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Steamroller   Bloomberg really is short.Photo: Getty Images
(Spitzer, Bloomberg), StillPhoto/SUNSHINE/Retna (Boxers)  So
there's finally an all-out fight between Bloomberg and Spitzer.
(Their boss Shelly Silver is not going to be happy!) As you may
have heard at some point just before dozing off, the pretext is,
oddly enough, illegal immigration, on which Bloomberg is fairly
liberal. (Granted, it's hard to run New York and be hawkish on
immigration. Even Giuliani knew that.) Under Spitzer's new
initiative, illegal aliens will be able to get New York State
driver's licenses by producing a foreign passport. Early
Thursday, Bloomberg objected to the idea on the reasonable-
sounding grounds that it may devalue the NYS driver's license to
the point that it won't be accepted as an ID for air travel. The
upside: Later the same day, Spitzer blew his top in a vintage,
pre-Troopergate fashion — on a vi