Bloomberg Wears Purple Tie To Promote Bipartisanship

No, really, he is:

Mayor Bloomberg's trying to make a political statement with his wardrobe -- really.

Hizzoner said Monday he's wearing a purple tie again today to send a message that the country needs to bridge the gap between red-state and blue-state America.

"Purple is made of two colors, red and blue. Red and blue seem to have some political significance," he said. "There were two or three events together. They got me to keep the tie out. I didn't have to put it back on the shelf."

Bloomberg wore a purple tie Sunday on "Meet the Press," and wore a red-and-blue pattern during his speech last week about the national economy that was widely seen as a political stump speech.

He is scheduled to speak later Monday about changing how political district lines are drawn at the first meeting of No Labels, a group trying to reduce partisan gridlock and find common ground to solve America's problems.

"I've always been a fan of nonpartisan elections as you know," Bloomberg said. "It's a good chance to say, you know, a third of the people aren't in either of the two major parties, and they deserve representation as well."

Ah, yes - Bloomberg's "No Labels" party.

Just a grassroots group of centrist-minded ordinary citizens.

Except, of course, they're not

As Jim Horn points out in yesterday's post, the "No Labels" party is just a neoliberal and neocon committee for the protection of the status quo.

Or as Atrios put it:

No Labels is really the millionth iteration of "put a smily face on the awesomeness of the center and don't tell anyone but what we're really about is slashing socialsecurityandmedicare."

And that "smily face" these days is wearing a purple tie and droning on about the evils of teacher seniority rules.