As expected, two co-founders of the Unity ’08 debacle launched another ill-fated movement yesterday — a committee to draft Michael Bloomberg, the one man who can purchase the third party infrastructure they failed to create, into the presidential race. And it’s already setting the world on fire — 817 signatures on their petition so far! Here’s the widget so everyone can keep tabs on their progress:

I know that Bloomberg has no constituency or rationale for a candidacy, but this is ridiculous. MoveOn gets that many signatures on petitions in 30 seconds.