...and the captain announces: "Iceberg behind!"

As we've enthusiastically noted, this Kennedy-Senate concept was a disaster to start with and will probably end that way too.  I kind of feel awful for Caroline Kennedy and wish her no ill; really, I do. But if she wants to be a senator she should have figured out for herself that Mike Bloomberg and Kevin Sheekey were making huge strategic mistakes in her name and that they constitute huge liabilities--especially if one wants something from the state's Democratic "establishment" such as it is.  This is to say nothing of their communications mismanagement resulting in Kennedy getting eviscerated in the MSM (especially Upstate) and even worse, satirized throughout the blogsphere.

This all seems so self-evident.  But apparently it's not, at least not to Bloomberg and Sheekey.

At any rate, the Daily News today writes:

Caroline Kennedy's advisers have told Mayor Bloomberg's political pit bull to tone down his lobbying efforts for her for fear it will kill her chances to be named to the Senate.

"There had been huge missteps in the way [City Hall] constructed this," said a source involved in the Kennedy effort to muzzle Bloomberg operative Kevin Sheekey.

"It's just a dialing down of anything that would be harmful to her," the source said.

"Anything like very public meetings with people in City Hall or inappropriate calls to labor leaders will no longer take place. He'll still be involved, just not in the same way."

And then, (of course) Sheekey just can't keep his big boca shut--and throws out even more smack:

[Sheekey] insisted Kennedy's early support for Obama should help her get the nod.

"New York is on the precipice of appointing someone who supported the new President or appointing someone who didn't," he said.

What Democrat is Republican Kevin on the precipice of threatening with this one? Obama? Silver? Paterson? Blagojevich?  

It's Paterson, of course.  Mayor Mike and Kevin really believe they can roll him--and failing that--game him.