GET THIS MAN A PRESCRIPTION – AT 6:23 P.M. ET:  We have been informed by The New York Times that New York's increasingly batty mayor, Mike Bloomberg, is on a holy mission around the country to put in power his idea of good government guys.  His choices make Lady Gaga's choice in wardrobe look normal.  From The Times:

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — In an election year when anger and mistrust have upended races across the country, toppling moderates and elevating white-hot partisans, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is trying to pull politics back to the middle, injecting himself into marquee contests and helping candidates fend off the Tea Party.

Don't you just love "white-hot partisans"?  I guess the fanatics who blindly supported Barack Obama in 2008 were "dedicated idealists."

He visited Rhode Island on Thursday to champion Lincoln D. Chafee, a Republican turned independent who is locked in a three-way battle for the governor’s office.

Lincoln Chafee?  Lincoln Chafee?  Do you remember him?  He got his job as a U.S. Senator because his father had held the seat.  He was a marshmallow defined.  He thought being a Republican meant wearing a nice suit and never having a strong point of view on anything.  So Bloomberg now embraces him, and a check must be on the way. 

Bloomberg also recently pilgrimmed to Pennsylvania to endorse Joe Sestak over Pat Toomey.  Sestak, a former Navy vice admiral who left the service under questionable circumstances, is sinking in the polls. 

And get this:

And, in perhaps the mayor’s most direct confrontation with a Tea Party candidacy, he will host a fund-raiser at his Manhattan town house for Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader facing an unexpectedly forceful challenge from Sharron E. Angle, a political neophyte backed by Sarah Palin.

Wait a minute.  I thought Bloomberg was now an independent.  Does an independent hold a fund-raiser for the most partisan Democrat in the Senate, the majority leader? 

Recently, as you may recall, Bloomberg embraced the mosque (or cultural center, or family hang-out) at Ground Zero, pompously stating that anyone opposed should be "ashamed of themselves."  Mayor Mike's ego has never been hard to find.

Look, if any of you see him in your area, just attach a label to him saying "return to City Hall, NY," and dump him in the nearest mailbox.   The package will get here. 

Bloomberg, originally elected mayor with the help of Rudy Giuliani, has drifted further and further away from the Rudy tradition.  He was term-limited to two terms, but managed to convince the necessary authorities to waive the rule just for himself.  Since being inaugurated for a third term he has become a bit of a joke.  It's clear, by the way, that he would like to be president.  Lord save us.

September 19, 2010