Bloomberg Slams Clinton: She Stabbed NYC In Back

WCBS-TV:

Hillary Clinton was accused Monday of stabbing the Big Apple in the back.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said her betrayal has cost the city $260 million in lost tax revenues and counting.

Read the whole story: WCBS-TV

Comments

[Bramble8]

Perhaps he can write a check to cover the loss!

[Klimb]

I am always skeptical of anybody who changes the law especially term limits in govt!

[Gidster]

For himself........

[spinns17]

mr wall street should`nt talk

[Whinger]

You've been there yourself in the past Mr. Mayor, people in glass houses etc!

[partyofone]

Thanks for speaking up Mr. Mayor. Hillary Clinton was, is and always will be a self-serving opportunist. The tax relief is a gift to buy favor with her new professional club of diplomats, forget the ctitizens of NY and a city struggling to balance its budget.

Hillary used NY and now abused NY. Nothing new here, just interesting to hear someone speak out about it.

[WhatDaBleep]

So What! Another Republican calling names at democrats. Big deal.

[barksalot]

Congrats, your the only one who knows the Mayors party affiliation. LOL

[xlntcat]

Well, I am no Clinton fan and as of late I have become increasingly concerned that it is Obama she may be trying to stab through her lap dog Andrea Mitchell. Mitchell insinuated that Clinton thought that Obama should have been more forceful sooner on Iran. Mitchell was quickly cut off at the knees by a member of the administration who told her that the team spoke with one voice, but since her reporting regarding Clinton has never been anything but a paid ad and since she seemed to always be a Clinton confidant, it is hard to believe that Mitchell initiated anything this potentially damaging to international relations as she did without Clinton's go ahead. If Clinton's goal is to undermine the administration as soon as her Senate seat is filled for six years, Obama needs to kick her to the curb.

Mitchell well knew that anyone with true insight into the situation in Iran knew it would be an error to give valid reason for the protest to be blamed on the U S. She has been unusally critical of all Obama's trips and his reception outside the U S even when she itsdirectly contradicted by MSNBC press travelling with the president. Maybe she needs to move to Fox News or join Limbaugh.

[partyofone]

Is Cinton-loyalist and notorious "unamed" media source Sidney Blumenthal now working at the State Deparment? If so, you will see alot more of Hillary's negativity. There has been substantial speculation in response to the Blumnenthal report that Hillary is now moving to establish her own political base in the State Department and strategicly undermine Obama. Certainly in character.


http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/hillary-clinton-enlists-blumenthal-for-state-dept-post/

[wreckdiver]

OMG!!! "Substantial speculation"!!!! About the Clintons?!?!

LOLOLOL ...

[lizr]

Clinton, Mitchell and of course Greenspan are part of Old Washington and part of what is holding us back as a country.

[Siobhan11]

I remember hearing that at the Democratic Convention where Jimmy Carter got the nomination, Ted Kennedy would not even shake his hand. I am not saying that in the course of the primaries that Hillary was perfectly behaved, but once she conceded, she went above and beyond to help get Obama elected.

Please try and remember that.

I am not sure she is really as vicious as you are implying here. I could be wrong. But I would prefer to not speculate. There is no way Hillary could run in 2012, so why would she be so he--ll bent to stab him now.

[partyofone]

Bill and Hillary Clinton did everything in their distonest power not just to defeat Obama but to damage him. They got on board with his campaign only when it became clear he was going to win. They always want step into the spotlight.

[JFaye]

Didn't realize others saw Andrea Mitchell as I see her, particularly her close relationship with Ms. Clinton. On many levels there is a conflict of interest with her reports and why NBC has not reassign her is startling. You nailed this one with great precision. Thank you.

[urweatherman]

Isn't the word "conviction" in the vocabulary of any democratic politician these days?

[klondiker]

Why is it so difficult to understand that she now has a different job description?? Taxes on diplomatic property isn't an existential, life-and-death issue on which one must maintain the same position for all time. It's an administrative issue, and it depends on which side you are working for. When she was representing New York, of course, she was on a different side of this issue! She is now the SoS, and has to represent the interests of the country, not just NY.

[partyofone]

So her values depend on what's good for Hillary? LIke the Iraq War vote, when she wanted to be commander in chief like? Which side you are working for? Is she suddenly working for foreign governments?

[wreckdiver]

As opposed to Obama, the guy you literally believe was sent from heaven? Like the FISA promise, when he wanted to win the primary? Or the DADT promise? The promise to hold the Bu$h admin accountable ...

The list is getting a little too long, but you get the idea.

[klondiker]

Did you even read the article? This was in response to the fact that other governments were going to start levying tax on US properties overseas (and we know that if would be a hefty one, since we have military bases everywhere).

[thebirdstheword]

huh? either they should pay, or they shouldn't. if changing job titles means changing convictions, how am i ever supposed to trust any politician?

[klondiker]

It's NOT a conviction, for crying out loud! It's an administrative issue.

[Oldtt]

Here is a better article describing the situation:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07132009/news/regionalnews/hills_260m_back_stab_178918.htm

[Oldtt]

Incidentally - as might be expected - Mayor Bloomberg never called Hillary Clinton a "backstabber." That was added by the article writer and/or editor as red meat for Clinton haters.

[sense oar sheep]

back stabbing.
hyperbole.
diplomats.

move the UN a better place.

[westcoastsc]

Read about this man.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Levy

[sense oar sheep]

what does this have to do with this thread because i don't see anything relevant.

i was going to report you, but you might have a story to tell.

tell us what you mean.

[westcoastsc]

If you read about this man, you would have noticed that he was one of Hillary's campaign managers for president, that he argued 16 cases to the supreme court, he battled Starr and won to keep Foster 's financial records secret, he was in charge of the finances of the Clintons, so was Foster, so was ronbrown, and they are all no longer with us. Supposedly, Mark Levy took his own life too. Coincidence?

[Gussmith]

Not much detail given in the article, but I fail to see how a Secretary of State makes policy decisions for city taxation.

[ObamAtomic]

Okay,if you read the article you will see the analysis for the conclusion of the policy.
:)

[ObamAtomic]

Who is in charge?
Clinton, that's what thought !

[ObamAtomic]

*I

[IndieBlue]

Bloomberg stabbed NYC in the back when he went to bat for Bruce Rattner and helped him force hundreds of people from their homes in Brooklyn to build a basketball court, which, 4 yrs later, hasn't even got past the design phase.