{"id":109556,"date":"2020-11-11T02:39:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T23:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/de-blasio-whistles-while-nyc-burns-goodwin\/"},"modified":"2020-11-11T02:39:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T23:39:23","slug":"de-blasio-whistles-while-nyc-burns-goodwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/de-blasio-whistles-while-nyc-burns-goodwin\/","title":{"rendered":"#De Blasio whistles while NYC burns: Goodwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2645ca4ec09\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2645ca4ec09\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/de-blasio-whistles-while-nyc-burns-goodwin\/#Of_course_theres_already_a_Dem_civil_war\" >Of course there\u2019s already a Dem civil war<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/de-blasio-whistles-while-nyc-burns-goodwin\/#Cuomos_gone_round_bend\" >Cuomo\u2019s gone round bend<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/de-blasio-whistles-while-nyc-burns-goodwin\/#A_lot_of_hot_air\" >A lot of hot air<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#De Blasio whistles while NYC burns: Goodwin<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/bill-de-blasio-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n                        During the Vietnam War, American military officials put such an outlandishly positive spin on events that the press corps took to calling the afternoon briefings the \u201c5 o\u2019clock follies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To judge from the fantasies he\u2019s been spinning, Mayor de Blasio has adopted equally bad habits. He wouldn\u2019t know the truth if it fell on his head.<\/p>\n<p>His press conference Tuesday was a howler of false claims and pie-in-the-sky promises. His declaration of victory over virtually everything that ails mankind would be laughable if the reality weren\u2019t so grim.<\/p>\n<p>With a straight face, de Blasio claimed that during the coronavirus, New Yorkers \u201ccame together, found a way forward, created something out of nothing, found solutions we didn\u2019t even know we had. And that\u2019s how we\u2019ve gotten to the point we\u2019re at now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What city is he talking about? People are fleeing, businesses are dying, jobs are vanishing, crime is surging and talk of a financial crisis can\u2019t be ignored. If this is success, what would failure look like?<\/p>\n<p>Yet he prattles on about an imaginary path to a glorious future, saying the goal is not to \u201crecreate a status quo that wasn\u2019t good enough, but to go farther to see that this city can do even better in the future. And that\u2019s what we will do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Good grief. Any poll would find the city nearly unanimous in willing to go back to the status quo of 10 months ago. That city wasn\u2019t perfect, but it was far better than now in terms of jobs, public safety and quality of life.<\/p>\n<p>At moments like these, it\u2019s tempting to ignore de Blasio because he\u2019s term limited and once the new year begins, attention will focus on the race to succeed him.<\/p>\n<p>But he shouldn\u2019t be ignored. A new mayor won\u2019t take over until January of 2022, meaning the Putz has more than 13 months to do more damage. Every dollar he wastes and every decision he makes will limit the flexibility of a new mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Consider de Blasio\u2019s comments Tuesday about two key topics \u2014 schools and mental health. The common denominator is that he has spectacularly failed in both areas, which just h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en to be vital to the very people he promised to help.<\/p>\n<p>Amid parent anger about the paucity of actual learning in the schools and the relentless push to dumb down standards when not actually erasing them altogether, the mayor had the gall to claim that the city\u2019s educrats are the best in America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s look at our Department of Education where they had to create in the middle of a crisis, whole new approaches, remote learning, a whole new approach to in-person education that now has become the gold standard of the nation,\u201d he insisted.<\/p>\n<p>This is not just happy talk. This is an outright lie, a fabrication of a situation where attendance, home work assignments and overall achievement have been thrown over board in a bid to keep the unions happy and parents in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>On mental health, his language was similarly detached from reality. While pledging to \u201cfundamentally change the approach to mental health emergencies,\u201d he turned to his wife, Chirlane McCray. The hype machine was cranked to the max as he called her \u201csomeone who has really changed the conversation profoundly and shown us what is possible when it comes to treating mental illness and reaching all New Yorkers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the real world, McCray spent more than $1 billion on a program that achieved results too tiny to be measured and too expensive to be replicated. In the process, she fumbled away her prospective political career and, thankfully, declared she would not run for Brooklyn Borough President next year.<\/p>\n<p>Her new job is to create mental health teams that will respond, with police as backup, to 911 calls, starting next year in two neighborhoods. But asked by a reporter which neighborhoods, McCray answered: \u201cWe have a planning process in place and the neighborhoods will be determined over the course of the next couple of months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In plain English, don\u2019t hold your breath.<\/p>\n<p>There was one further insight into the underbelly of national politics. Asked if he would advise store owners who boarded up their stores before the election to remove the plywood coverings, the mayor inadvertently conceded that the threat of violence came from the left and was over because of the results.<\/p>\n<p>Citing Joe Biden\u2019s likely victory, de Blasio said, \u201cI think the worst is past, I think it\u2019s time for us to move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No such luck for New York as a whole. The worst will be past only when de Blasio vacates City Hall.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Of_course_theres_already_a_Dem_civil_war\"><\/span>Of course there\u2019s already a Dem civil war<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>That didn\u2019t take long.<\/p>\n<p>The civil war in the Democratic Party that was put aside in a united effort to defeat President Trump is getting hot even before election results are final.<\/p>\n<p>Take note, grieving and furious Trump supporters. While not a consolation, it is an informative distraction that the prospect of victory is not producing much joy on the other side.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the looming showdown is shaping up to be every bit as vicious as the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> election. Each side is probably making its own enemies lists.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2020\/11\/conor-lamb-aoc-democrats-fighting-socialism\/617045\/\">\u201cThe Democratic Truce is Over\u201d<\/a> declared a Tuesday headline in the Atlantic, with author Elaine Godfrey describing power grabs where Biden comes off as a figure head.<\/p>\n<p>The disputes are shaped in large part by the blue wave that didn\u2019t happen, leaving a tough landscape in congress. Dems will hold a very small House majority and the GOP likely retains Senate control, meaning much of Biden\u2019s agenda will be whittled down or killed.<\/p>\n<p>That, of course, will make the combatants nastier to each other, which recalls a great LBJ story, as told by Joseph Califano Jr.<\/p>\n<p>In his book, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00L6C37XS\/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0?tag=nypost-20\">The Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson<\/a>,\u201d Califano writes that the president was frustrated by the refusal of liberals to back his plans. Talking to Oval Office visitors one day, Johnson suddenly asked if they knew the difference between liberals and cannibals.<\/p>\n<p>Getting silence, he declared, \u201cCannibals eat only their enemies.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Cuomos_gone_round_bend\"><\/span>Cuomo\u2019s gone round bend<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Poor Gov. Cuomo. He\u2019s suffering from an incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>Monday he bemoaned that a COVID vaccine was announced with Trump still in the White House, apparently willing to see more people die rather than have the president oversee distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday he embarrassed himself again, telling Howard Stern he was so angry at Trump \u201cthat If I wasn\u2019t governor of New York, I would have decked him. Period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reason, he said, was that the president calls Chris Cuomo Fredo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean he was attacking me, he was attacking my family, he was anti-Italian,\u201d the governor said.<\/p>\n<p>Right, nothing demolishes the stereotypes in \u201cThe Godfather\u201d like a threat of violence.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_lot_of_hot_air\"><\/span>A lot of hot air<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Block that metaphor.<\/p>\n<p>Headline: Biden Energy Plan Faces Headwinds\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/11\/10\/de-blasio-whistles-while-nyc-burns-goodwin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#De Blasio whistles while NYC burns: Goodwin&#8221; During the Vietnam War, American military officials put such an outlandishly positive spin on events that the press corps took to calling the afternoon briefings the \u201c5 o\u2019clock follies.\u201d To judge from the fantasies he\u2019s been spinning, Mayor de Blasio has adopted equally bad habits. 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