Andrew, I’m going to put this as simply as I can.

Mayor. Michael. Bloomberg. Doesn’t. Have. Any. Statutory. Authority. Over. The. Ground. Zero. Site. Or. Over. The. Federal. Money. Given. To. New. York. City. To. Help. With. The. Rebuilding.

You may think that if he had “focused” on downtown, Bloomberg would somehow magically have wrested control from the governor of his state and from the very independent Port Authority of New York and New Jersey that has been the tormentor of mayors for 80 some-odd years. But that simply indicates an innocence about or an ignorance of the workings of New York city and state politics. The mayor of New York City has enormous, indeed outsized, powers when it comes to the laws of New York City, which is why he was able to muscle through smoking statutes and tax increases. But when it comes to the powers-that-be in Albany, the mayor is always on the short end of the stick.

You are wrong, but you simply continue to argue that you are right because, well, you don’t like the stadium.

Oh, and it rained here the other day. That also happened under Bloomberg’s watch. So I guess he’s responsible for the rain falling.