Bill De Blasio, Persona Non Grata

New York City's Finest apparently don't think Hizzoner Mayor Bill de Blasio should be welcome anymore after siding with people who think the NYPD shouldn't be chokeholding people to death.

Cops are warning Mayor de Blasio and Council Speaker Melissa ​Mark-​Viverito to stay away from their funerals should they be ​killed in the line of duty.

The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association distributed a flier to members, blaring: “DON’T LET THEM INSULT YOUR SACRIFICE!” Cops were encouraged to sign and submit the “Don’t Insult My Sacrifice” waiver to ban the cop-bashing pols from their funerals.

“I, as a New York City police officer, request that Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito refrain from attending my funeral services in the event that I am killed in the line of duty,” the waiver states.

“Due to Mayor de Blasio and Speaker Mark-Viverito’s consistent refusal to show police officers the support and respect they deserve, I believe that their attendance at the funeral of a fallen New York City police officer is an insult to that officer’s memory and sacrifice.”

Officers can download the form on the PBA’s Web site and drop off a signed copy to their PBA delegates.

The mayor traditionally attends funerals for fallen officers.

Not anymore, it seems.

Cruz Uncontrolled

The whole "not shutting the government down" plan the House worked out on Thursday has run into the reality of Grandstanding Sen. Ted Cruz, and no plan survives contact with the Enemy, as they say.

Sen. Ted Cruz, the firebrand conservative freshman from Texas, has blown up the Senate leadership’s plans to have a peaceful weekend by forcing round-the-clock votes on President Obama’s nominees and the $1.1 trillion omnibus.

Cruz took to the floor late Friday to castigate congressional leaders for trying to pass the 1,600-page spending bill after only a few hours of debate and questioned the resolve of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to fight Obama’s executive order protecting five million illegal immigrants from deportation. 

“Even though millions of voters rose up just one month ago to protest how President Obama and the Senate Democrats were running Washington, business as usual is continuing inside the marble halls of the United State Congress,” Cruz said in a fiery floor speech.

Because of objections from Cruz and his ally Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), the Senate will begin slogging through procedural votes on nominees starting at noon Saturday and vote to end a filibuster of the omnibus spending package at 1 a.m. Sunday morning.

“It appears that we’re going to have to have a series of votes all day tomorrow starting as soon as we get here and perhaps into the morning,” Reid said shortly before temporarily adjourning the chamber Friday night.

A senior Senate Democratic aide said the Senate may hold up to 40 procedural votes on nominees this weekend due to what he called the “extreme pettiness on the part of Republicans.”

So we're all just playing Ted Cruz's game now.  Get used to that for the next two years, America.  It's what you voted for when you sat home in November.

StupidiNews, Weekend Edition!

• Four are wounded, 3 hospitalized as police search for a gunman who opened fire near a high school in Portland, Oregon.
• US Attorney General Eric Holder says that the Justice Department will not compel NY Times reporter James Risen to reveal his source on a failed CIA plot to undermine Iran's nuclear program.
• The "CR/Omnibus" spending bill that passed the House yesterday must now pass the Senate before midnight Sunday to avoid a government shutdown.
• Meanwhile, the House passed unanimously tougher sanctions on Russia over the continuing Ukraine crisis, but the bill gives President Obama some leeway on action.
• British officials are blaming an air traffic control center software failure for dozens of cancelled flights on Friday.