Were you sitting there thinking, “How could Toronto Mayor Rob Ford get any worse?”  Because the mayor of North America’s fourth-largest city did his best to answer that question - by knocking down a city councilor and making insane threats to city officials.

Let’s start with the idiocy first:  During Monday’s raucous Toronto City Council session to strip Rob Ford of more of his authority in response to his series of scandals, Ford suddenly plowed though a group of officials, knocking down Councillor Pam McConnell, herself five feet tall, middle aged, and female.  Awesome chivalry there, Robbo.

And why did he feel the need to do something that no other mayor in the entire world felt the need to do?  Well, he wasn’t deliberately tackling McConnell.  She just happened to be in the way as he ran to back up his brother, Councillor Doug Ford, who he thought was getting into “an altercation” with a loud citizen in the gallery. 

“This is a seat of democracy, not a football field,” McConnell said. “I wasn't ready for it.”

As the heckling grew worse, the Ford brothers responded with more anger.  It’s the kind of scene usually reserved for professional wrestling matches.  Ford waddled about, taking video of his detractors, taunting the audience as if he were the “heel” about to climb into the squared circle with The Rock or Hulk Hogan (showing my age here).  Except he was shadowed by a bodyguard, unable to face the music on his own.

With this kind of public idiocy, is there any wonder the councillors stripped Mayor Ford of even more power?  Ford is now a figurehead, having had just about all of his authority and budgetary powers taken away.  Before voting got underway, Ford warned that the changes would “seriously hurt democracy in this city,” and then compared the Toronto City Council to Saddam Hussein and Canadian Democracy to the first Gulf War.

“If you think American-style politics is nasty, you guys have just attacked Kuwait,” Ford bloviated, “This is going to be outright war in the next election.”

Polls show most Toronto voters want his insanity gone, so good luck with that.