Emperor Andrew Cuomo has no clothes – Latest News
Andrew Cuomo was sort enough to spend two hours with us Monday — and show that he hasn’t modified a whit.
If you disagree with him, it’s politics. He can’t title an precise mistake he made, can barely say what he’d have accomplished in another way.
His marketing campaign and people coming spherical to supporting him are offered on the concept he’s going to stand up to the left.
But the emperor has no clothes. The left gained ground his complete time as governor, to the purpose that it was setting the Albany agenda whilst he was appeasing it to get his pet initiatives (congestion pricing, the lunatic Climate Act) handed.
But the dangerous payments he signed into law would’ve been even worse with out him, he claims.
If, that’s, he’ll even admit they had been dangerous: The different day, he was insisting the no-bail law is completely wonderful, not less than now that it’s been repeatedly tweaked. The actual drawback at this level is judges and prosecutors, he says.
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Except that, pressed to defend the law, he factors to the irrelevant stats the left used to pitch it within the first place, then pretends (because the left does) that this was the one technique to forestall one other Khalief Browder from being jailed for 2 years with out ever coming earlier than a choose.
And by no means thoughts that Browder did come earlier than a choose eight occasions — together with twice earlier than then-Supreme Court Justice Darcel Clarke, now Bronx district legal professional — earlier than his suicide.
As mayor, Cuomo says, he’ll have more energy in opposition to lefties on the City Council than he did as governor vs. the progs within the Legislature.
Good luck with that!
The Albany left is New York City’s essential drawback, and as mayor he’d have much less energy to struggle it than governors do. Excuse us if we take his tough-guy pretensions with a large pinch of salt, based mostly on previous efficiency.
And given the sphere of lefties he’s operating in opposition to within the Dem main, Cuomo, like he did as governor, is tacking left to appeal to that voter base.
As a mayoral candidate, he received’t even say that he received’t back progressive DA Alvin Bragg’s re-election marketing campaign.
Meanwhile, the ex-gov and his group are as slippery as ever.
When the editorial board quotes back to him his phrases in October 2020 on the top of his warfare with Trump — “I think it’s going to be a very skeptical American public about taking the vaccine, and they should be” — an aide claims we’re “cherrypicking.” Huh? He mentioned it on “Good Morning America.”
Forget about attending to the underside of the entire sordid nursing-home mess: His evasions, distortions and distractions are infinitely layered.
The ex-gov is relentless in pitching his model of actuality (don’t let him begin displaying you slides!), indomitable in dodging direct challenges, fearless in shifting duty, heroic in posturing as the one rational man.
He’s operating as the one man who can save New York City, by erasing each bit of historical past that reminds us how badly he failed the people of New York state earlier than.
