Strip Poker Jokes May Bring Down Cuomo

So it’s going to be strip poker and sausage jokes that bring down Gov. Andrew Cuomo?

Not killing God-knows-how-many elderly New Yorkers?

At least we now know what really matters to the left. They’ll give you a pass for sending sick people into nursing homes and then covering up the resulting deaths. But just suggest a game of strip poker to one of your aides or give her a big juicy kiss and you’re toast.

I’m not saying sexual harassment isn’t serious. It is. But I’m more concerned about dead seniors than how many women Andrew Cuomo may have pawed.

What I can’t figure out is why anyone is surprised to learn that Cuomo is a lecher. For the past year his smarmy arrogance has been on full display. Those cringe-inducing exchanges with his knothead brother on CNN were difficult to watch.

Their recycled Smothers Brothers schtick always came back to their looks and Andrew’s bachelor status. Their celebrity admirers, like Ellen DeGeneres, who believed they were watching a future president of the United States, proudly called themselves “Cuomosexuals.”

I think it’s safe to say Cuomo is no longer headed to the White House.

Thank God.

As of last night, three women had come forward to say that Cuomo’s behavior toward them was inappropriate. Worse, this trio actually knew him - unlike Brett Kavanaugh’s accusers - and they’re all loyal Democrats. Two were former Cuomo aides.

New York Attorney General Letitia James has now added sexual harassment to her investigation of Cuomo. (Actually, she’s hired outside counsel for the second investigation.)

In fact, the sex scandal has overshadowed the fact that James continues to investigate the Cuomo administration over the way nursing home deaths were tallied after the governor’s March 25 order that sent sick Covid patients into nursing homes.

Cuomo’s order was indefensible. It came after a terrible Covid outbreak in a Kirkland, Washington nursing home in February 2020, where 37 residents died and 129 were infected.

Smart governors learned from that tragedy. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, for instance:

"We looked at the data that we had from other parts of the world as we were getting into March, and we saw that this was a virus that had a disproportionate impact on elderly people and we're the second-oldest state in the country, so that was something that was obviously very concerning to us," he told radio host Mark Levin last week.

"One of the things we did, I think, before any other state was protect nursing homes. So we prevented people from visiting for a time," DeSantis said.

"But then, I think more importantly, we barred hospitals from discharging sick nursing home residents back into the nursing homes," he added. "As you know, other states did the opposite and ordered those patients back. We viewed that as something that would be very hazardous." 

"At the time, there was actually a lot of movement to send the nursing home residents back because people said, 'Oh, you're going to run out of hospital beds, you've got to clear the hospitals,' and I looked at a lot of those models ... and I didn't think that they were worth the paper they were printed on. They were based on flawed assumptions," he said. "They were not being validated in real time by what we were observing on the ground in Florida. So I said, 'You know what? If I have to build field hospitals all across the state, I will do that before I send these patients back into nursing homes and endanger all these elderly people.'"

Some governors protected the vulnerable. Others put them in harm’s way.

What we learned this week: Go ahead and let grandparents die. Just don’t kiss the interns.