The Fall Of The House Of Cuomo

So what do you suppose soon-to-be-former Gov Andrew Cuomo got in return for his departure from office?

A promise that criminal charges will magically disappear if he just lies low for a year or two?

A pledge of no prison time?

An offer to host a primetime “Cuomo and Cuomo” on CNN with his even less intelligent brother?

Another book deal, with movie rights and the possibility of an Oscar to put on the mantel next to his Emmy? (Oh wait, he doesn’t have a mantel. In two weeks, Andrew Cuomo will be homeless. Pity.)

You don’t really think the most arrogant governor in America, a man who saw himself as some sort of Albany love machine, suddenly became humble and quit out of concern for New York, do you? 

Did you watch the speech? It was as phony as his brother’s bout with Covid.

It’s tempting to imagine that Democrats’ political operatives in New York had a sitdown with the Italian stallion and told him he was finished, that they had the votes for impeachment. And he accepted his fate. But we all know that isn’t how it’s done in New York where corrupt governors always seem to leave in disgrace. Cuomo is the third in a row.

And a stern lecture by party bosses wouldn’t be enough to bring down this egomaniacal man who grew up believing that his last name entitled him to the governorship of the Empire State and perhaps even the office his father couldn’t capture: the presidency.

 His fangirls and boys - Ellen Degeneres, Trevor Noah, Jennifer Rubin, Stephen Colbert and others - the so-called Cuomosexuals - couldn’t stop tongue-bathing this strange man. The whole country developed a crush on the guy who gave daily televised briefings at the beginning of the pandemic while his state got sicker and sicker.

Think about the hubris required for Cuomo to pen a book bragging about how well he handled the pandemic in New York, knowing that he may have condemned thousands of seniors to their deaths by ordering infected patients to be housed beside healthy ones. Worse, knowing that his underlings hid the damning nursing home data rather than allow Cuomo’s reputation to be tarnished.

While nursing homes were full, the USNS Comfort and Javits Center had tumbleweeds blowing between the empty beds.

That’s the most galling part in the Fall of the House of Cuomo. Ultimately, soon-to-be-former Gov. Andrew Cuomo was undone by strip poker jokes and gropings.

Not for his real crimes: killing New York’s most vulnerable people with his moronic emergency orders.