Andrea Peyser in the NY Post lets us know about the Council Kook-Fest:
Bet you didn't know that the Bush folks caused the Chicago nightclub stampede that killed 21 people.They never met a anti-American dictator they didn't like. They never heard a proposal to weaken this country they didn't like.
Or that the concept of evil is "archaic." Or that the biggest threat to America "is not Iraq - it's our government."
These insults and idiocies were not lobbed among pals huddling in a basement, nor by megaphone-wielding hotheads assembled before the United Nations. Instead, a familiar roster of leftist kooks, conspiracy theorists and community activists was invited last Wednesday, like an honored delegation, into the asylum that has become City Hall.
They lent their voices - some whiny, some paranoid, others simply clueless or ill-informed - in support of a wildly divisive proposal to have the New York City Council adopt a resolution opposing war with Iraq.
Such measures have passed in places such as Chicago and Los Angeles. But championing such a document in a city so recently violated by terrorism is too potentially offensive and fraught with political peril. Except, of course, for nouveau political hacks who might benefit from standing against Bush.
Charles Barron, chairman of the higher education committee, Deputy Majority Leader Bill Perkins and Bill DeBlasio, a Clinton administration operative, are part of a faction of leftist darlings savvy in the ways of cheap fame. They win visibility with often toothless pronouncements that are, nonetheless, attractive to certain constituents and news outlets. Barron and Perkins recently drew headlines by welcoming Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe into City Hall, ignoring international outrage over his racist and economically ruinous policies.
