“You cannot negotiate with people who say what’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is negotiable.” John F. Kennedy
August 11, 2021, And Every Wednesday
By: Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
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There are a lot of people who are hopping mad at Andrew Cuomo. And some who thank their lucky stars for him and his wayward ways.
Take the Native American Tappan Indians and the Dutch. And most New Yorkers. They never got over Cuomo changing the name of the Tappan Zee Bridge.
The families of the 15,000 elderly whom he sentenced to death in nursing homes are angry, and so are the staffers who were forced to write his pat-on-the-back Victory Lap Pandemic Leadership book. And they should be.
But none of these dirty deeds are why Cuomo isn’t governor anymore. It was the ladies Cuomo smooched that brought him down.
This wasn’t fair to the others, but it was a good diversion for the Democrat Party.
President Joe escaped being called out for his own sexual abuses, from former aide Tara Reade and 11 other women.
Governors Murphy, Wolf, and Whitmer avoided answering questions about their own failures which resulted in the deaths of thousands of elderly nursing home residents in their states.
And yesterday, Democrats were able to push through an Infrastructure Bill, which was conveniently upstaged by the New York governor's Farewell Address.
Cuomo resigned and didn’t apologize, and he gave himself 14 more days in office.
That made people nervous. And for good reason. No one trusts the guy.
The question is, “Why 14 days?”
The disgraced New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer left office immediately upon his resignation, and Cuomo has a Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul ready to take over the office.
Some say Cuomo will use the time to “repay” his campaign contributors. After all, he raised $2.5 million dollars this year alone, and has $18.5 million dollars in his campaign war chest.
Some say he might pardon himself. Who knows?
It’s not easy to understand politicians, but the American people aren’t stupid.
They understand that 19 Republicans sold their constituents down the river by voting for Biden’s Infrastructure bill.
These RINOs are like Cuomo. Like Joe Biden. And nothing like President Donald Trump.
Don’t be misled. The Gang of Nineteen are not stupid people, either. They know very well that the infrastructure bill has little to do with infrastructure.
They know only 20 percent of the $1 trillion dollar bill is slated for roads and bridges. They knew it and they voted for it anyway.
So, remember their names.
There were the usual RINOS, Collins, Romney and Murkowski. Lindsey Graham signed. So did McConnell.
The rest: Roy Blunt of Missouri, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Shelley Moore Capito of W. Virginia, Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, Mike Crapo of Idaho, Deb Fischer of Nebraska, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, John Hoeven of North Dakota, Rob Portman of Ohio, Jim Risch of Idaho, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Thom Tillis of N. Carolina, and Roger Wicker of Mississippi.
Remember their names. Vote them out.
And remember the names of FOX meteorologist Janice Dean and Democrat Assemblyman Ron Kim, both of whom lost family members in Cuomo’s nursing home debacle, and never ceased in their criticism of Cuomo.
Unlike Republican RINOs, Dean and Kim saw something and did something about it, persevering for months despite threats from Cuomo. Despite hateful social media.
“I don’t want this to be the end of the chapter,” Dean commented on Cuomo’s resignation.
“I want investigations to continue. I want justice for those brave women that came forward, and I want justice for those who have no voice, who are in a grave right now because of his (Cuomo’s) mandate.
And most importantly, everyone noticed. Cuomo never apologized.
“Accepting responsibility means not gaslighting the women, not gaslighting the families, the victims who lost their loved ones in the nursing homes,” Kim told PIX11 News.
“It’s telling the truth and taking responsibility for the mistakes that you’ve made. That is not what he said.”
Some people learn from their mistakes. Some don’t have to.
Hold the line, America.
Where We Go One, We Go All
Stay strong, Patriots.