Andrew Cuomo is having the time of his life. His approval ratings are through the roof and he’s being talked about as a replacement for Joe Biden should Joe wander off somewhere without his Visiting Angel, never to be found again. Hipster merchandise featuring his face is exploding on Etsy and he’s getting a nightly hour with his own brother on CNN to chat about oh, this and that, and whatever is happening in his day at the given moment. It’s quite the arrangement! Andrew doesn’t ask his brother why he broke quarantine, literally endangering lives and the younger Fredo doesn’t ask him about 1,700 previously uncounted COVID related deaths in New York nursing homes, or why he didn’t authorize disinfecting subway cars until early May, a full 90 days after the first cases were reported on March 1.
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Cuomo, de Blasio, and New York City Owe Trump an Apology
It is not President Trump who has fallen short in doing his job, rather governor Cuomo and his side-kick Bill de Blasio, mayor of NY City
Many Americans have witnessed daily briefings in which New York State's governor, Andrew Cuomo, makes repeated demands of the President and exploits his moment in the sun by condemning the President and even maligning him. Instead of constantly complaining, it's about time Cuomo apologized to President Trump and to those Americans across the country who specifically helped NYC during her time of need. It is not President Trump who has fallen short in doing his job, rather governor Cuomo and his side-kick Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York City. Read More
Rally ’Round the Flag, But Not Around Cuomo
Why New York’s governor seems to be benefitting from the flag effect more than President Trump isn’t too difficult to understand.
A new poll shows Cuomo’s numbers skyrocketing during the coronavirus crisis and has him challenging Trump in a head-to-head matchup. Polls show the president’s approval ratings moving upward during the crisis, too. Both of these politicians seem to be leveraging their nationally televised Corona briefings toward general approval of their handling of the situation. The truth is both of these politicians seem to be benefiting from the 'rally ’round the flag effect.' Seen most spectacularly during 9/11, is a term coined by political scientists to describe how Americans favor their leaders during times of national distress. Read More
After Personally Telling Off Truckers Cuomo Now Realizing How Much He Needs Them
Supererogatory was always a strain in Cuomo’s behavioral pattern
Su·per·erog·a·to·ry (adj): 1: observed or performed to an extent not enjoined or required.
2: superfluous.
3: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
I confess, that last definition wasn’t given by the lexicographers at Merriam-Webster. I helpfully added it for them. But few individuals in government officialdom have done so many supererogatory things during the coronavirus crisis as the Empire State’s Cuomo.
I thought Trump was supposed to be the one delivering the over-the-top showmanship, but Cuomo has proven that the [he] can do 'anything'.
Securing an affordable stream of hand sanitizer for the state? .. he falsely claimed that prisoners were making hand sanitizer Securing ventilators for the state? .. Blaming the Trump administration for a lack of ventilators when Cuomo, in fact, resisted ordering them for his state in the case of a pandemic after a 2015 report? Supererogatory. Read More
Cuomo Deserves No Plaudits for His Handling of Corona Crisis
Facts prove that Cuomo put his state, and yes, the country as a whole, in danger with his last-minute disaster planning
During a press briefing on Tuesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo admitted that closing schools and colleges in his state was a spur-of-the-moment decision based on a health crisis for which he was not prepared. “What we said at a moment of crisis is ‘isolate everyone,’” Cuomo told reporters while seated in front of boxes of medical supplies. “Close the schools, close the colleges, send everyone home, isolate everyone in their home. [It] wasn’t even smart, frankly, to isolate younger people with older people.” It was a stunning confession.
The third-term Democratic governor, unsurprisingly, is earning media praise for his handling of the crisis. But even by late February, Cuomo boasted about his state’s accessibility to foreign travelers—his state, the governor said on February 26, is the “front door” for visitors from around the world—while only instituting voluntary quarantines for suspected coronavirus carriers. Read More: Enigmose
Could a ‘Draft Cuomo’ Movement Be in the Democrats’ Future?
It’s not out of the question if Biden keeps looking out of touch and irrelevant.
Democrats are publicly talking about “contingency options” for their July convention in Milwaukee in case the coronavirus persists in being a public-health threat. But privately, some are also talking about needing a Plan B if Joe Biden, their nominee apparent, continues to flounder.
Some Democrats are openly talking up New York governor Andrew Cuomo, whose profile has soared during the crisis, as a Biden stand-in. Yesterday, a Draft Cuomo 2020 account on Twitter announced that “Times have changed & we need Gov. Cuomo to be the nominee. Our next POTUS must be one w/an ability to lead thru this crisis.”
Democrats are increasingly worried that Joe Biden will have trouble being relevant and compelling in the long four months between now and when he is nominated in July. Lloyd Constantine, who was a senior policy adviser to New York governor Eliot Spitzer from 2007 to 2008, puts it bluntly: “Biden is a melting ice cube...” Full Story - National Review -John Fund
