Thank you.
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And it will leave a stain.
That would require him to stop putting his money into helping the GOP win Senate races and keep control of state houses.
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Or perhaps it might be relevant to the topic at hand – income inequality – that Mike Bloomberg literally criticized Barack Obama for being too divisive on the very same subject. “[A] divisive populist agenda focused more on redistributing income than creating it,” as he put it.
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Guess that makes him a pretty good republican. How ‘bout Romney as a running mate?
That’s all you’ve got?
“Kill it,” quoth the pro-choice candidate.
OMG, I’m stunned!!! He actually said that!!!
Get some new material.
It would certainly help the medicine go down if we could just forget about everything Bloomberg has said or done in his decades as a public figure.
Hey, remember when Sanders was loving on the USSR? What a dumbass!!
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I made a very specific comment about the inaccuracy of your ad absurdum reduction of Bloomberg’s retirement security platform. You came back with “oh yeah, well, he made centrist criticisms of Obama!!!” IRRELEVANT.
The difference between redistributive policy and policies designed to generate income for those who are on the low end is a perfectly legitimate point he was making, but not relevant to your claim that he simply wants to slash SS. Moreover, you act like talking about policy designed to generate income as opposed to redistributing it is somehow bad or should automatically be interpreted as meaning “I want to support policies exactly like the GOP’s nonsense.” His criticism of Obama may not be something we like to hear, but there is indeed truth in it, and if you think Bernie or others making grandiose progressive promises aren’t walking that same divisive line with people we need as voters, not to mention handing the GOP and their propaganda machine fodder for drawing sharp distinctions and driving wedges, you’re fooling yourself.
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What does Bernie have to do with my initial post? NOTHING.
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Ironic, given that your own material is 15 years old.
No. There is tons of material out there with Bloomberg opposing taxing the rich, wanting to cut SS and Medicare, believing utterly debunked economic theories, being a racist, treating women like crap…
He’s the complete package!
ETA: I made an uncalled for nasty woman comment here and I’m taking it out, with apologies to @txlawyer. Beyond that:
More punditry from a Washington insider. Josh’s editorial are enough. Save the Cafe stuff.
Bye now.
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So instead of throwing their support behind an actual flesh and blood progressive with a 50-year history on the subject, TPM feels the need to impart progressive principles on a man that has never once shown to follow them outside of a political campaign. Wow.
It’s also very interesting to observe the silence on the part of all the members in here that have an issue with the fact that Sanders is a lifelong registered Independent (who votes in lockstep with Dems 98% of the time), when Bloomberg was a registered Republican until, what, 18 months ago, give or take?
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First of all, Bernie sucks.
Second of all, “talking about policy designed to generate income as opposed to redistributing it” is precisely what Republicans – such as Mike Bloomberg – have been doing to cover for their implementation of policies that have vastly redistributed wealth upwards for the past 40 years. Nobody should believe them on any of it, because they have proven themselves to be liars.
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And yet LBJ, who dropped n-bombs like Jay-Z drops beats, signed the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act. It’s certainly important to look at what people have said and done in the past, but when it becomes nothing more than a tool for distracting from and mischaracterizing what they’re saying and doing NOW or the fact that the public is going to hold them to the promises they make NOW, then it’s gone a bit off the rails. The goal with the WH should be winning and nothing more. The goal with the House and Senate should be taking them both with as progressive a caucus as possible so that the asshole int he WH only gets fed progressive legislation to sign…and yes, Bloomberg, Biden and others you derisively call “centrists” or “neoliberals” as if they’re fashionable epithets WILL sign it, because there will be no reason not to and every self-interested reason under the sun to do so.
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