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Scores Soon To Be Settled
City Journal ^ | 9 Aug 2021 | Bob McManus

Posted on 08/09/2021 1:30:30 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Most of the rest of America knows Cuomo from his pandemic presentations—more than 100 days of daily Covid-19 briefings, beginning in March 2020. They were informative, occasionally somber, but often funny—and hugely optimistic. For a brief moment, he was the nation’s pandemic prince. There was even talk of his supplanting Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic Party’s presidential ticket.

But this was a sugar high, fading quickly when the state’s true Covid casualty numbers—still among the nation’s highest—began rolling in. And soon it was reported that the governor’s staff had cooked those statistics to understate vastly the number of elderly New Yorkers killed by Covid after infected patients were forced from hospitals back into nursing homes.

It was a coverup, pure and simple, and while this may have startled outsiders, it came as no surprise to New Yorkers familiar with Cuomo’s career. In the beginning, he was chief enforcer for his dad, quickly learning that the executive chamber is power central in New York’s strong-governor system.

The public contrast between the two Cuomos was vivid, and this was not by accident. Mario could hold a grudge, but he presented as a principled intellectual—and he got away with it because he had Andrew at hand for the dirty work. The son embraced that task with disconcerting enthusiasm—doing sometimes-necessary chores for his father, but regularly giving the knife an unnecessary twist or two and smiling as he did so.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bloggers; cuomo; newyork; nursinghomes
His undisguised arrogance, moreover, went hand-in-glove with a casual contempt for rules. Those surprised by the appalling litany of abuses detailed in James’s report simply don’t appreciate Cuomo’s invincible sense of entitlement.

He has gotten away with it until now, for one simple (if well-camouflaged) reason: virtually every dollar spent by state government in New York is constitutionally subject to gubernatorial approval and distribution.

1 posted on 08/09/2021 1:30:30 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan
His undisguised arrogance, moreover, went hand-in-glove with a casual contempt for rules.

In other words, the quintessential democrat.

2 posted on 08/09/2021 1:34:25 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Enough. Divide the country.. now. )
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To: Rummyfan
Consider all scores about to be settled.

Time to settle the family business.

3 posted on 08/09/2021 1:35:50 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: Rummyfan
The full weight of New York’s political establishment bears down on Andrew Cuomo

As stated in another thread about his attempt to cut a deal to avoid impeachment, Cuomo knows who owes what and where the bodies are buried. He's not going to be removed from office.

4 posted on 08/09/2021 1:36:45 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Enough. Divide the country.. now. )
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To: Rummyfan

So passes cuomo, son of cuomo.

God willing, the last of the line in politics.

5 posted on 08/09/2021 1:36:53 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The democrats have just replaced KKK with CRT. /Kevin McCarty 7/6/21)
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He killed those people in the nursing homes, but nothing will be done about it because voters are more titillated by charges of sexual misconduct. Democrats don’t want that on the record and making headlines.


6 posted on 08/09/2021 2:02:57 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: Rummyfan

Cuomo, the man, the leader, the criminal. He is grasping and struggling to remain in power, but soon he will be designated a “flight risk”. Andrew Cuomo, the most hated man in New York.


7 posted on 08/09/2021 2:30:32 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (As if.)
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Cuomo is high enough within the dim party/media that nothing will happen to him. He is in Bill Clinton territory.

Name any dimrat that has ever been forced out of office other than James Trafficant. He bucked his party.

They are untouchable.


8 posted on 08/09/2021 2:33:30 PM PDT by Texas resident (Silver alert: There is a guy running around DC claiming he is the President.)
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cuomo7
9 posted on 08/09/2021 3:05:27 PM PDT by SimpleJack
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To: SimpleJack

Taking care of all family business.


10 posted on 08/09/2021 3:54:28 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: Texas resident

Clinton ingratiated himself to everyone. Clinton was never petty or vindictive, he never made enemies needlessly. Clinton was an affable individual (unlike his wife). Democrats were loyal to him, and he repaid their loyalty. Hillary, like Andrew, was never concerned with anyone but herself.


11 posted on 08/09/2021 3:57:46 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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Never petty or vindictive? Maybe not publicly but how did all those people get on the Arkanside list that a Freeper kept until a few years ago? Also completely dishonest.


12 posted on 08/09/2021 4:05:00 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: Rummyfan

People in NY talk about how the little prince would stop at doorways until someone held the door open for him.

I even heard a story that someone watching him said to another “Nobody likes that kid”

It’s probably still true.


13 posted on 08/09/2021 4:15:45 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Freee-dame

Bill Clinton never made unnecessary enemies, especially among Democrats. He was a consummate politician, but he wanted to be loved. Hillary is a no-talent loser, Bill was a winner. A liar, a cheat, a glad-hander, but a winner.


14 posted on 08/09/2021 4:44:31 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: Rummyfan

Anyone want to bet he does time??????


15 posted on 08/09/2021 4:46:09 PM PDT by Osage Orange (DRT)
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F.....Bill and Hillary had people KILLED!!!

And raped....

He's NOT a winner...but in the eye's of the MSM.

16 posted on 08/09/2021 4:48:49 PM PDT by Osage Orange (DRT)
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