A Stitch in Haste

Possibly not much:

A source with close ties to the administration says the mayor wants to remain in public office after his tenure ends on Dec. 31, 2009, and is discussing running for a third term.
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One tantalizing scenario that has been discussed, according to the source, has Bloomberg asking a new Charter Revision Commission to put a referendum on the ballot amending term limits so that he could serve a third term.
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Bloomberg said during his January State of the City address that he planned to appoint the new Charter Revision Commission and have it conduct a top-to-bottom review of government. He would appoint all members of the commission and could request the body put the term-limit issue on the November ballot.

Another "source" says the report is nonsense. Let's hope so.

Even if the report is bunk, what is undeniably true is that Bloomberg is as megalomaniacal a moral defective as anyone in current American politics. If he does not seek a third term, or the White House, or the governor's mansion, it would not be due to a lack of appetite for power on his part.

From his first day in office, Bloomberg has proceeded from the dual premises (to him, they're axioms) that: (1) every idea he has is, by definition, brilliant; and (2) everyone who disagrees with him is, by definition, a moron. He has, more brazenly than any currently serving politician I can name, simultaneously climbed the twin summits of "worst activist legislator" and "worst nanny-stater." He has set entirely new standards of hubris, by which every future moral defective New York politician will be measured.

As joyous a day as January 20, 2009, will be, I am at least as excited about January 1, 2010, when Bloomberg will (hopefully) morph from "dedicated public servant" to "dedicated public gadfly."