This time last year Mayor Bill DeBlasio was a jolly mayor-elect picking out his inauguration tie and yodeling, “We will be no longer a divided city.” Today he is a human Marianna Fault, spent and broken, constipated with fiascoes and failures, shunned by his police force, faced with a mounting call for his resignation, and winner of the Oaf-icial of 2014 Award.
Let us count the ways how so much went so wrong — so fast — for the man who declared not so long ago, “We can become America’s DNA for the future.”
Crummy start: Bill’s inauguration — a racist screechfest — kicked off with a wilding spree he ignored, as more than 400 mostly black teenagers stormed Kings Plaza Mall days before his ceremony, looting and assaulting shoppers in a random binge of violence that foretold the mayhem to curdle his watch.
Low-life appointees: Bill virtually strong-armed the Council to install Melissa Mark-Viverito as speaker, despite her dreamy support of remorseless Puerto Rican terrorist Oscar Lopez-Rivera, serving 70 years for plotting to overthrow the U.S. government with the Armed Forces of National Liberation, a gang responsible for the largest number of terror attacks on American soil between 1970 and 2011.
Racist advisors: Bill and Al Sharpton became bosom buddies and paired off for a racial fandango that violated the city and damaged his mayoralty — possibly irreparably.
Family glut: Henpecked Bill’s swaggering spouse quickly outwore her welcome, as a first lady who muscled in on public business and appointed herself a six-figure chief of staff who was a lying tax cheat with a cop-hating murderer for a live-in lover.
Lousy leader: Bill dug his own political grave when he became a white apologist for angry blacks and vilified the cops who keep this city from going to the dogs, but hailed the anti-police-brutality bowel movement that triggered the revenge-slaughter of two Finest on Christmas week. In Bill’s own words of a year ago, “So, let’s be honest about where we are today” in a city forsaken and divided by his lousy leadership.
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