It's now a cliche that the Blizzard of 2010 has been Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Katrina. Those photos of unplowed streets will live forever in electronic memory banks to deep six any national political ambitions Bloomberg has. Also, most power groups in the city have likely written him off as dead.
Along with his career goes, before it even started, the supposed leadership of Cathie Black of the city's school system. The parents already have gone after her in the courts. They lost. But their antipathy is still there.
Now, with Bloomberg suffering this wound, they recognize that they can have another go at her in another way, all from a position of new strength.
The union also realizes its strength. The whistle blowers are stirring the pot with the rumors that sanitation workers deliberately screwed up the plowing. They did that as push back against the Bloomberg Administration. No question, the collective bargaining units associated with the school system also feel empowered.
And the students, getting it that their city is a national joke, could morph overnight into activists, taking on Black. Since they are digital natives, they can raise hell using nothing but their skills and the equipment they already have.
The King is dead. Down with him goes the fair-haired princess who smiles way too much about a job which should be all gravitas.
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