It’s long time past time that Nurse Bloomberg’s Heath Commissioner, a tiresome, vindictive and destructive man with no understanding of the notion of individual-self government, should have left Gotham for a more suitable city. Pyongyang comes to mind.

Now after revelations (and YouTube footage) of rats at play in a Village fast food joint, the NY Post is on Frieden’s case:

“[W]hile Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden has kept busy as a beaver designing new paradigms for public health – databanks for diabetics and trans-fatless fast food – the rats have been running amok. That’s rats as in Rattus norvegicus – a legendary dispenser of disgusting diseases and the bane of traditional practitioners of public health for centuries. Video footage of Rattus – a whole herd of them – flitting about a Village fast-food joint made national news last week…While he’s been hard at work redefining what constitutes “public health” – think Nanny State on steroids – the city’s rat detectives have been asleep at the switch. Or so it would seem. The Taco Bell in question had received a, you should pardon the expression, clean bill of health from one of Frieden’s restaurant inspectors 24 hours before the rats were taped doing their “Happy Feet” impressions last Thursday morning…if the Taco Bell rats had been smoking, Frieden would have been there to nail the door shut himself…As it is, Frieden has his inspectors running roughshod all over the city – now…Clearly, hell hath no fury like an embarrassed bureaucrat. Of course, none of this would have been necessary had Frieden been in command from the get-go. Instead, he was busy unveiling New York City-brand condoms, lecturing new mothers on breastfeeding and warning of the danger secondhand smoke poses to pets. Meanwhile, the rats were running wild…”

Frieden is always very ready to take responsibility for your life, and mine, now he should take responsibility for his. He should resign.