Sure, Change The Charter . . .

. . . just as long as it doesn’t apply to any current office holder, which is what most responsible elected bodies do:

In a sudden turnabout, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday there’s still time to mount a ballot initiative this year to revise the City Charter – the likeliest route for altering term limits so the mayor could run for re-election in 2009.

Bloomberg has yet to name a Charter Revision Commission to conduct a top-to-bottom review of the government and recommend changes to put before the voters in a referendum.

Those changes could include extending term limits from eight to 12 years, either for all city officials or just for the legislative branch.

“I just haven’t focused on it yet,” the mayor said of the delayed appointments. “I’ll get back to you in the next few weeks.”

When he first announced plans for the commission in his State of the City Speech in January, the mayor said its work would take 18 months.

But yesterday, he changed the timetable.

“If you wanted to put something on this [year’s] ballot, there’s still plenty of time to do it,” the mayor said.

OK, this is getting silly . . .