The Giuliani Halo Is Tarnished (Again.)

Rudy Giuliani will not be the Republican presidential nominee for a number of reasons (too moderate, too many sleazy friends and anger-management problems, to name but three), but the biggest reason is that he is a one-trick pony and the harder you look at his post-9/11 leadership as New York City mayor, the more cracks appear.

The New York Times opens up a canyon of a crack today in a story that says much of the blame for the epidemic of a severe respiratory disease suffered by Ground Zero clean-up crews can be blamed on Giuliani’s hard-assed, my-way-or-the-highway management style.