CUOMO AND BIDEN HAD LOTS IN COMMON

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                                                               BY BILL JUNEAU

                                                      There was no holding on for Gov. Andrew Cuomo after his army of supporters and the elite in the Democratic party called for his resignation.  And the tethered media raised its sword and said he had to go. Cuomo didn't have a friend anywhere, except for his brother Christopher, a mouthy pundit at the liberal CNN, but he was helpless to make the problems go away. 

                                           But in the final segment of the whole sordid episode, it was Joe Biden, the hair sniffing, child pinching and skirt chasing 46th  President, who administered the final clubbing to the 63-year-old, three-term governor of New York.  And in the end, Cuomo said goodbye and was left to consider what to do with the  $18 million in his campaign chest, and how he might access the money.                     

                                    Realistically, it was near impossible for the  bull-headed Cuomo to survive the "me-too" pummeling he was taking from the Attorney General of  New York and complaints from eleven women, some of them Cuomo employees, who told how the governor hit on them in a most egregious and sexual way.  Forgiveness for that conduct, even in today's gummy, close circle of Democrats, was not in the playbook.  

                                           Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Cuomo's  New York political brother, and the aged Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker who reportedly has a soft spot for Italians, called for his resignation for his sexual misconduct and also for his mismanaging of elderly victims of the Covid 19 virus, many of whom died as a result of his alleged incompetence.  

                                           The pugilistic Cuomo might well have resigned and called it quits after the AG's ad hoc commission saw him as a culpable sexual predator, but Cuomo still had a long shot hope of staying in the big mansion, holding on to the reins of power.  In his defense he had offered photos of his hugging men, women and children of all ages and sex and race, together with a statement that he had never in his life touched a woman inappropriately  and that the comments that he made about feminine looks and appearances were grossly misinterpreted.  

                                           As is done in many countries, including Italy where his ancestors hailed from, he said that kissing and hugging are signs of genuine affection and brotherly love, and should never be misconstrued as sexual misadventure on his part. 

                                            And so, behind the curtains, despite all the yells and hollers, Gov. Cuomo apparently clung to an iota of hope that the Big Dog in Washington,  President Biden, would take pity on him.  Biden's sexual conduct, he knew, had been much worse than his own, and the slow witted  Biden always managed to skate free of any accountability.  He hoped that Biden would explain that his alleged breast grabbing and back rubbing be deemed questionable or outright fabrication, and that it would simply not be fair to demand his resignation.  But that was not to be, and Biden pushed him under the bus.  

                                              When Biden was asked by the media if Gov. Cuomo should resign, he replied, hesitantly, and in his usual  guttural, horse-whisper, that  "Yes," he should resign, and perhaps even be prosecuted. The President's pronouncement became a lead story in virtually every newspaper in the country; and was the main read on hundreds of TV stations. There was no redemption or turning back for Cuomo. 

                                              Shortly thereafter, Governor Cuomo announced that he was resigning and that his exit would be effective in 14 days, --on the 25th of August.  His promised that he would assist in the transition of authority to Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul  who  will take his place. 

                                             It was particularly ironic and backhanded that the decisive blow came from Biden who had been a skirt chaser and sexual cowboy during his many years in government as a U.S. Senator from Delaware and as a Vice President.  At least eight women had complained of being embarrassed and sexually harassed by him as he sniffed their hair and rubbed foreheads and noses with them.  One teen ager said that Biden had pinched her nipple when she was eight years old and had met the Vice President while attending a political rally with her father.  

                                               He was also accused of assaulting and pawing Ms. Tara Reade, who worked in his senatorial office in 1993.   Ms. Reade had told the New York Times that Biden assaulted her in a dark corridor in the Capitol building.  She said that he  drove his hand under her cream-colored blouse and then into her  pants and penetrated her, while whispering, "Hey, man, I thought you liked me."   

                                              Biden denied the Reade accusation and Nancy Pelosi said that she was satisfied that it was not true.  The Democratic motto that "all women are to be believed" was quickly dismissed. 

                                             When Ms. Reade's story of Biden's assault on her was reported, the befuddled  Biden was a candidate for President seeking to unseat the hated Donald Trump who had already overcome Democrat efforts to impeach him and had remained popular with Republicans and even some Democrats.  Any public criticism of Slow Joe Biden and his sexual proclivities could only  benefit the incumbent president. As a result, the Reade complaint, along with those from seven other women, was simply ignored by a complicit media which detested President Trump and took their marching orders from powerful Democrats.

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