What’s with all the media slobbering
over New York Governor Andrew Cuomo? There’s even talk of pushing Joe Biden
aside in favor of Cuomo on the November ballot for president. There is no surer
sign of Democratic panic at the prospects of pitting senile Joe against a Trump
who mounts the bully pulpit every day. Polls show that even a buffoon like
Trump can prevail, given the daily exposure. The mainstream media is trying its
best to counter the president’s advantage by interviewing Cuomo every day and
making him out to be New York’s savior in the Covid-19 crisis.
But what has Cuomo really done to
save New York? The real issue is not what he’s done, but what he hasn’t done.
The media will not tell us that it
was Cuomo who rejected a recommendation to stockpile ventilators when he had the
opportunity and the money. Instead he spent the bucks on what has been
described as a solar-panel boondoggle called Buffalo Billions.
Also rarely mentioned is the role
New York governors, including Cuomo, have played in reducing by 20,000 the
number of beds in New York hospitals. The latest reduction of 500 beds occurred
in Brooklyn when the Long Island College Hospital fell victim to budget cuts.
New York could use those beds now, couldn’t it, Governor?
And let’s not forget that the
governor’s love affair with renewables is consistent with his war against fossil
fuels. When President Trump proposed to allow offshore drilling along the East
Coast, Cuomo signed a bill to ban drilling off Long Island, New York, even the
Hudson River.
This is the same Governor Cuomo who
caved to environmentalists in 2014 by banning hydraulic fracking in New York’s depressed
southern tier counties, an area shared by Pennsylvania and proven to be rich in
extractable natural gas. Instead of giving New Yorkers a badly needed economic
boost, he let Pennsylvania reap the bounty.
If Andrew Cuomo can’t make decisions
that are good for the citizens of his own state, why should we believe he can
do better for the entire country?
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