We have dueling commentaries! One on why Governor Cuomo shouldn't resign and another on why he should be impeached....
- Analysis: Cuomo hasn't resigned because he still has support from Democratic voters
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CNN continues its cheerleader coverage using polling of Democratic Party voters to justify why Governor Cuomo shouldn't resign, despite bipartisan calls by elected officials for his resignation and/or his impeachment from office.
- The Push to Impeach Andrew Cuomo Is Overdue
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This commentary by the Colgate-Maroon News' Nathan Biller both raises questions:
... one of the most important questions to take away from this situation is not simply if Cuomo's governorship will survive these allegations, nor even if it should. Rather, we should be asking ourselves: Why are we only talking about impeachment now? Why not after his disastrous management of the Covid-19 pandemic within his state, where the virus claimed nearly 50,000 lives — a narrow second only to California, who has double the New York state population? Why not after New York's pandemic spread and crippled the American northeast, immediately after he blocked attempts at interstate travel restrictions through threats of lawsuit? Why not after 15,430 LTC facility residents died following his absurd policy of forcing nursing homes to take in Covid-19 patients, a policy he then blatantly lied was forced upon him by the CDC? And worst of all, why not after it was revealed his administration covered up the true figures on nursing home deaths by almost half specifically as a means to ward off federal investigators, an abhorrent abuse of power for which Cuomo's administration is now the subject of a new federal probe?
And doesn't pull punches:
The reason impeachment has only now been seriously discussed is quite simple: because the establishment Democrats and their allies were personally invested in portraying Cuomo as a hero of the pandemic and did not allow his atrocious failures to detract from the criticism they levied against now-former President Donald Trump. They couldn't afford for the pandemic to simply be a government failure going into the 2020 election cycle; it needed to be a Trump failure. Why else, as his administration initially came under fire during the pandemic, was he being regularly brought onto his brother Chris Cuomo's CNN Prime Time slot and a plethora of late-night talk shows for unabashed self-love fests? Why else would the celebrity world grant him an Emmy in a hollow salute to his "masterful" leadership during the pandemic? Why is it that he was under consideration for the next United States attorney general? To make Donald Trump the villain of America's story, the leftist establishment needed a hero. And Andrew Cuomo blundered right into that role.
Cuomo himself was principally concerned with preserving this image built for him and capitalizing off of it as much as possible. As constituents died the governor lied through his teeth about the severity and cause, this man had the audacity to use the pandemic as a means to make seven-figure book sales, crash the Emmys and stand on his brother’s soapbox to tell the world "I put my head on the pillow at night saying I saved lives."
Andrew Cuomo has proven that the only thing exceeding his sheer incompetence as a leader is his sociopathic sense of apathy towards his own constituents. Although this national realization may be overdue, if it takes mounting allegations to finally crack Cuomo's invincible public image and hold him accountable, New York will be better off for it.
Biller identifies a lot of different aspects of Governor Cuomo's scandals, many of which we've documented in the timeline. To find out more about them, take the "Search This Blog" feature on this site for a test drive!
