Posted on 03/02/2021 5:27:42 AM PST by shortstop
Andrew Cuomo must be removed from office.
Either by his own resignation or by impeachment in the legislature. His day is done, the hole is too deep, we have suffered enough.
It is time for the progressive community to rise against him, for the Democrat establishment to throw off his yoke, for his intimidated subordinates to storm the castle. Conditioned to subservience by his harsh temper and spiteful vindictiveness, rank-and-file Democrats in the administration and in the press must unify around his removal.
He deserves it, and so do we.
His actions over the last several days are the icing on the cake, the final declaration of unsuitability for public office and continued public power.
Twice, when an accuser made allegations against him, he said they were false. And his administration leaked details of her official state personnel record, in retaliation. When another accuser came forward, he said that her allegations were likewise false.
Pressed for an investigation, he picked the former legal partner of one of his lackeys. That was on Saturday. When that effort to rig the investigation failed, he was forced to call for the attorney general and chief justice to appoint a law firm to look into him. That was Sunday – the same day he issued a PR statement in which he seemed to acknowledge the truthfulness of the accusations against him while maintaining that he was misunderstood and had meant no harm.
That meant that when he intimated through his denials that the women were lying, it was actually he who was lying. Lying and, unavoidably, trying to defame them. He did that twice just last week. That not only defames them it also was very likely to damage them professionally.
And all that was just over the last few days – before you even get to the veracity and gravity of the women’s allegations against him.
And all of that is in the context of his admitted deception of the state legislature about nursing home covid deaths, and a federal criminal investigation of his leadership of the state’s covid task force.
And all of that is in the context of an unabashed war with the mayor of the state’s largest city, the unnecessary and capricious crippling of the state’s economy, and the complete ignoring of any pretense of state-government checks and balances over the last year.
And all of that is in the context of a crude, vicious, savage leadership style that has left people across the state nodding their heads in recognition as Assemblyman Ron Kim recounts his verbal assault at the hands of Andrew Cuomo. A verbal assault, by the way, that the governor dishonestly denied, while savaging the Democrat assemblyman during one of his patently narcissistic covid briefings.
None of this is tolerable, and none of this is necessary.
The Democrats can flush this man and do the state a great service.
If they remove him, they lose no power, but we all lose a dictator.
And that’s something the speaker of the Assembly and the majority leader of the Senate – and all New York Democrats everywhere – should consider. He is a dictator. And he damages even his allies. And his allies don’t need him in order to hold on to power.
Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul is capable and strong, and there is an election next year. And the enrollment advantage is not going anywhere. That means removing Cuomo is a no-lose proposition for Democrats and progressives. They get to keep power. In fact, they will actually, for the first time, get power. They have provided the votes, but Cuomo has reaped the benefit. He hasn’t brought anything electorally to the table.
Democrats don’t hold power in New York because of Cuomo; Cuomo holds power in New York because of Democrats. And maybe Democrats need to stop facilitating his autocratic lording over this state.
Maybe Democrats should take him down.
But they can’t go halfway. They can’t be tentative. They can’t be piecemeal. They have to strike hard and fast, and flush him down the political drain.
Because Emerson was right: “When you strike at a king, you must kill him.”
And if Andy survives this, he’s coming for you all. His vengeance against the entire political structure will be unleashed. All who called for an investigation, all who didn’t sufficiently defend him, all who called for his neck. Life will get hard for every critic. His surliness will only increase and his sense of invincibility will know no bounds.
In short, lance this boil, or the infection is going to get worse.
That’s the duty of New York Democrats.
You gave us Cuomo, now you’ve got to get rid of him.
Through pressure or proceedings, push him out the door.
Now.
I don’t think Cuomo will still be governor come April 1st.
He was left untouched after the old folks home scandal.
Let New York wallow in what it voted for.
In New York, we will not waver and will not back down. To Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and all survivors of sexual assault, we believe you and we will fight for you.
-- Gov. Andrew Cuomo
They had a duty to dump him last year, but it was all about “Orange Man Bad” to them.
JFK did this hundreds, maybe thousands of times to women when he was in office, and he’s worshipped by the Democrats. No, the only reason they want to dump him is because the nursing home scandal has a lot of other RATs connected to it. Dump the ringleader so all the others survive!
My friend always calls Andy "His father's son"....
He should be governor for the rest of his life no matter how awful his behavior is, and no matter how corrupt he is.
Which is his typical MO, this time the Dems are in his target. If I were a Dem, I'd force his resignation.
Spot on, thank you for your cultural lesson.
Both...but that’s a dream
How can they condemn Cuomo for what they won’t admit he did
I agree. Keep him in place. Nothing says Democrat like an old ignorant pervert.
Obama ordered this hit to protect “President” Harris’s flank in 24
This looks like a power play to get rid of him and replace him and old Democratic power politics with the communist wing of the democratic party. If he was doing this for years and now all of a sudden it’s a cause celebre?
Power grab, pure and simple.
If there was no aoc or kaiser wilhelm(diblasio)...or no commie attorney general in ny..this wouldnt be happening
“Obama ordered this hit to protect “President” Harris’s flank in 24”
I heard someone say Newsom and Cuomo are being flushed to protect Harris. Maybe. Both Newsom and Cuomo are so dirty, and vulnerable that I think they could be flushed at any time. No need to do it so early.
But it very well could be a protect Harris move. The biggest protect Harris move is federalizing the election, making automatic registration and mail in voting. It will be impossible for her to lose.
They're gonna let him off with being branded a sexual creep and then sweep the mass murder under the rug. With the media jumping on this story just last week and gaining up some Freudian steam this week, one would place Cuomo's longevity at... oh, Saint Patrick's day, which might be ironic for New Yorkers depending on if one is Italian or Irish.
Trivia note, Hannity seems to be going along with this; he opened his program yesterday with a Hannityesque rant about it. He might have gotten around to the mass murder part too, but I didn't stay to hear it. One only heard the first part by accident...
Really? The Democrats are doing a ‘Cavanaugh’ style job on Cuomo in order to ‘magically’ get you to focus on his sexual exploits instead of the tens of thousands of people that he killed due to bad Covid decisions that were based on the politics of destroying Trump. No doubt there will be an investigation, which he will be totally ‘exonerated’, and the fools who believe this magic trick will be set in place, again. Case in point, Cavanaugh indeed ended up on the Supreme court in spite of the attacks on his High School character. Cuomo will retain his governorship and will be stronger in the long run, because the Democrats know how to work a room full of gullible Republicans. As Rush Limbaugh always said, it will be like a ‘badge of honor’ for him, and likely he will run for President soon.
If Cuomo resigns or is dumped, New Yorkers will just replace him with another corrupt Democrat. Nothing is going to change in New York, at least not for the better.
You do this early because it sends a message to others who might challenge Team Soros/Obama.
Cuomo is a Clintonista.
This also diverts attention from the man that the media proclaimed “America’s Governor” even as he killed thousands and then lied about it.
It’s a twofer. The #metoo stuff and his “behavior” has all been out there for years, but the media complex never covered it because Cuomo was serving a higher calling - orange man bad.
The real question is, why are Democrats piling on? We know it can’t have anything to do with morality and ethics.
A class action suit over all the nursing home deaths also needs to advance.
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