Right here in Brooklyn we have now an expression. Pronounced with exasperation it goes, “This freakin’ man over right here…” It’s not a praise. And when you lookup that specific outer borough bon mot nowadays you’ll see an image of the smug, smiling face of former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. 

A mere seven months after what appeared like half the ladies in his orbit credibly accused him of harassment, forcing him to resign, he’s making a comeback. It’s equal elements horrifying and superb.

The gobsmacking gall of Cuomo is really one thing to behold, even for New York. 

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His meteoric rise and shambolic fall towards the backdrop of the COVID was symbolic of our society’s disastrous response to the pandemic. 

Now his farcical try at political rehabilitation is a clue as to how Democrat governors will come to phrases with their failures. With a straight face they are going to declare they did an amazing job.

Again in August of final 12 months his resignation got here as a shock to many who’ve adopted his profession, most anticipated him to battle to the tip within the face of requires his impeachment. What’s now clear is that Cuomo was not falling on his sword, he was residing to battle one other day, and that day is now as he runs political advertisements and reviews recommend he’ll run for governor once more. 

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The primary apparent level to make about this Hindenburg of hubris is that neither he nor any Democrat who helps him get to say one other phrase about believing all girls. Let’s recall that this freakin’ man, with a straight face no much less, really mentioned that he will get just a little handsy as a result of he’s Italian. No, he actually mentioned that.

Whereas his shenanigans with the fairer intercourse are greater than sufficient to disqualify him from any place of energy, it’s not even the most important motive why the Cuomo comeback have to be mocked into oblivion. That may after all be his lethal dealing with of nursing properties that killed 1000’s which he lied about whereas authoring a e-book celebrating it. 

FILE – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks throughout an occasion to announce that New York will raise ‘just about all’ Covid-19 restrictions, after the state cleared the edge of 70 p.c vaccinated, at One World Commerce Heart in New York on June 15, 2021 

Simply this week the New York Comptroller reported that Cuomo’s Well being Division undercounted the variety of nursing dwelling deaths within the state by a minimum of 4,100 souls. This cynical obfuscation was meant to guard the previous governor from any blame for his lethal choice to drive COVID optimistic sufferers into services the place the virus ravaged aged populations. 

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What Andrew Cuomo is relying on is that Democrats nationally and within the Empire state can be desperate to rewrite the historical past of our COVID response and restore him to the farcical pedestal he was positioned upon early within the pandemic. 

Fueled by corrupt practices at CNN permitting him fawning protection by his personal brother Chris, who himself could be fired in shame, the parable of Cuomo the good COVID hero is rearing its ugly, mendacity head once more.

And right here’s the factor on this. It would work. One ballot has him inside 4 factors of present governor Kathy Hochul for the nomination. And if this smarmy, slimy, and second charge scion of New York’s most famed political household is to succeed it is going to be by portray himself because the sufferer of his critics. 

FILE – New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks throughout a information convention at New York’s Yankee Stadium, on July 26, 2021. 
(AP Picture/Richard Drew, File)

In his perverse thoughts the ladies alleging harassment aren’t the victims, the households of those that died due to his insurance policies aren’t the victims, the small enterprise homeowners he crushed aren’t the victims, the youngsters who couldn’t get an training aren’t the victims, he’s. This freakin’ man, certainly.

This isn’t actually a Cuomo comeback. He by no means left. 

However relaxation assured, regardless of what number of sycophantic Democrats in Albany creep again into his good graces, there are these of us who know, who lived by way of the debacle of his failed management, and who won’t ever, ever let the world overlook what a horrible little man he actually is. 

Andrew Cuomo desires to be governor once more. Properly, we have now one other expression right here in Brooklyn: fuggedaboutit.

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