Washington outsider
Either New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg really isn’t running for president, or he’s going to run as a true Washington outsider. After all, he doesn’t win many friends here when he rubs our baseball team’s noses in its misfortune.
Bloomberg was on hand Tuesday at the National Press Club to speak about poverty. After being introduced by the Brookings Institution’s Strobe Talbot, he said that because of Brookings’ nonpartisan status, Talbot must have the second-toughest job in Washington — “the toughest being the manager of the last-place Nationals.”
Poor Manny Acta! What did he ever do to Mayor Mike? Acta’s Nats have lost 8 of 12 games to the first-place Mets so far this year, which of course just turns Hizzoner into a sand-kicking bully.
“I did not come to Washington as part of a stealth campaign to be the next attorney general,” Bloomberg added, before needling his fellow New Yorker, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. Alluding to Schumer’s criticism of outgoing U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Bloomberg said it’s one thing to listen to Schumer’s wrath, but it’s quite another “to be the subject of it.”
