A Stitch in Haste

New York's ultra-liberal mayor, Michael Bloomberg — who like all mayors has no business whatsoever mucking around in the gay marriage wars — is of course mucking around in the gay marriage wars:

Should the state Court of Appeals rule that gay marriages are legal, the Big Apple will start performing them, Mayor Bloomberg promised yesterday.

And should the state's highest court — which is to begin hearing legal arguments this week — rule that they're not, the city will lobby Albany to change the law, the mayor vowed.
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In February 2005, State Supreme Court Justice Doris Ling-Cohan ruled that banning those marriages violated the state Constitution. The city appealed, and the ruling was struck down.

Keep in mind that Mayor Bloomberg personally ordered the City to appeal the decision finding a state constitutional right to same-sex marriage. That was a wholly frivolous act on his part, which could only be exceeded by the far more frivolous act of spending taxpayer money to lobby Albany over a non-local issue that he happens to dislike.

This is somehow responsible governing of the City?

Apparently Bloomberg's paternalistic, philosopher-king desire to save New Yorkers from themselves isn't enough for him. Now he needs to save the courts from themselves and the Legislature from itself. And he wants to do so with our own tax dollars. Because he's just that far above us all.

So to review: Bloomberg is for gay marriage, except when he's against it. And he's against it, except when he's for it. And he's in favor of involving himself — especially when he has no grounds to involve himself — always.

Remind me again how he's not just another decrepit hack politician?

Other thoughts at Pam's House Blend.