Sometimes hubris catapults people to the top, and sometimes it throws them to the bottom of the pile. Right now, I'm betting on the pile when it comes to Mike Bloomberg.
The mayor said he would refuse to sign any changes to the mayoral control law, and as a result, the State Legislature has decided to poke him in the eyes, Curly style, by adjourning for the summer. Bloomberg spent most of the morning at his press conferences after the sunset of mayoral control calling the state senate a bunch of jackasses, and then he dug in and told them exactly what he did not want to see in the new law. His incredible hubris led him to believe that the senate would whimper and give in, but instead, they did what they usually do when the going gets tough. They disappeared.
They will not be back in session before September, when the new and incredibly bogus BOE is scheduled to meet again. Let's see whether the mayor learns some humility by then and does a bit of groveling. If not, the senate my decide to take a bigger step, such as grabbing the mayor's nose with a pair of pliers.
UDATE: No sooner had I posted this than I ran across an article in the Daily News that talked about the mayor's reaction. Besides calling the whole thing "bull" and accusing the senators of trying to create a slush fund, the mayor compared the senate to Hitler: "If you remember Neville Chamberlain, no matter how many times you said yes, that's the starting point for the next round," Bloomberg said on his weekly WOR Radio show.
Way to go, Mayor Mike! (Cue the Three Stooges theme)
