Andrew Cuomo has resigned.
Now that he’s been neutered politically, I suspect that the Inner Party will prevent any criminal charges from being filed and will apply extreme pressure to prevent any civil actions from going forward.
Stay tuned.
As we watch Andrew Cuomo’s career being directed to the memory hole, there’s more fun on the horizon. Cuomo killed a sufficient number of senior citizens to cause New York to lose a seat in Congress, and it’s beginning to look as if the state Inner Party will take the opportunity to eliminate AOC’s seat inanition to gerrymandering as many Republicans as possible into races against a safe Democrats
Meanwhile, AOC is beginning to push the idea of her primarying Chuck Schumer. That offers the intriguing possibility of dragging two competing factions of the national Inner Party into that race.
Stay Tuned.
For several months I’ve been saying that Andrew Cuomo is toast because he he is no longer seen as a asset by the Inner Party. Now, at first glance it would seem that a state governor would be an Inner Party member, and he is in a nominal sense, but he’s not really a member of The Inner Party. Don Surber has a post up that explains why.
Cuomo’s problem is not sexual harassment. His problem is Democrats see him as a threat if he chooses to run for president.
Democrats in Washington want no part of playing second fiddle to an outsider. They had their fill of outsiders as presidents with Bill Clinton. Democrat senators want the White House all to themselves. In the 6 presidential elections since Clinton, Democrats have nominated a senator or former senator for president and vice president each time.
Governors need not apply.
Congressional Democrats can control a Biden or an Obama.
Cuomo would be a wildcard.
Cuomo’s power base is outside Washington. There’s a Democrat who will take over as governor when he’s ousted. He’s toast.
Cuomo is no longer considered an asset by the Inner Party. He will be disposed of.
New York’s Senators Schumer and Gillibrand have announced that it’s time for Andrew Cuomo to resign. The reason they give is that a handful of the women who the governor may have sexually harassed have come forward with public complaints about his conduct. The Gentle Reader may wonder why the still intact lives a few people are of greater moral weight than thousands of the dead, but that’s not the question the senators are addressing.
Now that the Democrats have control of the White House and Congress, those with the top jobs are working to secure their positions and power bases—and to weaken and neutralize potential competitors. New York Democrats generally supported Cuomo’s handling of the Wuhan Virus Pandemic last year. They are vulnerable to being tagged as accessories or enablers to the granny killing. OTOH, if they can get Cuomo taken out for his personal behavior at times and places where they weren’t present, it may be possible for them to dodge any accountability for their Covid Collusion.
So Cuomo must go, and #MeToo serves the Inner Party’s interest.
Now that The Party is back in control of the White House and both houses of Congress, the members of the Inner Party who got the plum positions are working to secure their power. (“The object of power is power.“) Of course, this requires that certain individuals who were useful in removing Orange Man Bad from office need to be neutralized or eliminated lest they become competitors rather than allies.
Cuomo must go. #MeTooing him has the advantage of putting Outer Party members at the head of the mob, and allows him to be taken out without having to actually be held to account for the nursing home deaths that have not played well with the Proles.
Newsom must go. He has been too incautious in flaunting his Inner Party privileges.
Whitmer must go. She made a fool of herself while auditioning for the VP nomination last year. While there is beginning to be some legal pushback on her record of nursing home deaths, if’s likely that another scandal will be found for her as well.
There are others on the list. It will be interesting to see who gets taken down as the junta attempts to secure its hold on power.
So it looks as if the Emmy-Award-winning governor of New York will be held to account for misbehavior with women rather than political manslaughter.
Figures.
After all, Al Capone went to jail for tax evasion rather than homicide.
There are a couple of big civil rights lawsuits to comment on today.
The one that appears to be getting the most attention today is the Supreme Court’s grant of a preliminary injunction against further enforcement of Governor Cuomo’s arbitrary limits on attendance at houses of worship. Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, New York v. Cuomo. This is a significant First Amendment victory. The injunction also applies in Agudath Israel of America v. Cuomo.
The other case worth talking about is C. J. Pearson, et al. v. Kemp, et al. This case is filed in the U.S. District Court in Atlanta, and it alleges that this month’s election was conducted fraudulently in Georgia. The federal causes of action are based in 42 U.S.C § 1983. Section 1983 is a Reconstruction Era law which authorizes civil actions against officials acting under color of state law deprive a citizen of any of his rights, privileges, or immunities guaranteed under the Constitution. C. J. Pearson is not the first black voter to sue the State of Georgia. Sidney Powell and L. Lin Wood are among the lawyers who signed the complaint.
The next few weeks will be interesting.