De Blasio Confronts a Crisis Over the Police and Race With a Practiced Calm

NY Times ^ | 12/23/14 | MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM, NIKITA STEWART

[Libloather]

Mayor Bill de Blasio, confronting the gravest crisis of his young administration, has been by turns composed and defiant, empathetic and indignant, urging calm in one moment and lashing out in frustration the next.

In other words, he has acted like himself: a confident but mercurial leader whose singular political style has not wavered, even in the face of a potentially career-defining flash point over the police and race.

In a sharp turn from his predecessors — the pugnacious, prosecutorial Rudolph W. Giuliani and the business-minded Michael R. Bloomberg — Mr. de Blasio, a political professional who promised a warmer, friendlier City Hall, is approaching the fallout from the shooting deaths of two police officers with an operative’s touch, and a healthy dose of the personal.

[Libloather]

Well, I sure am glad that he's calm. Are the protesters taking off Christmas day?

[catnipman]

“a confident but mercurial leader whose singular political style has not wavered”

Leave it to NYT to describe their favorite Communist who’s a flake as “mercurial”.

Is it any wonder they have to fire a couple hundred “journalist” every year because no one will pay to read their crap anymore?

[RginTN]

Bloomberg must by mad after all he bent over backwards accommodating the Left and the Slimes still won't worship him cause he was a Republican.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Wow, the Times Progressive Media Pimps sure had to do some serious “word smithing” to come up with that load of crap to support the Commie. I think they have set a new record for groveling, sniveling and bootlicking in the media world.

[FreeReign]

Great. Wilhelm is calm while the protesters break the law.

Repeating, Wilhelm is calm.

That's the important thing. /NYT

[9thLife]

wow, nyt. I’m embarrassed for you.

[molson209]

de Blasio will fire the NYPD before he would upset his Dear protesters

[Mark]

News from some low rated blog.

[Scrambler Bob]

Probably had race fights at home.

Lessons learned.

[blackdog]

A well organized and funded recall effort would have this guy out of office by June.

[DooDahhhh]

De Blasieo is large piece of Sh**

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

NTSlimes to the rescue.

[Publius]

New York, like most of our older states, lacks a recall provision in the state constitution. The mayor of New York City can’t be recalled.

[miss marmelstein]

Geez, what log-rolling, ass-kissing, wrong-headed piece of crap this article is.

[2ndDivisionVet]

De Blasio’s nightmare: New York’s mayor has lost the police — and maybe much more than that.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3240082/posts

[spokeshave]

has been by turns composed and defiant, empathetic and indignant, urging calm in one moment and lashing out in frustration the next.

Sounds like he needs a 5150 and treatment for Bi-Polar disorder.

[4buttons]

De Blasio couldn’t find his a$$ with both hands.

[griswold3]

Funny that MoveON has called for the mayor to resign. Whose side are they on?

[Rodamala]

The only thing missing are the pom-poms.

I think red ones are suitable.

[blackdog]

Well, that certainly provides the path forward for far worse outcomes other than being recalled!

Being recalled is the only remedy to improper conduct of an elected official in a civil democracy / elected republic. Without a recall mechanism, Romania still carried out their own special recall election.