Andrew Cuomo Is New York’s Richard Nixon

Perhaps the biggest political scandal in America right now is playing out in New York, where Governor Andrew Cuomo is in a lot of trouble — and rightly so. The Democratic governor did not merely wildly mismanage his state’s response to the COVID-19 emergency, while netting himself a lucrative book deal and an Emmy. He did something worse.

In the middle of a public health emergency, he used his office to help one of his largest political donors shield itself from legal consequences as fifteen thousand nursing home residents died from COVID-19 — and then he and his administration underreported that death toll, helping the same donor.

We had been covering the story for months before it exploded this week. The scandal is a cautionary tale of hubris, megalomania, and corruption that left a literal mountain of preventable COVID-19 deaths in its wake. Now we are about to see whether a blue state’s democratic institutions can hold wrongdoers accountable, or whether America’s culture of impunity can once again protect the powerful from facing any consequences at all.

Amid a cacophony of demands for Cuomo to resign, the governor and his aides are frantically trying to cover up the basic facts of what happened, and that includes launching a Nixonian campaign of intimidation and retribution against Democratic lawmakers who have for months been sounding the alarm.

Two national news outlets today detailed Cuomo’s new campaign of retribution against one lawmaker in his own party who dared to ask questions about constituents and family members who died under Cuomo’s nursing home policies. Cuomo held a press conference to publicly berate the same Democrat, while another New York news outlet reported that other lawmakers are now facing threats.

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/02/andrew-cuomo-scandal-covid-nursing-home-deaths


This is a socialist publication, so take their bias into account, but those Cuomo boys like to play bully, and there is no doubt that putting all of those Covid positive patients into nursing homes was a disaster.

Original Quill wrote:Pshaww…  Shakespeare titled one of his comedies, Much Ado About Nothing...

RW'ers are desperate to find some fook-up that doesn't involve their own selfishness...and those are just the one's that got caught.  Two Republican senators from Georgia just got ousted due to insider stock and real estate deals.  South Carolina’s (Republican) Senator Lindsey Graham is about to be indicted for election interference.  Hell, the Republican ex-President was taped doing the same thing.

Right now, Andrew Cuomo is a hero for doing what no Republican could do...managing a pandemic crisis.  There's bound to be yipper dogs snapping at his shoes.  Pay them no mind.

This was written by a socialist dumb ass.

It's a shame Quill's penchant for typing words far exceeds the one for reading them.

Original Quill wrote:

Maddog wrote:This was written by a socialist dumb ass.

It was written by David Sirota, a senior adviser and speechwriter for Bernie Sanders.  Sanders, you might recall if you didn't have your head up your ass, is a potential leader of the far left faction of the Democratic Party.

That faction would naturally be out to throw stones at other potential leaders of the Democrats, particularly successful achievers like Cuomo.

Like I said, yipper dogs...

Bernie is a socialist. The Jacobin is a socialist publication.

So this doesn't have a fucking thing to do with right wing anyone.

Original Quill wrote:So?

So you said it did.

Try taking some Ginko.

Original Quill wrote:No, you're not very quick.

You are the RW'er and you are desperate to find something to hang on one of the heroes of the pandemic crisis...because your kind failed so miserably.

You don't care where you get it.  So, you reach over into the socialist corner to dig up dirt.  It still defines what you are doing.

You're one of those yipper dogs, yapping at the shoes of someone taller.

So I post links to a multitude of places with a variety of political views.

I'm not locked into an echo chamber like you.

Sorry, not sorry.

Original Quill wrote:

Maddog wrote:I'm not locked into an echo chamber like you.

Yes you are.  You are flailing about to find something, anything to hurl at the adversary's heroes ... because of your side's own recent, great failure.

Why else would you gratuitously throw stones at Cuomo, whom you haven't thought of in decades.

Because his incompetence is national news and this forum is for news stories.

Original Quill wrote:

Maddog wrote:

Because his incompetence is national news and this forum is for news stories.  

I would like to see him in the federal government.  Perhaps, in time, Cuomo for President.  

Why not. The bar is pretty fucking low.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/02/20/its-like-gangster-stuff-more-new-york-politicians-accuse-cuomo-of-threatening-behavior/?sh=225b99c31450


It appears the Governor has watched the Godfather too many times.

To be fair, right-wingers will probably have to back away from this story, because otherwise they would have to admit that Covid wasn't invented by Democrats to make Trump look bad.

Ben Reilly wrote:To be fair, right-wingers will probably have to back away from this story, because otherwise they would have to admit that Covid wasn't invented by Democrats to make Trump look bad.

Well I'm of the wing that knows a bully when I see one. No matter if his last name is Cuomo or Trump.

Neither are fit for public service.

"Leaders in the Democrat-controlled state senate are now moving to strip Cuomo of emergency powers they granted him at the start of the pandemic, which allowed him to override state laws in order to combat the virus. Mike Gianaris, the No. 2 ranking Democrat in the chamber, has said they have the votes. Cuomo also faces investigations by the FBI and federal"


It appears that members of his own party agree with me to an extent.

Good Democrats exist. It's just the worthless sycophants that are the problem in both major parties.

Original Quill wrote:

Maddog wrote:

Well I'm of the wing that knows a bully when I see one. No matter if his last name is Cuomo or Trump.

Neither are fit for public service.

Nonsense.  You're just a 98-lb weakling, who sees everybody as a bully.  

Haha.

That made me laugh.

Original Quill wrote:

Maddog wrote:"Leaders in the Democrat-controlled state senate are now moving to strip Cuomo of emergency powers they granted him at the start of the pandemic, which allowed him to override state laws in order to combat the virus. Mike Gianaris, the No. 2 ranking Democrat in the chamber, has said they have the votes. Cuomo also faces investigations by the FBI and federal"

This makes sense.  When the fire is out, you put the tools back in the shed.  It's business as usual.  Under ordinary circumstances, you don't need such extraordinary measures.

What I find is interesting is the response of RW'ers, who after the smoke clears, realize that they fooked-up royally.  They put a guy in charge who has less talent, but makes more noise than a fart in church.

Now, their whole effort is to find someone who looks as bad as they do.  They spend their lives dreaming up these false equivalencies.  Would that they spent as much time tending to the fires, as they do running around and chasing wild geese.

Yeah, FBI investigations make sense.

Wouldn't it be cool if Cuomo and Trump were cell mates?

Original Quill wrote:

Maddog wrote:

Yeah, FBI investigations make sense.

Wouldn't it be cool if Cuomo and Trump were cell mates?

Not Cuomo, the hero, but perhaps Moscow Mitch and Midnight Rider.  

So why the FBI investigations?