal views, and that the whole country is embracing it, why does Bobo have the lowest approval ratings since entering the White House? Why is it that the Democrats in the Senate are running scared? Why is it that House Democrats actually decided to vote with Republicans on Paul Ryan's plan to end the budget squabbles? Doesn't sound like it's because the nation is embracing liberalism to me. Sounds like the Dems are running scared.
Of course, "big city" mayors are always going to be Democrats. Look at the plight of the big cities. Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Cleveland, Philadelphia. All of them big Democrat strongholds. All of them in a world of hurt! And of course, de Blasio would say that the country is going to embrace liberalism after his meeting with Obama. What else is he going to say after just winning the biggest election of his life?
The facts however, speak a different tale. Detroit is bankrupt and is going to be screwing thousands of union workers out of their pensions, thus ruining the majority of their lives. Chicago is on the brink and doesn't have a clue how to get out. If the state of Illinois were nearly as liberal as Chicago, they'd already be bankrupt. Thank goodness for the people of the Land of Lincoln, they have sense in the smaller towns in that state. Obamacare is decimating the liberal base and will continue to do so in 2014. And why is it Mayor de Blasio, that most of the states in the country are run by Republicans? Yes, you got elected mayor in a very liberal city. Is that a surprise? Even the last mayor, who started out Republican, had to go Independent to win re-election. You don't win too many elections in New York as a conservative, let's face it!
No, Bill de Blasio may be Mayor of New York, but no one will confuse him with a Rhodes Scholar. It's just the way it is. Democrats are scurrying, and unless the GOP does something really stupid in the next 11 months (and by the way...that's a 50/50 chance!), they should waltz through the 2014 midterms and beyond.
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