Mayor Bloomberg….what a scary thought, but a very real one under this scenario. As far as Hillary goes, she can’t help herself she is a pathological liar.

Governor Paterson, Hillary Clinton need to stop telling stories

It goes one of two ways for David Paterson, another politician out of New York who doesn’t know when to shut up any more than Hillary Clinton does.

Here is one: Paterson continues to give us way more information about his past than any of us ever needed, and they run him out of Albany faster than his predecessor ran working girls out of hotel rooms. The other is that he stops giving interviews now, stops acting as if that’s his day job, and begins to show if he actually has the chops for a job he clearly never expected to have in the years when he was, in the words of the late, great Warren Zevon, making out like Charlie Sheen.

If Paterson can’t manage that, an old Albany boss named Joe Bruno ends up acting governor for a few months, then Mike Bloomberg gets the special election he wants in the fall, and Bloomberg essentially succeeds one kind of frisky crusader - Spitzer - the way he did when he succeeded another frisky crusader, Rudy Giuliani, to become mayor of New York.

Bloomberg says he’s not interested in being governor. Generally with him, when he says one thing about his political ambitions you throw it all down and bet the other way.

So that is one scenario for Paterson, one that takes him across the clown line forever. The other is that he really does learn how to stop acting as if he’s talking to Dr. Phil instead of to us.

Because up to now the only thing David Paterson hasn’t told us is that he had to dodge sniper fire on his way to his next girlfriend. Paterson apparently expects New York Democrats to start singing “Happy Days Are Here Again” because he’s the governor who didn’t have to pay for it, even as college kids start to think hanging with him would be a lot more fun on spring break than going to Florida.

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