Mike Bloomberg Has Us Over a Barrel

Bloomberg's latest ad has the requisite dulcet soundtrack as he recounts all the good that he's done for the city. We see smiling kids going to school, smiling fishmongers and construction workers, and then for less than a second, we see this cop cuffing someone on the hood of a car.

It's an inadvertent metaphor (or perhaps a subliminal reminder) of the position Bloomberg has the city in. We're powerless to resist voting him in to an illegitimate 3rd term. No one seriously thinks Bill Thompson would do a good job as mayor (not even Bill Thompson). So we're stuck with a billionaire who couldn't find another political opening to fill, and in true New York fashion, we quietly resign ourselves to the inevitable.