Only The Best

It’s good to see the mayor — especially after all that hyperventilating! — make another empty threat to lay off employees:

The Senate stalemate will cost New York at least $60 million a month, Mayor Bloomberg warned Wednesday — and the sudden budget hole may cost some city workers their jobs.

“Make no mistake about it, any less revenues mean fewer employees, because the city’s budget is basically hiring 300,000 of the best people that anybody’s ever put together and paying them,” Bloomberg said.

“If we don’t have that money, it’s going to hurt everybody.”

But seriously — “300,000 of the best people that anybody’s ever put together”? What’s with the sarcasm? Has the mayor beaten himself down, too?