Saturday has come again and once again PJ lies dreaming in his bed, the dogs curled submissively nearby. As he dreams of sugarplums (I’m sure that’s what he dreams) the world continues with its dramas large and small.

Here, in NYC, Mayor Mike Bloomberg has decided that the City cannot do without him in this fiscal crisis, and so he and the city council have decided to change a term limit law that was enacted by referenda, twice. The Council thought it was a great plan because each of them will get to run for a third term too, and Ronald Lauder, who bankrolled the term limits campaigns, agreed to NOT fund a third referendum because HE thinks we need Bloomberg. (He was also promised a seat on the next charter commission so he can reinstate term limits after Bloomberg leaves.)

So, we’ve got the rich Rethug deciding who can and cannot run for that third term. Very democratic!

This also happened to Giuliani, who decided that only he could run the City after 9/11 and wanted the Council to simply extend his term, sans election. Fortunately, by the time Rudy had been in office for 8 years, he was so hated that he could not muster any popular support and the plan quietly died.

But, now the state legislature is about to consider a bill that will force the term limit question to once again be put to a public vote. Sounds like fun.

Of course the election goes on with 3 senate sets still undecided. Obama continues to choose his cabinet. (I hope he doesn’t clear the senate of all the strong Dems he’s going to need to push his plans.) Don Siegelman will get his day in court and maybe, this time, the prosecution will not be in cahoots with a love struck juror.

I think PJ earns his weekly respite from writing the opening post for this blog but it would be a lot more interesting if someone else would write next week’s Saturday rant.

Have a good one.